and michael schmidt and his wife yvonne fun sark are among the 1st residents. to this latest computer it's a different way of life here. and the water sparkles and reflects everywhere. their house is one of a total of 30 buildings that are part of this cone skip amsterdam project each building has its own design 20 different architects were involved in the project the houses were built on land and then brought to the dock by boat sustainability is particularly important to the inhabitants. translates to clean ship. they wanted to achieve is to show that you can. turn with very sustainable houses and in a sustainable way in the sense that we as a community. like all the buildings paired with hikes house has its own solar power supply sustainable and eco friendly materials were used for all the homes. one of the 1st floating districts in amsterdam was built just a couple of years ago in the district of i believe 50 houses on artificial island its demand for the floating homes is on the rise in the netherlands there are so. areas where they are building houses in

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here with us to talk about it, the aforementioned michael schmidt from "the new york times" and clint who is these days a distinguished research fellow at the foreign policy research institute, happens to be author of "messing with the enemy: surviving that social media world of hackers, terrorists, russians, and fake news." we should add research assistance to the end of that list. walk us through how this story played out, michael. does it begin with "three people walked into a bar"? >> i mean, what this story shows is just the extent that the fbi went to in order to try and learn what was going on between the russians and the campaign. they wanted to have a government investigator, someone who was trained, someone who could collect evidence, someone who could testify at a trial, to be on the ground for this operation as one of their informants made these contacts. and it just shows the extent of it. now, people on the right will say, look, this is just the latest example of the spying, that they would go so far as to put an investigator on the ground in this type of situation. from

adam goldman, michael schmidt, mark mazzetti wrote "the fbi sent her to london as part of the doubterligence inquiry opened that summer to better understand the trump campaign's links to russia. the american government's affiliation with the woman who said her name was azra turk is one previously unreported detail of an operation that has become a political flash point. the decision to use miss turk in the operation aimed at a presidential campaign official shows the level of alarm inside the fbi during a frantic period when the bureau was trying to determine the scope of russia's attempts to disrupt the 2016 election. but could also give ammunition to mr. trump and his allies for their spying claims. well, you may recall in april, attorney general barr made headlines after saying this on capitol hill -- >> i think spying on a political campaign is a big deal. i'm not talking about the fbi necessarily. but intelligence agencies more broadly. >> so you're not suggesting though that spying occurred? >> i don't -- well, i -- i guess you could -- i think spying did occur, yes, i think spy

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"the new york times" reporter, michael sh michael schmidt will be with us in a moment. >> what are you expecting today, mika? >> i'm expecting donald trump to do whatever he can for a glimmer of hope from certain words. i expect some republicans to continue to make fools of themselves. i'm also not expect ago big revelation. the mueller report has been out for quite some time now, people have read it. it is terrible what have happened. some americans have made a decision not to look at it and will not watch today, and those americans will be trump supporters. >> mike barnicle, i saw a poll, we'll be showing later on today. 50% of republicans believe that robert mueller ran a fair investigation. it's going to be a little harder for the president to vilify robert mueller and have credibility when actually the majority of his own party who usually follows him wherever he goes believed that this guy ran a fair investigation against donald trump. >> yeah, there's no doubt about that, joe, but you more than anyone would know that this is an opportunity for individual members of congress to g