>> reporter: forget cookies, the president likes his own name in his mouth. >> donald trump, donald trump. donald trump. >> cookie monster. >> jeanne moos, cnn. >> stay on point, donald, stay on point. >> thank you for joining us, anderson's next. we're live from washington tonight and we begin with the house vote on health care. >> reporter: if you just think 24 hours ago, republicans in the white house have run into a brick wall on the progress they had been making we'll call this third iteration of in their effort to repeal and replace. what changed, an $8 billion amendment, adding to the $130 billion already in this bill, that $8 billion trying tos ago sage the concerns that we have

heard from republican members on how this would address the preexisting conditions protections inside obama care. this is what kevin mccarthy said just a short while ago. >> we're going to pass it. let's be optimistic about life. think today, did you all read the story about health care pulling out of iowa? we have 94 counties, out of 99 that do not have health care. that's why we have to make sure that this passes, to save people from obama care that continues to collapse, who don't even have health care. >> are you worried about this vote? >> i feel good about the count. >> optimistic about life. over the course of this day, anderson, there's been a full on, full-court press, president trump has been working the phones and leaders have been

grabbing members right on the edge. as we know, they are close enough to feel like they can have that house floor vote. they're not going to put anything on the floor that they don't know will pass. they're going to get a real test on that tomorrow. >> so what happens next? i mean what time would this be voted on? >> reporter: it's likely to be early tomorrow. you think back to the first time we went through this process, they actually had a floor debate that they eventually had to pull from the floor, so that time has already been counted, which means they can move quickly. they're setting this all up, they will have a meeting of the entire republican congress tomorrow morning and they're going to move on it. the house republicans, actually the entire house is going on recess tomorrow afternoon. they want to get this done quickly, they feel like they are close enough to have this vote, they don't want this to linger out there. so expect this to move early,

expect this to move quickly, and expect it to be sent over to the senate early tomorrow morning. >> the fate of the house gop health care bill still seems very much in flux. white house press secretary sean spicer was asked if it was the now or never moment? >> the president's made it clear before that he's not trying to set a date certain, obviously that's up to the house leader as to when that time is appropriate. but as you have seen, we continue to move closer and closer to that time. and the number of members who are supporting it continues to grow further and further and i think that's a promising sign. >> now house republicans say they are ready to hold a vote. you hear mccarthy saying they have the vote, you're hearing differently from other sources?

>> reporter: one official i spoke to just a moment ago said they're feeling good, another official describes this as a positive development. but i spoke to a key source who's been involved in this process all along, said these words, we said we're having a vote, we are not saying we have the votes. that's a source close to the process saying there's no guarantees at this point that this is going to pass tomorrow, but they do feel like they have crossed a built of a milestone here in getting some of these nervous republicans familiar with the language on preexisting conditions on this bill. under obamacare, as you know, people with preexisting conditions are covered. under donald trump care, it's a bit more complicated, people can go for waivers and protect themselves from preexisting conditions, here's what sean spi spicer had to say when we pressed him on this earlier today. >> why change preexisting conditions?

>> we're strengthening, we have done everything to not only strengthen but to guarantee -- >> but someone can say here's my water -- >> i think the fundamental point that's getting lost, if you have obamacare now, you're losing it. if you have a card that says obamacare and no one can see you, then you don't have coverage. we have literally -- >> why does that have to be altered? >> the president's made it clear that me existipreexisting condi covered under any scenario. >> so if you have a preexisting condition under donald trump care, they're going to be fine? >> the white house guaranteeing if this passes and becomes the law of the land, if they have preexisting conditions they will be fine. so mark that video for later

use. but democrats are starting to sense that this could become a problem for republicans if they get it through the house and it's a lengthy process getting it through the senate, because summer recess is coming and a lot of rowdy town halls facing those lawmakers when they go back to their districts. >> dana, i mean, would the republicans be bringing this to a vote if they didn't have the votes? >> they wouldn't be bringing it to a vote unless they felt that they were going to get there. but going into the meeting today where they emerged and said they were going to take a vote, they had the big meet agent the white house, where the president, look, give him credit, sat down and turned things around. and helped, obviously, he didn't come up with the legislative text to do this, but he sat down with fred upton and billy long, two lawmakers who are, you know, good conservatives who are really worried about people in

