guccifer responded, "do you find anything interesting in the docs i posted? a day later, according to these texts confirmed by stone he asked guccifer to retweet an article stone had written. "please retweet how the election can be rigged against donald trump." guccifer replied, "done." and later on the same day, "please tell me if i can help you anyhow." earlier this year, u.s. intelligence concluded that guccifer sites were a front for russian military intelligence. in a way, you're encouraging them to release more information. >> yeah, that's called networking. remember, i have no idea this gentleman is allegedly a russian. >> reporter: on sunday, arizona senator john mccain called for stone to testify in upcoming hearings. anthony, stone defiantly told us that his response to that is "game on." >> jeff, thanks. the bowler was an interesting statement. >>> coming up next on the cbs evening news, the top marine general faces a barrage of questions over the nude photo scandal. and later, a sheriff channels his inner sajak to capture fugitives. ♪ lysol max co

guccifer is believed to be part of russian intelligence.eporter: despite that claim, roger stone now admits that he was in contact with guccifer 2.0, at least 16 times during the 2016 campaign. that twitter handle released hacked election information believed to be stolen from democratic party servers. it targeted hillary clinton and democratic candidates in at least six states. >> at the time i had my one and only communications with him. >> reporter: you had more than just one contact with this person. you had one, two, at least three, between august 12 and september 9. >> right. i would refer to it as an exchange. >> reporter: that exchange appears to have started after guccifer's first account was suspended, and then reactivated in mid-august. "delighted you are reinstated," stone wrote. guccifer responded, "do you find anything interesting in the docs i posted? a day later, according to these texts confirmed by stone he asked guccifer to retweet an article stone had written. "please retweet how the election can be rigged against donald

guccifer responded, "do you find anything interesting in the docs i posted? day later, according to tackles confirmed by stone he asked guccifer to retweet an article stone had written. "please retreat how the election can be rigged against donald trump." guccifer replied, done." and later on the same day, "please tell me if i can help you anyhow." earlier this year, u.s. intelligence concluded that guccifer sites were a front for russian military intelligence. in a way, you're encouraging them to release more information. >> yeah, that's called networking. remember, i have no idea this gentleman is allegedly a russian. >> reporter: on sunday, arizona senator john mccain called for stone to testify in upcoming hearings. anthony, stone defiantly told us that his response to that is "game on." >> mason: jeff, thanks. the bowler was an interesting statement. coming up next on the cbs evening news, the top marine general faces a barrage of questions over the nude photo scandal. and later, a sheriff channels his inner sajack to capture fugitives. seen it. covered

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leaks started dumping that information. >> and guccifer is -- guccifer 2.0 is like a hacking nom de guerre? it's a persona? >> it's a persona that is believed to be russian intelligence by cyber experts. >> and the guccifer 2 leaks ended up on d.c. leaks website which is something that didn't exist prior to the campaign. nobody ever heard of. >> correct. and that dump was a massive amount of data, of documents that was not user friendly and was very hard to get your arms around what was there. and therefore it did not get an enormous amount of coverage, an enormous amount of attention. >> what kind of documents was it? it was all internal to the democratic party. was it donor lists? >> donor lists, research, books, which is a comp litigation of clips of vulnerabilities of yourself and your opponents. i believe a donald trump research book. >> so democratic oppo research on donald trump. >> right, but remember at that time donald trump wasn't paying for self-research so the fact that that research book was in there was quite interesting to us. and we believed very -- from the first dump tha

to wikileaks which, by the way, guccifer claims -- the persona guccifer which is a front for the russianelligence claimed that he gave the information to wikileaks. so in summer of 2016 u.s. officials, cyber experts were already attributing this hack to the russians and you could see it was only hurting one side and benefitting the other. it was very clear what in operation was. it was to discredit hillary clinton and to help donald trump. >> glen, i am going to ask you a weird question. would you agree to come back on this show tomorrow? because i feel like what you're describing in terms of the way you saw this unfolding from your perspective on the campaign is a piece of the story that hasn't been told and i'd like to give you a bunch of time to just walk us through it and tell us why what you experienced and what it was like at the time. are you busy tomorrow at this time? >> i would be -- i can ask the babysitter to come, i'd be happy to come back. >> if you need a note for the babysitter -- >> a note will help. i have to go help glen caplin write a note to his babysitter. he worked

