and specifically of the republican party, and maria butina was part of that operation. >> we have to remember at the same time this was when they were trying to get -- at least trump, his business, the business part of what he does, trying to get this tower in moscow, this trump tower in moscow. >> that's right. i mean you kind of have to laugh at donald trump constantly protesting, no collusion, no collusion, no collusion, no smocking gun, et cetera, when you see more and more evidence of collusion, with the fact that there were at least 16 trump aides who had contacts with the russians, a total of almost 100 contacts that we know about. and some of them incredibly suspicious, things that if they had come out during the campaign could well have sunk the trump campaign. i mean imagine if we had known that the trump high command was meeting with russians who were promising dirt on hillary clinton right before they actually started leaking dirt through wikileaks. i mean that is highly suggestive, and so is the fact that trump and his aides have consistently lied about that and not just lied about it, but donald trump has also obstructed justice to stop the investigation of what happened. so i mean you can't imagine a