>> they owe george papadopoulos an apology too. >> should it arouse some suspicion when george papadopouloss drunkenly talking in a bar saying that the russians have offered dirt on hillary clinton? and a diplomat hears that? >> i don't know. but don't forget that stephan halper, a spy for the fbi, sent george papadopoulos over there, sent a woman to him at the bar to get him drunk and then they sent the australian diplomat over to hear what she baited him into saying. allison, that is not a good example of american investigation craft. it is an absolute apost see. and the fbi owes george papadopoulos and carter page an apology. and i really think they should do it today. the embarrassment of putting out a three quarters redacted document to try to prove themselves. >> only because of the freedom of information act. we nev see these fisa applications. generally, the american public doesn't ever see it. we only are seeing it because of the foya. over, i want to say this. you know there have been five guilty pleas, right? >> i understand that. >> do you think it's a hoax? >> absolutely none o

simona papadopoulos is the wife of george papadopoulos, lester he p pleaded guilty to making false statementsed today to democrats in the house intelligence committee in relation to the rush investigation she voluntarily did that. she joined us now to tell us what happened. misses papadopoulos thank you so much. the democrats ask you to talk to them, what if they ask you? >> they asked about the relationship with -- i used to work for which is the link between me and the investigation as a witness. mostly as george's wife. i explained to them that according tom my knowledge, he couldn't be a foreign agent but mostly he has ties to western intelligence. it's the link to rome which is notorious for training western intelligence officials. i invited them to go into these different tactics. >> tucker: were more than a year into this in your wife up someone at the center of this case, why does it take this long to talk to you? >> i have nou idea. i know the investigation is formally closed so i don't know why it took so k long. i attended the meeting out of transparency because george has been mis

if you remember we go back to the papadopoulos episode, nobody had ever heard of his name either and that was one of the cleanest-cut examples of criminally at th criminality that has come so far. when you hear the five names, there's a lot we don't know and that has got to keep the president and the white house on their toes. >> i'm reminded, john, of the description someone gave of the mueller probe it's not an iceberg, it's an underground

was that because of the george papadopoulos information? >> sir, i can't get into the guidance that the fbi has provided me about answers i can provide, that gets into a level of detail that i can't -- that i've been directed not to provide. >> you answered some questions. i think this has been a little bit of convenience. you answered some questions about there was grave concerns and all of this stuff about why you were doing it. you didn't do that. the dossier, was the dossier a part of why you opened up the investigation? >> no. but, sir, none of this is convenience. it has been based on what the department has worked out with chairman goodlatte about what is permitted or not. this is not a function -- >> the dossier was not part of it. that's important. when did you learn the dossier was funded by hillary clinton and the democratic party? >> i cannot -- i don't think that is an accurate representation and the fbi has directed me not to answer that question based on the investigation. >> so hillary, dnc september to perkins who sent to f

i think that's problematic. >> harris: just for those people tuning and maybe they don't have papadopoulos at the tip of their time, he was a player in all of this that could have been looked at according to democrats, but what this shows is that consistency of looking at that anti-trump dossier. what problems do you think there are with gathering that kind of information that was paid for by the democratic party, the dnc in part, the hillary clinton campaign, any party that would pay for opposition material like that and then it being used to get a fisa warrant to spy on the other team? >> i want to set a few facts straight, the payment was first paid for by the conservative outlet washington prebeacon but on the actual isa documents, one, these warrants weren't issued until after carter page left the campaign. to come he was all ready gone for the campaign so there was no spine, there was investigating. three, the fact that a republican appointed judges kept introducing and approving the warrants repeatedly says there were some information now for whatever reason seems to be less attacke

and we know what that started, the papadopoulos, the first person to plead guilty. he has not spoken to the press, but his wife has. i spoke to her yesterday on "the beat." she talked about what it's like to get grilled face to face by bob mueller's fbi agents. when you look at how "the new york times" reports that the entire criminal investigation began because of this conversation in a bar with a diplomat, do you think george knew? >> i really don't know. surely he must be very surprised. i am surprised as well. >> when did you first hear about that night? >> with the "new york times." >> you didn't know about that before you read it in the "new york times"? >> no. >> how did you first learn the fbi had george papadopoulos? >> he told me. >> he told you? >> yes, and probably the most i learned but in the context of the interview with the fbi when i was subpoenaed by mueller myself. >> i understand there are certain things you can't say about the interview. but were the investigators professional, or were they aggressive? how was it for you? >> the situation was cl