their states and not having the coverage and the money to pay for coverage, those who have pro existi preexisting conditions, and the president heard them out and said can i get you to yes? and it happened. whether or not it will end up with approval tomorrow. but going into the meeting, i was told there were a handful of republicans who were saying to the leadership, look, we don't want to vote yes, but if you really need us, we will. >> abby, how much can change between now and tomorrow? >> quite a bit can change, but i think they're getting this close, it becomes much more politically different for one or two people to hold up this vote. once they're this close, it's much easier to get them over the finish line. and two things happened today that probably helped clarify the political situation that republicans face going into next year, you had two insurers pull out in states, in iowa and in

virginia, making it pretty clear that the climate of uncertainty right now is a huge problem and that the governing party would ultimately be blamed for doing nothing. >> i have reached out to the white house chief of staff reince priebus who told me he's optimistic about this, that the president was working very hard. you don't bring up a vote unless you're going to win it. because they have been embarr s embarrassed before and his entire legislative agenda going forward, he needs a win, he would like a win. this is really important to paul ryan, the speaker of the house. so they know the stakes here, and they know the difficulties here because they're asking people to vote on something without actually getting an estimate about how much it costs. >> none. >> which is unheard of. there's no legislative text, they're just saying, you know, be with us. so this is really a test. >> what the real impact is going

to be. >> i don't know whether they're using carrots or sticks or both, and weimpact. but this president needs a win. >> they're talking about over five years for people with prekpipr pre-exiexisting conditions? >> that's a drop in the bucket. when you do the simple math of it. it's probably about .1% of pre-exiexisting conditions that helped. it's la they're making the political argument to get enough votes and republicans frankly are better at doing that than democrats are, but there are democrats who are going to run against republicans and they are licking their chops to see who is going to vote for this bill, because they're going to see who is against them starting this recess. >> but the stakes are hard for this president? >> i think the big difference

with where the bill is and they're going to get it across the finish line tomorrow is because of the work of the president. and also the work vice president presen pence put into this. he was up on capitol hill and he did some arm twisting to get the bill across the finish line. not only are a number of health care providers pulling out. but by next month, all of the carriers have to announce whether they're staying in or not staying in. and in october we're going to find out what the premiums are going to look like, so obamacare in its current construct is collapsing on itself. so they have to take action here. >> there's lots of problems, but when i go across the country and i talk to people that are in the health care business, there are successes and there are failures. here's what's interesting to me. over the weekend, the president got into some trouble by saying, no, no, no, preexisting

conditions, it's going to be in there, but it wasn't in there. but it expose something, this is a very conservative approach in how government ought to interfere in the health care system. the obamacare was big government, big entitlement. our president is much more moderate and pragmatic on this issue, i'm not sure in the end he's going to be happy with a more conservative ideological issue on health care. >> he'll be happy with a w on it. >> no doubt about it. >> we'll continue this discussion after the break, also the white house loves it's pictures of border walls, for the second day in a row, pointing at pictures and saying it's a win for trump. keeping them honest, we're seeing a wall that actually has nothing to do with president trump. we'll explain that ahead. allergies with nasal congestion?

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we're live from washington tonight, house breaking news, the gop says they have enough votes to hold a vote for the health care bill. here again is what house majority leader kevin mccarthy said a short time ago. >> we're going to pass it. we're going to pass it. let's be optimistic about life. did you all read the story of the health care pulling out of iowa, where you have 94 counties out of 99 that do not have health care? that's why we have to make sure that this passes, to save people from obamacare that's collapsing. >> do you feel good about the count? >> i feel great about the count. >> what about the fact that the white house has pushed back that, you heard kevin mccarthy

that insurance companies are pulling out of obamacare. >> and really in a matter of a month or so. the obama administration took 14 months, held multiple hearings, and the -- i do think we have to take a step back and ask how fast they are moving in this and the $8 million how it won't even begin to cover preexisting conditions, where did that number come from? nobody seems to know, it expires after five years. what happens after five years? there are some questions in this bill that we don't know the answers to. there's some very fundamental things like mental health care coverage. and also the states high risk pools, so they can then get

money. there's all sorts of very seriously problematic things in this bill, and there's been reporting where people have gone and asked congress questions about the bill, and they don't know anything. >> and conservative think tanks asked how much money you would need for these high risk pools. the estimates were between $15 billion and $20 billion. and you want to stretch that out over a number of years. >> this is just the first step, then this obviously goes the senate? >> they in the house, the republicans, and at the white house, they just want to break the logjam somehow, and the first step is getting it through the house. you are totally right, it would be shocking if there were answers from most of these members who are going to vote yes, as to whether they know what this is going to do, first and foremost, because we don't

