to advise donald trump. wolf. >> we'll see how that works out. thanks very much, barbara star in the pentagon. that's it for me. thanks for watching. i'm wolf blitzer in "the situation room." erin burnett outfront starts right now. outfront nerks breaking news, major development in the russia investigation tonight. special counsel looking at collusion with the help after key trump campaign official is rick gates, the key to muller's case. plus the president says good-bye to hope hicks. they say he doesn't need ha communications director. will trump go it solo? >> and here on outfront could it turn the legal battle between trump and stormy daniels on head. stormy daniels attorney is my guest tonight. let's go outfront. and good evening i'm erin burnett. outfront tonight breaking news, collusion is on the table. make remember development in the russia investigation tonight. cnn is learning that special

counsel robert mueller is looking at collusion between the trump campaign and russia. with the help of a key trump campaign official. that official is the former deputy campaign manager rick gates. he pleaded guilty to charges from mueller and is cooperating with the special counsel. and one of the things mueller is looking at includes gates contacts during the 2016 campaign with alleged russian intelligence agent who also had close ties with the trump campaign chairman paul manafort. this is a potentially explosive development. putting collusion at the core of mueller's investigation. and an allegation that president himself, of course, has denied at every opportunity. >> there is no collusion between me and my campaign and the russians. >> there has been absolutely no collusion. there has been no collusion between us and the russians. >> there has been no collusion between the trump campaign and

russians or trump and russians. no collusion. bottom line, they all say there is no collusion, and there is no collusion. >> gates is cooperating with mueller, and he is crucial in the investigation h he was manafort's right hand man and had intimate knowledge what was going on inside the campaign. as one person with knowledge of the situation said of gates, he was an implementer. the alleged russian intelligence agent is referred to as a in court documents, but we understand it is constantine who once worked foreman a fort and lived in moscow and ki kiev according to sources close to the investigation. what could they know? >> reporter: they believe they could have information valuable beyond business partner paul manafort who is also the campaign chairman. one of the things sources were telling my colleague, caitlyn,

in the run youp of rick gates plea deal meeting with prosecutors from mueller's team. look, we don't need your cooperation. what we want is for you to help us with our core mission between investigating russians. and gates was in interesting position to do that. not only right hand man throughout the cam pin and summer of 2016 when there was a meeting with the returns at trump tower, but stayed on the campaign even after paul manafort was ousted and tin continued to work on the auction with one of the president's close friends tom barack. >> close friends with president hand manafort. so all of these ties crucial. how did this all this unfold, sarah? >> reporter: it's interesting it came out to light. you would expect it's coming up in the gates case. it's not. it's coming out in another

lawyer worked for gates in the sentencing because he has pleaded gil pleaded guilty to special counsel between these men that has ties and says in contact with this man throughout the campaign and knew he had ties with them and stayed in contact with him anyway. and said this is a person pertinent to the investigation. so kind of linking all of these pieces together. and it tells you that this investigation into collusion is still very much ongoing. >> very much so. all right. thank you very much, sara, with these breaking developments tonight. >> let's go straight outfront for richard painter, and republican congressman charley dent. all of you, thank you. richard, let's start with this bottom line conclusion tonight. collusion is on the table. >> well, we know there was collusion. the president has denied it only

once. but we have the meeting in trump tower with russian agents. we have mr. papadopoulos who had his russian handler, the professor they called him, over in london. and now we have gates and his russian agent contact. and that probably is only the beginning of it. the critical question for robert mueller at the end of the day is whether there was illegal collusion. whether it was criminal. >> right. >> whether it violated campaign finance laws or whether there was collusion before or after the fact with respect to computer hacking or other crimes. a lot of people are lying about their con tarkts with ttacts wis and that's criminal. we'll have people going to the slammer and the question is who and how high up it will reach. but the notion no collusion is ridiculous. will is collusion and we know it by now. >> well the question of course as you point out is what is criminal, right, is wanting to get information from whoever you