you worked for him before you ever met george papadopoulos. who is he, why is he important, and how did he know so much about russia's activities before the rest of the united states knew? >> it's really opaque figure. i never understood who he is exactly. he strikes like a lobbyist, working people from different governments. >> while you were working for him, did you think at the time he could be helping russian spies? >> i definitely would not be surprised to learn he is. i would not be surprised to learn that he was doing other kind of business. i found myself in the middle of this by coincidence. i used that i had been working for such -- the key of this russian investigation. >> do you wish you never met him? >> yes. i wasted my time, yeah. >> do you wish george never met him? >> absolutely yes. >> i want to go through some of the people that you've learned about and just get your reaction. mike flynn. >> general. >> joseph mifsoud. >> mysterious. >> jeff sessions. >> interesting. >> steve bannon. >> very interesting. >> very interesting.

was that because of the george papadopoulos information? >> sir, i can't get into the -- the guidance at the fbi has provided answers i can provide. that gets into a level of detail -- >> you have answered some questions. this is a bit of convenience. you've answered some questions about there's grave concerns about why you were doing it. you didn't do that. the dossier. was the dossier a part of why you opened up the investigation? >> no. none of this is convenience. this is all based on what the department worked out with chairman goodlatte. >> so the dossier was not part of it. that's important. when did you learn the dossier was funded by hillary clinton and the democratic party? >> i cannot -- i don't think that's an accurate representation and the fbi directed me not to answer that question -- >> right. so hillary dnc sent to perkins who sent to fusion -- come on. it was a political document, correct? >> the latter is close. i cannot comment. the fbi has directed me to not answer that question -- >> would it be fair to say the dossier

. >> what is the connection between -- >> papadopoulos. >> papadopoulos was so far in the orbit of this campaign. i can tell you, i was involved in this campaign in a more than just passing way. and papadopoulos and carter page were no longer to be seen. >> i think what people are having a hard time with with is last february of 2017, donald trump said we knew nothing about russia. there was nothing going on there. now five americans have been charged with criminal charges. you have multiple russians charged. a dutch official charged. there's more and r more coming out. this investigation is ongoing. i know it's a favorite talking point of people who support trump that nothing has been found. it hasn't been concluded. mueller has not concluded the investigation. >> if you're going to open, open big. you don't open, you're not going to open -- this has been going on for how many monmonth many m. >> the phrase i would use is go big or go home and in this case, mueller has not gone home and he's gotten over 300 different charnls that have been filed. i wouldn't conflate the issue of saying

i don't know, for example, who papadopoulos talked to about the russian approach.n mashburn, one of the policy advisers for the trump campaign this week. he'd agreed to come in, but as soon as we informed the majority he was going to come testify, the majority intervened to tell him not to come. the majority doesn't want to know who in the trump campaign was aware of this approach and who might have been in the know prior to the meeting in trump tower. but bob mueller knows at this point, and we'll just have to wait to see whether the next indictment on the hacking and dumping operation, if there's another, is focused on americans. >> as you say, bob mueller knows, donald trump knew for some time here with advanced warning and what your colleagues yesterday in that rather contentious hearing knew i think is also an open question given just how ferocious some of the political pushback has been. congressman schiff, top democrat on the house intelligence, thank you so much for being here tonight. >> thank you. >> much appreciated. we have a lot more tonight on the blo

i don't know, for example, who papadopoulos talked to about the russian approach.g in john mashburn, one of the policy advisers for the trump campaign this week. he'd agreed to come in, but as soon as we informed the majority he was going to come testify, the majority intervened to tell him not to come. the majority doesn't want to know who in the trump campaign was aware of this approach and who might have been in the know prior to the meeting in trump tower. but bob mueller knows at this point, and we'll just have to wait to see whether the next indictment on the hacking and dumping operation, if there's another, is focused on americans. >> as you say, bob mueller knows, donald trump knew for some time here with advanced warning and what your colleagues yesterday in that rather contentious hearing knew i think is also an open question given just how ferocious some of the political pushback has been. congressman schiff, top democrat on the house intelligence, thank you so much for being here tonight. >> thank you. >> much appreciated. we have a lot more tonight on

