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Russia pressuring U.S. on Syrian refugees

Russia is asking the U.S. to back its efforts to bring refugees back to Syria, a plan first proposed after President Trump met with Russian President Vladimir Putin last month. Details of the plan emerged amid reports the Syrian President Bashar Assad's government is using the plight of Syrian refugees as "bargaining chips" to receive foreign aid and ease sanctions. Will Todman, an associate fellow for the Middle East Program at the Center for Strategic International Studies, joins CBSN to discuss.

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Cohen willing to testify before Mueller

President Trump's former lawyer and fixer says he is now willing to cooperate with special counsel Robert Mueller. Michael Cohen alleges that then-candidate Donald Trump knew in advance about a controversial June 2016 Trump Tower meeting where Russians offered to give damaging information on Hillary Clinton. That claim would contradict repeated denials by the president and what the president's son and son-in-law said under oath. Major Garrett reports.

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