talked about, the role of guccifer 2.0. mr. stone, on august 17th, are you aware, received a communication from guccifer 2.0 that said, quote, i'm pleased to say you are great, please tell me if i can help you anyhow, it would be a great pleasure to me. are you aware of that communication from essentially russian gru through mr. guccifer to mr. stone? >> i'll have to give you the same answer. >> are you aware that mr. stone also stated publicly that he was in direct communication with julian assange and wikileaks? >> same answer. >> are you aware that mr. stone also claimed that he was in touch with an interinter mimidi? >> i can't answer. >> do you know mr. the russians dealt directly with wikileaks or went through an intermediary? >> we assessed they used some kind of cutout. >> in early october, are you aware that mr. stone tweeted, "i have total confidence that my hear row julian assange will educate the american people soon," are you aware of that tweet? >> i'm back to my same original answer. >> are you aware that it

2.0, there's not much distance, if any, between the personnel or collectively the identity of guccifer 2 and intelligence themselves and they wanted more distance and they used a platform like wikileaks. now, whether they directly engaged julian assange or indirectly, one thing is pretty clear, not only does donald trump have a hard time criticizing russia, so does julian assange. and why is that? is there some relationship there? i don't know the answer but i do think it's worth our finding out. >> congressman, on nbc yesterday, you said that you see there being an accumulation of what you've described as circumstantial evidence, that there was collusion between this russian operation and associates of donald trump during the campaign. can you just expand on that a little bit, what you met by circumstantial evidence and both the limits of that and also the extent of it? >> well, you know i know when you use that term, a lot of people think circumstantial evidence is not very telling or very powerful. but it all depends on what kind of circumstantial evidence. i can't go into a lot of

government talked about the role of guccifer 2. are you aware that he received communication from guccifer 2 saying "i'm pleased to say that you are great. please let me know if i can help you anyhow. it would be a great pleasure to me." are you aware of that communication essentially from russian communication gru through guccifer 2 to mr. stone? >> i'd have to give you the same answer. >> are you aware that mr. stone said he was in direct communication with julian assange and wikileaks? >> same answer. >> are you aware that mr. stone said he was in touch with an intermediary of mr. assange? >> same answer. >> this question i think you can answer. do you know whether the russian intelligence services dealt directly with wikileaks or whether they, too, used an intermediary? >> we assessed they used some kind of cutout. they didn't deal directly with wikileaks, in contrast to dc leaks and guccifer 2.0. >> in early october, are you aware that mr. stone tweeted, "i have total confidence that my hero, julian assange, will educate the a

why is roger stone talking to guccifer in the first place? what is the rational? how did he know that john podesta was going to be in trouble. let's be clear, when ryan prebust -- reince priebus was -- >> he was on the transition team so there is trust. >> there's no trust for chairman nunes to conduct himself in a professional manner. that's where you have people like john mccain and congressman adam schiff calling for the independent investigator. and quite frankly we need a special prosecutor. >> jeffrey, roger stone was also saying that, you know, intel is wrong. that the guccifer 2 is not a russian problem. >> i have known roger stone for decades. and i know he's controversial, but i can tell you one thing roger is not and he's not treasonous. that's for sure. you can agree or disagree with him, but committing treason is never something roger stone would do, number one. number two, a bit of news here, i was contacted last night by one of these individuals, carter page, who sent me a letter that he is now -- >> who is also volunteering to testify. >> yes. and

piece denying guccifer's intelligence. he predicts john podesta's personal e-mails will soon be published. trust me, he says, it will soon be podesta's time in the barrel #crookedhillary. in the weeks that follow, stone shows remarkable prescience. i have total confidence that wikileaks and my hero julian asassge will educate the american people soon, he says. two days later, wikileaks releases its first batch of podesta's e-mails. the release would then continue on a daily basis up until the election. on election day in november, donald trump wins. donald trump appoints one of his high profile surrogates, michael flynn, to be his national security adviser. michael flynn has been paid by the kremlin's propaganda outfit rt in the past as well as another russian entity. in december, michael flynn has a secret conversation with ambassador kislyak about sanctions imposed by president obama on russia over its hacking designed to help the trump campaign. michael flynn lies about the secret conversation. the vice president unknow

stone and guccifer 2.0, who our intelligence agency says save is the russian front. we have mr. about wikileaks, predicting what's happening. we have mr. manafort's ties that set of facts senator mccain talked about. we have mr. flynn lying about his contacts, also accepting money. if any one of these three individuals -- here's how it works. if any of them did violate the law, sooner or later the fbi and the doj are going to come to them, offer them some kind of immunity, and then we get to the watergate question -- >> ambassador -- >> -- what did the president know, when did he know it? >> give me a break. erin, hold on. we have to deal with reality and facts here. if you're claiming an individual talking to a foreign government automatically is watergate, which i can't even believe we're having that discussion as the ambassador is implying, hillary clinton would have had 50 watergates because of the clinton foundation and all the money that came into her foundation while she was at the state department and while she was running for president. so if democrats are going to clai

