for many, many years. they represented that firm, and contractors who do work with russians and one of the lawyer, ted kang has worked in d.c. and worked with the rnc, the republican national committee. there are clues here that doesn t tell us exactly who this company is and why are they fighting so hard and spending millions of dollars trying to fight their request to provide this information, they re fighting a subpoena to provide this information to the mueller investigation and a big mystery that continues, but we have a little bit more to tell us what s going on behind the scenes. all right. a little crumb there. evan, thank you so much. evan perez. it has been president trump s constant refrai during the russian investigation. he says it over and over, no collusion and when his former campaign chairman paul manafort was convicted in a financial fraud trial last august, the president had this response. it doesn t involve me, but i still feel it s a very sad thing that happe
i need to find the receipt for that. oh yeah, you do. just in to cnn, we are learning more information about one of the law firms involved in a foreign government-owned company s challenge of the subpoena related to the robert mueller investigation. we have cnn justice correspondent evan peres joining us now. there were certain clues to what the company was, but now we have more. the precious little details that we ve gotten on this mystery case, this mystery company. we know that it is foreign-owned and we know the name of a law firm that has at least been involved in some of the
to even greater heights to ensure that it does its job in forcing our laws and protecting our country. would you become aware that the deputy attorney general is conducting a review? all right. extraordinary timing there to see vice president mike pence addressing the cameras there on capitol hill as this news has been breaking that the fbi director james comey has been fired by president trump. i want to bring in now as we break all of this down, we have retired fbi official james gagliano. we have cnn political analyst and national political reporter at real clear politic, rebecca berg and cnn justice correspondent evan peres. that last question was very interesting, david. he was asked, mike pence was, if the deputy attorney general was asked for this justification to