they are into a fourth set, don evans has broken and is leading 3—1. the day. dan evans can win this title britain. england lost by one point against australia in the netball quad series at wembley, the second defeat of the tournament for england after a heavy loss to new zealand, it's a much improved england who led in this match, within touching distance of victory, but the lead slipped in the final stages despite pushing hard to pull level against the number one side in the world. they trailed by one goal with one minute left but a late australian steal meant there would be no chance of getting the victory. great match but they lost 47—46. australia won the series as well. through the game you can look at some of the critical moments where we could have got ahead of australia but we have to look at the positives, the way that we picked ourselves up, we came out and showed them, the girls fought from the start to the end and we made them made changes and you've got to do that as a coach, challenge the coach as well as the team. sergio garcia led from

evan and jim joining me now. good evening. jim, what did you find out? >> don, cnn is told that fbi rejected a recent white house request to publicly knock down media reports about communications during the 2016 presidential campaign between donald trump's associates and russians known to u.s. intelligence. multiple officials tell cnn that white house sought the help of not just the bureau but other agencies investigating the matter to say the reports were wrong and have been no contacts. officials telling us -- recall that cnn and "new york times" first reported this over a week ago. so far the white house has not commented to us on the record. >> evan perez, not a typical request. how did it start? >> that's right don. u.s. official says began with deputy director andrew mccabe and white house chief of staff priebus on the sidelines. mccabe told priebus that the "new york times" story vastly overstated what the fbi knows about the contacts but another official says mccabe didn't discuss the aspects of the case and don't know what mccabe told priebus, priebus

evan broke the story. jim, what did you find out? >> don, what we have learn side that the white house reached out to the fbi and asked the fbi to tamp down in effect to challenge media reports that members of the trump campaign were in touch with russians known to u.s. intelligence during the campaign and we are told that the fbi refused the request. multiple officials said the white house is seeking the help in the just of the bureau, but investigating saying the reports were wrong and there have been no contacts. cnn first reported this over a week ago. and we do now have a comment on the record from white house spokesman sean spicer. he said the following a short time ago. we did not try to knock the story down. we asked them meaning the fbi to tell the truth. >> interesting. this is not a typical request. how did this start? >> don, a u.s. official said this began with the deputy director of the fbi and white house chief of staff reince priebus on the sidelines of a separate meeting on the day after these were published. they told prie

evan perez you've been reporting on another big story for the trump administration and national security advisor michael flynn and russian ambassador. what are you hearing? >> don this is one of the strangest parts of the last few weeks. this phone call that michael flynn had with the russian ambassador around the end of december. we now know part of what flynn discussed with the russian ambassador was sanctions, whether or not they could be removed. which is an interest obviously for the russian government. we don't know exactly what michael flynn said. it is something that drew attention of the fbi and u.s. intelligence community because they were listening in on that conversation as they routinely do for russian diplomats here in washington. interesting part of this is the fact that michael flynn has said he never discussed sanctions, simply christmas greetings and condolences for a plane crash that killed russian military members and setting up a phone call meeting with donald trump and vladimir putin. so he had previously said this never occurred, this is information that vice president pence and sean spicer had gone out public with. and it turns out that