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- get the [bleep] out of here, man. [laughs] yeah, come on. really? really? so some random person shows up at trump tower, the front desk called up to don jr. and he was like, hello? someone's here to see me? oh, boy. send 'em right up. no, i don't wanna know their name. i love surprises! jared, paul, you gotta come see this! no, i don't know who's in the meeting. let's just do it and be legends. - honestly, my takeaway when all of this was going on is that someone has information on our opponent. you know, things are going a million miles an hour. i wanted to hear 'em out and play it out and see what happens, but, you know, people are trying to reach out to you all the time with this. someone sent me an email. i can't help what someone sends me. you know, i read it. i responded accordingly. i wouldn't have even remembered it until you start scouring through the stuff. it was literally just a wasted 20 minutes, which was a shame. - [laughing] i love that he's totally confessing but with the tone of someone who thinks he's giving an alibi.

you know? look, i went into the bank, all right? i shot everyone and i took the money. okay? yeah. so unless you have something on me, i guess i'm free to go. right? yeah, i did it, okay. i did it. [cheers and applause] [russian music] ♪ and you know what? i know i'll sound crazy for saying this, but i think that trump should only communicate on twitter. because at least there, his characters are limited. in real life, the crazy has no end. - the president said he asked putin about russian hacking to influence the 2016 election. quote-- - well, i'm sold. i'm sold, i'm sold. all right, for the record, vladimir putin--he wasn't just a master kgb agent for 16 years and one of the soviet union's top spies in berlin-- like, but trump knew-- trump knew

that he could break putin by simply asking him the same question twice. [laughter] that was his plan? the same question twice-- but, but, but-- in a totally different way. [laughter] trump was like, did you do it? [russian accent] no, i did not. okay, that works for me. but did you? [laughter] that bad boy putin, he knows the trouble he's causing. 'cause just listen to how he trolled the u.s. - [speaking russian] - [speaking russian] [laughter] - yeah. trump is an open person. that's exactly what we're worried about. remember the last time he spoke to the russians? he accidentally spilled israeli state secrets.

that's what he does. like, right now, the best we can hope for is that trump is so full of bs that he's too unreliable to be spied on, you know? because we know he'll say anything to make himself look cool. you know, putin will be like, so, donald, how many nuclear submarines do you have now? and trump will be like, let me tell you, vlad, we have literally millions of submarines. no, no, donald. no. no, donald, no. that can't be right number. i've heard we might have a submarine under this very dinner party right now. unbelievable. i'm starting to miss hillary, oh, my god, this-- [traditional russian music] for more on the russian effort to influence american discourse, we're joined now by our senior american correspondent, michael kosta, everybody. [cheers and applause] michael-- michael, as an american, are you worried that russia is using social media to divide this country? - as an american, i'm not gonna sit by and watch russia take credit for dividing america.

you think it takes foreign meddling to get americans angry at each other? the moment we meet someone, we're like, you're from ohio? screw you, i'm from michigan. you're from grand rapids? that place sucks. i'm from ann arbor. you're from ann arbor? what's your address? that's where i live, too. oh, you're my dad? screw you, dad. see, trevor, i don't need russia to make me hate my own dad. - okay, that got really personal quick. but michael, you have to admit technology is making this worse. russians linked to its government are now using facebook to get americans worked up. - yeah, you know who else does that? my racist uncle every time he posts on my feed. don't take [bleep] from that african boss of yours, michael. i never would, ralph. look-- [laughter] i'm not gonna let russia take the credit for dividing us. we have a rich history of dividing ourselves. a meme didn't start the civil war. you think carrier pigeons were dropping these all over the south?

- oh, okay, but michael, come on. i'm sure the russian efforts are slightly more sophisticated than memes. - i mean, not really. here's a real one that facebook turned over to congress. now if an american had written that, it would've said "the cemetery." and cemetery would've been spelled wrong. - okay, michael, look, i get it. i get it. so what are you saying? americans should just ignore the whole thing? - hell no. we're gonna hit back hard. we're going full-on meme war. let me show you these dank memes coming out of the pentagon. you like that, russia? how about this? - michael kosta, everybody. we'll be right back. [traditional russian music] ♪ ( ♪ ) ♪ one is the only number ♪ that you'll ever need ♪

