gave credence to certain parts of it to seek the authority for a secret wiretap. evan perez did the reporting for us. evan joins us now. what have you learned? >> u.s. officials tell cnn the fbi used a dossier of allegations of russian tied to donald trump's campaign as part of the justification to get approval to secretly monitor carter page. fbi director james comey cited the dossier in some of his briefings to congress in recent weeks as one of the sources of information that the bureau has used to support its investigation. this includes approval from the secret court that oversees the foreign intelligence act to monitor page's communications, to obtain court permission to target page, the fbi and justice department would have to present probable cause he was acting as an agent of a foreign power. comey and other top justice department officials would have

had to sign off on this application. last year, page was identified by the trump campaign as an adviser on national security. they have since said he limited interaction with the campaign as a volunteer. >> how surprising is it that this was done? >> it's quite surprising. comey's briefings stand in contrast to efforts by the fbi and by u.s. intelligence agencies to distance themselves from this dossier. the u.s. law enforcement and intelligence officials told us that u.s. investigators did their own work, separate from the dossier to support their findings that russia tried to meddle in the 2016 presidential election in fafvor of donald trump. >> carter page himself would not have been aware that this was happening, that they had gone to the court? >> right. that's correct. you will recall that page has been scrutinized before by the fbi. a 2013 investigation of a russian spy ring included

descriptions of interester acti interactions with one of the alleged spies. he denies he knew they were russian agents. he gave a speech in russia last summer that drew the attention of the fbi. page says he took this trip independently. he says he. he pressed his own views and that overall he has disputed anything that -- that anything illegal was done in his interactions with the russians. page said, i look forward to the privacy act of 1974 lawsuit i plan to file in response to the civil rights violations by the obama administration appointees last year. the discovery process will be of great value to the united states as our nation hears testimony from them under oath and we receive disclosure of the documents which show what exactly was done in 2016. the bottom line here, as he says, it's the owe boo bama administration officials that have been pushing the russia allegations. >> appreciate the reporting. carter page remains nearly as puzzling a figure as he was when his name surfaced.

much of what he said has been cryptic, incomplete or inconsistent. so is our understanding of his role if any in the campaign. is he a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma or a shadow wrapped in a smokescreen inside a forest? sgli g >> i get by. i can understand what's happening in meetings. >> reporter: some may be exactly why the fbi and the justice department are so interested in communications between carter page and russia. page is a former foreign policy adviser for donald trump's campaign. >> i was a junior member of the campaign's foreign policy advisory group. >> reporter: that's what he says. but for months now, president trump's team has been struggling to define his role. even going so far as to deny he was part of their circle. >> he is not part of our national security or foreign policy briefings that we do now at all. >> carter page is an individual

who the president-elect does not know. >> i don't think i have ever met him. >> reporter: carter page admits he never briefed the president personally. but there's no doubt he was part of the campaign. he looks to be part of the investigation into trump associates' ties to the kremlin. the soviet union was breaking up in 1991. he had become i objenterested i region and enrolled in the u.s. naval academy. he moved on to investment banking. years later, he was tapped to open the firm's office in moscow. there page advised executives from the russian-controlled energy giant now run by a former associate of vladimir putin. even though page moved to new york a few years later to start his own global energy investment firm, he never severed ties with russia. just months after page was named as a trump adviser, he praise d

vladimir putin at this policy meeting in washington, d.c., even suggesting a trump presidency would be good for u.s./russia relations. >> thank you very much. >> reporter: a month later during a trip to moscow to give a speech, page allegedly met with russian nationals who had been sanctioned by the u.s. >> did you have any meetings last year with russian officials in russia, outside russia, anywhere? >> i had no meetings. no meetings. >> reporter: what about a putin ally and the head of the oil company owned by the russian government and sanctioned by the u.s.? page denied meeting him. but an unverified dossier maybe public claims that page secretly met with him in moscow and discussed a deal that trump would lift sanctioned if elected and in exchange page would get shares of the oil giant. in effect, profiting for acting as a go between. >> was there an offer?

