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A sad, phony, fake deal, like so much of the news i read. when you look at what has gone on with that and the kind of money we're talking about, it is a disgrace. >> the president is referring to the steele dossier and keeping him honest some of what he is saying is complete, misleading and out right false. dossier is research compiled by former intelligence british officer for a firm called fusion gps and yes were paid by the clinton campaign for its work but initially hired in the primaries by one of candidate trump republican opponents of details were to help the trump campaign. which cnn h...

Calling the investigation quote hype. in h the case against mieblle flynn quote empty. cnn's matthew chance joining us from moscow, what else are you hearing there in terms of reaction? >> reporter: well, there's been something of an official silence when it comes to response to these dramatic developments unfolding in the united states. we've ask the kremlin to see whether they can give us their comments on what's been taking place and we've had no response from them. the russian foreign ministry has done nothing except say we don't see what this has got to do with us. it's just a couple of r...

Ways to look at the tweet. one way is that it is accurate, in which case it certainly provides another piece of information that would be relevant to the long-standing trail of ob struck shn that the president arguably has engaged in. so there have been many things he's done since last january that all could culminate in a potential case of obstruction for his efforts to thwart the russia investigation. but, there is a significant other possibility that what he tweeted today is not true. it is contrary to the information that was released and things that he said early last winter, and unfortun...

Writing this. the tweeting this is obstruction of justice. po tus now admits he knew michael flynn lied to the fbi. so how are other lawmakers reacting to this? what else are you hearing? >> reporter: as you can imagine, there have been several local critics of the president throughout this investigation that are now weighing in. the one of them, the ranking member of the house intelligence committee, adam schiff, was on cnn yesterday and made the claim that the president has been less than forthcoming throughout this entire process. he tweeted just a little over a half hour ago writing, quote...

Investigation as well. one last thing i wanted to point out. earlier i mentioned that sally yates approached the white house with concerns, we should note that it took several days for the administration to eventually fire flynn. they did not respond to the accusations immediately. >> all right. boris shan chanchez. thank you. let's head to washington now and cnn's kara scannell. take us back to february when the president fired michael flynn. what was he saying then? >> reporter: back in february, the president fired flynn. it was only after a washington post story revealed publicly that fl...