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developing stories including more on russia. a poll showing over half of americans say they do want an independent inquiry of the links between trump and russia. more than 60% say this is concerning for what it actually means for our democracy. couple that with the former national security adviser, mike flynn, offering testimony in exchange for immunity. now, today. vladimir putin spokesman claiming there is actually nothing to uncover. are you concerned about anything he might say about his contacts with russia? no. we are not. any blamings that russia could have been interfering in domestic affairs of the united states is slander. peskov saying that an allegation regarding the russian government s involvement in the recent killing of an opposition lawmaker is absurd. how will these events affect the already rocky path ahead for the trump administration? joining me now is ron klain, a former senior aide to president clinton, matt miller who worked at the department of ....
backdrop he is going to step in front of the american people tonight and try to make the case that he has the right path forward when it comes to afghanistan and that they should trust him. it s a very big decision for me. i took over a mess. and we re going to make it a lot less messy. reporter: president trump set to outline his strategy for america s path forward in afghanistan. a major test for the new commander in chief, one that could put more american troops in harm s way. after meeting with top administration officials at camp david on friday, the president announcing saturday he had made a decision after months of deliberation and delays. he has made a decision, as he said. he wants to be the one to announce it to the american people. it is a south asia strategy, not just an afghanistan strategy. reporter: the president has been presented with a wide range of options. everything from a full withdrawal to the deployment of up to 4,000 more soldiers, amid questi ....
president trump just got a blistering salvo from another republican senator, arizona s jeff flake, who slammed the president on the senate floor while announcing he won t run for re-election in 2018. flake, a trump critic who has been attacked repeatedly by the president, said reckless, outrageous and undignified behavior from the top of our government is dangerous to a democracy. he accused the president of the united states of undermining america s norms and values. and that came after the president went to capitol hill to talk tax reform with senate republicans over lunch. but there may have been cases of indigestion as the meal was proceeded today by a breathtaking war of words between the president and senator bob corker, who will also not run again in 2018. after corker urged the white house to leave tax reform to the professionals, the president lashed out on twitter, claiming falsely that corker helped president obama with the iran far too many principles. we were not ....
really incontrovertible and available in the public domain. while this admission might seem in significant, it s not. for more than a year president trump has refused to accept that russia meddled calling the probe a hoax and a witch hunt. the russia story is a total fabrication fabrication. it s just an excuse for the greatest loss in the history of american politics. this russia thing with trump and russia is a made up story. the entire thing has been a witch hunt. how many times do i have to answer this question? it s a ruse. i ve been in office 11 months. for 11 months they ve had phony cloud over our government. it s a democrat hoax brought up for an excuse losing ha election frankly the democrats should have won because they have such facebook. the pages issues in american life. race relations. immigration. and of course then candidates hillary clinton and donald trump. facebook estimates close to 126 million americans may have been exposed to this and other prop ....
for months. his long-time lawyer, business associate, one of the men he is closest to is under investigation, has been braid the fbi, and could be indicted at any moment. and we just learned his own son held multiple meetings with agents of foreign governments offering help in the 2016 campaign. that s just the tip of the iceberg. now, it also turns out that the fbi back in 2016 was so alarmed by the trump campaign s various suspicious contacts with russia, it reportedly sent an informant to meet with three different campaign aides starting the summer before the election. and now the president, his lawyer, and his allies in congress are trying to use that incriminating fact in a kind of weird jujitsu move to discredit the investigation itself. just a few weeks ago, the president warned us this moment might come. i ve taken the position, and i don t have to take this position, and maybe i ll change, that i will not be involved with is the justice department. i have decided that i ....