candidly, you know, he should be sitting down with people like representative adam shift and senator mark warner and senator richard bloomenthal and john kennedy, people that understand the issues and want to try to -- >> you want to mix in some republicans too. >> well, yeah. john kennedy is a republican from louisiana he was extraordinary in the senate hearings. and this is not a -- this

marco rubio, senator -- why are they covering for mark warner? what's going on? how deep is the deep state? doesn't run through the senate? >> i don't think rubio is part of a deep state. >> that's what's happening! >> i mean, if something doesn't fit into the equation or the partisan dogma, it doesn't make it deep state. what that does is -- >> maybe that's not deep state, but maybe he's angry still about what happened on the campaign trail. but why would a republican -- why would a republican matter of this committee think it okay for a democrat to go meet with the russians without telling -- or russian lobbyist, without telling the committee appointment i think it's really weird. >> i think he was talking about whether the text was known or not. >> look at this. see how well behaved a lot of is see how well behaved geraldo rivera geraldo is. lunacy from the left. beth midler talks about attacking senator rand paul for the brief government shutdown. write back with that. baby boomers, here's something you should know. there's a serious virus out there that 1 in

that's from mark warner. elligence committee got these texts from waldman last september i'm told and warner aide acknowledged warner and richard burr, the republican chairman, revealed these texts to their colleagues back then in october because, quote: they real lighted out of context it doesn't look great. but warner and burr gave me an official statement bushing back on this and they say, quote from, the beginning of our investigation we have taken each step in a bipartisan way and we intend to continue to do so. leaks of incomplete information out of context by anyone, inside or outside our committee, are unacceptable. they add the full committee has had access to the material and been briefed on its content and committee investigators have pursued all relevant investigative leads related to this material. waldman by the way did not return calls seeking comment. evidence signed a $40,000 monthly retainer in 2000 and 2010 on behalf of that russian billionaire. there are reports that deripaska who sued paul

senator mark warner got caught having extensive contact with a russian. rner didn't want a paper trail on a private meeting in london he requested with steele of fraudulent dossier fame all tied into crooked hillary. the tweet where you are talking about senator marco rubio pushes back on all this. he writes senator warner fully disclosed this to the committee four months ago. has had zero impact on our work. so where does that leave us? >> well, where it leaves us is where this whole investigation is, which is that the white house and some republicans especially in the house intelligence committee, want to make this an investigation about hillary clinton and her involvement in the steele dossier and trying to spread disinformation and perhaps trying to create the illusion that the white house would say the false illusion that the trump campaign was in cahoots with the kremlin. obviously the democrats think the real issue is russian meddling in the election and the potential there was some collusion between the trump campaign and the russians. you know, bo

these text messages obtained by fox senator mark warner a democrat as you say who has been leading one of probes. extensive contact with a russian oligarch who offered him access to christopher steele. warner texted he would quote rather not have a paper trail in case he could not seal an agreement with the former british spy. steele has still not agreed to an interview with the panel. warmer began texting with the lobbyist adam wald-on-in 2017 to get the wikileaks founder julian assange to the u.s. to potentially face criminal charges. that went nowhere. the warner's office tells me turned over whatever information he got to the fbi appear in that matter. warner and waldman also exchanged dozens of texts about possible testimony from waldman's primary client the russian billionaire who had his visa revoked by the state department in 2006 because of charges he has organized crime ties. which he denies. warner was intent on connecting direct whether i christopher steele without anyone else being in the loop at least initially. an aide to the republican chairman senator richard burr now

mark warner. they're not under way yet but we're obviously ready to get started and we will follow this all morning. >>> top u.s. intelligence officials are testifying before the senate intel committee. we're going to hear from fbi director chris wray and the director of national intelligence dan coates. i want to bring in nbc's intelligence and national security reporter ken dilanian. ken, good morning to you. you are always paying attention to this stuff but as they get ready to actually testify, what specifically are you going to be listening for? >> there's some big questions that are driving u.s. foreign policy right now. big intelligence questions. in particular, i'm going to be listening for the latest assessment on how close north korea is to putting a nuclear weapon on a missile that can reach to the united states. as you know, the trump administration has said they are willing to go to war to prevent north korea from gaining that capability. i'll also be listening to what the intelligenc