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papadopoulos's usefulness has expired. but flynn has not. relying on him to potentially testify at a trial against that person and i would put off the sentencing until after that trial. so you know, on the one hand that is why they are doing this, but the notion that flynn is pushing for expediting sentencing and the government is agreeing is a much more abbreviated time frame than i would expect. i would think would be a year from now. >> thank you both. >>> after the break, want to guess how many white nationalists running in the fall? there is more than one. that is next. i promised our family i'd find your lost recipe. by tracing our history on ancestry, i found the one person who still had it. now, i'm brewing our legacy back to life. i'm david thieme, and this is my ancestry story. now with 100 million family trees, find your story. get started for free at ancestry.com. you always get the lowest price on our rooms, guaranteed? let's say it in a really low voice. carl? lowest price, guaranteed. just stick with badda book. badda boom. bo

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basically began with p papadopoulos. >> who are they colluding with? >> why are there so many -- >> in the meeting -- >> for one -- >> the one meeting with the lawyers -- >> here's the question. senator graham said something that was interesting and get your reaction to, david, about president trump continuing to call the russia investigation -- not just the collusion accusation, but the russia investigation a hoax. take a listen. >> i think the president gets this confused f. you suggest that russians meddled in 2016, he goes to the idea that, well, i didn't collude with them. you didn't or at least i haven't seen any evidence. mr. president, they meddled in the elections. >> why is that so difficult for president trump to see? >> i'm not certain. i can't wait for the mueller investigation to wrap up. it's a nothing burger at the end of the day and happy to talk about other things like made in america day. >> probably the russians meddling in the 2018 election. >> i we should forcefully -- right? this administration forcefully and as strongly as possi

we know who's cooperating with the fbi and pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi and that's george papadopoulos. but so much in these documents that we don't know. certainly things we don't know should be concerning and paints really a picture of what the fbi was concerned about considering carter page's communications with russians, his travel to russia, and really, you know, carter page denies a lot of this in his interview today with jake tapper. he can't really escape really all the information and all of the evidence perhaps that we don't even know about that the fbi has gathered in this investigation. obviously that the special counsel, robert mueller is investigating. >> shimon prokupecz, thank you so much. so carter page joined cnn's 'this morning on "state of the union" to give husband side of the story and here's his defense. >> you did advise the kremlin back in 2013 or 2012, somewhere in there? >> jake, that's -- it's really spin. i mean, i -- i sat in on some meetings but to call me an adviser i think is way over the -- over the top. >> except in the 2013 letter you wrote, it says,

mueller also announced guilty pleas of george papadopoulos who admitted contacts with who? russian nationals. who offered him what? yes. information about the possibility release of hillary clinton's e-mails. so following those indictments we then saw allies of the president including now and this is key, the president's own lawyers, picking up the argument like go pro camera, collusion is not a crime and running around with it. >> you just had all this conversation about collusion. there is no crime of collusion. >> that's not just a pundit. that's the president's lawyer, jay sekulow. he would return to that, he would pick up that bone in his mouth and whip it rahm. following the guilty plea a month later, he said for something to be a crime, there has to be a statute that you say is being violate. there's not a statute that refers to criminal collusion. there's no crime of collusion. the president jumped in on this and said the argument that he heard on tv from alan everybody did wits. the president brought it up saying i watched dershowitz. he said collusion is not a cri

