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republican ranks with donald trump. what makes this different than what you have seen and heard before? well, they don t know what to expect, hallie, with this coming testimony from former fbi director james comey. questions and accusations about obstruction of justice loom over not only the white house but the republican party. this is a republican party that wants to move forward on taxes and infrastructure and health care repeal. and so, to have all of these things, all these problem confronting the gop right now, makes them uneasy, and they see the president continuing to tweet, which only adds to their uncomfortable manner. there is a question of what he might tweet come thursday when james comey gets up in front of congre, ttifies publicly. it s our repting that this so-called war room never took off. not happening. one source tells me zero chance. it doesn t exist. why? how what is the plan now to try to counter some of this comey talk based on the information you are hear
and even today, if i could mention the repting that we did today about how he s still in touch with michael flynn, who is the subject of this investigation. even sending him, as we reported today, a message to, quote, stay strong. now, that is something that any lawyer would say would tell the president you can t do, you can t be communicating with the subject of a criminal investigation. the optics of that coming after what we know he said to jim comey, asking him to back off the investigation of flynn, its is certainly all the ingredients of, you know, that could be made for a case of witness tampering and obstruction. now, the response from the white house and from flynn as defenders are, no, these are two guys who are loyal, who were in the foxhole together in the campaign and he s just reaching out to a good, loyal friend and trying to buck him up when he s
functional and pragmatic. tonight s breaking news, reuters repting that a russian government think tank controlled by vladimir putin developed a plo swing the 2016 u.s. presidential election to donald trump and undermine voters faith in the american electoral system. three current and four former u.s. officials told reuters they described two confidential documents from the think tank as providing the framework and rationale for what u.s. intelligence agencies have concluded was an intensive effort by russia to interfere with the november 8th election. the documents were central to the obama administration s conclusion that russia mounted a fake news campaign and launched cyber attacks against democratic