>> never. >> you would get something out of it? was there any offer? >> no offer whatsoever. no hint of an offer. no pathway to anything resembling an offer or even a discussion on these range of issues. >> you would get something if you got the sanctioned lifted? >> not something -- not something worth a dollar, let alone something worth billions of dollars. >> any allegations that you co-ordco coordinated, you deny? >> not only deny but it's so false that it's completely -- it's a joke. >> reporter: despite the intelligence community's finding that russia did try to influence the u.s. election, carter page said no one in russia spoke to him about hacking or deal making. he called the allegations a political stunt and wrote a letter alleging the clinton campaign took part in hate crimes and human rights abuses

against him during the election season. >> joining us is phil mud and steve hall. phil, the fact that the dossier was part of the justification to approval to monitor carter page, what does that say? >> it doesn't tell me much. if you want to go to a judge with a fisa package, that's one of the most intrusive. remember what we got. we have a british agent, former british agent talking presumably to a source in moscow who might be talking to a subsource. in this game of telephone, we're taking another step to get to the fbi. you have to have corroboration of some of that if you are going to use it in a package to apply to listen to somebody's phone and e-mail. otherwise the judge will say, have i to have more. >> phil, to be clear, you are saying the fbi would have to have corroboration of stuff in the dossier? they wouldn't have just used

unverified information? >> not some sort of. i'm saying this could at best be supporting to a fisa package that had much greater specificity about who the source of the information was and got much closer to the target than three or four steps away from moscow. you can't use that as primary evidence in a fisa package. >> do you agree the fbi would have had to have fully verified what the dossier said about page? could they have verified -- i guess they could have verified part of it and still cited it in the fisa court. >> phil is right. the bottom line is, in our government you can't just willy nilly smile on american citizens. you have to have a whole lot of proof and you have to get past a federal judge who -- a lot of people i know will look at this cynically and say it's a federal judge. part of the government. the bottom line is the federal judges are professional. they've been on the court for a long time. they're experienced. a lot came in during the reagan administration. there's no politics here at this

level. you have to convince a judge -- it's probable cause. it's a technical matter. you can't just go in with some unconfirmed dossier like the steele report is and say how about it? you have to have more than that. there's been times in my career when i said, come on, we to get some sort of coverage on x, y or z. the judges go, not so fast. we have a threshold here. you have to get by it before we can allow this. >> phil, even if the fbi had corroborating information about some things in the dossier, that doesn't mean that all points in the dossier are also valid, correct? >> that's correct. i think if you are looking at this from an investigative standpoint, i'm saying is there anything new i can validate? am i learning something on an intercept? this says the same thing from a human source, which suggests that there might be some fire behind the smoke.

this dozen yessier alone doesn' you there. >> how often does this happen that the intelligence community would use something like this information from an outside intelligence source that's nobi to form the basis of their own investigation? is that common? >> it depends on whether you are talking about a law enforcement matter or intelligence matter. you have to remember that, a lot more is based on analytical presupposition and probability. there's no real legal -- you are not prosecuting something. you don't have to -- in the intelligence world, you don't have to convince them beyond a shadow of a doubt or probable cause. an intelligence system vacuums up as much as it can and tries to analyze what it has. in the case of the steele dossier, you have a guy who is a former intelligence officer,

former british intelligence officer. he has written an interesting document. one thing that's making it difficult for journalists and others is that he has written for what we call source protection. he has gone to great lengths to try to disguise who he got this information from, probably because a lot of them are in russia and stand to get into a lot of trouble or worse, end up dead, if people find out who they are. which makes it difficult for the legal system and for journalists as well. as a legal matter, you want as much as you can. this probably is not enough. there has to be more there than just this dossier. >> appreciate it. phil, steve, thank you. just ahead, ivanka, questions about her business ties with china. live to georgia's sixth congressional district for late results in the election being followed closely by national democrats and the president of the united states. here are the numbers as they stand right now. they have been fluctuating. votes are still coming in. the latest after this. excuse me, are you aware of what's happening right now?

