where papadopoulos is in the club.ets a brand-new acquaint spills his guts and knew about and encouraged contacts with the professor about getting hillary clinton e-mails. how much jeopardy could a claim like that put jeff sessions in? >> you know, a fascinating story on so many levels. you know, first, as you mentioned, this is a story not quite confirmed from a guy in a bar but we know george papadopoulos has a habit of spilling the beans to guys in a bar. it has that factor to it. with respect to jeff sessions, if this statement is true, i think it's problematic for jeff sessions on two levels. one, as you mention, it contradicts what he told congress about his reaction. he said there was no discussion about russia with the campaign period and then once the papadopoulos information came out, he said now my memory is refreshed but when it was brought up, i pushed back and if instead he encouraged papadopoulos, that would be a direct contradiction of what he told congress and that's a prosecutable offense. there is th

officials about what papadopoulos said in this bar. and just right now i've received a statement from congressman adam schiff, the ranking member, the counter part to chairman devin nunes. she says, quote, the information concerning overture to trump campaign foreign policy adviser george papadopoulos which resulted in the initiation of the investigation has proven to be well-founded. as mr. papadopoulos' plea makes clear, the majority seems to believe if they can discredit the investigation by attacking the fbi, justice department and state department, it can get the public to ignore the growing body of evidence of illicit contacts between the trump campaign and the russians. this approach is as disingenuous as it is destructive to your understand teution. institution. that is coming from congressman schiff. something we've seen a lot when it comes to the russia investigation, disagreement from the left and the right. eric: schiff firing back on those claims. arthel: we're going to bring in a senior legal fellow at the heritage founda

adam schiff said the information regarding papadopoulos papadopoulos has proven to be well-founded.oints to the guilty plea in the russia pro. he said the majority seems to believe that if it can discredit the initiation of the investigation by attacking the fbi, justice department state department you can get the public to ignore what's going on between the trump campaign and the russians. it's unclear if there fishing for information when he met with papadopoulos. the meeting came about because of connections with an israeli embassy official. >> rick: thank you. for more let's bring in gabby, white house correspondent. >> electronic communication documents reveal no official intelligence was used to watch the investigation into possible collusion. this seems like a big deal. >> it is. we have no reason to believe devon nunez would be lying about the absence of shared intelligence. i think in the coming days learn about the details about what kicked off the investigation what was shared and what the merits were for opening a pro. one thing that's interesting is investigation being

officials about what papadopoulos said.Ñez claims there wasn't any official intelligence into russian collusion. he says the investigators have not found any evidence of that information about papadopoulos coming through the normal diplomatic channels. >> the agreement involves our friends in australia, new zealand, united kingdom, canada and us. there was no intelligence that passed through the channels to our government. we think there's some major irregularities and we are trying to figure out how it is that this information about mr. papadopoulos who was supposedly meeting with some folks in london, and how that made it over into the fbi's hands. >> democrats have long said nuÑez another republican are not focused on the russian interference or preventing future elections. instead, democrats say there is a concerted effort among republicans, particularly in the house to try and discredit the russian investigation and protect the president in the event robert fuller finds any evidence of wrongdoing. we've reached out to

that said no, sessions actually did not push back when papadopoulos suggested a meeting between trump and russian representatives. then again, it is very, very difficult to believe that papadopoulos would have run his mouth to a complete stranger at a bar. i mean, there is the london meeting of course as kind of a precedent to that. but that was with an australian diplomat. >> i just want to be clear that this entire investigation gets started because papadopoulos runs his mouth to an australian diplomat who ends up learning american intelligence. >> it would be really stupid of him, that's all i'll say to run his mouth about this to stranger in a bar. his wife was adamant about this being a complete lie. we'll have to see where that goes. >> natasha bertrand, thank you very much. >> thanks, chris. >>> next, thousands of teachers refused to enter their classrooms today instead mass protests across kentucky and oklahoma. those remarkable scenes, right after this. at the end of their, automatically. whoo! i got my money! hard to contain yourself, isn't it? uh huh! let it go! whoo! get a