even have the bill or the score, you're totally right. but that's policy, which matters, but they're also thinking politically, as you know, just get this done, get it over to the senate, where $8 billion is going to be in the rear view mirror. >> and they're going to support it in the senate? >> right now the democrats are lock step in saying they will not even come close to voting for anything that repeals obamacare. even if it's replacing it. >> that's what republicans did. and one of the biggest mistakes of obamacare was passing it on a party line vote, and not getting real ownership across the country. there were unknowns about obamacare in terms of interpretation, and today they're moving even more precipitously. >> but they koucouldn't even ge party vote, and it could be even

more of a problem in the senate, particularly when people start focusing on the medicaid expansion part of it. which you're going to roll back that expansion, you're going to talk about loss of coverage, that people are going to begin to feel in their states or think about. >> it's a totally different ball game in the senate. they know this. the white house knows it. they just want to get this moving. i talked to a source in the white house, that the estimate is it will take a long time for them to settle, for them to digest, i'm not saying totally start over, but i don't think you'll see anything much like what you saw. >> and the way they had to negotiate in the house, they'll have to do the same in the senate. >> you got to give him his due, he got into this process and forced it in a way that i don't know that house leadership could do. >> coming up, the other big story in washington, the head of the fbi testified before the senate judiciary committee about

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welcome back. tomorrow's scheduled house vote on the health care bill is the big story in washington. the other big story is james comey's digestive system, testifying in a hearing saying that the idea that he affected the presidential election made him, quote, mildly nauseous, still he thinks he made the right choice that 10 days before the election to announce that he was going through more of hillary clinton's emails. >> reporter: fbi director james comey clearly wanted to get a lot off his chest in how he handled the two high profile probes into the clinton and trump campaigns. . >> tonight, fbi director james comey in the hot seat before the

senate judiciary committee, telling lawmakers he has no regrets about his letter to congress announcing before the election that the clinton email probe was ongoing. >> honestly, it wouldn't change the decision, everyone who disagrees with me has to go back to october 28 with me and stare at this, and tell me what you would do, would you speak or would you conceal. and i could be wrong, but we honestly made a decision between these two choices, that even in hindsights and this has been the world's most painful experiences, make the same decision, i would not conceal that on october 28 from congress. >> was there any conflict among your staff, people saying do it, people saying don't do it, as has been reported? >> no, it was a great debate. i have a fabulous staff at all

levels, down that path lies the death of the fbi as an independent institution in america. i can't be affected for a second in whose political career will be affected. we have to decide what's the right thing to do and do that thing. >> and comey said he lost confidence in the justice department's leadership after bill clinton met with loretta lynch on a tarmac. >> the department leadership could not credibly complete the investigation and decline prosecution without grievance damage to the american justice system. it was the hardest phone call i made when i told the secretary general that i was going to hold a press conference but not tell her what i was going to say. i didn't love this, i knew this

was going to be disaster for me personally, but i thought this is the best way to protects these institutions i care so much about. >> reporter: he was also publicly questioned about why he didn't disclose russian ties to the trump campaign before the election. >> if there had been probe -- >> i thought a lot about this and my judgment was, in counter terrorism, we have to separate two thing, i thought it was very important to call whaout what t russians were doing. the obama administration didn't fake advantage of it in august, but they did in october. >> reporter: and exactly how disgraced former congressman anthony weiner wound up with thousands of emails on his computer. >> was there classified information on former congressman wiener's computer?

>> yes. >> who sent it to him? >> his then spouse, huma abedin seems to have a regular practice of forwarding emails for her that he could print out for her that she could then deliver to the former secretary of state. >> what was his role? >> my understanding is his role was to print them out, not to read them. >> if he did read them, would he have been committing a crime? >> potentially. >> would his spouse have been committing a crime? >> potentially. >> why did you conclude neither of them committed a crime? >> because with respect to ms. abedin inparticular, we didn't have any sense that what she was doing was in violation of the law. >> i understand you have some new information about next week's testimony? >> reporter: that's right,

