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Sympathetic spokesmen and other ways to build on its wide range of operations and exacerbate social and political fissures in the united states. >> one of the most emotional moments of the testimony came from the senator from maine king where he talked about the fact that at least publicly and to his knowledge privately there hadn't been any real sort of punishment with teeth against the russians for this kind of activity and he said without any kind of meaningful deterrents the russians would continue to reengage and other nations would also follow suit in this particular case. >> thank you f...

This. there's an open question whether that trickled up to the top levels. >> i've been reading these reports of the time line, and i'm getting back to last january. let's go to phil rucker on this, white house bureau chief for the post. is there a problem here for the white house being incapable intellectually or emotionally of accepting fact from the fbi? that's their job to do background checks. john kelly doesn't go knocking on doors to see how a guy treated previous spouses. the fbi does. you have to rely on the fbi. are they accepting the truth of the fbi at this white house, sir? >> wel...

Look at all of these 18 days and what transpired inside the white house at that time may shed some light on that. >> and the significance, chuck, of mueller drilling down on this very issue with the people that he's interviewing, as to what happened, who knew what when during those 18 days, first of all, it takes us inside the white house. we're not talking about the campaign but someone who has confessed to a crime, michael flynn and whether or not the president was aware of that and when was he aware of it because that could have implications for a possible cover-up or obstruction. is that b...

Threads here or the possibility of firing him because of russia, and the tweet that he said you know lied to the fbi, he's not disavowed that tweet. it's an official record even though his lawyer tried to say that he had written it. >> the tweet in and of itself is marginally helpful. it sheds some light perhaps on what the president knew and when he knew it. but the statement to lester holt i think is more compelling. because in the president's own words, says that he fired comey because of the russia thing. again, here's where that timeline comes into play. the dinner between former director...

They're trying to help him cover up the disturbing connections that do exist between trump world and russia. every single day, journalists are uncovering new links between the two. meantime, at home you're probably wondering if your taxes are going to go up or going to go down. amid all the deceptive claims about the gop tax bill. right now, the biggest challenge for newsrooms -- i can't say this loudly enough. the biggest challenge is to cut through the craziness and explain what's going on in clear, accurate language. we need to start with the basics. we need to exercise a lot of caution and...