it was papadopoulos. okay. you wanted to investigate papadopoulos.out papadopoulos. for your viewers, that was in july of 2016.pa why is it that you never bothered to talk to mr. papadopoulos, but you did bother to go and get a fisa warrant on mr. page in october of '16? you don't talk to mr. papadopoulos until 2017? wait a second. i thought papadopoulos was the reason you started the investigation in the first place. these are all unanswered questions that keeps unraveling but we have to keep fighting bit by bit by bit. >> sean: we need the information. this all needs to go to court and people need to be held in contempt of congress and i agree with you on the second special counsel.be all right, congressman, we appreciate your hard work. >> always a pleasure. >> sean: coming up, more on c the legacy of former first lady barbara bush who passed away earlier this evening. rbara brocy earlier this as a control enthusiast, i'm all-business when i travel... even when i travel... for leisure. so i go national, where i can choose any available upgrade in

this isn't like what papadopoulos did, george papadopoulos, who was told about the russians having dirto the fbi. he didn't go to the intelligence community. he didn't go to the intelligence committee on the hill. he disclosed the information. schmitz in this case, he follows what you're supposed to do when you have this information. he goes and tells the state department. he goes and tells the fbi, and he tells the intelligence committ committee, what a whistleblower is supposed to do. i don't think he's trying to deliver this to the campaign, i don't see the evidence of that. it seems that he was trying to alert the fbi and state department that these emails were out there, and that they should potentially come and get them. >> yeah. and no matter what the motive is, again, those are the correct steps that one is supposed to take. listen to former adviser dismissing the role in the campaignment take a listen. >> the guy was coffee boy. you might have called him a foreign policy analyst, but in fact if he was going to wear a wire, auld all we'd know is if preferred a carmel maccaiato o

papadopoulos.hat there are beyond the june meeting with the russian operative, that there were a series of outreach efforts by the russians to at least trump affiliates that are now published. and the final thing we know is that today versus even seven or eight months ago, the volume -- and this is not even talking about the things that i would know that the listening audience doesn't. >> right. >> but that the volume of contacts between russians and trump officials, if it's all coincidence, it is a statistical anomaly in terms of the number of contacts. >> i want to unpack something. i love that you picked up on our theme there and added some. you said that there were a series of attempted contacts with trump affiliates. is this information your investigation has uncovered? or is this something you have been briefed on by mueller? >> if we would just point out that what is in the public domain, we know that there was outreach to mr. papadopoulos. we know there was outreach in this famous touch tow

number 1, the george papadopoulos and the fisa courts are distinct. what happened to carter page in the devin nunes memo is distinct from what triggered the mueller investigation, which in devin nunes own memo which was triggered by george papadopoulos talking to a drunk person in london. it's not a partisan witch hunt. it's a solid investigation. >> julie: all right. thank you both. kevin and richard. thank you. >> good to be here. >> julie: jon? >> jon: battle brewing in west virginia after republicans look to flip a key democratic seat. a look at the race here on fox news. and race fans get a big scare when one car ends up off the track. copd makes it hard to breathe. so to breathe better, i go with anoro. ♪ go your own way copd tries to say, "go this way." i say, "i'll go my own way, with anoro." ♪ go your own way once-daily anoro contains two medicines called bronchodilators that work together to significantly improve lung function all day and all night. anoro is not for asthma. it contains a type of medicine that increases risk of death in peopl

it was the papadopoulos information. the information about the papadopoulos statement didn't come through normal channels. we would expect it would come through the five eyes agreement, with the partnership with oust trail yaw. there is no ports, or nothing to document the information in our way. the next question if it didn't come through the proper channels, where did it come from? ashley: where i did it come from. you have a copy but it is redacted. >> i have a copy, everyone is welcome to look at the schiff-fisa memorandum. this is not opened based on steel but open by the papadopoulos information that came from the australians. ashley: talk about steele because a lot was being made of this. he was actually terminated by the fbi even though the information that he accumulated for them was used? >> sure. he was terminated for leaking stuff to the press. ashley: correct. >> right? there is arguments that he made provided which was called circular reporting. argument was made there is press information that corroborates