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that showed crystal clear that el presidente doesn't give an orange rat's ass about whether the rule of law or the conservative agenda prized by his fellow republicans comes to fruition. and he did it by picking on one of the people you'd think would be closest to him. - president trump blasts his own attorney general, steaming over jeff sessions' recusal from the russia investigation. - i am disappointed in the attorney general. if he was going to recuse himself, he should've told me prior to taking office. and i would've, quite simply, picked somebody else. - ah, if you knew in advance what jeff sessions would do, you would've picked someone else. now you know how america feels about your presidency. [laughter] [traditional russian music] - the senate has approved tough new sanctions for russia, and now the bill heads to president trump's desk. the bill was passed by an overwhelming 98-2 vote. it gives congress the power to block the president from easing sanctions against moscow.

- yeah. not only did they put sanctions on russia, they've effectively put sanctions on donald trump. that's what they've done. yeah, that's a strange thing when you think about it. [cheers and applause] because--it's almost like congress is his parents going, like, we don't want you playing with that boy anymore. so congress hit russia with more sanctions and if you know anything about russians, when you hit them, they always hit back. - russia is ramping up its retaliation against the u.s. over new sanctions. russian president vladimir told the u.s. yesterday to slash its staff in russia by 755 people. - the u.s. will also lose access to a storage facility and its beautiful country house and leafy property on the outskirts of moscow. - what? wait, so russia retaliates against the new sanctions by taking america's country house? yeah, it really does feel like trump and putin are getting divorced. [laughter]

okay, donald, i'm taking the country house. not the country house. no! [laughter] no! we just renovated the bathroom! i know, and i'm sure syria will enjoy the heated toilet seat. you bastard! [traditional russian music] my guest tonight is a former secretary of state and first woman in u.s. history to be nominated for president by a major political party. please welcome, hillary rodham clinton. [cheers and applause] one popular narrative that has emerged has been the clinton dossier. - mm. - the documents involving donald trump and pee which has now come out as a document that the dnc and your campaign worked to pay for. now, people say, hillary, is there a difference between your team paying for this opposition research and donald trump's people working with the russians to influence the election. is there a difference? - of course there is. and, you know, i think most serious people understand that.

this was research started by a republican donor during the republican primary. and then when trump got the nomination for the republican party, the people doing it came to my campaign lawyer and said, you know, would you like us to continue it? and he said yes. he's an experienced lawyer. he knows what the law is. he knows what opposition research is. and, you know, from my perspective, it didn't come out before the election-- as we all know-- and what also didn't come out-- which i think is an even bigger problem, as i write in the book-- is that the american people didn't even know that the fbi was investigating the trump campaign because of connections with russia, starting in the summer of 2016. - right. - so i know that voters should've had that information. that's something that may have influenced some people. and it's part of what happens in a campaign, where you get information that may or may not be useful

and you try to make sure anything you put out in the public arena is accurate. and so this thing didn't come out until after the election and it's still being evaluated. but the fact of the fbi investigation into the trump campaign and russia should've come out. [traditional russian music] - trump's halloween weekend wasn't all fun and harassing children. he also probably spent the weekend stress eating a lot of their candy. because on friday night, trump received the spookiest news of all. special counsel robert mueller was going to drop his first indictment. and by the way, if robert mueller doesn't walk into every interrogation room saying, "it's mueller time," he's wasting his life. yeah, he is. like, first thing he should do, every time he walks in, just be like, hey, perp, what time is it? uh, it's 6:45. wrong. it's mueller time. [laughter] you just lied to the fbi. so everyone was waiting to find out who was maybe going to jail.

and early this morning, we all discovered. - a fox news alert: former trump campaign chairman paul manafort, slapped with a 12-count federal indictment, including conspiracy against the u.s., money laundering and failure to disclose foreign lobbying. - this is a bad day for paul manafort. - they threw the book at him. he's looking at 10-15 years in prison. - happy halloween, bitch. [laughter] [cheers and applause] - this is cnn breaking news. - a former foreign policy adviser to the trump campaign has pleaded guilty of lying to fbi officials. the complaint says george papadopoulos, he lied about his contacts with foreign nationals who had close connections to the russian government. - it's still halloween, bitches. [laughter] [cheers and applause] just two hours--two hours after the manafort story broke,