there's going to be another hearing on russia's interference in the election, with former acting attorney general james clap ever. and we have learned that susan rice, president obama's former national security advisor declined the request. so she will not be there for testimony on russia hacking and in a letter obtained exclusively from rice's lawyer outlines the reasons for her abstention, he did not agree for chairman linds lindsay graham's invitation to testify. and rice considered this invitation from senator graham a diversionary play, is what she felt this was, to distract attention from the russian investigation. and rice had been accused by

president trump of unmasking trump officials. lawmakers on both sides of the aisle said they didn't see anything wrong with what susan rice did. >> paul, did what director comey said today make sense about his rationale for -- >> oh, yeah, no problem. no biggie. >> i knew you would say that. >> i want him to take me back to that room on october 28. there's two doors, one marked speak, and one marked conceal. one marked comey, one marked country, he put himself ahead of his country. he had the lap top, he had the evidence, it wasn't going anywhere, put it in a safe, put it on ice, in 11 days we'll check it out. we don't even have a search warrant today. >> some say it destroys the fbi. >> these guys are heroes. these are men and women who put their country ahead of their

lives every day. and this guy is so obsessed with his reputation, that he decided to involve himself in an election 11 days out. contravening decades of policy. he inserted himself into an election and it had a real affect on the election, i'm sorry it upset his delicate stomach. >> the big news was the obamacare premium hikes that came out and all the people that were losing their coverage. and that was the catalyst that was going that morning. so that friday, when we got our internal polling numbers out, i remember running down the hall, saying did you see the numbers in new mexico, did you see the -- it wasn't until later when all this news broke. >> would it have made a difference if comey had said that the trump campaign was colluding with the russians, of

course it would. >> that is the sole bias. >> but the original sin in all of this was that jim comey, the man who stood up as number two in the justice department and the bush administration was big justice, which is don't let the -- he did that when he came out and said we're not charging hillary clinton, and no reasonable person would charge her. he waded into politics then. why? because he knew there were so many agents who wanted to charge. so many agents who were so mad about how they handled general petraeus and they were mad that they weren't going after hillary clinton. he was dealing his with own internal politics. the problem is there are procedures if you don't charge, you don't talk, because once you start you can't stop and then you loses your independence. >> do you agree? >> he should have shut up.

prosecutors speak through indictments, he not only cleared hillary in july, then he trashed her. he had a negative campaign on her in 90 minutes. he should have shut up in july, he did not check with justice before he did that. >> if he did come out and say that the trump campaign is under investigation for contacting the russians, you can't deny that would have had an impact? >> we were talking about secretary clinton, we were talking about this illegal home server, we're talking about five people who were taking this -- >> also what he said today, he used the term criminal intent when he was talking about this, there wasn't the fact that there was a crime committed. >> you don't think that people would have heard trump campaign possible contacts with russia and thought -- >> of course. but that's the big news today. the big news today is there's still not one shred of evidence that there was some type of coordination between the trump campaign and the russians.

>> but that's not what this hearing was about. so there wasn't any news on that. and he couldn't talk about it. >> the investigation's ongoing. >> but this is why it was all going on today, that was the fundmental thing they're trying to supposedly get to the bottom of this. and still eight months later, they still haven't put anything forward. >> the one thing that was stunning to me, was we heard how he felt about the attorney general and he heard about how he felt about her meeting with bill clinton in the airplane that day. and then -- >> that he didn't have confidence that the department of justice was -- >> can i finish? i believe that one of the reasons he went out and talked about hillary clinton that day and called her reckless, et cetera, was he felt he had the reputation of the, you know, justice department and the fbi on his shoulders. >> this is killing me. the fbi director comes across

that he has a sense that he's a moral voice for america. he is not. he runs the fbi and they determine whether you walk across pennsylvania avenue and suggest to the department of justice, based on an investigation whether or not somebody committed a crime. he made one mistake, that was speaking in july, to talk about this. he should not have done this. he made a second mistake in july. his personal opinion about hillary clinton, why do i care? not your job, you're not the high school principal. he kept talking about october 28. wrong date, he set up october 28 because he closed the investigation wrongly, and said now that i have screwed it up, i have to double back. >> i know for a fact, he was worried about the spirit and morale within the fbi, he was worried that all those agents who were so mad, who wanted to have hillary clinton charged would not believe in him and he was worried about congress. and that's why he did all the extra stuff that he shouldn't