george papadopoulos, another foreign-policy adviser, remember, who then is meeting with his criminal cutouts in london and were offering them dirt on hillary clinton in the form of thousands of e-mails that the russians supposedly had. put all this together and actually there's quite a bit going on. >> it's hard to see this as a string of coincidences because without these connections with france -- >> i was reading it and i think most people will wonder, how to get all these folks with strong russia connections that come into the trump campaign? do they seek out the campaign? tessa campaign seek them out? how does this happen? >> it's a bit of both and part of it is the russians seeking them out. part of the story here is russian intelligence trying to worm its way speedy did russia send these folks over to the campaign? >> i don't think so but i do think once they become members of the campaign, in case of papadopoulos and carter page, they try to entice them into better relations. it's not that hard a job. turns out the trump campaign wants to have not just better relations with r

i want to ask you about george papadopoulos. >> okay. >> page 189 of your book you say in late july, the fbi learned that george papadopoulos what been discussing months earlier obtaining from the russian government e-mails damaging to hillary clinton. now, that was news to me in the book. i know the fbi had to sign off on everything in the book. but the statement of offense around george papadopoulos just says that he was told that the russian himself e-mails of hillary clinton's. you appear to be going further here saying it was more than that, that he actually was in conversations with them about obtaining those e-mails presumably for the trump campaign. is that how you meant that? >> the public source for that is the two versions of the memo from the hpsci over the page fisa. so that's an accurate description of what is in the public record. >> so papadopoulos, that information came to the fbi and the fbi brought together a multi-agency working group to start this investigation or did the fbi start this on its own? >> the fbi opened it in our counterintelligence division in late

george papadopoulos another advisory member whose meeting with these kremlin cutouts in london who are offering him dirt on hillary clinton the form of thousands of e-mails that the russians supposedly had. .. back and with carter page to entice them to better relation because it turns out the pain -- the campaign not just better relation but what is called the author record communications channel. first he tries to set off -- set up a meeting and then they say if you continue with your contact said he tries to have a backdoor communication. so if i'm the russian now i say this is big. we are happy to talk to him make people forget when the fbi begins its investigation in jul july 2016 they know nothing about at the time it is counterintelligence. from the fbi prospectively all of this they are necessarily investigating collusion at that point but see what the russians are up to howard making overtures to all the people in the trump campaign? and cultivating relationships with one particular campaign? that a foreign government is waiting into the power structur structure. >> but is thi

george papadopoulos is now cooperating in the russian probe in this picture. and paul manafort and jeff sessions himself. jim, we're now learning about this individual, schmitz, and that he was -- thought he had clinton's e-mails. what was he doing? >> that's right, and keep in mind schmitz was no coffee boy, right? he advised the campaign for a number of months. he was actually considered for secretary of the navy in the trump administration. he, we are told by sources, was relentless in his pursuit here, and he really believed that he had the real deal, clinton's e-mails. so much so that he took them to three major agencies. the fbi, the state department, took them to the television community's inspector general. then he went to the house intelligence committee with these, his attention being to get them verified. he didn't want to lose security clearance in and possibly to disseminate them. that's the issue here because it appears to fit in with a broader effort in the campaign to get these e-mails regardless of where they were coming from. >> when you talk

. >> the central figure is george papadopoulos who has been guilty to making false statements about his contact with russia. adam schiff using that guilty plea to make his case intelligence regarding papadopoulos is well-founded and congressman nunez of being disingenuous to our institutions, majority of republican seem to believe the initiation of the investigation by attacking the justice department and state department it can get the public to ignore the growing body of evidence of illicit contact between the trump campaign and the russians. today a reporter brought it up at a white house briefing and the protector echoed what nunez has been saying, she believes there was no reason to launch the reciprocal. >> a false premise this entire thing started on. we repeat that we think the idea the trump campaign was involved in any collusion with russia is a total witchhunt. our position on that has been clear since the beginning of this process and the pres. echoing exactly what that position is. >> we all learned the papadopoulos information, not that controversial dossiers what kick sta

george papadopoulos and joseph who told papadopoulos the russian had thousands of hillary clinton emailsnd the person who helped president trump stage the miss universe pageant in moscow in 2013. the campaign manager said this is a sham lawsuit about a bogus russian collusion claim filed by a desperate democratic party. there is a great deal the american public wants to know about the democrats. president trump stayed out of sight today at his west palm beach golf club. but he tweeted: also he leaked classified information. wow! will the witch hunt continue? the full comey memos should this no evidence of collusion but paint a more detailed picture of the comey and trump relationship revealed in either comey testimony or his new book. president trump's expectation of loyalty was in the context of fbi leaks. comey wrote that he will discover the entire government leaks like crazy. he said he expected loyalty. i explained he could count on me to always tell him the truth: the doj inspector general is probing this. assurances comey gave the president have been contradicted by events: at one

