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Form. >> you're raising another question. even if they move these questions to a separate office and the goal is to free up the rest of the white house to do the business of governoring, donald trump is his own chief spokesman. he thinks he spokes for himself best. we heard earlier that he was going to calm down the twitter postings, that his twitter messages would be vetted. he came back from europe and tweeting as assertively as before. so the goal is to disassociate the president, make him less directly associated with the russian investigation. all it takes is for james comey to testify pu...

His day. arguably worked well for him. >> it did. ronald reagan did the same thing during a iran contra. the idea is to take these questions about the investigation of the day, in this case, it's russian meddling and potential evidence of collusion between the trump campaign and russian operatives and move those to the side. the white house needs to make a case for its healthcare bill, needs to make a case for the tax overhaul. the efforts are stalled and the russia investigation is eating up band width. >> shepard: so it's a chicken and egg matter. if they were transparent and russian interac...

Than he is. we don't know precisely why investigators are interested in him. we know they're interested in the meetings that he had with russians in december, particularly with a russian banker that some of my colleagues reported on on the front page this morning. that is particularly curious because of what his happened there and the russian bankers explanation don't add up. there's a lot of questions that the fbi is curious about. what we don't know, if there's any sort of wrong doing here. the white house says they're routine diplomatic meetings. when they happened in december, jared kushne...

Online edition this morning. what is your sense of this executive privilege? has he said so much that he can't do that anymore? is that a gray area? >> it's a gray area. sean spicer in the last hour said it was still something that they had to review. if i had to guess, i would say that he doesn't invoke executive privilege here. president trump has referenced his conversations with james comey in the letting firing james comey that would complicate an effort to invoke executive privilege and it would be so politically damaging. it's hard to fathom that he would try to stop the former fbi dire...

Fix the horrible carnage going on. police in chicago blame gang violence and drug wars. here's a look at how chicago compared to other big cities. chicago reported 240 murders, more than l.a. and new york city combined. matt? >> shepard, eight less people killed here in comparison to last year. some good news but not the most re-assuring. don't be fooled by this beautiful view. the numbers show one if not two people will be murdered in the city before the day is over. one of the most recent victims is a 20-year-old blind man running from the park where he volunteered and got hit by bullets in ...