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Of the broad assertions in his reporting were true, russia mounted a campaign to cultivate trump and colluded with the trump campaign. as for the likelihood of the claim that prostitutes had urn nated in trumps presence, steele would say to colleagues, its 50/50. quote steele would later wonder if there is a connection between trumps visit to a las vegas nightclub the act. maybe there was a connection between that visit to that nightclub and the golden showers story in the first memo but he didn...

Party at 1:30, had to be somewhere else at 7:45, that gives him a 2 a.m. to 7 a.m. window and maybe thats time to get up to some serious shenanigans in the tape library of the fsb but thats a pretty tight time frame in which this would have had to happen. corn and isikoff also quote the author of the steele dossier, christopher steele, as asserting less confident in the golden showers tape allegation than he has in the rest of his dossier. "steeles faith in the sensational sex claim would fade o...

Are all about phases. you move step by step. if they make a material progress towards limiting their nuclear and missile programs, they get a cookie. each step needs to be veri verifiable. each step needs to be mutually acceptable and each step needs to aim at the next step so you dont lose momentum. thats a very heavy lift and hard to do in two months. >> when you have the presidents of two countries who have never met face to face, you have them sit down for a meeting like this, and it fails, ...

Of an interview. >> i didnt say he is not news worthy. i am not sure he is ready to be on air. >> that is not the point. >> here is what i think mainstream media rushed to put him on because they thought he was going to give incriminating evidence on donald trump. and he quote said he hates donald trump. he was fired 15 months before the election. so whatever problems he had personally and professionally, those were identified early by the trump campaign. he was not relevant to the campaign. and...

Will be able to continue to make these assertions until we have some sort of concluding report from the special counsel and at that point we will see all these things put in context. i do think that the president is tactically trying to continue to raise questions about whether the investigation that touches on him and those closest to him and his campaign is legitimate because he knows his report is coming and he wants to discredit the investigation and starting with this origins. >> "usa today...

Company since he joined the government. isnt it possible this could all just be a coincidence. >> thanks for having me back. and i think its a lot for us to be asked to accept the assertions of kushners spokes people when you have these very troubling effects where kushner is talking to apollo, talking to citi. hes talking -- for heavens sakes, hes talking to the apollo ceo about a job, about giving him something and then the kushner businesses get half a billion dollars in exchange and were jus...

Your committee. theres a sense theres a bit of a doubled is st going on here. should hope hicks be subpoenaed and do you think theres a double standard? >> if were being consistent and pursuing the evidence in the case, she would be subpoenaed, but im afraid that southboutevn was to punish a political enemy. not any interest in finding out from other witness who is assert the same privilege what happened. >> is there any indication she will be subpoenaed? it sounds like youre say iing thats not ...

Undermines all of the assertions that roger stone made during the campaign that his communications with wikileaks and with julian assange took place primarily if not exclusively through a back channel. that was his main line of argument. he said, well, i never actually spoke to assange or wikileaks directly. it was always through some kind of intermediary who he later identified as this radio host. but now we see he actually was directly communicating with wick which ki le -- wikileaks on twitte...

Take any additional steps? >> i havent been granted any additional authorities, capacity, capability. no, thats certainly true. >> tonight natasha bertrand of the atlantic will join news a moment, is reporting on secret messages between long-time trump associate roger stone and wikileaks. quote, private twitter messages obtained by the atlantic show that stone and wikileaks, a radical transparency group communicated directly on october 13, 2016 and that wikileaks sought to keep its channel to st...

To give a very theatrical statement after i give my statement, about how im a menace to society and what i allegedly did. this was a very tumultuous trial. the courts made some serious assertions as to what i did or didnt do irrespective of looking at all the evidence, so i dont need a chastising. i know what youre about to say. im familiar with your reputation. >> anything further? >> no, your honor. >> mr. harris, without question, you are probably one of the most manipulative, controlling per...