can get it from a crime or not. congressm congressman, mueller is saying he was in contact with him in the months leading up to the collusion and gates knew that this person was an intelligence agent, was a spy. how significant could that be, that he was both in contact with this individual, that he knew this individual to be a russian spy, and that this happened in the months before the election, congressman? >> well, as richard said, it certainly establishes a tie between the campaign and the russians. question is is this criminal? i simply don't know the answer to that. but i'll tell you it seems that this moves beyond paul manafort business dealings that preceded his time with the campaign. kind of really puts the campaign directly in the cross hairs. and so we still have a lot more to learn from director mueller, but i would be a little nervous right now if i were part of the campaign and part of the trump campaign. it seems to me they have a lot to worry about. i'm not saying the president is directly implicated here, but

this is going to raise more questions and there is going to be a lot more people in the hot seat. >> certainly seems that way. i mean, juliet, on this issue of cooperation, right, gates got a vastly reduced possible sentence by cooperating. several charges were dropped. now he still could go to jail, right, but for much, much shorter time than he would before. and crucial charges i'm sorry were dropped. to me that would indicate as a layperson that mueller's team thinks that gates does know something significant. not just a fishing expedition. let us know who knew whom or throw it out there. to give so much up would indicate they really do think he has something significant. do you think that that's true? they think he could be a key to establishing criminal collusion? >> absolutely. and i think this explains first of all, erin, as you said why was gates so gates friendly, so to speak. also remember he pled to conspiracy, not to lying.

so that sort of protects him as a witness. not claiming that he's been lying. because remember if he ends up being on a witness stand, the opposition will go after him, so it's interesting what he pled to. and then the third major piece at this stage, and sometimes we have to take a step back, there were multiple contacts between the trump campaign, people in the trump campaign, people who were wannabes of the trump campaign leading up to election campaign. they were vague. in 2015 they clearly took on significant meaning maybe around the time he got the nomination through the meetings at trump tower. now we have gates in october of 2016. what that says to me is not that the notion of no contacts is off the table. the russians clearly were clearly trying to penetrate the trump campaign. and the question is what is the extent, duration, the substance, and the direction of those contacts. who was directing who.

and then just to add, we have the cambridge analytica thing right next to it, parallel about a different type of context going on. as we've all been saying not a good day. >> richard, gates was manafort's right hand man for a lng time. knew him very well extensively before and of course when manafort was chairman of trump's campaign. but then manafort left. and what i want to emphasize there gates was an important player. he stayed on. he then served on the inaugural committee with tom barack, the president's friends, who ran that. gates has deep ties to other members of trump's extremely inner circle. when you look at it that way, from what we know, he's the biggest fish with all of those tentacles. >> he is. he knows a lot of the people or very close to the president. some of the people who are currently in the white house who worked on that campaign. and if that campaign was illegally colluding with the

russians or anybody on that campaign has lied to robert mueller about their contacts with the russians, they are going to be in big trouble. and this is well beyond the point of demonstrating collusion. we are now getting into the criminal activity question, was there a crime, and who committed it. and this investigation is heating up. i would be very, very worried if i had anything to do with that campaign. and the idea of a presidential campaign colluding with the russians, it's something i thought i would never see growing up in this country and certainly a republican campaign or a democrat campaign maybe a communist party campaign. this is shocking this happened whether or not it's criminal. >> congressman, how surprised are you that this has gotten to this point? >> well, i guess i'm quite a bit surprised by it. and i guess what really is disturbing to me is what were the substance of these conversations or these contacts between gates and this russian.