steele in london, and mark warner, senator mark warner and his staff took the utmost precautions to ensureer and this russian associate would be destroyed and there would be no record of it. it could be foiaed or investigated. this is quite curious. democrats have accused the trump campaign and the trump administration of collusion for far less than what senator mark warner has done for far less than what some people at fbi and hillary clinton campaign did to use this steele dossier to undermine the incoming president of the united states. the real collusion here was between democrats looking to harm president donald trump and the russians. that's where the real collusion that can be proven is. we have evidence now. stuart: what is the evidence? is it texts? . we have texts, a screenshot it. appears that must have been taken by the gentleman on the other end of the phone from senator mark warner, the russian. so they were capturing screenshots as this conversation unfolded, and you can read them online. stuart: let me get this straight, hillary clinton campaign paid for the russian dossier

these texts obtained by fox news, they show, you can see them right here, senator mark warner, a democratho's been leading one of the investigations of president trump's ties to russia, had extensive contact with that lobbyist for an oligarch who offered him access to steele, who wrote the dossier. warner texted that he would "rather not have a paper trail in case he could not seal an agreement with the former british spy to testify. steele so far has not agreed to interview with the senate intel panel. he began, warner did, texting with this lobbyist, adam steele, about getting testimony from russian billionaire deripraska, who had his bees that by the state department because of charges that he has ties to russian organized crime. warner wanted to connect with steele without anyone being in the loop. "we have so much to discuss, you need to be careful but we need to help our country" on march 22nd. "i'm in," waldman, who has ties to hillary clinton, texted back. warner sent another text. "we want to do this right. private in london, don't want to send letter yet because if we can get ag

richard burr has kept his head down through this, he has not publicly sniped with mark warner, the two of them appeared together when they are talking about matters related to the investigation. in any investigation like this there is always tension between republicans and democrats trying to work together, publicly we have not seen that in the result is that whatever the senate committee releases as a product of their investigation is going to have a lot more credence than the ultimate product of the house investigation. host: you have looked at the memo. based on what you've been able byread, was it the dossier christopher steele or george papadopoulos who started this investigation? guest: the memo is short and i was able to read all of it. one thing it says that is interesting is that it is george papadopoulos that is the reason the fbi kicked off its investigation, rather than the scandalous dossier christopher steel put together. that is important because it feels like the memo undermines itself. the memo is pushing this idea ele dossier, which is ultimately funded by democrats,

"wow, senator mark warner got caught having expensive contact with a lobbyist for a russian oligarch.r did not want a paper trail on a private meeting in london he requested with steele of fraudulent dossier fame. all tied into kroocrooked hilla" the president has until tomorrow night to agree or reject it. meanwhile the number three official at the justice department is stepping down. rachel brand had been a key figure in the russia probe because she was next in line of secession after deputy attorney rosenstein. let me start with david on this because you are an efish nodo of this stuff of wacky ideological behavior on it right. the president every single day seems to get up to find a smoke bomb. to confuse his supporters and actually muddle everything up. and they fizzle in a couple of hours. but he keeps throwing those smoke bombs. >> i would even call them a stink bomb, but they do work to a certain agree. for the last ethree weeks we've been not talk about the russia investigation but the nunes memo. and they just move from thing to thing. it's one plate of spaghetti to the next

you guessed it, mark warner. ly gave their view viewers the alleged goods on warner. they briefly detailed an alleged relationship between warner and an oligarch, all revealed in text messages obtained by fox news. apparently the messages were news only to fox according to fellow intelligence member marco rubio. joining me now tiffany cross. jan concerns, and jonathan capehart. jonathan, let me go to you, you have the disadvantage of not being at the front table. so, we go to you first on this. this story about the fake hannity account is intriguing. it's not prove that there is a connection, but a coincidence that he was offering this dirt on the fake hannity account. just to make it more interesting, the reason it went black is because of chrissy teigen. highlighting one tweet. to all the lib haters know that i'm back here to stay. to all of myloyal followers follow me on the new page. it was retweeted by chrissy teigen. that's probably the reason it went viral. what do you make of this whole thing. >> everythin

jesse: you broking a nice story about mark warner in virginia who was communicating with a lobbyist for russian oligarch. he doesn't want to leave a paper trail. what's the fallout there? >> marco rubio said this is not a big deal and rushed to democrats mark warner's defense because he disclosed it in october. but what he's not saying is he was doing this texting in february and march. and it wasn't until he got caught that he disclosed it. think about this. if devin nunes was talking to a lobbyist for a russian oligarch, he would be burned at the stake. jesse: could you imagine? ed henry showing us the other side. up next, the ladies, diamond and silk are back. jesse: house minority leader nancy pelosi never at a loss for words. proving this week during an 8-hour speech advocating for dreamers. she broke the record for the longest continuous speech in history all the while in 4-inch stilettos. here top react, video bloggers, diamond and silk. 8 hours for illegal aliens. has she ever student for if americans that long? >> no. we think it's a disgrace she get paid tax paper dollars. eve