you've got papadopoulos who was aware of the break in to the democratic national committee back in marchyou've got roger stone who was talking to both of the people that were involved in staging the release of those stolen e-mails, guccifer 2 .0 and the wikileaks. you've got the republican national convention where the trump campaign kept out any increase in sanctions. you have jared kushner basically trying to get a secure communications system between the -- >> i forgot about that one. that's a greatest hits right there. >> the bottom line is you've got the russian government taking over the u.s. government now without firing a single shot. that's what's so concerning. >> you know what might be better is for trump to stop saying it's a witch hunt and false assay there seem to have been some concerted efforts by the russians to infiltrate my campaign and that's not approved of. >> the fact that russia, there was a cyber attack on our campaign does not mean the trump campaign colluded. it's my president trump's own hand that he's being squishy about sanctions. >> the best evidence is his

the wake of president trump's attacks on anyone who takes a deal in the mueller probe, george papadopoulosthers, i wonder what you make of what we saw today from the special counsel. >> so it's going to get harder and harder for this white house to distance themselves and be in denial and dismiss what's going on at the special counsel's office. just to reiterate what's been said, there are five people that we haven't heard of yet that say, you know what? i think i'm criminally exposed. and the government says, you know what? you are. and now a judge will have to weigh in on that and they're all going to talk about paul manafort. so let's engage in a little bit of speculation about who these people might be that we haven't heard of yet. are they russian organized crime or ukrainian organized crime figures? are they bankers who looked the other day while the russian money was being laundered into manafort's accounts? who are these people? as they come forward, the president is going to sit there and go, i can't keep denying that people around me weren't compromised. >> and are they members o

but here, there's no mention, for example, of the russians communicating with papadopoulos. now, i'm going through this indictment in realtime, but i haven't found any mention of that yet. why is that excluded, that the russians approached the trump campaign, letting them know that they had these documents that are spelled out in this indictment? the reason you wouldn't include that is if there may be more charges you wanted to bring later that do involve u.s. persons. so this still doesn't resolve the question of whether u.s. persons were knowingly involved. all the attorney general -- deputy attorney general said today is there are no allegations about that in this dooi indictment. >> listen to what the president said just a few hours ago at that joint news conference with prime minister theresa may as what he always describes as this rigged russian witch hunt. listen to this. >> i think that we're being hurt very badly by the, i would call it, witch hunt. i would call it the rigged witch hunt. i think that really hurts our country and really hurts our relationship with ru

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it began with information about george papadopoulos, who in his own right, was talking and being impered by people from russia about getting information from a candidate. so it's about the chicken and the egg game. and by cherry picking where you wanted it to start, it fuels your narrative. but the accurate information is when it started with george papadopoulos. >> laura, the fact that this application to surveil, right, for a judge to sign off on the surveillance of an american citizen, carter page, it wasn't just approved by one judge once. >> right. >> it was approved four times by four different judges, as they updated it with more information that they gathered as they were surveilling. and these were judges appointed by three different republican administrations. significant? >> extremely. one thing, it undermines this partisan witch hunt. it's republican judges appointed by republican presidents. that is not the most telling aspect. the most telling aspect, they had to be renewed. every step of having been renewed, you had to prove yet again there was some reason to surveil an

the other george papadopoulos, they're trying to say he was just a coffee boy, even though he was involved setting up meetings with headsov state with e trump campaign, and paul manafort, the head of the trump campaign, donald trump tried to diminish and they he was only there for a short time. so this was part of what he does, downplay those havingit interactionsthe russians, shift attention elsewhere, but the reality is theres an extraordinary and worrying and disturbing number of donald trump both high-level and lower-level campaign peple from michael flynn and manafort to the president's own son to papadopoulos and page meeting with the russians and then later lying about it. >> woodruff: congressman, several other things to ask you about, a lot breaking late today. number one, the president -- the white house press secretary sarah sanders saying the g esident is seriously considering revokcurity clearance for five former high-ranking intelligence and f.b.i. officials. what do you make of that? >> clearly this is an effort to punish and silence the president's critic. now, this is nt s