were they in search of opposition research? or was it something more than that? and the biggest question of tall, why in heavens sake would anyone in a presidential campaign talk to agents of a hostile foreign power? that's really the issue. what information were they trying to get from the russians? or what were the russians trying to share with the campaign? these are, i tell you i would be nervous if i were some of the folks involved in that campaign chblt i'm not saying the president is implicated in this but this does not bode well. >> juliet? >> i think, i guess my takeaway right now is mueller has to come up with a report. it may lead to indictments, not of trump, but of family members, which i do think gets us to a constitutional crisis. i think if jared is immr. kated or don junior, for trump it's as if it's him. but i also think what we seem to be seeing in different theories of the case is clear evidence

that trump himself, the president, is so compromised by russia. whether criminal compromise, whether you can call it collusion, but that all of these different tentacles from the financial to the obstruction of justice, and now to collusion, are leading to just one clear description of the president of the united states. and that i thisnk is scary not only those close to him but scary for the country. and i say it on the air we sometimes have to take a deep breath and realize what is unfoldsing in fronts of us. >> the other part, congressman, i want to ask you about, is this this story. three on capitol hill asked jeff sessions to appoint a second special counsel carter page. and whether more should be done to investigate hillary clinton's tie toss the russian nuclear energy deal with uranium one. now sessions has said no.

he is not going to do that. instead he's going to have a top federal prosecutor from utah look into the allegations but not going ahead with the special investigator, special prosecutor all the way. do you think the president, congressman, will be satisfied with this, especially given the things he said about jeff sessions? >> probably not. i agree with jeff sessions. if anything, i think inspector general in the department of justice could very easily be looking into how, and i believe they are, looking into how the clinton, how the justice department dealt with the clinton campaign investigation. i this i that would be completely appropriate. i think you are better off with inspector general report first. let's see what that reveals. hand then you can always take it to the next step. but i think jeff sessions made the right call. i think the president would be very disappointed. >> thank you very three. thank you for your time. next, after this revelation on outfront, doing damage

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while you can because lobsterfest won't last. the president arriving at mar-a-lago leaving behind a white house still in chaos. today we are learning outside advisers are telling trump he does not need a communications director or a chief of staff. that in fact he can do all those jobs himself. this comes on the same day that one of his closest confidantes hope hicks officially left the white house leaving the president without a director. that spot still vacant. john kelly is still there as of now. today the president joking maybe a business man. >> that was my best thing. i think better than being president i was maybe good at building. >> kaitlan collins out front with west palm beach where the president has arrived.

looking like real easter weather. what is the thinking inside of the white house tonight? >> reporter: well, essentially erin all this talk about staff turnover in the last few weeks. and now being told the president is being advised that maybe he doesn't need anymore staff. that he could potentially lose one day. outside advisers are telling him he doesn't need a chief of staff and communications director to serve in the traditional sense we have seen in past white houses. and this doesn't mean that john kelly is on his way out the door tomorrow. but we are told that the president has absorbed this advice and certainly something that has been on his mind since these people have advised him to do so for this management structure in the white house. because, erin, it's very clear this is something that the president has been very frustrated with, because he doesn't think a very structured west wing really suits him in that free wheeling style he had when he was in private businessman before coming into the west wing. and we have seen this because he started to go around his chief of staff john kelly who is not always on foreign calls anymore

and not in all of his meetings as much. we have seenly see him lose a sense of standing in the west wing that he once had when he first entered late last summer when he replaced rans priebus. and after hope hicks left, they are seeing what it will look like. she was near presence for the president. and i'm told she hasn't been there the last few weeks since she an announced she is leaving. and at times the president has s summoned her named to find out she's not there. >> as they travel to ohio and florida if asked if the president is done finally shaking up staff. because we have seen so many depa depart tours departures in the last few weeks. and her answer was telling, she

said we'll have to get back to you on that. >> thank you very much. rob joins me now, friends of the president for over 15 years and gop governor of new york. and joan walsh. so joan, let me start with you, you heard caitlyn reporting outside adviser. >> sure s anthony scarce and lewandowski. >> you have to wonder who these people are and what are the motives. all trying to get something from him. >> a chaotic white house where they can come and go as they please. we know that john kelly put a lot of folks on leashes. kept a lot of people outside. really controlled the calendar and lots of people don't like it. so this is what's being told to the president to liberate him. but also to advance some other people's agenda. i think it's pretty obvious. >> you think he'll do it? i mean, it feeds to his vanity. >> yes. >> you don't need anyone else. >> chaos. she has a white house that he wants to have in a manner that