mark warner said earlier today unlike almost every house member who voted in favor of this memo's release, i have read the underlying documents on which the nunes memo was based. they separate did not support its conclusions. do you think there will be an impact in that investigation in that second look at russian interference? >mr. heath: this hard to know. every committee that looks at this seems to have a slightly different focus. be moree committee may than anybody else is looking at the justice department and the fbi wrote in the early stages of the trump investigation and their handling of matters related to secretary clinton, too. how tied hard to know together they are, and at some point that political currents become unalterable. this case has reminded me of and maybe especially the special counsel side of it, there is some capacity here force apprise. covers heath issues of law and justice at "usa today." thanks so much. : my pleasure. journal,"gton saturday morning, kelly: will join us to assess the house memo and the impact of the mueller investigation. also michael allen will

despite that president trump seized on the news anyway writing this last night, wow, senator mark warnerontact with a lobbyist for a russian oligarch, warner did not want a paper trail on a private meeting in london he requested with dossier after dossier fame. all tied into crooked hillary. this comes as we await news from the white house on the release of the democratic rebuttal to the nunes memo. the president has till tomorrow to agree or release. he'll probably do it plid night tonight. the number three official at the department of justice is the stepping down. rachel brand was a key figure because she was next in line of succession after rod rosenstein who currently oversees is the probe. i'm joined now by mir ram rack ca, david raqqah and bet can i woodruff is reporter with "the daily beast." anyway had, well, let me start with david on there because you are an aficionado of this stuff of wacky ideological behavior on the right. the president seems like every day he gets up and tries to find a smoke bomb, something he can throw over toward the russia probe, confuse his supporters

chat with you and from the two senators who have given their opening remarks chairman burr and mark warner, the vice chairman, both mentioned russia, both mentioned election interference in their opening statement. it's very clearly will be something that these gentlemen who are taking questions will be asked to talk about. there are a number of issues on the table from affidavighanista iran, china. but one of the things to watch during the course of this hearing is going to be christopher wray. he's the man of the hour. this is president trump's own fbi director. he has not been questioned very much in public the last few weeks have been filled with fbi-related headline which is he has not discussed in great lengths in public including the devin nunes memo, the background check process in the white house which mark warner alluded to saying the security clearance in this country is broken. so a little bit of something for everybody, but certainly a focus on russia, not just looking backwards but also starting to look ahead now to 2018 and what is being done to protect americans elections s

last night fox correspondent ed henry brought news that mark warner texted with a lobbyist for a russian oligarch in an effort to contact trump dossier author christopher steele. he attempted to do that without initially letting the rest of the members on his committee know about it joining me now once again tonight ed henry. good evening, ed. >> martha, good to see you. here we go again. five day window is closing for president trump to decides whether he is blocking this memo all together or making some final changes. we are told late this afternoon he met here at the white house with the fbi director, lawyers for the justice department and from inside the white house counsel's office to go over some of those final redactions. we expect the release any moment late tonight or tomorrow from this democratic memo. what's interesting is the president himself indicated to reporters earlier today that he is not going to block it. instead, he said he will soon release a letter with what needs to be blacked out. presumably on national security grounds. because good chunk of this 10-page memo fr

jesse: you broking a nice story about mark warner in virginia who was communicating with a lobbyist forussian oligarch. he doesn't want to leave a paper trail. what's the fallout there? >> marco rubio said this is not a big deal and rushed to democrats mark warner's defense because he disclosed it in october. but what he's not saying is he was doing this texting in february and march. and it wasn't until he got caught that he disclosed it. think about this. if devin nunes was talking to a lobbyist for a russian oligarch, he would be burned at the stake. jesse: could you imagine? ed henry showing us the other side. up next, the ladies, diamond and silk are back. looking for balance in your digestive system? try align probiotic. for a non-stop, sweet treat goodness, hold on to your tiara kind of day. get 24/7 digestive support, with align. the #1 doctor recommended probiotic brand. also in kids chewables. it's league night!? 'saved money on motorcycle insurance with geico! goin' up the country. bowl without me. frank.' i'm going to get nachos. snack bar's closed. gah! ah, ah ah. ♪ ♪ i'm g

