schiff: it certainly appears that way. it is very much consistent with the russian practices, their operating procedures, where they will use civilians. they will use oligarchs and others, they look for relationships. here, the emails made quite clear that the russian government had possession of damaging information. they thought the way to get that to the trump campaign to test whether donald trump wanted this information was to go through people he had done business with. this is a modality russians use elsewhere. who had they done business with? they had done business with a gentleman known as the russian donald trump, who had worked on the miss universe pageant, who had business discussions with the president over having a trump tower and russia. so they go to this oligarch, this son of the now president. they find out there is a deep interest in this. then, they dispatch this advocate for the kremlin. why would they choose her? they might choose her because it she gives them some deniability, as opposed to someone in

schiff: good afternoon, i mr. schiff: good afternoon, i wanted to make comments about the emails at a been released today. in the summer of last year, the russians were in possession of information they believed would be damaging to secretary clinton and helpful to the trump campaign. some of this information they stole from the computers at the dnc and elsewhere. in june, we now know that through intermediaries to the russian government sought to approach the trump campaign to see if they were interested in damaging information about hillary clinton. presidently, the quite out in the open, then-candidate trump urged the russians to hack hillary clinton's emails and said they would be richly rewarded. during the course of our investigation, one of the questions we have sought to answer is, was there private activity by the campaign in parallel with the very public request that now president trump, then-candidate trump made for the russians to hack and release hillary clinton information? because we now know the re

congressman schiff pointing out that when donald trump jr.ting, the russians had already hacked into democratic servers and obtained all that dnc information. but at the time of that meeting, they had not yet dumped the documents they had and turned >> good evening, rachel. this is one of the faster moving stories. i mean one new and big element per day. >> yeah. and, you know, i think that this is -- i mean we were sort of blown away a week ago friday when "the wall street journal" reported that first evidence of there being american collusion in the russian attack. in that case, the big question was whether or not it could be linked to the trump campaign. now it is about the trump campaign, and now further tonight, it's about the trump campaign

also we've been here for a few days at freedom fest and i was backstage we were with peter schiff and george gilder maybe many young people might not know who george gilder is but he was in the reagan administration work with paul craig roberts father of reaganomics all that sort of stuff but you know him back from the eighty's all those famous books and and the tech industry during the ninety's and he's actually an older guy but very very pro bitcoin and i overheard a debate happening between him and peter schiff while we were waiting to go up on stage and i whipped out my i phone and grabbed some of the debates there is a little bit of interference at one point somebody had a mobile phone that made a little bit of interference but let's cut that clip to see their debate about bitcoin this point is a new. it's currently dominated by speculation and you're right. it's maturing into a current no it's not and never will be a crow will still could it ever be a currency the middle is not is the moment no it's not the forms unlimited will do shows you the current use of criminals you don't

we talk about, we hear adam schiff talking about a pattern.you are the democratic party, you're still upset donald trump is the president. want to bring him down, resisted all costs. you are thirsty, if you will, for some smoking gun. but taking every opportunity to make it a smoking gun undermines the agenda and i think it does a disservice to an overarching goal of the takedown of the trump presidency. >> hyperbole is the only word that comes to mind when i think of democratic leaders. tim kaine called it treasonous today. as did other democratic lawmakers. when you overreact like this, you bring up impeachment, treason, i would ask any democrat to tell me three points of their platform for what will you do for the american people to make their lives better besides trump is a bad guy, russian was involved in the elections and what else do you have? what are you running on in 2018 and 2020 that people care about? >> eric: if money is the hook, the value, do you not think that hillary clinton is the secretary of state and the state department

congressman schiff pointing out that when donald trump jr.k that meeting, the russians had already hacked into democratic servers and obtained all that dnc information. but at the time of that meeting, they had not yet dumped the documents they had and turned them back into the united states. that only happened after that meeting. it's part of the reason that happened, because of what happened in that meeting or any other meetings like it, that have yet to be disclosed. that does it for us tonight. we will see you again tomorrow. now it's time for

adam schiff making his comments clear moments ago.urbing set of facts. it's alleged that this additional person has a background in russian intelligence and was involved in litigation in new york where there were allegations that he was involved in illegally hacking a rival company and publishing the results of that. i think whether this person has an intel background or not, the message was very clear from the trump campaign. they welcomed the help of the russian government. that message was certainly sent privately by donald trump jr. in those e-mails where he said he would love to get their help. but it was also sent very publicly by the president himself, speaking quite openly, saying, hey, russians, if you're listening, hack hillary clinton's e-mails, you'll be richly rewarded and indeed the russians have been rewarded. but plainly, this russian attorney, this other third party, if they were present, they were there to both deliver a message as well as to receive a message and plainly moscow understood only too well that this is

