of the hour. the white house defending president trump's involvement in persuading the justice department to tear up a gag order on an undercover fbi informat. two sources say the white house was a powerful force to lift the gag order and allow the enforcement to cooperate with the deals involving u.s. uranium sales in 2010. this is a big deal, was at the time, because the buyer of that uranium the russian atomic energy agency. also that year all of these u.s. government agencies approved the sale of uranium. the controversy centers on the state department headed then by hillary clinton and a bit of information that was not available publicly at the time, new reporting from the hill that namely the fbi had begun investigating russian bribery and kickbacks in the u.s. nuclear sector. how does this all come together? i am glad we have jessica snyder to help us put the pieces together. first of all, the defense from the white house explain its significance. >> kellyanne conway speaking out saying yes, the president did play a role in lifting that gag order, but kellyanne conway says it's because the president wanted the fbi informant to be fre