jesse: you broking a nice story about mark warner in virginia who was communicating with a lobbyist forsian oligarch. he doesn't want to leave a paper trail. what's the fallout there? >> marco rubio said this is not a big deal and rushed to democrats mark warner's defense because he disclosed it in october. but what he's not saying is he was doing this texting in february and march. and it wasn't until he got caught that he disclosed it. think about this. if devin nunes was talking to a lobbyist for a russian oligarch, he would be burned at the stake. jesse: could you imagine? ed henry showing us the other side. up next, the ladies, diamond and silk are back. it's 6 am. 40 million americans are waking up to a gillette shave. and at our factory in boston, more than a thousand workers are starting their day building on over a hundred years of heritage, craftsmanship and innovation. today we're bringing you america's number one shave at lower prices every day. putting money back in the pockets of millions of americans. as one of those workers, i'm proud to bring you gillette quality for le

ainsley: mark warner, the head guy on the intel committee.ead democrat, i would say, he was having a conversation with this lobbyist who represents this russian oligarch who is not aloud in the u.s. his visa was removed by the state department for alleged -- he allegedly had organized crime ties. so, senator warner gets this text from the lobbyist, the guy who is representing the russian, on -- they begin their conversation march 16th, 2017. this is what the texts say. warmer says we have so much to discuss. you need to be careful, but we can help our country. and then that lobbyist, waldman says "i'm in." steve: adam waldman, keep in mind, is he a lobbyist. his firm has ties to hillary. ainsley: hillary clinton. steve: it gets crazier. on march 30th to adam waldman once again warner says we want to do this right private in london. don't want to send letter yet 'cause if we can't get agreement, would rather not have a paper trail. that's ver curious. wants a private meeting and doesn't want a paper trail. pete: why wouldn't you want a paper t

but so does the actions of what mark warner has done, would people conducting the investigation haveobama hacks -- eboni: antjuan. >> it is so hypocritical. now he's saying we need to let the prosecutor investigation where he found the typical gop strategist and member of congress -- eboni: we are running tight on time. we have to leave it there, but something tells me we'll talk about it much more later. thank you. anti-north korean protest by far right out loud north korean dictator kim jong un, taking place during the winter olympics. they've been criticized by north koreans media. north korea have used the winter olympics as a chance to make the some diplomatic inroads with their southern neighbors. >> later this hour, two-time former olympian jordan loan telling us what it means for the athletes attending games as team u.s.a. now has a gold up out on the scoreboard. eboni: will talk to an aviation expert about just what might have caused a plane with 71 on board to crash just a few minutes after takeoff near moscow. plus, new details on the shooting death of 20 hi zero police of

mark warner is the ranking democrat on the committee.s opening statement he was all about well, pretty much all about russia. he mentioned it time and again about the coordinated attack during the election of 2016 and was asking the question repeatedly what do we do about russian trolls and bots here and in europe. expect that to be a lot of the news today, sandra, from the hearing today. >> sandra: to mark warner's opening statement he talked about a continuous assault by russia saying the president does not implement sanctions when he can. this is already shaping up to be a pretty fiery hearing taking place on capitol hill with the highest-ranking intel officials we have. so we're certainly going to be listening to this. we got a heads-up this is going to include a wide range of topics. the russia probe, the dossier, christopher steele, the british spy, moscow's efforts to target the mid-term elections on tap for this hearing. >> bill: this is the type of hearing we would hear about all the national security threats be it isis, russia,

also the thought that mark warner weighed in very clearly on this as well, saying he had reviewed theon, that this memo is highly misleading. mark warner has been an extraordinarily competent steward of the senate side investigation, and we should really listen to what he's having to say. >> because if the fbi director, christopher wray in that extraordinary statement yesterday that was released, he says, we have grave concerns about material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memo's accuracy. if the fbi director feels that strongly, don't release this memo, there are grave concerns, and the use of the word "grave" is very pointed. there's been suggestions already. how can he continue on his job if the president of the united states slaps him down and says, i'm releasing the memo, anyhow? >> we have to view this as a five-alarm fire. these types of warnings coming from the fbi, coming from the justice department to the house intelligence committee, to nunes, this is not an ordinary set of affairs. this is extremely dangerous manipulation of information in order to discred