it began after a trump foreign policy advisor, george papadopoulos, bragged that the russians had dirt on hillary clinton. finally, a story not about the russia probe, or is it? trump's threatening tweet to the president of iran. in nearly all caps in this tweet right here, the president writes to president rouhani, never ever threaten the united states again or you will suffer consequences the likes of which few throughout history have ever suffered before. we are to longer a country that will stand for your demented words of violence and death. be cautious. you might be asking yourself where in the world that came from. we are asking the same thing. joining me now white house correspondent hallie jackson, natasha bertrand, benjamin whitis is the editor and chief of law fair and a senior fellow in governance studies at brookings institution, frank is a former assistant director of counterintelligence at the fbi and current cheap operating officer for ets risk management. he is also an msnbc national security analyst. guys, we have a bit of a mixed bag. i want to start with the carter

anything you did or say in 2016 change the fact that in march 2016 the president met with george papadopoulos who would later plead guilty for lying to the fbi? >> no. >> did anything you did or say in 2016 change the fact that donald trump jr. met with agents of the russian government in trump tower in 2016? >> no. >> did anything you did or say in 2016 change the fact that the president asked russians to hack into hillary clinton's e-mails? >> no. >> did anything you did or say in 2016 change the fact that paul manafort, who has proven -- who has pleaded guilty, in fact, that in july 2016, paul manafort changed the gop party platform at the 2016 gop convention in order to benefit russia or change the platform? >> ma'am, without saying whether or not that's accurate, no. >> did anything you did or say in 2016 change the fact that in may 2016 george papadopoulos was drunk in a london bar, bragging about how russians had dirt on hillary clinton? >> again, ma'am, without confirming whether or not that's cross, no. >> did anything you do or say in 2016 change the fact when donald trump was prese

. >> and rick gates and papadopoulos. paul manafort, i was with paul manafort backstage at the rnc because he ran your -- he ran your convention. he was your campaign manager. this isn't somebody who was just incidental. >> and the crimes he's accused of -- >> let him finish. >> papadopoulos pled guilty. let me just give you facts because you're in hyperbole land. you have 13 russian nationals who have been charged with hacking our elections. so you can say what you want to say, but these are all facts. this is a real investigation with real serious consequences. >> we've got to take a break. we'll have more with steve and rich and everybody. we'll pick up the conversation, talk more about the president's new attacks on special counsel mueller. >>> later, a live report on progress on the fire lines in california as crews work around the clock under some of the worst conditions imaginable. the pictures incredible. we'll be right back. can weather any weather. behr premium semi-transparent stain and sealer, overall #1 rated

if you are mosquera and you're watching this, while the campaign is reaching out to you, george papadopoulosand other means when discussed it, i don't know, if i'm putin and i'm running this operation, i'm getting the signal trump is not unhappy with this. >> i won't ask you about that now because the country has really been quite honestly torn up for a while now over this, over the question of collusion, whether donald trump or his campaign associates colluded or conspired with the russians who interviewed with our 2016 election. so if somebody was going to make the case for collusion, what would it be based on which event? >> first of all, to some degree the debate has been sort of cloud above use of the word because it's kind of elastic. one can define the way you want to. i agree, we found no smoking, david, we found no smoking gun evidence of, you know, there was an explicit agreement to work together. i think the aiding and abetting metaphor is a better one to use. there clearly was a conspiracy to attack our election by the russians, and trump and his people aided and abetted it. in m

. >> for me the statement of offense came out for george papadopoulos, a name many of us were like who is that? the day that that happened, the day that happened is the day that argument stopped having merit, because that statement of the offense articulated the exact timing through between the fisa warrant was approved and what triggered the start of the investigation. as nick said, that was him drunk in a bar talking to an australian diplomat. so for now we're all serious at this table. some arguments have merit and there's evidence to back them up, but i think that what we learned this weekend is devin nunes has been lying this entire time and the entire memo they put out is in bad faith. >> it's not just devin nunes, but it's the president. i'm going to ask this and you're going to laugh at me. do facts matter with the president? why did the fbi tell the fisa court steele's work was potentially biased because it was commissioned to be used defense trump -- these are not the trump tweets. the department of justice and the fbi misled the courts. the whole fisa scam led to the rigged