. >> shepard: we're hearing from the top democrat on the house intelligence committee, adam schiff. >> we are. as you can imagine, the democrats are having a field day about this. gives new fuel to the fire in their call for further investigations. adam schiff in a statement, part of which said "today's report that a former russian counter intelligence officer was also present in the meeting with donald trump jr., jared kushner and paul manafort. if accurate, it adds another secret fact about this meeting. paints a portrait of deceit when it comes to the campaign officials and meadaries." they will hammer the trump white house over the head with this for as long as they can. it brings up something that lanny davis wrote a book about after his years with the clinton administration and all the scandals. lanny davis said, when you get yourself in a spot like this, you tell the truth, tell it early, tell it all and you tell it yourself. take the bad medicine and it's over. otherwise, it just continues to drip, drip, drip. at this point, shep, we're will into the drip, drip. >> shepard: th

schiff is recognized. mr. schiff: i yield three minutes to mr. swalwell, the gentleman from california. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california is recognized. mr. swalwell: happy birthday to you and also thank you to our ranking member and chair. i think this i.a.a. represents the best of what we do together in the committee and i'm thrilled on behalf of the men and women who serve this country and our military and in our intelligence services that they have an authorization act that respects what they do, that enables what they do and understands that we have trying days ahead, press reports right now are showing that north korea may have just launched another ballistic missile. and so people who we represent at home are counting on us to do everything we can to protect this great country and it has been a privilege to work with mr. schiff and the chairman on this bill. of particular interest for me is that this bill also has our intelligence agencies report back to congress just what efforts the russians are taking across the glo

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quote, sleazy adam schiff.the totally biased congressman looking into "russia," spends all of his time on television pushing the dem loss excuse. what is with the president? >> i think his tweets are below the dignity of the office. one he might have thought was particularly funny. my impression was a character on "ghostbusters" that had just been slimed. the president is reduced to insults that you hear when you're in grade school. i think about the staff that has occupied that office in the past, and it troubles me to see this kind of thing going on. but it is what it is. i suppose it's a measure of the fact that the president views me as a threat and certainly has enhanced the budget with one that says, i'm with sleazy. >> what's been the reaction of your republican colleagues to the president of the united states calling it sleazy. >> just zegenerally, i think we all wish he would give up his twitter account or make sure there was adult supervision before he sends things out. we looked back and just before

schiff: it certainly appeals -- appears that way. it is very much consistent with the russian practices, their operating procedures, where they will use civilians. they will use oligarchs and others, they look for relationships. here, the emails made quite clear that the russian government had possession of damaging information. they thought the way to get that to the trump campaign to test whether donald trump wanted this information was to go through people he had done business with. this is a modality russians use elsewhere. who had they done business with? they had done business with a gentleman known as the russian donald trump, who had worked on the miss universe pageant, who had business discussions with the president over having a trump tower and russia. so they go to this oligarchs, -- son of the now president. they find out there is a deep interest in this. then, they dispatch this advocate for the kremlin. why would they choose her? they might choose her because it she gives them some deniability, as opposed to someone in

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adam schiff retweets. with respect, mr.mp, is how often you watch tv and that your comments and actions are beneath the dignity of the office. this conversation has been doing on sort of for the last few days about how the intelligence community seems united on the idea russia involved itself some way in the elections. whether any votes were changed or not. the president and closest to him continued to push back on that reality undermining the intelligence community. what's the solution to this in the end? >> look, aside from the bit about impugning adam schiff's character, it's remarkable that the president would not take this more seriously. russia just mounted the most successful, the boldest, most brazen covert influence operation in our history in order to skew the election successfully. and for him to take it so lightly, this is something that should be both a matter of concern for democrats and republicans for the former president and for the sitting president. for him to make light of this suggests to and for the si