senator mark warner is in his own little hornet's nest now. the question of why it was that he wanted this secret meeting with chris steele, the guy behind the trump dossier, the guy that was pub l publicizing e trump dossier. that's the latest on that? some republicans have come to his defense saying he did share information with them about his trying to arrange a meeting. but it was a month or so after the initial contacts, the one where he specifically said i don't want a paper trail. i want this to be a secret meeting. >> some code words, i want to meet with your english friend. david: even the technology involved. apparently the screen save on those text exchanges had to be saved quickly because apparently this stuff would burn up quickly in they hadn't saved the screen. >> look, the hill works with a whole different set of rules, including on document retention, than the executive branch does. and the hill obviously is able to have all kinds of conversations, including people from russia, even people involved in the investigation of dona

democratic senator mark warner of virginia, influence has learned, texted with you a russian oligarchbyist in an effort to contact the author of the trump dossier christopher steele because you can't make this up. fox news ed henry has this story and he joins us with details. hey, ed. >> these texts obtained exclusively by fox news and they show and can you see them right here i have them that senator mark warmer a democrat who has been leading one of the investigations of president trump's ties to russia had extensive contact with that lobbyist oligarch who offered him access to steele who wrote the dossier. warner texted at one point he would, quote, rather not have a paper trail in case he could not seal an agreement with the former british spy to testify. steele so far has not agreed to interview with the senate intel panel. he began, warner did, texting with this lobbyist adam waldman in february 2017 about getting testimony from russian billionaire ohleg daroposco had his visa revoked because he has ties to russia organized crime. warner wanted contact with steele without anyone

today democratic senator mark warner emerged from a bipartisan meeting though sounding optimistic. this. >> i just came from a very productive bipartisan meeting where i think the group isy,close. the challenge may be a little bit in the need to vote r or against something before they could vote for a compromise. i hope the leadership in both parties they want the senate to function, let this process play out. >> harris: the president is calling on the senate to pass senator chuck grassley's immigration bill which is expected to come up today. he is reportedly threatening to veto any bill that does not follow his framework. those four pillars that the president has clearly laid out. grassley issued a similar warning to lawmakers. >> there's a lot of ideas around. just heard the minority leader say that there's a few republicans who will go along with the democrats. yeah. but they got a bill that they will never get a law unless the president signs it we have something the president said he would sign. >> harris: meanwhile, in the house today, speaker paul ryan will whip a conservat

i want to turn now to a tweet from the president where he said, quote, wow, senator mark warner got caughtving extensive contact with a russian lobbiest for a russian oligarch. warner did not want a paper trail on a private meeting in london. he requested with steele of fraudulent dossier fame all tied into crooked hillary. this was president trump's tweet. marco rubio, fellow republican, quickly shut the president down tweeting, senator warner fully disclosed this to the committee four months ago, has had zero impact on our work. president trump was retweeting a fox news report. so to president trump who talks, who complains so much about fake news out there, you've got a fellow republican who's on the committee who said mark warner already told us this and it's a nonstarter. what do you make of this? >> there's so much nonsense with this hash tag hysteria around every week trying to discredit one of these investigations. >> but isn't nonsense an understatement here? >> yeah. >> the president with exclamation points and screaming is saying something that's just untrue. >> completely false

mark warner says he's seen the underlying documents and it's very clear it's not a political issue. what we're not seeing and i guess what i wonder if this ryan statement is a bit misleading. what we're not seeing are the underlying documents. we're seeing a four-page memo which reads much more like a press release than anything else. >> it's like watching two people play poker and you can't see their hands but you can see the cards on the table. we don't know what the underlying facts or underlying intelligence was and we're not going to see it. what we have left -- >> it's classified. >> so we shouldn't see it. instead this debate between partisans on both sides. saying this is accurate. no, it's not accurate. we're never going to know. and the point is this because of political document. if you look at the things it mentioned. it goes through a list of doj officials, tries to pull in people that the president has problems with being at doj. tries to connect them to the issuance of this warrant. that's what this is about. this whole process was tainted and it's so bad that there n