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breaking news. in a special election that could decide who replaces tom price who left the house to become health and human services secretary, ordinarily that would barely rate a mention. the seat has been safely republican for decades. the front runner is a democrat. if he gets more than 50% of the vote, he could take the seat without a runoff. what are you seeing coming from the ballot returns, the latest

coming in right now? >> anderson, i can tell with you 45% of the vote coming in right now, jon ossoff is at 57.8% of the vote. the next closest candidate, the republican karen handel at 15.2%. i've been talking to top republican and democratic sources tonight. what they're saying is that they are seeing ossoff do better than they. he pictured, particularly among the early vote in cobb county, a republican stronghold in the district. that doesn't necessarily mean he is going to get to the 50 plus 1 percent to avoid the runoff. he may. it's very possible. it's still early. as one republican told me moments ago, grab some coffee. this could be a late night. >> the president has been tweeting trying to get people to come out to vote. how much concern is there from republicans about their base showing up today? >> very significant concern. there's worry that there's ap l

apathy within the base. handel says there's anxiety over congressional inaction, particularly over obamacare. that's a theme that they have heard over and over again. that's one reason why you have seen president trump not just issue those tweets but also tape robocalls and try to convince voters to come out and vote. as a result, this could be a referendum on him, particularly if he falls short and democrats get that 50 plus 1 percent and jon ossoff is the first democrat to hold this seat in 27 years. a lot of the votes to go. ossoff doing better than what many thought. >> we will see once all the votes are counted. want to bring in gloria borger.

can one read so much into the results from this election? democrats, if he wins, you are going to be spinning this as a huge blow to the president. >> yeah. i can certainly tell you, anderson, that both sides are going to overinterpret the results no matter what they are. i think you raise a really good point. we need to be careful about extrapolating this one night into now we know how november 2018 is going to go. we won't. but it is correct that if indeed the democrat wins outright tonight, what that does is that is going to rattle the republican party in super a significant way that it may impede donald trump from being able to get his legislative agenda through, which hasn't been easy so far. it really does have the ability to shake the republican party into a fearful place about what donald trump means for their electoral process. >> it would -- democrats will feel emboldened, because this is just the kind of district that

they are looking to flip in 2018. because it's younger, it's more and wealthier. put that all together and they believe if they can win here, there's a lot of other districts they can flip. it would be an earthquake to a degree. >> this is not a district where the trump base is very strong. he only won district by 1%. romney won by 23% in 2012. >> right. it's more establishment republican, anderson. establishment republicans were more attracted to someone like mitt romney. tom price wasn't a donald trump conservative as long as voters in the district felt. i think this isn't natural terrain for donald trump. but it isn't necessarily a democratic district either at

all. >> what we're seeing -- i have sources on both sides telling me that they think the early vote has gone better for ossoff than they expected. the energy -- the energy we saw in kansas, even though they fell short, the energy many american politics is on the democratic side and it's anti-trump. >> david, the president -- he has taken a special i objentere the election. is his interest an indication of how important the race is? >> i think his interest is more in trying to place a bet here that a republican district will stay republican and he will look like he had something to do with that is why i think we saw him send the tweets. the robocalls is to show he will be there for the party. if this does go into a runoff, one of the most interesting things to me that we would be looking for is how much does president trump get involved when it's one republican versus one democrat. do we see the republican nominee calls president trump into the

district, flying air force 1 in, campaigning as a full embrace? do we see a republican concerns that trump may cause more harm than good? >> is there any answer to that? as you said in terms of demographics, 60% have a college degree, twice the national average. it's affluent, close to the blue city of atlanta. >> republicans during the primaries last year -- rubio won here. so rubio is a real favorite. when you look at rubio and donald trump, they're not particularly alike. these are conservative establishment republicans. as david was saying, if there's a runoff -- i think this is ossoff's best chance, by the way. if republicans unite and have one candidate, not a handful, they have one candidate to be behind, the republicans may just decide that they don't want this kind of an earthquake and that they are going to ban behind

their republican candidate and defeat ossoff who is inexperienced. he is 30 years old. he doesn't have any legislative experience. he worked a little bit in politics and doesn't even live in the district right now. i think this is his shot tonight. democrats -- i talked to one of them just now who said she's keeping her fingers crossed. >> we will follow it closely. gloria, david. new details tonight about the trademark that china granted ivanka trump's company the same day she was meeting with the president of china at a summit ho hosted by president trump. if you have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis, isn't it time to let the real you shine through? introducing otezla, apremilast. otezla is not an injection or a cream. it's a pill that treats plaque psoriasis differently. some people who took otezla saw 75% clearer skin after 4 months.

