what do you make of the argument that there is no evidence there? they re investigating, so the evidence is still being looked into, correct? of course. and you know, a number of people senior lawmakers hey we ve been briefed on this and we ve heard of no evidence of collusion. i m suspicious, this investigation would be closely held. the fbi agents involved in this are not necessarily going to brief these facts to congress. it s not their habit to brief a criminal investigation to congress. in fact, the investigation started in july and congress only heard about it very recently comey said today. so there may be a lot of evidence, there may be no evidence, but you should be suspicious of people saying they re not aware of any briefed, katy. and we have nbc s white house correspondent kristen welker in louisville ahead of president trump s rally there this evening. kristen, been a couple hours since this briefing has wrapped up. how is the white house absorbing what they learned
the challenge for the white house katy, this comes as the president is trying to push through a key part of his agenda. the plan to repeal and replace obamacare. house set to vote on thursday. that s part of why he s here in kentucky. he wants to push for that fwoil get passed. this by the way is a success story for obamacare. he s gotten an uphill bat until terms of making an argument. all of this overshadowing the broader agenda, katy. sean spicer saying that essentially the campaign manager for a time, paul manafort, kristen, only played a very limited role in the campaign. reporter: and that statement raised eyebrows, katy. i pressed the white house on that statement. i said how can sean spicer argue that he only played a limited role in the campaign when he was in fact the campaign manager? their pushback is look, we ve cleaned that statement up a little bit. he was referencing the amount of time that paul manafort actually