adam schiff shot back with his own tweet. "with respect, mr. president, the problem is how often you watch tv, and that your comments and actions are beneath the dignity of the office." >>> let's check back in with sal. >>> the east bay commute and the south bay and the north bay dash of the east bay tends to get busy first we will start with a look at the east shore freeway in case you were leaving vallejo and driving to the macarthur maze. right now, 19 minutes between the carquinez bridge and the macarthur maze. when you get to the bay bridge, there is some waiting to do. it's backed up for about a 15 minute delay before you make it onto the span. san francisco, northbound 101 looks good and soda southbound 101 if you are driving down the peninsula. no problems on 101 or 280. in the east bay, highway 4 is slow as you get out of antioch. you will see brake lights waiting for you on that trip through pittsburg and into bay point and concord. >>> another gorgeous day. temperatures ranging from the low 60s, 70s around the bay, mid- to upper- and

strong words from him on this, adam schiff?say be absolutely he wants the house intelligence committee to interview them and anybody else at the meeting. questions who else was at the meeting. he himself does not know that. and raising significant concerns about jared kushner's own security clearance, if he omitted key information, should be disqualifying. as well as mr. schiff responding that the house intelligence committee's investigation is moving frustratingly slow. schiff responding to that and calls for the former trump adviser to testify soon before his committee. >> congressman, what was your reaction to seeing these reports of this russian-american lobbyist being in the meet are at trump tower with donald trump jr. >>? yes. another disturbing set of facts. it's alleged this additional person has backgrounds in russian intelligence. and was involved in litigation in new york where there were allegations that he was involved in illegally hacking a rival company, and publishing the results of that. i think whether this p

the tweeted this about adam schiff. sleazy adam schiff, the totally biased congressman looking into, quote, russia, close quote, spends all of his time on television pushing the dem loss excuse. what was your reaction to that tweet from the president of the united states, slamming add amd schiff? >> i'm astonished because again, what the president is doing, to me, is demeaning the office of the presidency. this is not something that a president, any president, should be doing. he is demeaning the office, as well as i said, trying to be one of absolute authority. and, so, it concerns me that we have a president who is not putting the country first. he only looks at himself. that is a disturbing position for us to be in in the united states of america. and our allies are looking at that and they are questioning what's going on here. >> and he puts russia in quotes because he still isn't convinced that russia was indeed meddling in the u.s. presidential election despite all of the intelligence community top chiefs over the

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he said he would -- adam schiff saying we'll see. he comes again.e's volunteering to come up again. the point is that transparency is helpful. he had a good day and the trump administration had a good day and it's a good lesson. >> i agree with you. >> six months and how many days? >> we're going to have more on this in a moment. the question, how much do voters care about the russia investigation? one of our panel members say no. i think you know who it is. we'll dig deeper into that. what are all these different topped & loaded meals? it's an american favorite on top of an american favorite, alice. it's like labor day weekend on top of the fourth of july. hotdogs. get your favorites on top of your favorites. only at applebee's. iso being cool comes naturally. on car insurance, get your favorites on top of your favorites. hmm. i can't decide if this place is swag or bling. it's pretzels. word. ladies, you know when you switch, you get my bomb-diggity discounts automatically. ♪ no duh, right? [ chuckles ] sir, you forgot -- keep it. you're gonna nee

schiff says his panel must investigate whether the lobbyist has ties to russian intelligence. i'll talk with congressman rubien gallego of the armed services committee. we're standing by with full coverage of today's top stories. we begin with cnn national correspondent jason carroll in new jersey where the president just arrived. jason, a lot of fast-moving developments while the president was away on his paris trip. jason? >> reporter: with each stage becoming more and more clear that the public was misled about this meeting, misled about a couple of things. first of all, what the meeting was about, and now who exactly attended that meeting. all this as the white house is dealing with more fallout of that meeting with donald trump jr. and that russian attorney. as president donald trump returns to the united states after a morning bastille day parade in paris, he arrives amid a firestorm swirling around his son and top aides over a meeting with a russian lawyer held during his presidential campaign. in addition to donald trump jr., jared kushner, paul manafort, russian lawye