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as we started discussing before the break, fbi director james comey said he would do it again. he stood by his decision to reveal that the fbi was looking into the clinton emails 11 days before the election. >> it makes me mildly nauseous to think that we had an impact on the election, but honestly, i still stand by my decision, everyone has to back to october 27 and stare at this and decide would you speak or would you conceal? and i think we did the right thing, that even in hindsight i would make the same decision. >> he said mild nausea, i don't know what it would take to get him really nauseous, but i want

whatever is in his stomach. >> he seems to have really worked himself up about this and we talked during the break about him being this gladdaiator for justice. i think there's a wide spread perception that he acted and made somebody president. but 0e6r7on the other hand, wha laid out, what was the right thing to do, is not the test that he faces as fbi director. if your job is not to sway the election one way or the other, he has to pay attention, is something i'm going to do affect either for someone or against someone or vice versversa. >> david, you said earlier that the initial press conference was the original sin and i think

that's definitely true for comey's part in this. but let's remember that the original original sin was that private server, and i'm sure that even paul would agree with this. then this ball wouldn't have started rolling. i'm not saying she did anything illegal, i don't know. >> but, you know, paul, comey did say he offered to speak out about russian interference back in august and the obama administration did not take advantage of it. >> in august, he's pressing obama as coming right out of the convention, giving the most partisan speech you can give. and then in october, the fbi was the last intelligence agency in line who said that russia is doing this, and then for comey to say i wanted to do this months earlier. that's not what's unfair.

if both candidates are under investigation, and one's cleared and one's still under investigation, that's when the guidelines matter most. eric holder, the attorney general has signed an order, and every attorney general has done this for 50 years, don't mess with anything near an election, it's always been 60 days, and for decades, every attorney general has issued an order like that. and he violated the order. >> it's also for protechation of individuals in this country. the fbi had been leaking interviews about -- with the contempt of their interviews were, any individual goes up against the federal government, that's a very powerful entity. that's why you need protection, if you don't like hillary

clinton, you want to see her go to jail, the justice department isn't the one that decides. but you can't punish her bad judgment, and her bad judgment was punished ultimately in the polls and on election day, it was a factor. those protections matter. >> it turns out that barack obama seemed to care more about not influencing the election than james comey, which is kind of shocking, because obama made a decision, hold off on the release of anything, just, let's be careful about this, yes, with trump and russia, with comey on hillary clinton, he said basically i have to do this for myself. >> this is making me mildly nauseous. he's talking about whether he should have spoke on in -- interference in the election, you can't speak in august about

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president trump wants to build a wall on the border with mexico. in the recent budget, there wasn't any money for it. there was some for border security but not for the wall itself. that hasn't stopped the white house from showing up with props in the briefing room to try and argue otherwise. press secretary sean spicer showed border fencing under construction and pointed to a fence he said is being replaced by a steel wall. both of them he said are examples of how the president is keeping his pledge about the wall. just yesterday, the budget director also talked about securing the border and used some of the same photos. take a look. >> whether yn you heard about t deal, did you think we could build this? i bet you didn't. nobody did. is it a replacement for existing wall? yeah, that's fine. is it new wall? no. this is what's out there right now. this is what's going to be put

in as a result of this bill. that's better border security. you can call it new wall. you can call it replacement. you can call it whatever you want to. the president's priority was to secure the southern border and that's what this does. we are building this now. there is money in this deal to build serve hundreds of millions of dollars of this to replace this. that's what we got in this deal. that's what the democrats don't want you to know. this stuff is going up now. why? the pre the president wants to keep the country more safe. >> we sent gary tuchman to the border to where they were the photos were taken. here is what he discovered. >> reporter: a after the budget director pointed to the photographs of border wall construction, he was asked where it was. >> i don't know where it's being built. >> reporter: we do. we matched up photographs and discovered the location is in new mexico, which board a small town near mexico.

we came here. workers are building a new approved and more secured steel wall. construction workers tell us is the portion of fence where the picture was taken. the opening in the fence in the photo is now closed with that gate. interestingly, the picture was taken from the other side of the fence on the mexican side. the mountains that you see in the background are the mountains here in new mexico. the budget director declared, quote, this stuff is going up now because the president wants to make this country safe. but keeping them honest, this stuff has nothing to do with president trump. daphne griffin works at a restaurant. >> this came from the bush administration. >> reporter: is that common knowledge? >> yeah. >> reporter: president george w. bush signed the secure fence of 2006 in october of that year. since then, he and president abow uh- obama approved new construction to border walls apr s and fence. it's those two responsible for improvements done to this wall.

