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Microsoft innovation and policy center to meet with students included in microsoft's council for digital good. the students provide ideas and the feedback for microsoft's youth focused online safety policy work. they had designed art projects to presenting their individual ideas of what it means to be civil in this digital age. there are many programs across the country that are doing great things for children, and i believe we can replicate many of those programs overseas. this is why i'm pleased to work closely with u.s. aid as i prepare for my first major international trip to africa. by wo...

P pre-t pre-textual, and it was really about russia. >> the policy work jeff sessions has done at the department of justice, anna and gabby, a lot of it is exactly what the president wants to see. we have just a little bit of a list of all the things that sessions has done. including, for example, issuing new priorities for immigration judges, defining daca as an unconstitutional exercise, reviewing policies with police departments. the doj is doing trump's agendas. >> he's been one of the most effective members of the president's cabinet. however, it is the one recusal from the russia investi...

Ordinary white houses. to what extent do you think the russia, the mueller investigation, the manafort trial, how much of that is affecting the actual administrative work, the policy work of the administration? >> i think they are raising what the russia investigation is the defining fact of the trump white house because it involves and consumes the president and his legal team and it is a big concern of his chief of staff. and a scandal of any sort, the iran/contra scandal, the monica lewinsky scandal has a big effect on the white house. we saw with the clinton white house they made a big eff...

Done about it. policy work to impact the bottom others blamed omarosa for this. line and the inspector general has to decide whether to she is gone since december. >> right. >> they haven't replaced her. investigate and whether it refers the department of justice with anyone. because it's a criminal call jeron smith is doing his job. gags. jake? >> thank you so much. i feel a lot of us reporters we're hum to believe announce know him because when there's today that "the lead" making a something remotely touching on black issues -- >> does a lot of criminal cnn international debut. september 10...

Veer toward those places today unexpectedly. the swerve toward russia took place while prosecutors were conducting their examination of rick gates. so rick gates is their own witness. they're doing a direct exam of rick gates. in that direct examination, prosecutors walked him through something we previously had not known about paul manafort's work in the soviet union. this is from the transcript. you testified earlier about payments from ukrainian businessmen to mr. manafort. did that include payments for policy work? it did. what time of policy work did he do in the ukraine? an, when victor ...