joining us is adam goldman. he is one of the "new york times" reporters whose byline on this story has just broken. thank you for joining us on short notice. i really appreciate it. >> thank you for having me. >> the "times" had reported earlier this week that there was one informant who had met at least once with members of the trump campaign during the campaign. the president and conservative media have responded to reports like that by suggesting that it is a scandal, that there was fbi misconduct in doing so. from your reporting is there any indication that the fbi or the justice department believe that there was anything improper about this informant's actions? >> no. not at all. the fbi concluded that it opened up, properly predicated a lawful investigation into possible collusion. and they dispatched an informant to try to suss out this information using, in fact, the least intrusive means as possible. >> did the fbi, in working with this informant, did they effectively plant somebody inside the trump cam

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adam goldman. back to the details of the mysterious june 2016 trump tower meeting between russians and campaign insiders that has become a focal point of the russia investigation. the thousands of pages of testimony from donald trump jr. and others in the room were released by the senate judiciary committee revealing an eagerness by top trump campaign advisers to get their hands on potentially compromising information about the democratic presidential nominee hillary clinton. cnn chief national security correspondent jim sciutto walks us through the new details. >> reporter: senate transcripts make clear that at the 2016 trump tower meeting with russians, trump's son, donald trump jr. was expecting the russians to supply dirt on hillary clinton. this is despite president trump, his son and others repeatedly claiming other wise. a russian lobbyist present for the meeting told senators that donald trump jr., quote, was definitely in charge. and after some small talk, began by saying something to the

adam. one thing we are hearing from goldman sachs is investor should relax.re they telling us to worry less? >> there is a lot going on that is dominating the debate, whether what is going on with as theensions in china, talks continued on friday. it is diverting people away from the fundamentals that remain pretty good. you had an equity market that is flat the last 3-4 weeks. now things are settling down. the folks at goldman are saying, it is not a time to be taking on risk. we should not be worried. the strongne is global growth they see. they see concerns around monetary policy are overdone. they alluded to what the fed said the other day. tolation is not a problem the downside. don't worry much about monetary policy in tightened. and the technical headwinds are perhaps overdone. indexes.ooked at the ultimately the setup is positive for the folks at goldman. betty: hang on one second. we are getting earnings coming out. full-year net income coming in 3.2% above the estimates. 2.48stimate was for billion dollars. coming in at the higher end of the range.

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