russia's interference in our last election and the top democrat on the senate's russian investigation mark warner is no exception to the rule i'm concerned. but the president still does not recognize the severity of the threat but apparently warner does and he will do anything necessary to battle moscow's reach based on leaked text messages between the senator and a second party it looks like when it comes to the russian threat the ends justifies any means and could in attempting to carry out some collusion of your own several of the messages show warner trying to arrange a secret meet up with christopher steele the former spy behind the now infamous trump dossier we want to do this right private in london i want to send less yet because if we can't get agreement would rather not have paper trail so who was warner depending on the set up the clandestine meeting with steel that would be one mr adam walton a lobbyist best known for acting on behalf of the russian tycoon did the pasta and according to the tax womyn is also connected to julian asuncion another person accused of being a kremlin puppet

russia's interference in our last election and the top democrat on the senate's russian investigation mark warner is no exception to the rule i'm concerned. but the president still does not recognize the severity of the threat but apparently warner does and he will do anything necessary to battle moscow's reach based on leaked text messages between the senator and a second party it looks like when it comes to the russian threat the ends justifies any means and could in attempting to carry out some collusion of your own several of the messages show warner trying to arrange a secret meet up with christopher steele the former spy behind the now infamous. we want to do this right private in london i want to send less yet because if we can't get agreement would rather not have paper trail so who was warner depending on the set up the clandestine meeting with steel that would be one mr adam walton a lobbyist best known for acting on behalf of the russian tycoon did the pasta and according to the text while mine is also connected to julian asuncion another person accused of being a kremlin puppet now th

russia's interference in our last election and the top democrat on the senate's russian investigation mark warner is no exception to the rule i'm concerned. but the president still does not recognize the severity of the threat but apparently warner does and he will do anything necessary to battle moscow's reach based on leaked text messages between the senator and a second party it looks like when it comes to the russian threat the ends justifies any means and clued in attempting to carry out some collusion of your own several of the messages show warner trying to arrange a secret meet up with christopher steele the former spy behind the now infamous trump dossier we want to do this right private in london i want to send less yet because if we can't get agreement would rather not have paper trail so who was warner depending on the set up the clandestine meeting with steel that would be one mr adam wildman a lobbyist best known for acting on behalf of the russian tycoon did the pasta and according to the tax womyn is also connected to julian asuncion another person accused of being a kremlin puppe

russia's interference in our last election and the top democrat on the senate's russian investigation mark warner is no exception to the rule i'm concerned. but the president still does not recognize the severity of the threat but apparently warner does and he will do anything necessary to battle moscow's reach based on leaked text messages between the senator and a second party it looks like when it comes to the russian threat the ends justifies any means and clued in attempting to carry out some collusion of your own several of the messages show warner trying to arrange a secret meet up with christopher steele the former spy behind the now infamous trump dossier we want to do this right private in london i want to send less yet because if we can't get agreement would rather not have paper trail so who was warner depending on this set up the clandestine meeting with steel that would be one mr adam walton a lobbyist best known for acting on behalf of the russian tycoon i hear did a pasta and according to the text while mine is also connected to julian asuncion another person accused of being a kr

russia's interference in our last election and the top democrat on the senate's russian investigation mark warner is no exception to the rule i'm concerned. but the president still does not recognize the severity of the threat but apparently warner does and he will do anything necessary to battle moscow's reach based on leaked text messages between the senator and a second party it looks like when it comes to the russian threat the ends justifies any means and could in attempting to carry out some collusion of your own several of the messages show warner trying to arrange a secret meet up with christopher steel the former spy behind the now infamous trump dossier we want to do this right private in london i want to send less yet because if we can't get agreement would rather not have paper trail so who was warner depending on the set up the clandestine meeting with steel that would be one mr adam walton a lobbyist best known for acting on behalf of the russian tycoon did it and according to the tax woman is also connected to julian asuncion another person accused of being a kremlin puppet now thi

russia's interference in our last election and the top democrat on the senate's russian investigation mark warner is no exception to the rule i'm concerned. but the president still does not recognize the severity of the threat but apparently warner does and he will do anything necessary to battle moscow's reach based on leaked text messages between the senator and a second party it looks like when it comes to the russian threat the ends justifies any means and clued in attempting to carry out some collusion of your own several of the messages show warner trying to arrange a secret meet up with christopher steele the former spy behind the now infamous trump dossier we want to do this right private in london i want to send less yet because if we can't get agreement would rather not have paper trail so who was warner depending on the set up the clandestine meeting with steele that would be one mr adam wallman a lobbyist best known for acting on behalf of the russian tycoon did the pasta and according to the tax womyn is also connected to julian asuncion another person accused of being a kremlin pupp