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i will give you a quick update in the georgia house race. jon ossoff is down to a little more than 55% of the vote. new details about the portfolio of trademarks the trump businesses have secured in china, the country he hammered accusing it of currency manipulation. ivanka has unlimited access to

world leaders who visit her father, including china's president who came to mar-a-lago for recent talks. >> reporter: the china/u.s. summit, a diplomatic affair in which ivanka and her husband sat near the chinese president. that same day, iveyivanka's com wasetting news. >> white diamonds, it's set in 18 karat yellow gold. >> h . >> reporter: her business was grant granted a trademark deal. she was hiring chinese labor and expanding before the election. >> translator: ivanka is a very good client. i never math imagined her fathe

would be president. >> reporter: her father's company have seen 35 trademarks approved by china. >> any growth is done with caution. >> reporter: her company will neither confirm nor deny the numbers to cnn. issuing a statement saying, we have recently seen a surge in trademark filings by unrelated third parties trying to capitalize on the trump name. it's our responsibility to diligently protect our tradem k trademark. that's big business, considering how much the trump family has brushed away concerns about politics affecting their financial interests. >> i don't think it matters. this is so much more important and more serious and so that -- that's the focus. >> what ivanka is trying to say, who cares? who cares? this is big league stuff. this is our country. >> reporter: an attorney for

ivanka says she has nothing to do with trademarks. when she became an official member of the white house staff, even an unpaid one, she put all of her business into a trust so she would not have a conflict of interest problem. but while the president has legal protection against such claims, that's not true of his staff. if she were to step across any line, she would come under harsh scrutiny. >> thanks very much. want to discuss this with richard painter, former white house ethics lawyer who teaches law. regardless where this falls ethically, the optics of ivanka sitting with the chinese president the same day her business is getting trademarks, how does that appear to you? >> well, it's very clear the presidency is a wonderful business opportunity for the trump family. they're going to be raking it in. we see that foreign governments all over the world are going to

wand to do business with the tru trumps, particularly the children, to please the father. this is just one more example. the question is whether this is in the interests of the american people. the founders did not intend to set up a monarchy in the united states where a king and his family would reap financial benefits from ruling the country. this is a representative democracy. i don't think the trump family has recognized that. their job is to represent the american people, not themselves. >> ivanka -- >> that's not what i see going on here. >> supporters say she put her assets into a trust. how much can she be held responsible for? >> she's the beneficiary of the trust. the assets going into a trust doesn't do anything to remove the conflicts of interest. these trademarks are coming in and her father is getting a lot of trademarks. the real problem is not ivanka trump. it's her father and his attitude. he i setting the tone.

he refused to divest his assets. he refused to stop taking payments from foreign governments. he is out there showing for her products. he slammed nordstrom for not carrying her products. he made it clear that people deal with his children will be seen favorably in his eyes. that's what's happening. he has not set an appropriate tone. >> now that ivanka is a federal employee, she's held to ethical guidelines and rules that her father doesn't have to adhere to. right? >> well, some of the rules he does have to adhere to. for example, the clause prohibiting foreign payment. there's the criminal conflict of interest statute that does not bond the president but does bond ivanka and jared and everyone else in the executive branch.

that's going to shut them out of some matters. they cannot participate in matters that have a direct and predictable affect on their business holdings. that includes, of course, the trade with china when she's importing a lot of clothes from china. she and jared cannot participate in that. they can't get into things that affect real estate such as the tax code, which could have all sorts of goodies for real estate. always has. and banking regulation. >> richard painter, i appreciate your expertise. coming up, alex jones who said horrifying things including the sandy hook shooting was a hoax. his admission that not even jones himself believes some of the things he says. details ahead. ♪