tell me more about guccifer 2, is it a human being, is it an officer and is there any question that guccifer is an agent or somehow working for the russian government? dr. rid: we know from the evidence that's available, not all of it public but in private sector sources and academic sources, guccifer is not just one individual, because in private interactions with journalists, we can see different types of human play that some use specifically at a ecific time, lots of smileys and all communicating through the same channel. , the links guccifer -- ap 28 what evidence in the written testimony hacked 12 of the targets that were on leaks. they provided a password that was not publicly known, provided password to the smoking gun to the outlet. that is a strong forensic link there that the dots can be connected. senator king: is guccifer 2 an agent of russia? dr. rid: an organization, could be a subcontractor or a team -- senator king: affiliated with the russian government? dr. rid: yes. senator burr: i thank all the members and i thank our panel today. you have provided us some incredible insi

. >>> long time donald trump associate roger stone admits having contact with guccifer 2.0. that is the shadowy online persona claiming to hack the dnc. he said he did have a few brief exchange as insist they occurred last suggest after the dnc had been hacked. stone claims the timing proofs he is not collude with the russians. >>> firing of 46 u.s. attorneys. many officials finding out they were dismissed through media reports. the firings could not have been handled worse with dozens of court cases hanging in the balance. the case with preet bharara was getting the most attention. he refused to resign. engaging in a standoff with the president. he was told on saturday he was fired. listen to him talking to reporters in november after meeting with the president and told he could keep his job. >> we had a good meeting. i said i would consider staying on. i expect to work. >> an administration source tells cnn the president originally offered to keep preet bharara on as a favor to chuck schumer. bharara adding to the intrigue by adding, now i know what the commission must hav

stone, a long-time political operative who over the weekend admitted to a twitter exchange with guccifer 2.0, the hacker cho who claims he broke into the dnc, also bragging about a back channel with wikileaks. that happened. roger stone doesn't dispute either of these things. i want you to explain to our audience exactly what roger stone's connection is to donald tru trump. >> it's a major connection. roger stone goes back in politics to president nixon's 1972 re-election campaign. he's the kind of republican consultant who learned not only the details but also the value of kind of the dark arts of politics, how you're not just effective when you're sitting at a table negotiating policy, but you're maneuvering behind the scenes to try to advance your president or principal's agenda. by that i mean during the 2016 campaign roger stone was someone who was involved and quoted in the "national enquirer's" reports about ted cruz's father and whether ted cruz's father played a role during the jfk assassination. he organized very aggressively against republicans who might be stealing the nomina

beginning in june, websites with alleged ties to russia, dcleaks, guccifer 2.0 and wikileaks began disclosingdata obtained in a wave of cyberattacks on democratic party officials. at yesterday's hearing, fbi director comey confirmed the bureau opened its investigation in late july. that same month, then-candidate trump encouraged more cyberattacks on his rival, hillary clinton. i hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. >> reporter: then in august, manafort left the campaign amid questions about his ties to the former pro-russian ukrainian leader. as part of its investigation, the fbi is trying to determine whether there was any coordination between the trump campaign and russian officials, but according to this declassified intelligence assessment, the russian hacking efforts date back to as early as 2015. eric o'neill is a former fbi counterintelligence operative. >> there are no hackers. there are only spies. >> reporter: you think so? >> a spy is someone who is stealing information to further a cause or to gain information that helps the policies of their government, o

the fact that there were so many people in the trump organization that had ties to russia, that gucciferin fact, someone that was seen as an operative of the russian government, and was doing much of the hacking, and that there were persons within the trump organization, roger stone, for one, who was tweeting two months before the actual wikileaks dump, that there was going to be more data about john podesta and hillary clinton. that, to me, smacks of collusion, aiding and abetting, and certainly is worthy of an investigation. >> but beyond roger stone, beyond paul manafort, it sounded as if yesterday, you had some big concerns about secretary of state, rex tillerson, and his relationship with russia. what do you want to see answered there? >> i actually think that rex tillerson was a very poor choice for secretary of state. husband relationship with vladimir putin goes back 17 years. he crowed about it at a speech he gave at the university of texas in 2016. he received the order of friendship, the highest regarded order within russia, sat next to putin at a dinner, toasted him. in addit