this project began in the summer of 2016, months before donald trump was elected. it's nothing unusual? >> no. it's not unusual to see the wall being fixed. >> reporter: in addition to the frequent trains chugging along the border, one of the first things we noticed was this chain-link fence separating the countries. which a child on mexican side was climbing. a fence the budget director actually pointed out. >> this doesn't stop drugs and doesn't stop criminals from crossing the border. it doesn't stop hardly anything from crossing the border. >> reporter: sean spicer also noted it. >> if you look at that one in particular, you have got a chain-link fence is what is at our southern border. that's down there now. we are able to go in there and instead of having a chain-link fence replace it with that wall. >> reporter: keeping them honest again, the chain-link fence has never been a border fence. workers and law enforcement say they can't go on camera, tell us it's part of the construction site put up by the construction workers for safety.

to be clear, border wall and border fencing is often getting repaired and replaced. if president trump wants to build a new wall in a place that hasn't had one, he doesn't have the authorization or money to do that. at least yet. what mr. trump does have is the right to improve and repair current walls and fences. the same exact thing presidents before him have had. >> gary joins us now. i just want to go back to one thing. the chain-link fence that the white house keeps saying this are replacing, that is not actually border barrier? that's part of the construction site put up by construction workers? >> reporter: right. a temporary fence. before the temporary fence was there, there was a fairly tall steel wall. but it got old. there were repairs that had to be done. people got through it, over it. that's why this project to improve the wall started this past summer. this is between 18 and 20 feet tall. to get over it, you need a ladder or you need to shimmy up

a pole 16 feet and get to the top where there's a four-foot hunk of metal. then you have to get over that. there's a couple more months to work on in this project. one thing i noticed, which is interesting, when the white house points out this chain-link fence, if they want to prove the point, it's easy to do so. much of the border, there's no fence. there's barbed wire. they didn't have to point out the chain-link fence. i believe it's an honest mistake. >> it's good to find out what the truth is. thanks very much. more ahead in the next hour of 360, including carter page, a former trump campaign adviser. will get his take on james comey's testimony on the russia white house investigation. his name came up a few times. so ammara, you're a verizon engineer, tell me, what's one really good reason why the samsung galaxy s8 is better on verizon? well we have the largest 4g lte network in america. yeah that's a pretty good reason. and the most reliable. uh-huh. and, with unlimited, you get full hd video. oh wow, yeah, that's, uh, two, maybe even three reasons right there. it's exactly three.

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welcome back. we're live from washington, d.c. on this busy day. tonight's russia white house watch, four committees are investigating the meddling in the presidential election. the fbi has an investigation into whether president trump's associates included with russia, something comey confirmed today that they are investigating that. tomorrowy w comey was asked about carter page. let's hear the exchange. >> was there a warrant issued? >> i can't answer that here. >> did you consider karcarter p an act of the campaign?

>> can't answer that here. >> do you stand by your testimony that there is an active investigation counterintelligence investigation regarding trump campaign individuals and the russian government as to whether or not they collaborated? >> to see if there was any coordination between the russian -- >> is that still going on? >> yes. >> nothing has changed? you stand by those statements? >> correct. >> you won't tell me about carter page? >> not here i won't. >> carter page joins me now. the fbi director refused to answer questions about you specifically. have you spoken or been contacted by the fbi? >> you know, anderson, i don't want to talk about any ongoing investigations. it's the same thing i was told when i tried asking lisa monaco about this back in january. i have no comment. >> you don't want to say whether you have spoken with the fbi? >> let me just say that i've been very cooperative with a lot of individuals in government.

>> i know you have written letters to the senate intelligence committee. the last time we spoke, you denied -- there's been focus on your trip to moscow when you made the speech in the summer of 2016. you've repeatedly denied having any conversations in a lot of interviews about lifting sanctions when you were in moscow. you have denied this many times on this network and others. in an interview in april, you suddenly sound less than definitive. i want to play what you said to george stephanopoulos. >> it sounds like from what you are saying it's possible you may have discussed the easing of sanctions? >> something may have come -- i have no recollection and there's nothing specifically that i would have done that would have given people that impression. >> but you can't say without equivocation that you didn't discuss the easing of sanctions? >> someone may have brought it up. have i have no recollection. if it was, it was not something i was offering or someone