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want to update our breaking news tonight. with a little more than half the precincts reporting, jon ossoff is holding a lead. he is slipping closer to the 50% closer, at or below which he will have to fight it out in a runoff. more throughout the hour. turning now to alex jones. he has pushed outrageous

conspiracy theories. he screamed his opinions on the radio and online. one of the worst involved the kids killed at the sandy hook shooting. he claimed it was a hoax. he has fans that include the current president of the united states. now his lawyer in a custody dispute says he is just a character and that it's performance art. brianna keilar has more. >> they are interdimensional invade invaders. >> reporter: he is the most famous and influential right wing conspiracy theorist, alex jones. >> all i know is, the official story of sandy hook has more holes in it than swiss cheese. >> reporter: ridiculous, yes. outrageous, of course. guess who also knew that theories like that and others were only for shock value? alex jones himself. now in a custody battle, his lawyer says his client is a

quote character and performance artist. it's a stunning admission from a man who has been peddling wacky theories. >> i want to go over ten smoking guns. there's over 500. type in the smoking guns of 9/11. some 500, some 300, some 100. there are over 300 of them are iron tight proof that the official story is a fable and inside job is the only explanation. >> reporter: that is not true. jones doesn't believe it if you believe his lawyer. the texas-based syndicated talk show host created a massive following by appearing to believe what he says. he said donald trump should say this to adam schiff. >> listen, you son of a [ bleep ]. what the [ bleep ] is your problem? you want to sit here and say that i'm a [ bleep ] russian? you get in my face with that i will beat your [ bleep ] you son of a [ bleep ]. >> reporter: he never said trump

is a russian. again, maybe jones actually knows that. with over a billion views on youtube, he counts among his fans the president himself. that's right, donald trump lavished praise on jones. >> your reputation is amazing. i will not let you don't. you will be very, very impressed. >> i'm impressed. you are fully committed. there's no future if we don't take this country back. >> reporter: hillary clinton took aim at trump's association with the talk show host. >> i don't know what happens in somebody's mind or how dark their heart must be to say things like that. but trump doesn't challenge these lies. he actually went on jones' show and said, your reputation is amazing. i will not let you down. >> reporter: jones often claims credit for trump's rhetoric. here he was three months before election day. >> it's surreal to talk about

issues here on air and then word for word hear trump say it two days later. it is amazing. and it just shows how dialed in this guy is and that's why they're so scared of him. >> reporter: he backed up many of trump's bogus campaign claims including muslims were seen celebrating on rooftops in new jersey after the world trade center collapsed. fact check, false. again, jones' lawyer says he is playing a role. >> what the hell is going on? >> reporter: apologies are rare. jones did issue one after he falsely repeated claims a d.y. mi d.c. pizza place was a front. >> i want our viewers to know that we regret any negative impact our comment teacommentar. we apologize to the extent our

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numbers in the race that's getting national attention, including from the president. jon ossoff leading the race. 52% of precincts in, he has 53.9% or just shy of four points more than the 50% plus one vote he would need to avoid a runoff. we will follow this. more votes to be counted. the white house is defending president trump's call to turkey's president. international monitors of alleged voting irregularities and they say it took place on an uneven playing field. president trump is the only western leader to congratulate the government.

at the same time, the united states needs turkey's help in the fight against isis and puts the white house and state department at odds overtu turkes president. >> reporter: turkey's president divisive national referendum win means he has sweeping powers. he tells cnn in an exclusive interview he is not a dictator. >> translator: for a dictatorship to exist, you don't have to have a presidential system. >> reporter: outside observers suspect a rigged election and that this was are month about him gaining power than improving the political system. only western leader to congr congratulate him, donald trump. no mention that ballots were manipulated, there was intimidation, it happened during a state of emergency after last year's coup attempt during which the government fired or suspended more than 100,000

people, including teachers and journalists, jailed tens of thousands of others. today a trump administration official says the president is aware of that. on the other hand, turkey is a nato ally in the counterterrorism field. if your policy is america first, there are times when you pick from some imperfect options. zero european leaders joined trump in contacti ining him. >> there are political consequences. the president made a decision to continue to reinforce our relationship with turkey given the circumstances facing isis on the ground. >> reporter: in an odd sort of good cop bad cop dynamic, it was the president's state department that sounded the alarmealarm. we look to the government of turkey to protect the rights and

