wrestlers. >> and it is a failure on obamacare despite the republican majority that may give lie to the republican promise, if we win, we'll do what we said. in the first six months, it hasn't happen. thanks for watching "the beat." "hardball" starts now. pre dawn raid. let's play "hardball." good evening. i'm steve kornacki in for chris matthews. it is being called a dramatic escalation of russia in the campaign. nbc news is reporting that the fbi executed a search warrant last month at the virginia apartment of former trump campaign chairman paul manafort. a surprise raid which took place in the hours before dawn. it came a day after manafort met

voluntarily with staffers from the senate intelligence committee to discuss that now infamous campaign meeting with russians linked to the kremlin. according to the sources, the search of the residence is tied to the intense investigation into the former campaign chair's business dealings in financial relationships. both in the u.s. and abroad. specifically, investigators are looking at records tied to manafort's activities in ukraine, cyprus is other parts of the world. it took days after the "wall street journal" reported that special counsel robert mueller is reporting whether manafort engaged in money laundering. saying that he has consistently cooperated with law enforcement and other serious inquiries and did so on other occasions as well. the use of a warrant means judge would have determined there was probable cause to believe that a crime had been committed.

the "washington post" which first reported the story this morning says at the warrant was wide ranging and that it indicates investigators may have argued to a federal judge that they had reason to believe manafort couldn't be trusted to turn over all the records in response to a grand jury subpoena. i'm joined now by phillip rucker, covering the president in bridge water, new jersey. democratic senator, richard blumenthal of connecticut is on the judiciary committee and barbara is a former u.s. attorney. a lot to sort through here. let me ask you this, this happened recently. we're finding out about it now document we know if the president knew about this before today? >> that's a great question. we don't know. what we do is that the day of this raid, the president was tweeting his attacks on attorney general jeff sessions, and specifically pointed out that he thought sessions should have gotten rid of the acting fbi

director because of his family's connection to the clinton campaign. >> so in terms of manafort now and what we've learned about the raid, it looks like the reporting is pointing to his business activities. a lot of his business activities before he became part of the trump campaign. is there any indication on whether it touches, how it might touch with the role? >> well, it may have touched on the role with the campaign. it is important to remember he was not just an adviser during the period of the summer, during the general election. he was the campaign chairman. the top, the number one official advising donald trump as he assumed the republican nomination and began the fight with hillary clintonest has a decorated career over many years as a highly paid political consultant abroad. including many years for a political party connected to the russian president vladimir putin.

so you have to imagine that his work, his payments from that party overseas are a subject of what mueller is trying get to the bottom of here. >> senator blumenthal, i'm sewer ju , i'm curious. what do you make of this news of this warrant being executed on the man who had been the chair of the donald trump presidential campaign? >> it is highly significant, even a stunning development. this kinds of pre daunl raid, a search and seizure without any advance notice, is typical of the most serious criminal investigations. especially dealing with a target or a witness who is uncooperative or untrusted. so it decimates the claim that manafort has made consistently that he's cooperating. it shows distrust for him. and remember that as phil rucker has pointed out so well, these business dealings are extremely

important. we can thank the press, not the trump administration for it. the russia play book is to engage people abroad in these compromising business dealings, and in manafort's case, millions of dollars worth. it may have involved money laundering. it is extremely serious. >> had barbara, take us through this process. we're talking about this warrant being obtained, apparently little because mueller's team, in terms of getting this warrant. getting a judge to sign off on it. what do you have to prove as a prosecutor? what did they establish here? >> the most significant thing about this is that to get a search warrant, you have to show probable cause. it is a much higher standard

than is necessary to issue a grand jury subpoena which can be done as long as there is any likelihood that you would find relevant evidence. probable cause, and you have to articulate what that crime is and you have to submit a detailed affidavit signed by an agent detailing all the facts show that there is probable cause to believe a crime has been committed. a judge has to agree and issue a warrant. you have to specify the items you're going to look for them and you have to believe that those items are on the premises to be searched. >> what do you make of going after manafort this aggressively. i think back to ken starr, white water in the 1990s. it never went where he thought it would go. he zoomed in on one person.