george papadopoulos. for lying about his contacts with russians during the campaign. and richard gates, former deputy trump campaign manager, for lying to federal agents about his lobbying work on behalf of the russian-backed government in ukraine. he has agreed to tell mueller what he knows about paul manafort, a former trump campaign chairman who led that lobbying effort for ukraine. he has steadfastly refused to cooperate with mueller and goes on trial next week. alex van der zwaan a london lawyer pleaded guilty to lying about his legal work for manafort. tonight, a russian gadget wait student in the u.s. has been charged with being an unregistered agent for russia. maria butina is accused of establishing a back channel for russian government interests. her lawyer says she's not a foreign agent and has offered to cooperate with investigators. lester? >> pete williams in washington tonight, thank you. >>> there is a lot more ahead. big trouble for amazon as a surge of shoppers try to take advantage of one of the biggest deal days of the year. >>> also, an incredible

we know that george papadopoulos was trying to make contact with putin's own office while the russians were attacking. to me this shows that trump and his acolytes, his lieutenants, were eager and willing to get into bed and to help the russians while this attack was under way. so even putting aside the question of collusion, that in itself is a profound act of betrail. >> david and natasha, thank you for joining me. >>> i'm joined by harry litman and msnbc legal analyst, jill wine-banks, a former watergate prosecutor. jill, this document is a prosecutor's document. when we got the big document of the russians involved in this sort of more propaganda effort, the internet research agency, there was this question of, well, the hack is not in here and that's the one crime we know is committed. today we got that. what are your impressions as someone who's a watergate prosecutor and a prosecutor more broadly about what direction this document points? >> well, i would say, first of all, that you gave a great opening statement for the prosecution of donald trump for collusion. and david laid

accurate, no. >> did anything you did or say in 2016 change the fact that in may 2016, george papadopoulos was drunk in a london bar, bragging about how russians had dirt on hillary clinton? >> without confirming that's accurate or not, no. >> did anything you do or say change the fact that when donald trump was presented with dirt on hillary clinton, he responded, i love it? >> again, ma'am, only commenting on public accounts of that, no. >> did anything in the ig report change the fact that donald trump jr. was communicating with wikileaks' julian assange about the timing of releasing e-mails designed to harm hillary clinton? anything you do no. >> anything i did, no. >> you're well aware that mr. flynn has pleaded guilty, is that not correct? >> that's correct. >> you're well aware he was a national security adviser for the president of the united states. >> that's correct. >> well, in his offense statement that we have right here, mr. flynn indicated that his statements, false statements and omissions, caused impeding the russian investigation, but more importantly, i believe it's impo

to cross talking a strange da lies i'm joined by my guest marcus papadopoulos in london he. the editor of politics for us magazine in oxford we have to see he is a senior policy consultant at british american security information council and in our slow we have glenn these and he is a visiting scholar at the higher school of economics all right gentlemen crossed rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want i always appreciate our marcus let me go to you first in london with the advent of donald trump and i'm not even saying the administration of donald trump but donald trump is his vision of america first compatible with the mission that we were told by the think tanks and the four thousand nato bureaucrats is it the two compatible nato's mission and donald trump go ahead marcus. yes i do believe that and i believe that one and a half years into donald trump's presidency he has clearly in categorically demonstrated that he's like his predecessors i said on cross talk to in his election campaign in two thousand and sixteen and afterwards that there would be no

cross talking a strange da lies i'm joined by my guest marcus papadopoulos in london he's the editor of politics first magazine in oxford we have ted see he is a senior policy consultant at british american security information council and in oslo we have glenn these and he is a visiting scholar at the higher school of economics all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want i always appreciate marcus let me go to you first in london with the advent of donald trump and i'm not even saying the administration of donald trump but donald trump is his vision of america first compatible with the mission that we were told by the think tanks and the four thousand nato bureaucrats. the two compatible nato mission and donald trump go ahead mark. yes i do believe that and i believe that one and a half years into donald trump's presidency he has clearly and categorically demonstrated that he's light kids predecessors i said on cross talk during his election campaign in two thousand and sixteen and afterwards that there would be no changes to american fo