freedoms of all its citizens. commitment to the rule of law and a diverse and free media. the white house saying the president supports democracy but wanted to focus on working together and let the state department bring up the referendum. trump has praised other strong man type leaders, russia's president vladimir putin. >> i respect putin. he is a strong leader. >> reporter: earlier this month, a warm welcome at the white house for egypt's president. critics question whether trump's business interests prevent him pushing back. trump admitted with steve bannon -- >> i have a little conflict of interest. i have a major building in istanbul. it's a tremendously successful job. it's called trump towers. they're incredible people. they have a strong leader. >> reporter: he attended trump's event. ivanka tweeted about it in 2012. thank you for joining us to

celebrate the launch of trump towers. that raises the question, does the prior friendliness affect what the president might say in a phone call or even as to whether he makes that call at all? something that many other world leaders have chosen not to do, at least until they get the full report from observers whether it was fair. >> even though the state department said one thing, just to be clear, the white house they continue to defend the president's call? >> yeah. asked by reporters, they don't regret it at all. they say the president was asking -- acting in america's interests when he focused on ways that the u.s. and turkey can work together to fight terror. >> michelle kosinski, appreciate the reporting. joining me, tony blinken and fareed zakaria. >> it seems highly implausible to me. it's surprising something like

this hasn't happened earlier. you have the thinnest staffing of an administration that i can recall, it might even be in history. you have hundreds and hundreds of positions that have not been filled in the state department and defense department. you have a skeleton crew. a president that does not pay an enormous amount of regard to the accuracy of statements and therefore perhaps there was an urge to send a signal without making sure they had all their ducks in a row. >> it's possible this was planned. it just would seem like a very weird plan, frankly. >> is it possible this whole good cop/bad cop theory is real? >> it's possible but not very probable. what i heard is that the state department's statement had to be elicited from the department. in otherwards, didn't put it out

affirmatively. you'd think you'd want to get your bad cop statement out there and have the president follow up. i don't know. in a sense it doesn't matter. ultimately what people are looking for is what the president says and important as the state department is, the auth authoritative voice is the president's. and the fact that they chose not to show the irregularities, that speaks volumes. >> there are those who believe this president sort of has a pension for strongman for overseas, whether it's cc in egypt or here in turkey. >> i think clearly that's the case and it's very unfortunate. there's a very interesting moment that's taking place on the turkish refer endm. the president of the united states calls to congratulate

erdogan, no qualifications, just told him this is great and this is the most serious descent for turkey into author tearyism. the one muslim middle eastern country that had established a secular democracy. and trump's response was to congratulate the strongman. the german chancellor issued a joint statement to erdogan saying this was a very divisive refer endm. you won very narrowly. you need pay heed to minority rights. what you now have is a bazar situation where the chancellor of germany has become the leading proponent of human rights and liberal constitutionalism and the president of the united states is saying way to go. it's true for c.c., erdogan, duterte in the philippines.

putin of course in russia until he's been forced to pull back a little. it's very disturbing because the great victory of the united states in foreign policy in a broad sense of the last six/seven decades is to spread stability along with a certain set of values and the president of the united states is cheering him on. >> we did hear echoes of that during the campaign from donald trump about not pushing the u.s. values on the rest of the world but to hear the president -- it's rare that you have a president who's kind of not at least paying lip service to those traditional values. >> especially when those values are absolutely necessary and central to have thing stability that the president and we ultimately want. because in the absence of that you're actually going to have

countries that at least in the short term may seem stable because they're basically supressing any difference or descent and it creates far more instability and conflict. but there may be something else going on here, which is this. the president is focussed on the islamic state and the big job is focusing on raqqa, its strong hold in syria and he needs to find a way to get on side with turkey. using a force on the ground dominated by a turkish militia that the president hates and what he may have been doing was give him a little bit of space so we can say hey, we need take this militia to take raqqa. and it may be a reflection of the president's focus on dealing with the islamic state. >> thank you both. before we take a quick break,

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