members, whatever, papadopoulos papadopoulos -- here's the point.d to anything having to do with russia collusion. i've come at the end of all of this, we discover that nobody is charged for colluding with russia,y and there is no actual evidence that russia colluded, won't you have cost if you lied to? >> no. i know you want to talk about the dnc lawsuit, and i will bring it up in this regard. the dnc is trying to push the discussion, the public dialogue about making sure that we never have a situation like this happen again. we had a foreigngn government ty to compromise the results of our election. we will never allow that to happen. anybody, regardless of who you voted for, should care about that. >> tucker: so then why does the dnc push electronic voting? the only way to secure your voting against foreign interference in a foolproof way is with paper ballots. yet the dnc consistently pushes against that. they don't care at all about foreign interference. this has nothing to do with that. if they cared, they would be for paper ballots but they a

papadopoulos either in person or on the phone after the day that we now know he was arrested is veryorried and thinking back hard on what was said. >> as the net tightens in the investigation, criticism directed at the special counsel intensifies. >> the president on twitter again today sounding off about a witch hunt. >> they're trying to cheat you out of the leadership you want with a fake story. >> some who initially praised the pick have changed their tune. former house speaker newt gingrich went from superb choice to -- >> i think the people mueller is bringing in are dangerous people. any republican who thinks this counsel will be neutral is crazy. >> republican members of congress have introduced legislation calling for mueller's removal. >> i join my colleague the gentleman from arizona in calling for mr. mueller's resignation or his firing. >> anybody who is criticizing in advance bob mueller or the special counsel's office doesn't know him and they're wrong. >> i'm sure for supporters of the president, they see this investigation as the one that's going to bring redemption.

papadopoulos of all people who was supposedly meeting with folks in london, how that made it over acrossnto the fbi's hands. >> after the comey memos were released, 11 house republicans sent a letter to attorney general jeff sessions calling for a criminal investigation to the actions of comey, former fbi deputy director andrew mccabe and hillary clinton. democrats have long said many republicans, the president included, are not focused on the truth of russian interference or preventing it in future elections but instead are trying to slander the fbi and discredit the russia investigation to protect the president in the event the special counsel finds any sort of wrongdoing. >> these documents just further flesh out this intense effort which donald trump has had right from the beginning of his presidency to try to sweep the entire russia investigation under the rug and all this is going to do is just further intensify the public's demand that they know everything that did happen. >> eric. eric: all right, thank you, ellison, arthel. arthel: we will bring in steven, former federal prosecu

papadopoulos -- >> paul manafort ran the campaign. >> tucker: papadopoulos, whatever.point. none of them pled to anything having to do with russian collusion. if it does come to that, we discovered that nobody is charged with colluding with charge and there's no evidence. won't you have cause to feel lied to? >> no, i personally don't. i know what you wanted to talk about is the dnc lawsuit. >> tucker: yeah. >> the dnc is trying to push the public dialogue to make sure that we don't have a situation like this happen again. we had a foreign government try to compromise the result of our election. we can never allow that to happen. regardless of who you voted for should care about that. >> tucker: then why does the dnc push electronic voting? the only way to security your vote in a fool proof way is with paper ballots. the dnc pushes against that. they don't care at all about foreign interference. this has nothing to do with that. if they cared, they would be for paper ballots. they're not. >> tucker, a disagree with that. >> tucker: they do. >> that's not the issue. >>

was it because of george papadopoulos?initiation took place months after george papadopoulos had his little conversation -- drunken conversation in a bar. or was it the dossier? that's important to me to know. you will have a -- russia -- someone hacked the dnc server and hacked john podesta's emails whether or not there is a dossier. i've never thought discrediting the dossier put away the russia probe. >> chris: in your role as chair of the house oversight committee you wrote a letter to epa administrator scott pruitt this week seeking formal interviews with five of his top aides. why and how much trouble is pruitt in? >> i don't know how much drubl he ---trouble he is. we want to know if the epa is a good steward of taxpayer money. it is legitimate for us to ask are you being good stewards of the american taxpayer dollar and appropriate because we have jurisdiction over the office of government ethics to look into his lease. i didn't hire him. i am not the one contemplating getting rid of him. that's for president trump