he thought he could use the leverage of the indictment to get web hubble to flip. is there a zeroing in on manafort in the same way? >> certainly you want to see if there are any co-conspirators in a case that you can flip. get leverage by showing you can charge them with a crime and in exchange for lien eneniency. getting a bigger fish, a trump family member, the trump organization or trump himself. >> manafort registered as a foreign agent to benefit former government of ukraine. the filing serves as a retroactive admission that he performed work in the united states on behalf of a foreign power without disclosing it at the time. as required by law during the campaign, manafort also vouched that his candidate, donald trump, had no financial ties to russian oligarchs.

let's watchful. >> to be sure, mr. trump has to financial relationships with any russian oligarchs? >> that's what he said. that's what i said. that's what our position is. >> we do know, however, trump publicly boasted about the russian oligarchs he met during his 2016 trip to moscow during the miss universe had event. >> i really loved my weekend, i called it my fwheekd moss kouflt but i was with the top level people, both oligarchs and generals, and the top of the government people. i can't go further than that. but i will tell you i net to have people and my experience was extraordinary. >> certainly the reason this has gotten. so attention, bits potential collusion. bits what role russians and their government played in the united states presidential election last year. now you have headlines here about manafort, about business

dealings about, all the money he was making, how he was making that money. where do you see, do you see potential connections between that element of it, the business dealings of paul manafort, before he was trump's campaign chairman, and those questions that i think a lot of people are wonder berg when it colonels to the trump campaign collusion russian involvement? could they be two very separate things and manafort happened to arouse suspicion at the wrong time? >> they could be separate but remember that manafort received literally millions of dollars in question, his lobbying activities and his so-called consultancy with the former ousted russian backed ukrainian leader. and that money almost certainly came from russia, even though it may have been chaneled through the government. so there's that russian connection between him and the potentially, the campaign through him.

but most important, i think, is the fact this raid shows there's clear evidence of some criminal wrongdoing. and that manafort is connected to it. and it is an investigation of collusion, potentially, between the trump campaign and the russian attack on our democratic institutions. and as much as the judge had to be convince that had there's probable cause, barbara is absolutely right. bob mueller had to be convinced as well. he is a cautious and deliberate prosecutor who knew phil well. what the impact would be when this raid would come to light as it would inevitably at some point and that i think is a very important factor here. >> barbara, we keep seeing this. it was a pre dawn raid. the sun hadn't come up yet. the federal agents showed up at the manafort house. they took all the evidence they wanted. that's a very dramatic gesture,

a very dramatic move in and of itself. take us through think thing. from a prosecutor's standpoint of executing a search warrant that way, that aggressively. there has to be some psychology involved. take us through what the thinking is. >> the mere fact they're using a search warrant instead of a subpoena says they don't trust paul manafort to produce the things they're asking for. and the pre dawn reporting is very significant. typically, a search warrant is to be executed during daylight hours. typically, between the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 11:00 p.m. to almost the privacy interests of the person whose home is being searched, you timally need to get special he permission to go hours outside of. window. would it suggest to me that mueller and his team requested and demonstrated to this judge that there was a reason they needed to go before dawn. that perhaps they didn't trust manafort to still have the

documents. maybe they were concerned that he would destroy the documents. >> as this cloud has gathered around manafort in the last few months, we've seen folks have tried to down play the role he played. talk about the role that manafort played last 84. and it has been about a year. do we know anything about whether or not he is still in donald trump's circle? do fweng there are still formal or informal contacts taking place there? >> i actually don't know if he's been in touch at all. he was a key figure in this campaign and he has a number of allies who remain key figures in the trump world. and i can tell you from my reporting with trump sources earlier today, when that news alert went out from the "washington post" about manafort's house being raided, the apartment being raided, rather, it has had a chilling effect on trump sources.

they realize this investigation real and serious and potentially dealing with criminal activity here for the fbi on conduct such a dramatic raid on the manafort apartment. >> and senator blumenthal, if there is a next shoe to drop here, where are you looking? >> i would be looking to potential plea agreements involving manafort or michael flynn. they seem to be the most vulnerable right now. but i also unfortunately would be looking to additional trump threats. he's called it a witch hunt and a home. he is trying to draw red lines around financial dealings, other kinds of intimidation and this raid redoubles my determination to support legislation that will frequent special counsel. it reaffirms the reason that i called for spounl with the powers to do what he has done in

this raid. >> all right. thank you. one day after donald trump promised fire and fury if north korea toicontinues to threaten united states, we've never heard president thauk way and there's news that the national security team was unaware it was coming. plus, likening north korea to the cuban missile crisis. can we find a diplomatic solution? and the bizarre story of trump's so-called document. his top aides battling twice a day to deliver him a packet full of glowing headlines, photos and screen shots of positive news coverage. and finally, three things you might not know tonight. this is "hardball" where the sacks.