this same individual also admits to being in contact with guccifer 2, the russian intelligence persona responsible for these cyber operations. the platform of one of our two major political parties was mysteriously watered down in a way which promomoted the interes of president putin, and no one seems to be able to identify who directed that change in the platform. the campaign manager of one campaign who played such a critical role in electing the president was forced to step down over his alleged ties to russia and its associates. since the election, we've seen the president's national security adviser resign and his attorney general recuse himself over previously undisclosed contacts with the russian government. and of course, the other body on march 20th, the director of the fbi publicly acknowledged that the bureau was "investigating the nature of any links between individuals associated with the trump campaign and the russian government and whether there was any coordination between the campaign and russian efforts." i want to make clear, at least for me, this information is not

and forth between so many folks in the trump campaign and various different contacts in russia, guccifer 2.0, julian assange as well as directly with the russian ambassador and others. i think we need to get to the bottom of all of those conversations and i think that today's actions by chairman nunes really call into question why members of the trump campaign were in direct contact with targets of foreign surveillance. that's the real takeaway from his revelations today. they were obviously talking with someone who a judge had decided there should be a fisa warrant to surveil. >> so what remains for you to have answered? >> oh, i think we still need to follow the money here. i think that the question is, i think it would be highly appropriate to subpoena the president's tax returns and any financials which might answer some of these questions. i think that's one of the directions that we really need to get to if we're going to get the kind of underlying questions answered that the american people desve. >> and back to where we started our conversation, these intelligence intercept do yo

are you aware of that communication from guccifer 2 to mr. stone. mr. comey: i have to give you the same answer. mr. schiff: are you mr. schiff: are you aware that mr. stone was in touch with an intermediary of mr. assange? mr. comey: same answer. mr. schiff: this question i think you can answer. do you know whether the russian intelligence service has dealt directly with wikileaks or whether they too used an intermediary? mr. comey: we assess they used some kind of cutout. they didn't deal directly with wikileaks. in contrast, the d.c. leaks and gucc, i fer 2.0. mr. schiff: in early october, are you aware that mr. stone tweeted, vito tal confidence that my hero will educate the american people soon? are you aware of that tweet? mr. comey: i'm back to my original same answer. mr. schiff: are you aware it was only days later that wikileaks released the podesta emails? mr. comey: same answer. mr. schiff: i'm going to yield now to mr. himes. himehime thank you, mr. schiff. i note we're going through the -- mr. himes: thank you, mr. schiff. i note we're goi

..including former trump adviser roger stone -- ...who is downplaying twitter communication with guccifer 2.0 - the online persona who claimed responsibility for hacking into the d-n-c.mccain -- also saying he wants former trump campaign manager paul manafort to be questioned.sen. john mccain / -r- arizona: "mr. manafort's relationship with yanukovych, the stooge of vladimir putin."manafort is facing renewed scrutiny as hacked text messages-- purportedly from his daughter......suggest that he influenced ukraine's ousted russia - backed president, viktor yanukovych......during a time of deadly police action against protesters in keiv. asked about the text messages manafort said "comment on what? there is nothing." ( mark ) still ahead... mutiple people are without a home this morning after a fire in the east bay. we'll show you where it happened. plus...< coming up i'll show you the free way to watch tv online...> and here's a live look outside... san mateo bridge. áááábreakáááá (robin) no major hot spots. bay bridge wb 80 backed up into the maze ( james ) if you're hoping to cut the cord

kevin mandia says they stole much more than what has been released on web sites like wikileaks and guccifer 2.0. >> what we've seen publicly released is probably under 1% of what we attribute to the russian government stealing. report and the hacking continues. marco rubio. >> within the last 24 hours at 10:45 a.m. yesterday, a second attempt was made again against former members of my presidential campaign team who had access to our internal information, again targeted from an i.p. address from an unknown location in russia. >> reporter: watts also told congress the russians may now be trying to cover their tracks. there have been a series of arrests and a number of mysterious deaths around the world. >> follow the trail of dead russians. there have been more dead russians tied to this investigation who have assets in banks all over the world. >> reporter: today russian president vladimir putin denied that moscow meddled in the election. scott, he stole a phrase that was made famous by the first president bush, replying to an interviewer, "read my lips: no." >> pelley: jeff pegues in our w