this took months after george papadopoulos had conversation in bar.portant more me to know -- someone hacked the dnc server, someone hacked john podesta emails, someone played games with the american people, whether or not there's a dossier, i'm never faulted or discrediting the dossier discrediting the russia probe. chris: one final question, i want to switch subjects, in your role of house oversight committee you wrote a letter to epa administrator scott pruitt seeking formal interview with five top aides why and how much trouble is pruitt? >> i don't know how much trouble he's in. the reason the oversight committee wants to know whether or not the epa is a good steward of taxpayer money is because congress created the epa, fund the epa, entirely legitimate for us to ask, are you being good stewards of the american taxpayer dollar and appropriate because we have jurisdiction over government ethics to look into the lease, i didn't hire him. i'm not the one contemplating promoting him or getting rid of him, that's all for president trump, but congress

george papadopoulos, former energy adviser, pleaded guilty in october. republican authored memo in the house intelligence committee confirmed -- and they don't want to confirm anything, if you recall -- that papadopoulos triggered the investigation. michael flynn remains the highest profile cooperating witness in the mueller probe. rick gates, a former campaign aide and frequent white house visitor. he was a partner and protege to paul manafort. richard pinedo pleaded guilty to selling bank account numbers and stolen american identities to the russians during the 2016 campaign. these are the cooperating and guilty people. there are more cooperating witnesses. sam nunberg, former campaign aid, and roger stone associate who turned up drama with a slew of cable news appearances last month. you'll remember nose. nunberg initially said he wouldn't work with the special counsel but testified anyway. george nader, adviser to the united arab emirates leadership. he allegedly set up a meeting between erik prince and russian contacts. now, to those who were charge

, no one has ever heard of papadopoulos had in london about russia which was just as thin as the dossierif strzok's name and clinton's name is connected to the initial opening of the investigation. then it's linked to the fisa application. the whole thing is crooked from the jump. >> just think about this. you have this hillary investigation about her mishandling fisa information. peter strzok is the main agent on that. you and i will agree the fix was in. but how does that guy then start to open an investigation of trump's campaign? do they not have any other agents at the fbi? he was the one who said when you interview hillary, don't go in with gun's blazing, she is going to be the next president. he's testing page saying we can't take the risk of a trump presidency. we need an insurance policy. this is a guy who should have never been involved in either of those investigations. this guy needs to be fired from the fbi. jesse: he's still work and collecting a paycheck. some of the horrible things he said about donald trump like you said, protecting the country against his presidency and

>> the central figure in that electronic communication is a former trump campaign aide george papadopouloso is already pled guilty to making false statements about his contacts with russia. democratic congressman adam schiff is using that guilty plea to make his case that the intelligence regarding papadopoulos as "proven to be well-founded." he's accusing congressman devin nunes as being destructive to our institutions. "the majority of republicans believe that if they can discredit the initiation of the investigation by the attacking the fbi, justice department, and state power, in it can get the public -- the press secretary echoed what devin nunes has been saying, she believes there was no reason to launch the russia probe. >> it was a false premise, this entire thing started on. we continue to repeat that we think the idea that the trump campaign was involved in any collusion with russia as a total witch hunt. our position on that has been very clear since the beginning of this process and that president is echoing exactly what that position is. >> we all learned that the papadopoulos

this took months after george papadopoulos had conversation in bar.rtant more me to know -- someone hacked the dnc server, someone hacked john podesta emails, someone played games with the american people, whether or not there's a dossier, i'm never faulted or discrediting the dossier discrediting the russia probe. chris: one final question, i want to switch subjects, in your role of house oversight committee you wrote a letter to epa administrator scott pruitt seeking formal interview with five top aides why and how much trouble is pruitt? >> i don't know how much trouble he's in. the reason the oversight committee wants to know whether or not the epa is a good steward of taxpayer money is because congress created the epa, fund the epa, entirely legitimate for us to ask, are you being good stewards of the american taxpayer dollar and appropriate because we have jurisdiction over government ethics to look into the lease, i didn't hire him. i'm not the one contemplating promoting him or getting rid of him, that's all for president trump, but congress d