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north korea best not be making any more threats to the united states. 38 be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen. >> welcome back to "hardball." it was a dramatic threat leveled against north korea yesterday by the president. and according to glen thrush and peter baker in the "new york times," it was entirely improvised. the president was in a bellicose mood, they write, according to a person who spoke with him before he made the statement. the times reports, he had not run the specific language by advisers before delivering the remarks. the president's spokesperson said today, general kelly and others on the nsc team were well aware of the tone of the statement of the president prior to delivery. the words were his own. the president is showing no regrets. this morning he retweeted a fox and friends post on his fire and fury language. in contrast, his secretary of state rex tillerson gave a more diplomatic message today. >> i think the president, what

the president is doing is sending a strong message to north korea in language that kim jong-un will understand. he doesn't seem to understand diplomatic language. >> do you have any advice for americans? >> i think americans should sleep well at night. i have no concerns about this particular rhetoric over the last few days. >> the spokesperson for the state department said the entire u.s. government is on the same page. meanwhile, north korea's military called president trump's fire and fury statement a load of nonsense. the statement added, only absolute force can work on him. i'm joined by the "new york times'" glen thrush and evelyn farkas. glen, let me start with you. piecing together what happened behind the scenes in this administration yesterday before the president went out in public and made that comment about fire and fury. so the white house is saying, the words were his own but the tone was something that was

discussed before hand. how true is that? do we know the extent of the discussions before hand? do we know if the tone we met with was strategic in terms of where the administration wanted to go? >> i think the tone was like an 8 and he did like 12. so i think the amp was set up a little high for most people in the white house. my inclination, when i heard fire and fury, i immediately thought of donald trump's chief speech writer, steve miller, who uses that kind of language all the time. the death metal slayer language approach to speech writing. american carnage. but i have been told by about a half dozen folks in the white house, people associated with the president, that while that language has been in the air for a while, and he's been talking about it behind the scenes, more importantly, he's been really getting riled up. even before this "washington post" report, about not getting enough credit for this 15-0 u.n.

skoi security council sanction that included china. so the clip in the wayback machine and also a 1999 he interview that trump gave with tim russert on nbc. that north korea has been on his mind for quite some time and he's been stew about the u.n. vote. >> let me get to these latest responses coming from the military talking about absolute force. absolute force. they're saying the only appropriate response, this yesterday. apparently on state television they were talking about going after guam. so twice you have very bellicose comments out of north korea. what do you make of that? >> nothing. this is exactly how the north koreans speak all the time. i have an online in glenn's paper, an opinion piece that went online today comparing north korea the a yapping little

dog while the doberman pincher stands by calmly ready to take the nuclear bone from the north korean little yappy dog. they make a lot of noise. they uses words like fewer and fury. so it is funny. it almost sounds like the president was reading a lot of reports about what north koreans might say, what they have said. his language absolutely mirrored back their language and it is not appropriate for the united states. we are the number one super power. the strongest economic, political power in the world. we don't need to brag. it just makes us look weak, actually, when we sound like north korea. >> let me ask you, what can the president do, what will he do if he's played this statement yesterday. you're saying this is par for the course for them. but he put a marker down yesterday. north korea said this twice. if this is what they keep up now. is donald trump going to ignore this? should he just ignore this? what is the appropriate reaction going forward, given what he said yesterday? >> i think he needs to ignore

the rhetoric. because the north koreans, as i said before, there is what they do. they're afraid that we'll take some action. 37 to prove that they're taller than they are. the reality is that donald trump needs to articulate to the american people, to our allies, to china, russia, and then of course, north korea, a strategy. and they have the pieces in the making if they could bring them all together. we could actually end up deterring north korea, containing they will again. what does that mean? it means clamp down. use the pressure that we have with these new u.n. sanctions. that's what he should have been talking about. that's what he is so proud of. second, we should continue to deter north korea militarily using conventional weapons but also we have the nuclear umbrella that we extend to south korea and our own country. this is where we say to the north koreans, we are deterring you so that you stop presenting a threat to the international

