really important point to underscore, particularly, laura, since we also know from your reporting and the new york times that there were these private conversations that the president had with republican lawmakers where they were willing to do his bidding. so, with devin nunez, matt gaetz, i believe jim jordan was part of this group and they were willing to go public and attack the mueller investigation. in fact, they decided that would be a worthwhile strategy. so if you have the independent, you know, branch of the congress willing to do this, it is comforting on some level to know there were guardrails in the white house not willing to do the president s bidding. people in congress who, according to the former acting director of the fbi, actually new the president was under investigation. now, people have pushed back on mccabe there and questioned exactly what he told them. but if, in fact, he did inform them, that means that this entire time while they ve been waging their camp
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come out here from the secretary of state. i think a lot of people are watching these meetings going on right now between the secretary of state and the russian foreign minister. we will keep our eyes on it as well. great to have you with us, thanks so much. with we have a cnn exclusive this morning. congressional insiders telling cnn the documents they have seen may contradict chair devin nunez, both democrats and republicans say they see no everyday that the obama administration did anything wrong, one source says there is absolutely no smoking gun here. so in an interview with the taped before this new cnn exclusive reporting, we saw the president double down on his allegations, the former national secured adviser susan rice committed a crime. listen. she said she didn t do it for political reasons, susan rice. does anybody really believe that? nobody believes that. even the people that try toy protect her in the news media.
it s such a big story. i am sure it will continue forward. but what they did horrible. cnn chief correspondent jim scuitto reporting that story, helping break this news what have you learned? well, in short form, republican and democratic lawmakers, frankly not backing up the president s claim, they re casting doubts on claims by devin nunez the obama administration officials improperly collected the names of u.s. individuals that have been redacted in intelligence documents, these lawmakers have seen the very same intelligence documents that nunez reviewed last month and share with the white house. although we learned the white house shared with him. they tell cnn they see no evidence that the obama administration officials he mentioned did anything out of the ordinary or lee. one congressional source describes the request as quote normal and appropriate for senior national security officials in these positions. and i know that you and our manu raju have talked to
or the president, you are ultimately responsible for what goes on t. fact is i wouldn t like anyone saying it s my brain or the president either. by the way, it s not true. steve has the ability to give advice to the president. in the end, these decisions are the president s. i ve always thought that was an awful characterization. because the president is responsible for those decisions. i ve watched him, am sin, he makes his own decisions. i want to ask you about jim scuitto s exclusive reporting. he has spoken to republicans and democrats on the house intel and senate intel committee. they have seen the same documents that devin nunez saw and it appears mr. trump is basing his claims, susan rice, former nsa director did something wrong. they say there s nothing in there. they don t see anything illegal. they don t see anything wrong, it was completely customary what she called for. is it time for president trump to correct his own record here? you know, what i think is we should