see is fef some of the defendants named in the civil lawsuit who have been charged criminally, papadopoulos and gates and manafort. we know we have some people out there who are already cooperators in the criminal case. and this may be a way to sort of squeeze and give additional information, may be a way they use statements they make in a plea agreement to further allegations in the civil complaint. those things will work in tandem. again, i think this is -- they're following the lead of stormy and her lawyer, as they try dig into additional information. >> and, looking at this, it follows the lead a little bit of what -- what the dnc did in 1972 during the watergate scandal. filing a similar kind of -- a similar legal tactic they took. i'm looking at the washington post article who first put this out and there is a statement from tom perez, chairman of the dnc. here is the statement, russia launched an all-out assault on our democracy, that there is widespread kind of agreement that is true. and though he goes on, and found a willing and active partner in donald trump's campaign. the camp

but only a few weeks after george papadopoulos was told by the russians. this is now almost two years ago. mr. papadopoulos was told by the russians that they had e-mails that they had illegally obtained. we haven't even questioned mr. papadopoulos in the house investigation. what are they afraid of finding out? clearly the russians' intent was to attack our democratic process. but just as clearly, the trump campaign sought this information, obtained this information, and attempted to work with the russians to attack our democratic process. does that rise to the criminal level of a conspiracy? again, that's for mr. mueller to decide. what are they afraid of? let him finish his work. >> the democrats singled out -- rather, the president singled out maxine waters, a democrat from california, who is one of many who have openly called for his impeachment. will the democrats take action if they sweep the mid-terms? >> look, i think this has an impact on the elections. i think the american public understands exactly what's taken place. since this investigation w

we still don't know to this day who this the trump campaign was aware that papadopoulos knew that, how far up the chain it went. and one of the reasons we don't know that is that the house republicans didn't pursue all the communications between papadopoulos and the trump campaign. >> talk about the major news making moments that we know investigators have been looking at from the 2016 campaign. each time they do that they seek a justification for why it wasn't quite as bad as it may have looked or why it was actually in fact okay for the campaign to do that. for instance, possible russian efforts to set up a back channel with trump associates after the election suggests the absence of collusion during the campaign. that's one. on the trump tower meeting, donald trump jr., jared kushner and paul manafort attended a june 9th, 2016 meeting at trump tower where they expected to receive but did not receive derogatory information on candidate clinton from russian source. that's another. another this. making excuses for the gop's ukraine platform. the report find that the change in the platf

the inference is that george papadopoulos likened trump to a mob boss. what do you think of that characterization? >> i think it's pretty accurate. and when you examine the trump organization going all the way back, it's always been very secretive, always about playing the hardball. and in cohen's case he's been a fellow who's used threat and intimidation and tough talk from the very start with his work with donald trump, and he was that kind of person beforehand. so even if you examine the security of the president when he was a businessman had around him, he loved to brag about how he had guys carrying guns protecting him when no other real estate magnates did. >> comey doesn't seem like a man to make a comparison like that. ed with it surprise you if he spoke about that bluntly in these interviews, michael? >> no, not at all. i think this is pretty obvious point to make when we see the warrant and the search of michael cohen's office and hotel room and home. this was the kind of thing that is done in cases of organized crime where they go after the at

these are all george papadopoulos, michael flynn, paul manafort, gates and michael cohen.truth of the matter is manafort was brought on at a key moment of the campaign, around april of 2016, when donald trump was trying to lockdown the nomination from ted cruz. he left in august. he left during a very important part of the campaign. only there for 25 days about mike flynn. mike flynn introduced donald trump at every meaningful rally in the home stretch of the campaign. he was the national security adviser. he had his pick of roles. so down the line, and we know michael cohen has been with donald trump since donald trump -- he did a tiny fraction of his legal work, but michael cohen is intertwined in donald trump's world which is why the fbi raid on cohen makes trump so uncomfortable. >> now we're learning that they may not cover everything in that raid. >> thanks to donald trump. >>> new questions about the infamous 2016 town meeting. the lawyer at the center making a startling revelation. and president macron warmed up to the president, but can the german chancellor close