makes him comfortable. and, again, he came in, we talked about this in the past, he came in without a real political team. governmental team because he was never in government. so it was sort of amish mosh of people from all over the place and some of it didn't work out, including some holdovers which we have a new secretary departing today, in shulkin. so i think that it's up to the president. and you know what, we haven't tried it. why doesn't he just try it? maybe it will work. not having a chief of staff. i would not recommend that. i think it's a very important position. i do think a communications director is a very important position. >> good. you are being sensible. >> but if he wants to try it, why not. >> why not. >> the changes we have seen are that people that he picked, okay, maybe he didn't end up liking them, but they are his people. not any that these people are holdovers, it was h.r. mcmaster

number three security adviser, rex tillerson and david shulkin. these are all his selections and now gotten rid of them. and replaced by people who say wonderful things about the president. the well regarded doctor taken over va affairs, second largest in the country. >> zero experience. a lot of people remember him, many white houses have worked for him. >> gentleman, president obama's doctor as well. >> a lot of respect. but last time american people saw him, he was prtalking about wonderful status about the president's health, that he wasn't obese, which he is. so he wasn't honest to the american people. >> i think he's a pound under. >> what do you make about this, usually the president is

bragging about how he ran his business, yes, people always want people to feel better about them selves. but you want people to tell you what you respect. but they do not seem to be willing to do that. >> dr. jackson he does not have administrative experience. he does know the military because he's part of it and problems of the military. doesn't matter all relative depending on the size because you still have to manage people t leader and communicate at the top. you are not running in the weeds and dealing with day-to-day things. that's why you have top lieutenants hand deputy toss move forward either the president's wishes, clearly, or whatever you delegate. and so i think it can be done. doesn't have to be done with someone with experience. >> helps to have experience choosing the top deputies, you've been in management job to run them. >> it sounds like what you are

saying is predicated upon, okay, he put in people not the right fit, didn't know what he was doing fully, but now he does, we have good people. forget the 50% turnover rate. we'll be fine now. what if this is how he does things over the years? remember the gal on apprentice, firing is what defined him not the loyalty. >> one thing go government is goes on and on every day no matter who is there. most of it just goes because it's bureaucracy. the leadership at the top matters in the direction that that brewureaucracy, but right the direction is from the president. >> he is being too easy? >> yeah, we don't have people. he's not choosing people that require follow-through to make him a better president. i didn't vote for him. but we all want him to it be a

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new tonight team trump insists nondisclosure agreement with stormy daniels is, quote, rock solid. trump's personal attorney michael cohen speaking out through his friend schwartz. this comes as schwartz speaking for spokesman attorney of the united states never new about the nondisclosure agreement between himself and stormy daniels. here is the crucial exchange. >> the president was not aware of the agreement. at least michael cohen never told him about the agreement. i can tell you that. and you asked a whole bunch of questions so let me cover that you asked about 12 days before. >> not aware about the agreement. what about the money? >> he was not aware about any of it. >> okay. >> not la wear. wasn't told about it. michael cohen left the option over. that's why he left that signature line. the option open to go to him. he chose not to.