community, which is what the u.n. advantages all about. north korea is deemed a threat not just to the united states and its allies but to the world. so stop presenting a threat to the world and then we'll sit down and talk to you. so at a minimum, they have to stop the tests. no more nuclear tests. and then we'll start talking about a way forward. and then finally one thing that we might try now with this new young leader is some kind of economic incentive. i think the chinese would probably go for that. it would be something they have not only experience with, reforming economically while keeping a political existing communist and controlled political system in place. in essence, there is a lot that donald trump could have said that he didn't say and there's certainly a path forward that the administration can and should take. >> well, secretary mattis made strong statement, that they must choose to stop isolating itself

and stand down its pursuit of nuclear weapons. meanwhile, the president tweeted this today. my first order as president was to renovate and modernize our nuclear arsenal. it is now far stronger and more powerful than ever before. hopefully we'll never have to use this power but there will never be a time that we are not the most powerful nation in the world. for the record, nbc news reports there's no record that the president has upgraded the nuclear arsenal. he did order a review of the nuclear posture and he has requested a big increase in spending. this raises the response i just read there raise this is question about the president about, his use of twitter about, the potential that he can use twitter to make statements that are not clear, that are not discussed, that are not in any way done in consultation with anybody else in the administration. do we know how the white house, how everybody around trump is dealing with that facet of this?

it is one thing if he's going off after somebody on cable news he doesn't like. it is another thing if we're dealing with a situation going of a nuclear capability willing to strike against the united states? >> we're talking about the most serious possible consequences here. i have kids. we're all in this together. we don't want to see this get out of control. when the president tweets something like that this morning, it questions his credibility. we've seen him misstate things over and over and over again through his twitter account. but it was particularly jarring to see him addressing these issues with such broad global consequence on his private twitter account. i have a threshold question here. when he's talking about other countries, and he's talking about a nuclear stand-off, could he at least use the full potus account? could we at least have some curation of that to make sure the facts, the assertion that

he's already upgraded our nuclear arsenal when he hasn't upgrade ad sint budget, that really undermines his credibility. and the one thing could i like the add to this, the thing we are looking at, in terms of the active space, is the border between south korea and north korea. if the north koreans are going to do something and where the flash point will take place, it will be like a number of years ago. the sinking of the submarine. the provocative order. in the direction of guam as they've double in the sea of japan. so i think the things we have to look for in terms of concrete metrics, what is the north's relationship with the south? and thus far, as heated as this confrontation has gotten, it hasn't become a north versus south thing quite yet. >> okay. i'm sorry, we're too long in this segment. we have to cut it short here. i appreciate you both coming up.

next, another alarming statement from the trump white house. an administration official compares the stand-off to the cuban missile crisis. what military rakactions are be discussed behind the scenes? whoooo.

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trump. we are not just a super power. we are now a hyper power. these are the trying times. through cuban missile crisis, we stood behind jfk. this is aanalogous to the cuban missile crisis. >> that was the deputy assistant to the president mimicking his boss's bellicose language this morning. in the past 24 hours, we've seen a dramatic upknick hostile rhetoric from the president and some of his staff. where does this lead to administration going forward? for more, i'm joined by retired army general jack jacobs. let me ask the question this y way. in terms of of the audience, for this kind of rhett risker there's the north korean regime itself. there's china who wants to be taking a more active role in bringing north korea to heel. either of those two audiences,

is there a scenario where you can't see this would bring the united states closer tots goal? or could bring it to the its goal? >> no, no. i think this is all assume official stuff. the only way that north korea perceives that it will prevent anybody from taking out the regime is by having nuclear weapons. i don't think they have any intention of using them. i think that not very much interested in getting into a fight with the united states. and we're not interested in getting into a fight with them. at the end of the day, it is a way they have of ensuring the continuation of this. >> the idea of the north korean regime, if we have these things, they're not attacking us. >> what they don't want to have happen is for their regime to collapse and have the united states then come into the peninsula and coalesce, both the north and the south. by the way, china doesn't want that either. so it is whistling in the dark. >> so it is sort of an