they secretly arrested george papadopoulos when he got off a plane at washington dulles airport. and tonight "new york times" is reporting that agents stopped joel zamel at washington international airport and briefly seized his electronic devices. they're also reporting tonight that fbi agents stopped a russian oligarch at a new york area airport, questioned him about his dealings with mr. trump and seized his e electronics, according to a person familiar with the matter. and ted mallic was stopped at logan airport at boston when he returned from an international trip. they took his electronics and questioned him about roger stone and wikileaks. and george nader was stopped in january. nader is emerging as a more and more complex figure with connections from the united arab emirates to russia. we have reporting on the extent of his connections with russia. he's a lebanese american businessman who used his russian connections to set up what has become to close followers of this drama. the meeting in the seashells between eric prince and the manager of a state run russian investme

setting up with the tower meetings during the campaign and the mysterious character that told papadopoulos that russia stole its e-mails. after them, there is a whole bunch of familiar names, donald trump jr., jared kushner and george papadopoulos and rick gates. these are names unknown russian operatives who's been apart of the hacking scheme against the dnc. the democrats are seeking monetary damages just like they did back in 1972. and they're seeking from the defendant in this conspiracy and in order to justify this claim, the dnc has to spell out what happened to them and why they believed they were the wrong party here. we got a long pros and well written narrative of what they say what happened. >> the opening cyber attack carried out in american soil. the intelligence services hacked in the dnc computers and ex filtrated tens of thousands of documents and e-mails. russia used the stolen information to advance its own interests. supporting the campaign of donald trump whose policies would support the kremlin. and then it goes on from there at length and in details spelling out the a

when papadopoulos was accused of lying, they charged him. this guy, they immunize. they start to interview him. he says he can't answer the questions. the question, did hillary clinton's lawyers instruct you to destroy those documents question ricky says i can't answer. how can you have attorney-client privilege. he is not the client. he was a vendor. fbi said okay. >> laura: what law school did he go to? >> donald trump lawyers, you have your office rated and you hear about how hillary clinton's lawyers. the fbi throws their hands up up and says we are done. you can see why they come for the idea there is a double standard. >> laura: do we know how many people in hillary's inner circle received immunity? do we know for sure? >> we know at least five. >> laura: cheryl mills, close personal advisor and attorney. >> to other attorneys. then the witness. i believe there's a fifth one, the i.t. director who set up the email system. >> laura: huma abedin was never offered immunity? not able to just send documents to another computer? classified, secret documents? >> ther

but the mueller investigation kicked off because of papadopoulos, not because of the carter page fisa warrant. for the slow rolling, there's a lot of redactions to be made for national security reasons. i believe they'll get them out here. >> and there's an excuse -- >> people are not giving up at this point. >> and people want to be there for decades -- >> there was an fbi agent that said you want to be redacted? you want to do that? you can do that with an emoji of a smiley face. >> is there an emoji for redact something. >> there's an emoji for delight. >> there's one thick to have a redaction on the carter page fisa warrant. another reason to redact because it might make you look bad. there's a memo -- >> turn over all of it. >> it's not about carter page and george papadopoulos. >> you think voters care about this? >> yes. people want to know if we're going to get to the bottom of it if there's transparency and accountability. u.s. attorney john lausch has a big job to do. the american people deeply care about this and are following it. >> doj, fbi? interesting. kennedy? >> my, o

he did that with george papadopoulos. way back when before anyone knew who george papadopoulos was. so the message here is, one, if traveling back up your cell phone, but two, if you have any kind of connection, it seems, to the trump campaign, the trump transition, the trump white house, you have to be very concerned that the knock on the door or the person approaching you is someone who is on mueller's team. >> i want to read exactly what ted mallic said to nbc news. he said i am not an operative, have no russia contacts and aside from appearing on air and in print often to defend and congratulate our president have done nothing wrong. what message does this send? what message does it sent? >> the message it sends is that the fbi is aggressively investigating these crimes. and if you are tied to somebody or involved with somebody who is under investigation, you can expect to be questioned by the fbi and really the answer there is, you know, you may not -- whether he did anything wrong or not, we don't know. but if you are associated with people who are subjects of a criminal inves

