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good morning, welcome to your "new day." i'm victor blackwell. >> i'm jessica dean in for christi paul. federal prosecutors are zeroing in on what may be a worst-case scenario for the white house. president trump directly implicated in two federal crimes connected to the russia investigation. >> for the first time a team of investigators in new york say that then-candidate trump explicitly directed his personal lawyer, michael cohen, to break federal election law. the memo is seven pages law, but here's a key phrase from the filing, and it's important that we let these words resonate. cohen's commission of two finance crimes on the eve of the 2016 election for the president of the united states struck a blow to one of the core goals of the federal campaign finance laws -- transparency. while many americans who desired a particular outcome to the election knocked on doors, toiled at phone banks, or found any number of legal ways to make