george papadopoulos plead guilty to making false statements to our country and the fbi. so i'm not exactly sure what the republicans want to shut down. do they want to shut down the special counsel's upcoming trials against campaign manager paul manafort? one of these trials is scheduled to begin here in virginia in the eastern district of virginia later this summer. and related to it on february 22nd, a grand jury in virginia approved a set of 32 counts of tax, financial and bank fraud charges against mr. manafort. and on february 16th, a federal grand jury in the district of columbia separately approved five other charges against mr. manafort and mr. gates, including, and i quote, conspiracy against the united states, end quote. and in this indictment that is coming forward, id'd like to quote from it. it says the defendant paul manafort, together with others, including gates, knowingly and intentionally conspired to defraud the united states by impeding, impairing, obstruction and defeating the lawful governmental functions of government agencies, namely, the departme

george papadopoulos wrong moment a former three star general who ran a u.s. intelligence agency and lied to the f.b.i. about his conversations with the russians secret conversations he got stronger and i think he made some mistakes or a little general you say there was no collusion you say it's a hoax and a witch hunt the problem is that this seems to be so much evidence that suggests otherwise for example let's talk about the trump tower meeting june twenty sixth when donald trump jr son of the president gets an e-mail telling him that russians have information that would quote incriminate hillary clinton as part of quote russia and its government support for mr trump he doesn't say oh i better call the f.b.i. and report this he says quote i love it and then he and jerod couche and pull him out of fort invite those russians to trump tower one of whom later admits to have ties to the kremlin and if that wasn't bad enough at that meeting don't trump jr asked them for dirt on hillary clinton and her foundation if that's not collusion if that's not working with

george papadopoulos, president trump's foreign policy adviser. he pleaded guilty to making false statements to the fbi in 2017 about when he first learned that the russians had dirt on hillary clinton. also now cooperating with the special counsel. richard pinedo, digital marketing strategist, pleaded guilty to identity fraud and trafficking in hundreds of stolen bank account numbers over the internet, which were bought by russians to interfere with the 2016 election. and alex van der zwaan, the son-in-law of a russian oligarch, pleaded guilty to lying to special counsel and the fbi in november about his work with president trump's campaign chairman, paul manafort, for foreign nationals aligned with russia. of course this does not include mr. manafort himself, who is scheduled to begin his criminal trial later this summer. he is sitting in solitaire confinement after allegedly engaging in witness tampering. this also does not include michael cohen, the president's longtime lawyer. at this moment, he may be considering weather to cooperhe with spe

george papadopoulos, president trump's foreign policy adviser. he pleaded guilty to making false statements to the fbi in 2017 about when he first learned that the russians had dirt on hillary clinton. also now cooperating with the special counsel. richard pinedo, digital marketing strategist, pleaded guilty to identity fraud and trafficking in hundreds of stolen bank account numbers over the internet, which were bought by russians to interfere with the 2016 election. and alex van der zwaan, the son-in-law of a russian oligarch, pleaded guilty to lying to special counsel and the fbi in november about his work with president trump's campaign chairman, paul manafort, for foreign nationals aligned with russia. of course this does not include mr. manafort himself, who is scheduled to begin his criminal trial later this summer. he is sitting in solitaire confinement after allegedly engaging in witness tampering. this also does not include michael cohen, the president's longtime lawyer. at this moment, he may be considering weather to cooperhe with spe

drug papadopoulos, a national security advisor pled guilty to lying to federal investigators aboutab his contact with russian spies during the campaign, troop. >> certainly with russians, i don't know how to characterize. >> the fbi publicly disclosed information about the hillary clinton e-mail investigation 11 days prior tofo the election in 2016, troop? >> but the fbi t maintained confidentiality about the trump russia terminal investigation during the entire ration of the trump presidential campaign. >> yes or. >> if you really want to start donald trump from the becoming president you could have revealed the criminal investigation prior to the election. >> yes or. >> mr. stark, you are before this committee for one reason, to serve as a monumental distraction. there is a criminal investigation into the trump campaign and possible crimes related to the 2016 presidential election involving collusion with russian spies to sell out our democracy and hijack the presidency. my colleagues and the cover-up caucus don't like that, investigation and therefore they need to identify a bill