existential issue. looking over. we're really vulnerable if we don't get this. so short of military action, if it is that fundamental to the survival of the regime, short of military action, is there any way to keep them from doing that? >> one way is to work with china and slowly inch toward a situation in which some coalition that includes china and the united states, maybe china and the united states and russia guarantees the exist tense of the regime. let them carry on torturing their own people but without nuclear weapons. >> what is the next step? here's the way i'm looking at it. donald trump likes the idea of sounding resolution, the rhetoric we're hearing. it is at least rhetorically thumbed their nose at him. does donald trump do something else? does he do something else? >> i think he continues to say stuff. it doesn't amount to.

. it is not having an impact on how we act. the problem with donald trump saying what he says, each time he says something hyperbolic, every time the very next time his remarks become less and less significant. at the end of the day, nobody will listen to him. it doesn't matter whether north korea listens to him. what is really important is whether or not our allies, our uncommitted nation states listen to us. that's the disadvantage. it doesn't matter what north korea says or what they listen to at the end of the day. that doesn't matter at all. what really matters is everybody else. and we're making it much more difficult to listen. >> thanks for taking a few minutes. up next, federal investigators zero in on paul manafort. what is the political fallout for the trump white house? kit distance itself from the former campaign chairman? something it has tried to do in the past. you don't let anything

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even before today's news about the fbi raid on paul martin's home, the white house had repeatedly sought to minimize the role he played in the 2016 campaign. his former secretary said a few months ago. >> a volunteer of the campaign and there's been a discussion for paul manafort who played a limited role. the way the term associates gets thrown out, you point out a gentleman employed by someone for five months and talk about a client that he had years ago. >> this raises scrutiny over the ties for trump and his associates. one democratic lawmaker who has been an outspoken critic tweeted, dear donald trump, it sure doesn't look like the russia thing is a ohio valley. in case you forgot, paul manafort was your campaign

chairman. thanks to all of you for being with us. news like this reverberates in a lot of ways. one that sit a very practical way. when you've got news that somebody so big has been the subject of an fbi raid, people in the immediate political orbit of a political operation react in very particular ways. someone talked about what the "washington post" reporter said, he said the news today has had a chill effect on his sources in the trump administration. >> well, i think it makes everyone a little up easy, the idea fbi agents coming in the morning and knocking on your window and coming in and raiding your house. this has been an ongoing issue for the white house and it is really affected lower level staffing who wants to get involved if they might end up

having the hefty legal fees, even if they did nothing wrong. so you look at this and it is more of the drip, drip, drip. this russia investigation is not going away any time soon. >> we'll see where this goes here. just the indications we're getting in terms of what it takes for prosecutors to get a warrant like this. they would execute it in the mann manner they did. it certainly suggests the immediate possibility, the best case scenario here for the trump administration would be that it is incredibly jammed up. the problem is, mueller's purview is, he has a mandate to look everywhere. the idea that the contagion

won't spread is wishful thinking on the trump administration's part. and they should feel a chilling effect on the white house that someone who wasn't, paul manafort was not some guy who just did a little thing for the campaign. with some insignificant figure. this was as if john podesta in the hillary clinton campaign had his home in'58ed by the fbi. there should be a chilling effect in the white house. the administration should be worried. because not only do they not know where mueller is going with all this. they don't know how quickly this will be resolved. >> and then the x-factor in all this is how the president himself responds. whatever happens, this is not something that will be wrapped up in the next few days. right now the president has been dealing with this issue with north korea. how president trump responds to

this publicly, in the days, weeks, months ahead, that's an issue, too. >> every day that he hears the word russia, he will get angry and fume about attorney general jeff sessions. he will get angry and fume about robert mueller. that temp tags to fire either one of them will grow over time. and now that congress is out and he has more times on his hands, with no legislation coming, maybe he will decide to move on one or the other. >> and we had richard blumenthal from connecticut on at the top of the show. he was talking about this movement even some republicans in the senate have gotten behind. expressed some sympathy. some president trump did himself absolutely no favors today by his completely unhinged behavior against mitch mcconnell. why is he trying to go out of his way to alienate someone who the senators in the caucus really like. and they want to keep in his