>> stormy daniels lawyers michael avenatti is outfront to respond. and michael, you think this assertion that trump did not know about the money or about the nondisclosure agreement itself is a significant admission. why? >> well, i almost did not come on the show tonight, erin, because i would prefer that mr. schwartz come on your show. because every time he speaks on television, my case gets that much better. so i was hoping he would come on the show. because what happened last night was disastrous for mr. cohn and mr. trump. those admissions are very damaging. bau because if what he says is true t and i have serious questions if it's true. >> as to whether the president knew or did not. >> correct. >> if he did not know. >> then the nda is invalid and our case is a home run. so i don't know what these guys are thinking. it's like they are not communicating or paying tension. butt will he me say this i hope david schwartz is not with the

nuclear launch codes because if he is we are in trouble. >> i know your assertion if the president didn't know about it. but a lawyer gave me ha example of a life insurance contract, i could sign one between me and the life insurance company. and i could say you are my bish. something happens to me you would et go the money even though you knew nothing about the contract that had been signed of which you were beneficiary. so is it possible that the nda between two parties could be valid even if the beneficiary, donald trump, didn't know about it? >> well, nda could be. but not the way this is drafted. various provisions only donald trump could agree to or perhaps an agent of donald trump's. so by mr. schwartz claiming admitting on your show that donald trump knew about it at any time, then donald trump could not be bound. so. >> what's the best example of one of those that you could share with us? that you would say, donald trump

would have had to know about it for it to be valid therefore it isn't? >> i'll use this nda. i don't think it guilty any better than this. in the nda not just the payment of $130,000. that's one thing mr. trump was supposed to do. but also supposed to provide a release of any and all claims. supposed to agree to confidentiality. supposed to agree to stay away from her and her family. a whole host of things that he and only he could agree to. if he didn't know anything about the agreement, how could he agree to those things? but gets even better. what we've heard mr. szarvas in the past say donald trump is going to sue my client for million per incident. >> right. they say it's $20 million already. >> maybe it's 50 or 100. who knows what the number is. it's ludicrous. how can donald trump seek to enforce agreement that he didn't know anything about it? >> so michael cohen's spokesperson on this money, your client owes him, back the

$130,000. he said stormy daniels came to team trump just before the election and it was not the other way around. it was stormy daniels who approached trump. here is that exchange. >> you ask why, people are scratching their head, why 12 days before, because that's when the attorney approached michael cohen. the other, stormy daniels attorney approached michael cohen. it happened to coincide with the election. she admitted on "60 minutes" she was shopping the case around. she admits that. >> i want to make it clear, her lawyer at the time this all happened was not you. all right. so you are not able to talk about that exact moment. but if it is true, if you look at this and say that's true, assume if, i know the question is whether it is. but if she a proeshd, it could mean that you are client was threatening to make up a story basically to extort presidential candidate days before the election. could that be true? >> no, it can't be true. and it's not true. it's like a claim that the earth is flat. it did not happen.

it's ludicrous. and all you have to do, erin, is look at the conduct post the election to see that it's not true. look at all of the steps that the president and michael cohen and david schwartz continued to take to silence my clients and intimidate her and put her undider the tluhumb. if that were true, why didn't they get her out of the agreement two months ago when we offered to do that and return the $130,000. we offered that lan they didn't take us off. the reason is they want to continue to silence her. >> are you sure, because you weren't her attorney at the time, are you assure what happened at that time? >> i'm sure. >> and you are sure they didn't approach them? >> no, my understanding is she did not ha approach them. both her and karen mcdougal were considering going on good morning america, they were having conversations with abc, and i think abc can confirm this, they were having conversations with abc, word leaked out, and michael cohen approached my client with this offer of $130,000, and this nda.

>> okay. so schwartz of course says michael cohen was not acting ill leely. >> there is no question about it. >> szarvas argument is that there is because this type of happens so frequently in his relationship with donald trump as his personal attorney, that trump wouldn't have expected to be briefed on the details. and here's a clip of how schwartz explained it. >> look, michael was fixer. we all know it. so it could be anything. it's not that this man -- there were a ton of matters that michael fixed. and drumtd wasn't involved in every single matter. believe me, michael cohen got calls at 3 in the morning. michael and i would be at dinner. boss could be calling him all the time. >> i'm sure. >> so there were always problems. any business always problems. >> you buy it? >> well, no, i actually believe it. i bloo eve there were a ton of porn stars and a ton of

