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White House press secretary Sarah Sanders tells reporters that President Trump’s tweet that called on Attorney General Jeff Sessions to end special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation was just “his opinion.” Source: CNN

Former White House National Security Council staffer Graham Brookie speaks to Kate Bolduan about the possible threat of Russia influence in the upcoming midterm elections. Source: CNN

Special counsel Robert Mueller has referred a collection of cases to New York federal prosecutors concerning whether several high-profile American lobbyists and operatives failed to register their work as foreign agents, according to people familiar with the matter. Source: CNN

No one knows better than President Donald Trump what worked for him in 2016, and now he’s going back to the well — trusting no one but himself — to stave off the threat of a Democratic rout in November that could cripple his presidency. Source: CNN

CNN’s report that Michael Cohen claims then-candidate Donald Trump had advanced knowledge of the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting between Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, Paul Manafort and Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya with supposed “dirt” on Hillary Clinton has created a fresh wave of scrutiny about the now-infamous gathering. Source: CNN

The biggest misconception surrounding the special counsel probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election is that it will likely end in some sort of legal proceeding involving President Donald Trump. It won’t — for a bunch of reasons, the most important of which is that Robert Mueller, who is running the investigation, doesn’t seem to believe a sitting President …

President Donald Trump on Tuesday embraced a line of defense offered by his attorney, Rudy Giuliani, that “collusion is not a crime,” even though he continued to deny any alleged ties between his campaign and Moscow during the 2016 election. Source: CNN

Late-night host Stephen Colbert skewered President Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani’s latest defense that he’s not sure collusion is a crime. Source: CNN

CNN’s Anderson Cooper breaks down statements made by President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani on the 2016 Trump Tower meeting. Source: CNN

A federal judge in Alexandria, Virginia, has granted the request for five witnesses to testify with immunity in the criminal trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, but prosecutors were ordered to reveal the witnesses’ names. Source: CNN