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[hip-hop music] [traditional russian music] - the russia investigation reaches the white house. special counsel robert mueller closes in on the president and his inner circle, with a guilty plea from michael flynn. - flynn says he lied to the fbi about his contacts with russia and that he is now cooperating with special counsel robert mueller's investigation. - flynn now admits that four days into his job as white house national security advisor, he denied having to separate contacts back in december with russia's ambassador to the u.s., sergey kislyak, when, in fact, he did. - he lied to the fbi on day four of his new job. day four? that's so early. you don't even know where the good pooping bathroom is yet. day four? you don't even know your colleagues' names.

it's just like, karen, hold my calls. i need to lie to the fbi. actually, it's shelly. sorry, sorry. but that's right, former trump advisor and current angry bird michael flynn has been caught by special counsel bob mueller. and by the way, it's pretty ironic that flynn, of all people, might be getting locked up. because--well, you remember. - if i did a tenth-- a tenth of what she did, i would be in jail today. [crowd chanting] lock her up! lock her up! lock her up, that's right. yeah, that's right. lock her up. [chanting] lock her up! lock her up! - yeah, that's right. lock her up! lock her up! yeah. what's cool is that he already knew the lyrics to the song. so when he was being taken in by the fbi, he was like, ♪ lock me up, lock me up ♪ lock me up so with flynn, this is trump's fourth advisor to get charged with a crime, which is not a good look, people. and if you're president trump hearing this news, you should be worried. because if the trump team did anything wrong,

flynn probably knows. he had full access to the campaign. and full access to the trump white house. his turning state's evidence could be the first domino that starts the whole administration tumbling. and it sure doesn't look like he has plans to go down alone. - flynn's guilty plea was part of a deal to avoid more severe charges for himself and his son, signaling that he has valuable information about the president's inner circle and even mr. trump's family members that he is willing to share. - that's right, flynn is spilling everything. it could be testimony that trump ordered him to collude with russia. it could be documents showing the collusion. it could be the friendship bracelets putin and trump made each other. we don't know. [traditional russian music] remember steve bannon? trump's former chief strategist and human leather jacket? well, today it came out that he also thinks the trump campaign did collude with russia. - the president's former chief strategist steve bannon

commenting on donald trump jr.'s meeting at trump tower where he was promised dirt on hillary clinton. bannon says: - saying this about the meeting, in addition. he said: so very harsh words, there. - whoa. don jr. is gonna crack like an egg? honestly, i don't even know if that's a metaphor. like, i think there's at least a 50% chance you'd find yolk where a brain should be. [laughter] although, i am surprised that bannon knows that you crack eggs. i always just assumed that he ate them whole, like-- no, like raw, with the shell and everything. like a snake. just like, did his jaw and--ohh. so bannon slammed don jr. and then he went on to say that there's no way the president didn't meet with the russians that don jr. snuck into their gold house. yeah, and this is huge. steve bannon--steve bannon, trump's dude, not only accused

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but mueller's still waiting for amazon to deliver his hazmat suit. like--[imitates radio crackle] my first question, mr. bannon, do you mind not eating your own scabs? thank you very much. and after all the underlings, the week we learned the investigation has reached the very top of trump tower. - special counsel bob mueller is zeroing in on a potential cover up of that now infamous trump tower meeting between russians and trump campaign officials. when the president allegedly dictated a statement aboard air force one, insisting that the meeting was about russian adoptions. - the reason this story could be so important is how it fits into a possible obstruction case against the president. - obstruction of justice relates to intent. you don't have to succeed in obstruction of justice to be charged with obstruction of justice. - you know, the only thing that would piss trump off more than charging him with obstruction of justice would be saying that he failed at it. he'd be like, how dare you? i'm the best at everything, including obstruction of justice! throw some justice at me. obstruct it.

[laughter] it's looking like trump and his people lied about the meeting with the russians. and the lie would have worked, except for all the incriminating emails and a room full of witnesses. so this would easily be trump's worst cover up since he wore that robe. but remember--remember, that doesn't mean we know how mueller's investigation will end. right, it could end with trump impeached, it could end with trump exonerated. hell, it could end with trump and mueller married. you know, it's a thin line between love and hate. he's just like, i followed you for so long that in the end, you caught me. [laughter] [traditional russian music] [coughs] >> jordan: i have this here too i got a lot.

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