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congressman adam schiff, a leader in the house investigation, telling cbs. >> we have a lot of ground to cover so we expect this is going to be the first interview. >> president trump on a tweet storm this morning lashing out at schiff as sleazy and totally biased, hand in another tweet asking why aren't the committees an investigators and, of course, our beleaguered a.g. looking into crooked hillary's crimes and russia relations? the new white house communications director anthony scaramucci trying to downplay today's meeting telling cnn -- >> i predict that will be the last time jared kushner talks about the russians. >> reporter: kushner will be interviewed again tomorrow by the house intelligence committee, and he won't be the last member of the president's inner circle to appear. both donald trump jr. and paul manafort are negotiating their own interviews. megan hughes, abc news, capitol hill. >>> new developments this midday after an early morning shooting at santana row in san jose. police now have someone in custody. abc 7 news reporter matt keller talked with police about the

yesterday even congressman adam schiff was asked, finally, about ukrainian-russian collusion. >> i understand hillary clinton lost and his was not as elaborate as the russian effort but would it have been acceptable for the democrats to accept help from the ukrainians? >> i think if you look at the politico article and it's a single article here, if you accept all the facts in the article, the scale of what the russians did is not comparable to anything in the article. it would be problematic to get any support from a foreign government. again, to compare the two is like comparing bank robbery with writing a check with unsufficient funds. both improper but a different degree of seriousness and involvement by a foreign government. >> sean: not comparable? it's far worse and president trump's attorney jay sekulow brought it up. >> opposition happen all the time and we know for a fact as reported extensively in a piecely politico the ukrainians traded information back and forth. the fact is the ukrainians at the same time were working with the dnc and the clinton campaign to give opposition rese

he said he would -- adam schiff saying we'll see. he comes again. he's volunteering to come up again. the point is that transparency is helpful. he had a good day and the trump administration had a good day and it's a good lesson. >> i agree with you. >> six mons and how many days? >> we're going to have more on this in a moment. the question, how much do voters care about the russia investigation? one of our panel members say no. i think you know who it is. we'll dig deeper into that. you don't let anything keep you sidelined. that's why you drink ensure. with 9 grams of protein and 26 vitamins and minerals. for the strength and energy to get back to doing... ...what you love. ensure. always be you. >>> last week, mike shields, who's back with us tonight, maebd the point on "36 0" that people in the heartland of america don't care about the russia investigation as much as the mainstream need ka cares. it's an important he made. cnn recently did a poll on this very topic. 57% said the trump campaign should not have taken the meeting with the russian

now, adam schiff, the top democrat on the committee and the house committee, just spoke to reporters about his concerns. this is what he said. >> we now know that the response that the president's son gave to the russians was that he would love it if they would provide damaging information about hillary clinton. rather than report this overture by the russian government to provide damaging information to intervene in the presidential election and a way to help his father, neither the president's son nor the campaign reported this information to the fbi. when it became obvious that the e-mails were being dumped, when it became obvious this was being done by the russian government, when our own intelligence community issued a statement in october affirming that this was being done by the ruians, did the trump campaign then disclose that, in fact, they had received an overture to receive damaging information? the answer, of course, is no, they didn't. >> now, notable, wolf, who is not by adam schiff's side was mike conaway who is the republican from texas who is leading the russia inves

top democrat on the house intelligence committee, adam schiff discussed the matter this morning. >> theof this issue is going to be we will want to have all participants in the meeting, any one who helped in organizing it. putting it together testify before the mm documents. any e-mails. it looks like, listening to, the president's son last night on fox and hearing his ler today that the defense is going to be, yes, we had an intent to collude with russia. we wanted to get the dirt, the russian government had in an effort to help elect donald trump. but we were deeply disappointed in getting it at that meeting. that's not much of a defense. i think, we need to look into whether there was any subsequent efforts, whether indeed we can rely on the representations about what happened at the meeting. because one thing we have seen over just the last several days we can't rely on anything that donald trump jr. has to say about this. because his story kept changing, he had to confront facts coming out. >> let me ask you, a new report that says the house and senate intelligence committees which

. >> i want to get some perspective on all of this with ranking congressman adam schiff. congressman, you heard about this report of this second meeting, it happened during a dinner where the president walked over to vladimir putin and they spoke during the g-20 summit. the white house is calling this perfectly normal and part of a president's duties, of course there wasn't an american translator there. what is your reaction to this. >> i don't think there's anything normal about the president having an hour-long meeting with vladimir putin outside anyone in the administration to know what the president said, what the president represented. . i would like to know, i think most americans would, did the president raise the issue of the sanctions that the president wants to do away with. did he talk about anywhere willingness to give back these -- so question have no idea what was said in the conversation, it's hard to imagine a conversation going on that long that involves superficial things, how's the grand kid, how's golf at mar-a-lago, an hour-long conversation inevitabl