position. he is going out of his way to peick fight with the senate majority leader on the eve of what could be nuclear holocaust with north korea if the situation is not contained. so it is just absolutely baffling behavior. >> and again, this is one of those. there are so many different pieces of this. again, the headline today is so he damning. we don't know if this quekconne with. this direct involvement in the 2016 campaign. where are you looking now in terms of , where is the next she dropping? >> there are so many shoes that have dropped. i'm no longer surprised by how low it can go. the pre dawn '58 a pivot in the mueller investigation. north korea best not threaten the united states again is another pivot point in terms of donald trump's foreign policy

and how far he's willing to go rhetorically. compared to the actual people who would have to implement whatever he decides to do. it is telling that secretary tillerson basically walked back a whole lot the bellicose language that the president used. but in terms of where to look, i am rendered kind of speechless. i don't know where it will come from. i think we've all had moments over the last six months. i didn't see that coming. there's no way i could even possibly imagine this is coming. so i think anyone who tries to predict what the future will hold and what the next pivot point would be, what the next shoe would be, doesn't really know. >> and that's one of the other questions we have right now. maybe we'll get some answers. did president trump know this was coming? had he received word through paul manafort that this had happened? one of those unanswered

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politicians get a big folder daily. regularly. you're saying they are giving donald trump and the folks around him specifically positive news. who is delivering it? is this an order for him? what's going on here. >> so we know about form he chief of staff reince priebus and sean spicer were the ones who tried deliver it. it included screen shots of news chirons, tweets that were printed out that were positive. and if there wasn't enough request news that day, then sometimes they would go back and ask for pictures of the president looking powerful. >> is it something he ordered? did he say, i want this folder every day? >> what my reporting suggests is that spicer and priebus took it upon themselves to start this process because they wanted to show the president that they were getting him good coverage.

and i think there's a long list of evidence to show that president trump likes flattery. that a way to get your agenda passed, to even show that you were doing a good job, was to show that people are complimenting him because of you. >> they were on tv saying, one of the greatest orders of all time of the anthony scaramucci talking about how he loved the president. it does seem there is this calculation. do it through the media and wrap in it positive flattery. >> it is amazing. i spoke to a former colleague from the bush white house, and i wanted a refresher. what was the press clip like that went to president bush? it was the same that everyone got so everyone was well informed about what was being said in the news and what was happening in the news?

and i'm pretty sure that was probably the standard process in president obama's press shop. i doubt that they went out of their way to get attractive votes. who knows? >> i wonder if that did not happen. this is a president who spends a lot of time watching cable news like the rest of us do. he sees the critical coverage that's out there. he absorbs the critical coverage that's out there. does he see this and think there's some other press coverage he's not seeing? >> let's look at it a different way. what does it say about a white house, and senior staffers in the white house, the chief of staff former, and white house press secretary former, who felt duty bounds and also, desirous of carrying around this propaganda document to the president of the united states to make him happy? to me that says a whole lot more than, you know, whatever else

he's doing. and people are communicating to the president through press. they're trying to buck him up and get their agendas through, at least megs through, by giving him flattering information. it is a terrible way to run a white house and a terrible way to conduct a presidency. >> we've not seen something like this, maybe the best way is through going on cable news and talking directly to him through the camera.

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anthony scaramucci is going to make an appearance, the first time since leaving the white house. >> jonathan? >> so i'm going to tell you something you forgot. sometimes cheap is too expensive. sometimes you should pay for the things you want. paul manafort worked for free. and now look at the world of hurt. pre dawn raids. >> he's at the center of it. >> for months, trump has been retweeting from accounts that he doesn't follow and they haven't added him. and we think maybe these tweets are ones that have been printed

out in the propaganda document and he's saying, i banlt want t retweeted. >> it makes a lot of sense. thank you all for joining us. that's "hardball." >> i'm not looking for any clients. >> the fbi raided the home of a man who ran donald trump's campaign. >> we have great people. >> paul manafort has done an amazing job. >> what we're learning about the raid of paul manafort's hole. what it means for an investigation more advanced than anyone knew. and what it means for the president of the united states. >> so to be clear, mr. trump has no financial relationships with any russian oligarchs? >> that's what he said. that's what i said. that's obviously what our position is. >> then the white hou