word on our broadcast. thanks very much. a white house official is telling cnn that president trump is fuming over our report here at cnn that his former personal lawyer, michael cohen, claims that mr. trump knew in advance about the 2016 trump tower meeting with russian operatives. the president and his team have repeatedly denied that in public. let's dig in deeper with our correspondents and analysts susan hennessey, put this in the pantheon of discoveries in this investigation now. >> we have two not particularly credible actor, michael cohen and the president have repeatedly lied to the public. so, if it was just sort of he said/he said, i don't know if that would advance this particularly significantly, but it's not. all the available evidence here would suggest that president trump would have been likely to have known about this meeting in advance. he was intimately involved in all aspects of his campaign. he made contemporaneous public statements that suggests he