consider this interviewee had with congressman adam schiff in december.f we -- we could about the same interview tonight and not much would have changed. >> these hats were of such seriousness, they could not have taken place without the highest levels of the kremlin. >> tucker: that is speculation. >> that is not speculation. >> it is a statement of the intelligence community's best assessment. there is a political reason to do it, it is what the intelligence professionals are saying. >> tucker: i have lived here a long time. i remember vividly massive stockpiles of wmds in iraq, which the intelligence community's assured us were there, but they weren't. pardon me for my spectre schism schism -- >> you don't have to take my word for it. >> tucker: i get it. here, we have hacking of the pentagon, the white house, the cia director's personal email was hacked. we think in some cases by russia. i don't remember you holding a press conference it and say hey, obama administration, your cybersecurity is pathetic. how specifically did the russians make this elec

jared kushner, there you see him tapping adam schiff hf his shoulder. wrapping up several hours of questions before members of the house intelligence committee. let's listen in to the leaders of that committee as they speak. >> mr. kushner, a e found him to be straightforward, forthcoming. i wanted to answer every question we had. and willing to follow-up on any questions we think of later didn't get asked this morning and i thank him for his, the way he conducted himself this morning in a very professional matter with that i'll turn to my colleague from california. >> thank you, mr. chairman. we had a good opportunity to ask mr. kushner questions this morning. he expressed and his counsel receptivity to come back for further questions, but it was a very productive session. we had an opportunity to ask about a range of issues that the committee had been concerned about and appreciate his voluntary willingness to come and testify today. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> there you see the leaders of the intelligence committee investigating the russia probe.

here's congressman adam schiff, ranking member of the house intel committee, and senator mark warner, vice chair of the senate intel committee. >> if you look at the present statements around this time, he announces the speech he's going to give where he's going to give the dirt on hillary clinton that he then cancels. now, that would corroborate that don jr. didn't get the information he was hoping for but contradicts the idea he was unaware. >> what was remarkable was you saw not only willingness but actually glee from the president's son as well as involvement of the campaign manager and the president's son-in-law to say, in effect, yes, bring it on. very troubling. and obviously moves our whole investigation to another level. >> a new abc/"washington post" poll shows 63% of americans believe the meeting was inappropriate. the same poll finds president trump's approval at 36%. that is a six-point drop since april. it's also a record low in the history of the poll. also new reaction from senator susan collins who is one of two republicans who are a firm no on the new health care pro

congressman adam schiff argued that it, quote, adopts the fiction that the russians are a constructive partner on cyber security instead of the worst actor on the world stage. does he have a point? >> i think that we have to talk about cyber security not just with russia, but with everyone. and, look, you're always going to see the democrats are repeatedly criticizing the president. that's unfortunate. republicans are going to criticize democrats. that's unfortunate. but let's just look at the situation. you now have a russian who is in charge of counterterrorism in the united nations. that was a position that the secretary general gave russia. and you also see that from a cyber standpoint we need to get together with russia. we need to tell them what we think should happen, shouldn't happen and if we talk to them about it, hopefully, we can cut this out and get them to stop. it doesn't mean we ever take our eyes off the ball. it doesn't mean we ever trust russia. we can't trust russia and we won't ever trust russia. but you keep those that you don't trust closer so that you can always

. >> graham also pressed schiff whether he thought trump, jr. should've brought the matter to the fbi. >> to the members of the committee, any threat to interfere with our elections from any nationstate or any nonstate actor is a kind of thing the fbi would want to know. >> russian a first stage denied any involvement in the meeting between trump, jr. and the 14. the whole episode as worthy of a soap opera. >> i turned on the tv and western channels keep discussing it. it's amazing how you can make a buzz from nothing. >> the president tried to force the spotlight on the democrats tweeting: @washtimes states "democrats have willfully used moscow disinformation to influence the presidential election against donald trump." why aren't the same standards placed on the democrats. look what hillary clinton may have gotten away with. disgraceful!" after smothering any progress that came out of president trump's meeting with vladimir putin lastly, the controversy now threatens to overshadow his upcoming trip to france. amid reports the white house is in