george papadopoulos now tweets smiling selfies.e papadopoulos, now tweets smiling beach selfies with a mykonos hash tag. rick gates, for weeks on home confinement with electronic monitoring, gets rapid approval for a family vacation and shaifz down his potential prison time. michael flynn flies cross country to stump for a california congressional candidate and books a speaking gig in new york. >> those are somehow affiliated with trump organizations and the trump administration. and there is a signal that if you do get wrapped up in this, and if mueller's team raps on your door, if you're forthcoming with information, there is life for you on the other side of the rainbow. maybe not for paul manafort, but the other individuals. >> that's right, the flip side we're talking about is paul manafort who has been steadfast in his plea deals. he is not flying across the country. he has had more charges added on and is going down by the special counsel. the scope and the breadth of it all, we continue to see people moving in a direction t

the same thing other folks like michael flynn and george papadopoulos and rick gates are currently beingor so you would expect andrew mccabe would be treated the same under the law. >> will he be? will there be a, referral? >> i don't think so. was more dangerous is the lawsuit against the president or doj for this unjust firing, the attacks on his character by donald trump, that is the thing to look for. he was fired 26 hours before his pension, the investigation report was released then. that is a whole lot of problems for andrew mccabe. the constant attacks by donald trump drove the investigations which we didn't fly and simply had a lack of memory or could not recall facts that is not enough to criminally indict someone or even charge them. i am a former prosecutor and i don't think the case is going anywhere. the civil case we need to pay attention to. shannon: prof. jonathan turley, jamie, for you, he said flynn was indicted for criminal statements, mccabe use the flynn defense, was confused and unlike flynn it appeared to have worked. the issue was not as much the crying need to i

perhaps a concerted russian effort to infiltrate the trump campaign through people like george papadopoulos, carter page and rick gates and paul manafort. all these people have russia linkages and roger stone is another one of those. so it seems to me there is a pattern of facts coming out, and, of course, robert mueller knows more than we do, but to me this is very strong circumstantial evidence of collusion, which is emering here. >>> you have a special prosecutor investigating possible russia illegal interveerns in our presidential campaign and presidential election, you also have a russia leader who has invaded the ukraine, seized crimea, you have these poisonings that are occurring, which the civilized world is reacting to and blaming russia for, and amid all of that, donald trump invites vladimir putin to the white house. what are the diplomatic precedence here that usually would be followed? >> usually, lawrence, if your adversary -- the international adversary right now of the united states is russia, and you went through some of the reasons why they're an adversary, if that adversa

no one did. >> i had never heard of papadopoulos before he pled. >> yeah, interesting. i was thinking about paul manafort. 305 years in prison. what do you say to that? i give up. i mean, that is- that is unfathomable. michael, look, manafort's attempt to have the civil and criminal charges dismissed were pretty quickly thrown out. on what grounds did he try to challenge the deputy ag? >> what he tried to say was that mueller didn't have the mandate to investigate those charges that related to ukraine private business dealings and the failure to register as a foreign agent or failed to pay taxes on those monies. so he filed a motion to dismiss the indictment against him on the grounds that mueller was acting outside of his mandate. mueller responded to that with an opposition to the motion to dismiss. and in that motion as appendix b or c -- i forget -- he attached a letter that rosenstein wrote to him in -- on august 2nd. remember mueller is appointed may 17th. in that letter rosenstein says to mueller, you have my authority to investigate these ukrainian money launder

it began with george papadopoulos, not the steele dossier.picking a fight with the department of justice, by suggesting they are acting improperliment. >> i'm sorry to interrupt you. we did have jim jordan on to say they were reluctant to turn over that less redacted portion. it was sort of like pulling teeth. they felt why -- when elected representatives want to see something they think is vital, why is it so hard to get it out of the fbi? >> they didn't tell you this is always the case. the department of justice didn't share investigative files with the congress. it doesn't say what it is investigating or the scope of its investigation. the degree to which james comey shared information was extraordinarily unusual and a kpwaoeulgz of the department of justice policy. so they are adhering to the policy now. and members of congress are complaining about that. they are only i think violating that policy because they are being threatened with contempt or even impeachment. but what they are doing is what they do generally, which is protect their