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Lawmakers. paul manafort, donald trump's campaign chairman, resigned amid questions about his previous lobbying for pro-russian interests in ukraine. his spokesman said manafort looks forward to meeting with those conducting serious investigations of these issues to discuss the facts. campaign foreign policy adviser carter page denied allegations that he secretly met with putin associates. he told the committee, "i will look forward to engaging with you in the interests of finally ending this ruse." and the attorney for roger stone says stone is anxious to talk. stone told cnn, "i acknowledge ...

And of course casts grave doubts into the ability to run a credible investigation. >> reporter: the house intel committee expecting information from the nsa over the next few days on the issue of unmasking. it's the process of revealing the names of americans in reports when they're otherwise hidden. chairman nunes says they want to know why these names were unmasked and if any additional names were revealed. jessica schneider, cnn, washington. >> let's discuss all of this with julian zelizer, and steve hall, a retired cia chief of russia operations. good to see you both. steve, let me begin w...

>> congress should establish an independent commission that has the staff, resources, and single minded focus necessary to investigate this matter. most important, as the events of this week demonstrate, an independent commission will be able to conduct its work insulated from any political interference. >> this comes after a week of drama on capitol hill over the investigation. cnn's jessica schneider has details. >> reporter: the house intelligence committee has become the center of a partisan fight. the top democrat and republican now pointing fingers at each other as they investigate russi...

Inaugurated, he issued an executive order basically instructing agencies not to do much to have this program work well. so what we usually see from conservative presidents including reagan and bush is that when you can't dismantle a program, you try to weaken it, you try to undercut it. my guess is that's a little bit of what he's signaling with that tweet. it's not going to explode on its own necessarily, but i don't think this administration is going to help the program do well. so that's probably going to be where they focus their efforts right now as they move on to other issues. >> and ma...

Revolt and reflection. >> this is something that certainly was an interesting period of time. we all learned a lot. we learned a lot about loyalty. we learned a lot about the vote-getting process. we learned a lot about some very arcane rules in obviously both the senate and in the house. so it's been certainly, for me, an interesting experience. >> president trump, speaker paul ryan, and house republicans licking their wounds today after pulling their long-promised bill that would repeal and replace obamacare. ryan and trump abruptly pulling that vote to avoid an embarrassing loss on the hous...