michael flynn, attorney general jeff sessions, and roger stone who admitted he was in contact ith guccifer 2.0, the hacker the f.b.i. says is a front for russian intelligence. we know the -- they gave false testimony before the senate regarding meetings with russian officials. we know president trump has financial ties with russia. though he denies it, we know there are large russian investments in the trump organization. the president's son, donald trump jr., said a few years ago that money, was, quote, flowing in, unquote from russia. that obviously can have a major influence on the president and the decisions of his administration. we know that there was a change in the republican platform dealing with ukraine to favor russia. a change that was engineered by the trump campaign. we even know who in the trump campaign gave the instruction to make this change. we know that there's an ongoing criminal investigation by the f.b.i. of possible collusion by the trump campaign in the admitted russian intervention in the attempt by russia to subvert the 2016 presidential campaign. knowing all thi

beginning in june, websites with alleged ties to russia, dcleaks, guccifer 2.0 and wikileaks began disclosingils and data obtained in a wave of cyberattacks on democratic party officials. at yesterday's hearing, f.b.i. director comey confirmed the bureau opened its investigation in late july. that same month, then-candidate trump encouraged more cyberattacks on his rival, hillary clinton. >> russia, if you're listening, ahope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. >> reporter: then in august, manafort left the campaign amid questions about his ties to the anrmer pro-russian ukrainian leader. as part of its investigation, the f.b.i. is trying to determine whether there was any coordination between the trump campaign and russian officials, but according to this declassified intelligence assessment, the russian hacking efforts date back to as early as 2015. eric o'neill is a former f.b.i. 20unter-intelligence operative. >> there are no hackers. veere are only spies. .> reporter: you think so? e a spy is someone who is stealing information to further icause or to gain information

starting in june, wexes like guccifer 2.0, and wikileaks began posting the hacked documents. in august, trump confidant, roger stone, tweeted about clinton campaign chairman john podesta. "trust me. it will soon be podesta's time in the barrel." then on october 7, wikileaks began publishing podesta's personal e-mails. it was the same day the department of homeland security and director of national intelligence publicly accused russia of carrying out the cyber attacks. today, a year after the russian operation began, sources say the f.b.i.'s investigation is nowhere near over. it involves dozens of agents in washington, new york, and london. the n.s.a. and c.i.a. are also gathering intelligence from inside russia. despite his denials, investigators believe the operation was authorized by russian president vladimir putin himself, and it involved both cyberattacks and information warfare. >> this is actually what happened to us. >> reporter: according to testimony yesterday before the senate intelligence committee, 15,000 operatives worldwide participated in spreading false news

..including former trump adviser roger stone -- ...who is downplaying twitter communication with guccifer 2.0 - the online persona who claimed responsibility for hacking into the d-n-c.mccain -- also saying he wants former trump campaign manager paul manafort to be questioned.sen. john mccain / -r- arizona: "mr. manafort's relationship with yanukovych, the stooge of vladimir putin."manafort is facing renewed scrutiny as hacked text messages-- purportedly from his daughter......suggest that he influenced ukraine's ousted russia - backed president, viktor yanukovych......during a time of deadly police action against protesters in keiv. asked about the text messages manafort said "comment on what? there is nothing."i'm reid binion reporting. ( james ) the senate confirmation hearing for president trump's new labor secretary pick has been delayed. alexander acosta was scheduled for his senate hearing on wednesday. but according to senator lamar alexander, the event has been pushed back until march 22-nd. that's because alexander - who chairs the committee where the hearing will be held - is t

this same individual also admits to being in contact with guccifer two the russian persona responsiblerations. the platform of one of our two major political parties was mysteriously watered down in a way which promoted the interest of president putin and no one seems to be able to identify who directed that change in the platform. the campaign manager of one campaign who played such a critical role in electing the president was force to step down over his alleged ties to russia and its associates. since the election we've seen the president's national security adviser resign and as attorney general recuse himself over previously undisclosed contacts with the russian government. of course the other on march 20 the director of the fbi publicly acknowledged the bureau is quote, investigating the nature of links of individual associated with the trump campaign and russian government and whether there was coordinate between the trump campaign and russian efforts, end of quote. i want to make clear at least for me, the information is not about whether you have a "d" or "r" next to your name

this same individual also admits to being in contact with guccifer 2, it the russian intelligence persona, responsible for these cyber operations. the platform of one of our two major political parties mysteriously watered down in a way which appropriated the interests of president putin. and no one seems to be able to be identify who directed that change in the platform. a campaign manager of one campaign who played such a critical role in electing the president was forced to step down over his alleged ties to russia and its associates. since election, we've seen the president's national security adviser resign and his attorney general recuse himself over previously undisclosed contacts with the russian government. and, of course, in the other body, on march 20th, the director of the fbi publicly acknowledged that the bureau was "investigating the nature of any links between individuals government and whether there was any coordination between the campaign and russian efforts, end of quote. i want to make clear, at least for me, this information is not about whether you have a "d" or an