and, yesterday, even congressman adam schiff was asked, finally, about ukrainian election collusion.ake a look. >> i understand hillary clinton lost. i understand this effort was not as elaborate as the russian effort but was it acceptable or wouldn't it have been acceptable for the democrats to accept help from the ukrainian government in this campaign? >> no, it would be appropriate for the democrats to accept help from the ukrainian government. if you look at the politico article and talking about a single article here. if you accept all the facts in the article, the scale of what the russians did is not comparable to anything in that article. it would be problematic to get any kind of support from a foreign government but, again, i think to compare the two is a bit like comparing bank robbery with writing a check with insufficient funds. both appropriate money from the bank improperly but a very different degree of seriousness and involvement in this case by a foreign government. >> sean: not comparable? it's far worse. president trump's attorney jay sekulow who will join us late

that they'll look into it but he department want didn't want to get in front of it. >> one thing schiff hypothesized is this may have been a trial run by the russians to see how interested the triumph team might be, were they to be offered damaging information. that it's entirely possible schiff seemed to be saying that the meeting went exactly the way trump junior and others say it did, but the point was to probe to find out, would they be interested, and that this is exactly how russia would do this. they would do it through an oligar oligarch, through a family friend. what are your sources saying today? >> the cut-out model is the way russia operates. if they're going to offer you something like this, they'll not send someone in a kgb uniform. many of the meetings we've been reporting on that have taken place between trump aides and russians were not official russian intelligence officials, right? these were tycoons, businessmen, et cetera, like this lawyer who came in. and to keep in mind, this was not just any lawyer. this was a powerful lawyer tied to the kremlin connected to rich

adam schiff talking about the developments. ranking democrats on the house intelligence committeend what he makes of the revelations concerning donald trump jr.'s e-mails of exchanges with the russians. >> in june we know that through intermediaries the russian government sought to approach the trump campaign to see if they would be interesting in damaging information about hillary clinton. in late july, the president quite out in the open, candidate trump, urged the russians to hack hillary clinton's e-mails and said they would be richly rewarded. during the course of our investigation, one of the questions we sought to answer, was there private activity by the campaign in parallel with the very public requests that now president trump, then candidate trump, made for the russians to hack and release hillary clinton information. because we now know that the response of that, the president's son gave to the russians was that he would love it if they would provide damaging information about hillary clinton. rather than report tha

joining me now is adam schiff, ranking member of the house intelligence committee.saw the president's tweet. he wants to move forward in the face of putin's denial. what's your response? >> well, my response is, how can we really believe that he pressed putin hard when only the day before he was denying that we really knew that russia was responsible? what kind of tough negotiator -- and this is the way the president likes to portray himself -- goes into the negotiation, betraying his own position the day before, calling into question the probative nature of his own intelligence agencies? then saying we need to move on. i don't think we can move on, and i don't think that russia could be a partner in a cyber security unit. i think that would be dangerously naive for this country. if that's our best election defense, we might as well just mail our ballot boxes to moscow. i don't think that's an answer at all. >> i want to talk to cyber security in a minute. are you saying that the president is not telling the truth about what happened in that private meeting? >> i'm

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thank you. >> all right, that was congressman adam schiff.democrat on the house intelligence committee. he represents california district. he says the information in these donald trump jr. e-mails is, quote, deeply disturbing. he said the intelligence committee will want to speak to everyone involved in that meeting with that russian lawyer. my political panel is here with me now to dissect this. amanda carpenter, let me start with you. one of the things that was very interesting is -- he suggested, i should say, that even if that meeting did not prove to be bountiful in terms of the research and damaging information about hillary clinton that had been promised to donald trump jr. that perhaps it was a trial run by the russian government to see how interested the trump campaign might be and, indeed, they seemed quite interested. >> that e-mail is problematic alone, but it is more problematic when you look at what happened after the e-mail. july 22nd russians dumped e-mails through wikileaks. july 25, donald trump stood before cameras in russi

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well to dig deeper into this announcement and what it will mean for growth i'm joined now by peter schiff c.e.o. of euro pacific capital peter thanks for joining us today look the fed just released its plan for the next few months and it was of course something that many people are predicting one of them is that the interest rates were not going to rise not going to change what kind of impact do you think we can expect from this sort of announcement. well no impact i mean pretty much everybody knew the fed was not going to surprise the markets and hike rates this meeting although they did indicate that they would begin to shrink their balance sheet relatively soon but by relatively soon they may mean they may mean never because you know shrinking the balance sheet is a lot harder than expanding it you know quantitative easing was the fun part quantitative tightening is not only the hard part it's really the impossible part but it is possible that janet yellen may in fact begin the process but it's never going to be completed long before that day comes we're going to have to go back to zer