playmates. i do believe that. because that's what he's saying. this isn't unusual. evidently there were all kinds of women that would come out of the woodwork due to their prior relationships with the president, and that's why he had mr. cohen on speed dial, his fixer. if you don't have a lot of problems and shouldn't be doing things you shouldn't be doing, you don't need a full-time 24 hour a day fixer. >> you said eight additional women come to you. two had ndas but you haven't vetted them all. >> correct. >> do you know some of them will be legitimate? any sense how many are or aren't? >> we are further down that process but i'm not willing to stake my reputation. but what we are doing is put our reputation between this client miss daniels. >> before we go any further, it was rejected by federal judge. you said are you not concerned. >> no. >> why? >> this order is very good for

us. this is a temporary delay. we'll refile the motion. this is like the other side celebrating two minutes into the first quarter. it's a joke. what's important about the order, erin, is if you look at the language in the order, where the court talks about the law that's to it be applied when we ultimately file the motion, it's very good for us. it is consistent with our position. we'll get this discovery and trial date and the president and mr. michael cohen are in a heap load of trouble. >> thank you mr. avenatti i appreciate your time tonight. >> thank you. and outfront next -- >> stephon clark. >> angry protests tonight after a funeral for a young black man shot and killed by police. and actor sean penn under fire tonight for calling the me too movement a toddler's crusade. that's going on in the company. get it for jean who's always cold. for the sales team, it and the warehouse crew.

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breaking news, protesters out tonight in sacramento just hours after the funeral for stephon clark. he was unarmed when he was culled by police in grandmother's backyard. hundreds attended the funeral today. >> 20 times in his back as he tried to get inside. you will be missed, baby. every day. >> he was amazing child. and he was so smart. >> he had almost as many bullets

put into him as years that he had on earth. >> people outraged over what they have now seen just come out on a body police bodycam video. i want to warn you this is hard to watch. this is what we know. police officers fired 20 shots. >> police say they shout clark had a gun but only a cell phone was found. dan simon is live in sacramento tonight. and dan, that emotional funeral fueling protests tonight. >> reporter: well, hi, erin, that funeral today drove home what's at stake in terms of the national conversation that is taking place. and that's really the lives of young african-americans like 22-year-old stephon clark. i want to tell but this protest that is taking place behind me. in front of the federal courthouse. you can see all the protesters here. we don't know exactly what is

going to happen tonight, erin, but i can tell you if they attempt to try to disrupt the sacramento kings basketball game again, well, police are really not going to allow that to happen. i can tell you that they have set up barricades around the arena so that only ticket holders will be allowed near the arena complex so attempt to keep that under control tonight, erin. >> i know you are hearing why police may have fired those shots. when we show that video it is disturbing you hear them shot after shot and we didn't hear all 20 of them. what have you learned? >> well, the san francisco police officers association is now defending the officers. they are saying this is completely a justified shooting. and now saying that stephon clark got into some kind of shooting stance that's contract officers perceived a threat and acted the way we did. of course we don't have any results of the investigation thus far. and the family of course says it's complete and utter nonsense.

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series, born to run. >> reporter: if donald trump is the spark, me too is the fuel in some midterm campaigns. miami. florida congressional district 27. a closely watched seat up for grabs. mary flores, public defender, former judge, now first time candidate entering a crowded democratic primary. >> the shock of this man becoming president, it's shaken us as women. and i think that that was something that made me want to come forward and talk about this. >> reporter: in her first campaign ad, a page taken from a painful past. >> i've dealt with handsy customers, with harassment, and even assault from a boss. >> reporter: she was 17. working at a local pizza hut. >> one night, he followed me

into the walk in cooler and he shut the door behind him and backed me into shelving, and he lunged at me, and he groped me. and i was terrified. i didn't tell anyone. a fraud that i wouldn't be believed. >> reporter: 2018 is a new era. a "me into," in detroit, michigan. >> who is ready to turn this blue again? >> reporter: the candidate making "me too" the centerpiece of her campaign, bluntly. >> who can you trust most not to show you their penis in a professional setting? is it the candidate who doesn't have a penis? i'd say so. >> i knew it would capture people's interests and their attention. i didn't think i'd ends up being on late night tv.