papadopoulos was that week. that it was a -- credible source of information. i don't think anyone thinks it was an appropriate open that. >> we have questions about whether it was appropriate because we do not know the underlying information. we read in the new york times that it was because papadopoulos said in a bar -- [inaudible] >> regular order. [inaudible] >> mr. chairman, there was the second element of the question. >> [inaudible] raise the question about whether or not i agree with the inspector general that i had acted in any way that was biased. >> you had an opportunity to answer that earlier. >> i did not. >> the gentleman from illinois is recognized for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chair. lawyer made the following statement to chris cuomo regarding new. fox news, they talk about him as the center of the anti-trump cabal, none of this has a shred of truth. you agree with this statement? >> i do. >> in usa today, your lawyer said, regarding the russian investigation, that you and your team went out of their way to and actively ensure that news r

cross talking a strange day i'm joined by my guest marcus papadopoulos in london he's the editor of politics first magazine in oxford we have had c. he is a senior policy consultant at british american security. mation council and in our slow we have glenn these and he is a visiting scholar at the higher school of economics all right gentlemen crossed mark rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want i always appreciate our marcus let me go to you first in london with the advent of donald trump and i'm not even saying the administration of donald trump but donald trump is his vision of america first compatible with the mission that we were told by the think tanks and the four thousand nato bureaucrats is it compare the two compatible nato's mission and donald trump go ahead marcus. yes i do believe that and i believe that one and a half years into donald trump's presidency he has clearly in categorically demonstrated that he's like his predecessors i said on cross talk to in his election campaign in two thousand and sixteen and afterwards that there would be no changes to amer

people like roger stone, pop p papadopoulos, i think it's fake news to coin a phrase there to say therehing here or this is some kind of a witch hunt or they continue to deny there was russian involvement in the election. >> okay. i want to ask you about something you just said, fbi director michael hayden when you talk about further zooimt dimin say we take a view there were no americans involved. do you believe there will be indictments on americans? ly think you will. you wouldn't have bob mueller the consummate prosecutor entering into agreements with people in the trump campaign unless he was going to get some information. >> that information would tend to be things that they nigh about what happened from the american side of this meddling campaign, my guess is we will see things down the road and indictments die if sort of the american branch of this treaty. >> okay. bob, we saw the president there say that america doesn't have to worry. they would counter actions by russia to interfere further. do you see any indication that the u.s. is less velnerable in the mid-terms coming up

pull back and remember, they were told, george papadopoulos was told in april, that the russians had obtained hillary clinton's e-mails. so i suspect they go in that meeting suspecting they are going to get hillary clinton's e-mails. they think it is still coming. public you see donald trump. who to believe, the president or his fixer or neither. lies, lies and more lies, next. we all want to know about the new thing. you know, the new, new thing. with xfinity's retail stores, you can now see the latest. want to test drive the latest devices? be our guest. want to save on mobile? just ask. want to demo the latest innovations and technology? do it here. come see how we're making things simple, easy and awesome. plus, come in today and ask about xfinity mobile. a new kind of wireless network designed to save you money. visit your local xfinity store today. >>> first we heard a secret recording of donald trump and michael cohen talking about a hush money payment. and then we learn michael cohen is willing to testify that donald trump was on russian collusion. and now according to the be

we know papadopoulos was trying to make contact while the russians were attacking. this shows to me that trump and his lieutenants were willing to help. that in itself is a profound act of betrayal. >> thank you for joining me. i am joined by harry lippmann. and jill wine banks. with we got the documents in the russian involved in sort of propaganda efforts, this question well, the hacks are not in here. what are your impressions as someone as a watergate prosecutor and a prosecutor more broadly, about which direction this document points? >> i would say first of all, you gave a great opening statement for the prosecution of donald trump for collusion. and i said over a year ago, that there was enough circumstantial evidence to conclude with the russians and now it is laid out in this scintillating document. everyone should read it. it is a great read and lays out all of the acts specific by the russian government military intelligence unit. and i would say that we are leading up to next indictments of the americans involved in possibly both the social media aspects