kevin mandia says they stole much more than what has been released on websites like wikileaks and guccifer. >> what we've seen publicly released is probably under 1% of what we'd attribute to the russian government stealing. >> reporter: and the hacking continues. republican senator and former presidential candidate marco rubio. >> within the last 24 hours, 10:45 a.m. yesterday, a second attempt was made again against former members of my presidential campaign team who had access to our internal information, again targeted from an i.p. address from an unknown location in russia. >> reporter: watts also told congress the russians may now be trying to cover their tracks. there have been a series of arrests in russia of cybersecurity officials and a number of mysterious deaths around the world. >> follow the trail of dead russians. there's been more dead russians in the past three months that are tied to this investigation who have assets in banks all over the world. >>> secretary of state rex tillerson is in turkey, where he unveiled a major shift in u.s. policy toward syria. tillerson said

leaks and guccifer 2.0 and the secret stuff they sole from the dnc and clinton campaign chairman john podesta. but now we can also tell you that they were also playing another card at the same time, one that a lot of people watching the show experienced in realtime and you may not have known what it was when it happened to you. jason churkas and ryan grimm, two reporters from the "washington post," have done reporting on this. they've added to the timeline, so the timeline, february, kremlin threatening/promising they're going nuclear in their information war, march, their gru attacks the democratic party and steals their data. we see the fruits of that by the summer but that spring, april and may the other thing they started doing was a huge industrial-sized bot attack. this was not a joke. they used automated social media bots and what appeared to be paid operatives in russia and other countries specifically to target bernie supporters. they took the real split in the democratic party between hillary clinton and bernie sanders and they blew it up into what they hoped would be an unb

. >>> long time trump associate roger stone not only admits with contacting guccifer 2.0, but defending. the online persona claiming to hack the dnc. stone says he did have a few brief exchanges and insists they occurred last august after the dnc had been hacked. stone says this proves he did not collude with the russians. >>> the abrupt firing of 46 u.s. attorneys finding out they were dismissed through media reports. sources telling cnn the firings could not have been handled worse with dozens of court cases hanging in the balance. the case of preet bharara in new york, which includes manhattan, getting the most attention. bharara refusing to resign and engaging in a standoff with the president. told by the administration on saturday he was fired. listen to bharara talking to reporters in november after meeting with the president being told he could keep his job. >> we had a good meeting. i said i would absolutely consider staying on. i agreed to stay on. i expect to continue the work of the district. >> the administration source tells cnn the president originally offered to keep bhar

he does say, his claim is there's been no collusion with him or guccifer or wikileaks. ana navarro, your friend, member of congress ileana ros-lehtinen, says she's a no vote, she says there will be less funds to represent poor and elderly with their health care. you know if the republican leadership is losing her, they're in trouble. >> it's a very bad signal. ileana ros-lehtinen, my congresswoman and my friend, this is not a woman who goes out of her way to be a thorn in leadership's side, on the contrary, she is a team player, a loyal soldier, a good republican. this is her 14th term, she's been in office for 28 years. when she is saying no, it's because she knows that it's going to mean something very bad for her constituents. iliana's district, the 27th district of florida, has got one of the highest enrollment fs fo the aca, who are enrolled and receive subsidies. the effect would be devastating for that district. iliana is a good soldier, and a team player, up to the point where it hurts her constituents. she has never hesitated in putting her constituents first,

roger stone who is a trump confidante he had exchanges with guccifer 2.0, one of the early dnc hackers, said they were innocuous. the reason i think this relates to what we're talking about here is there's a swirling sense of -- set of suspicions about possible collusions with the russians, et cetera, which may prove to be nothing or prove to be something massive. but right now the problem is any denial just can't be viewed by anyone credibility. >> because you already made the central point. you can't believe anything they say, except you might be able to leave a couple things roger stone has said to lots of reporters, that he had a back channel to wikileaks. the occom's razor explanation is that russia decided to attack our elections and more than one person in trump world knew about it. if this person, roger stone who has been a trump consigliere since the '80s, if he says he had a back channel, he might want to believe that. >> the question is what can you believe? joy reid and john dean, thank you both, appreciate it. >>> up next, 50 days of facts continues. nbc news has confirmed