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Wolf Blitzer looks at politics, breaking news and international stories. Trump Campaign Manager facing off against the Russia Investigation special counsel robert mueller. You cannot understate just how big this is, no matter which way it goes. On one hand, if, for example, mr. Manafort is found guilty, that makes it a real problem for the president of the United States to continue to call this a witch hunt. Now, what about this case . We have 18 charges in the indictment, Something Like three dozen witnesses. The former partner of Paul Manafort, rick gates, could testify. The trial could last...

Charge, that jared and ivanka could walk into the president's office any time they wanted, and he had tried to put a stop to that. obviously the rob porter case was a problem for him. we all watched his face during helsinki. he didn't seem to be smiling a lot. so it seems to me they're putting this story out so that as long as kelly decides to stay, the message is i'm in charge here, the president likes me, and if and when i decide to leave, it will be my decision and nobody else's. now, maybe i'm being cynical about this. maybe he will stay through 2020. but that seems a little far fetched to...

In this regard when you look back at the rob porter case, they allowed someone that didn't have clearance long after the fbi warned them about damaging information. >> matt, that's also a good question. we heard so much clamoring. what we do know is important to mention and what we don't know is important to mention. what we do know is that the white house authored this clearance that he received with great fanfare in may. the white house granted him top secret clearance. we heard, i don't know if this is accurate, we heard people complaining they feel there was pressure for the white house to...

>> jamele, to that point that jonathan brought up, that's what john kelly was supposed to do. he was supposed to come in to be the adult in the room as some have said and steady the waters. in reality, he has major debacles. the rob porter case, the disastrous press conference about maxine watters and others. in addition, the disparaging comments about dreamers and immigrants at one point. so he's played out not the way he's supposed to play out. >> it's a challenge. the president is out there on twitter. he's expressing his views in all sorts of different ways. it's clear kelly has tried to b...

Florida. david, one thing that's remarkable here is when you zook out to the context here, jared is part of a broader problem in the white house. there's 30 trump aides who lost their top secret clearance. it's very clear the entire process was a train wreck. the rob porter case was a canary in the coal mine. done mcgan didn't have permanent clearance for ten months. i want to play you the way candidate trump talked about the handling of classified info during the campaign. take a lis. >> and the secretary of state was extremely careless and negligent in handling our classified secrets. we can...