>> just because you said -- >> just because i said penis. >> why would this have an impact on people running for office? >> they know that part of ensuring that sexual harassment does not take place at these higher levels of government is making sure we have more women there. >> "me too" in ohio. a few trump of this. >> i was forcibly kissed by mr. trump during our first introduction. >> now registered to run as a democrat for state representative. illinois, so first time professional candidate the democrat sharing her story of sexual abbas. >> i didn't tell anyone that a man living with us would come into my bedroom when i was asleep and lift my night gown. >> political history seen this before, 1992, a record year of women elected to congress,

sparked by anita hymn's testimony, accusing clarence thomas of sexual harassment. >> the visual that people saw was a black woman sitting alon in front of a panel, 20 white older men. many women saw that as a clear representation of their under representation in congress. >> reporter: in 2018, barzi flores braces for a challenging contest. this time it's about more than just sher. >> what is it like to return here at this place as a candidate in congress. >> i'd like to look at this and think about how far i've come an how important it is to fight for women who like that 17-year-old kid in the walk-in cooler need to be fought for and i think it gives me purpose. >> you see all these women

kounding a new cnn poll shows when it comes to the mid-terms, democrats are losing an edge, 50% say they refer democrats, 64% republicans. a month ago, it was 16 points, does that surprise you? >> no, it doesn't, these groups say they have the energy on their side. another number in the poll, 51% of democrats say they're extremely enthusiastic. that's what they're looking at "me too" is the reason we are seeing a historic number of women running for office. the energy and momentum is what matters. thank you so much. "born to run" out front. next jeanie mos on the mustache that's gone viral. >> i think it's time to retire my dad's suit. >> not to worry, our expekt pert stylist will bring up to date.

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>> can i ask you a question? can trump get past the mustache? here's joanie ms. >> reporter: the man president trump wants as his national security adviser must be pretty secure to step on a world stage knowing the first thing people will meet is his mustache. >> this is gone bolton, by the way. >> mustaches don't always tell you about a person. but this one does. >> reporter: he must be resigned to being portrayed heading to the white house for his first briefing at jo cement syosemite. already the president's hair has been abe fixed to bolton's upper lip. >> if bolton looks familiar to you, it may be he has been on the cap'n crunch box for years. >> it was initially his mustache, the singular focus of derings. >> reporter: steve bannon is focused as saying bolton's

mustache is a problem. trump doesn't think he looks the part. more than a year later the president got over it. xhetdians can't get enough of it. when dana car i have joined stephen colbert, gave his mustache a name. >> it's general snowball. >> that's the name of my mustache. >> reporter: harvey kept making weird noises. >> ha, ha, ha ha ha. >> reporter: and his mustache kept growing. >> easy, fella. >> reporter:. >> ruf, riu f, oh, boy, stephen fran, stephen small little feminine man. >> reporter: he called his mustache a little engorged. but don't expect bolton to capitulate. back in 2016, he tweeted, i appreciate the grooming advice, i will not be shaving my mustache, of course, that was before he was portrayed breast-feeding a puppy.

that's enough to make your facial hair sand on end. >> not so much, sugar buns. here we go. >> jeanie mos, cnn, new york. >> and thank you for joining us. ac 360 starts right now. >> we begin with breaking news in the russia investigation. as you know by now the president calls eight witch hunt, says there was no collusion with russia. his defenders say at worse this is about the minor league misdeeds of his campaign chairman paul manafort and rick gates. in short, they say it's much ado about nothing. tonight for the first time, cnn is learning a key figure in the investigation, a key figure as a cooperating witness is helping mueller make the collusion kachls i want to underscore those words. he is helping. that witness is rick gate, tonight for the first time, we know how he's helping. for a time, it was believed mueller was manly using