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So if that campaign -- if that presentation was delivered to the trump campaign as it seems, then here is an offer to help for the campaign and here is a at all of the help we did. >> joining us now is julian water schwab of the governor government ethics. welcome back. >> good morning. >> this is introducing new players here aside from trump tower meeting one in june of 2016, i got the august 2016 meeting where you introduced the saudis and israelis and emirates to help in this campaign. we don...

Them. pete: i have been working out a little bit. ed: is he probably exhausted. abby: i heard is he out there planking. he will be exhausted. he lost last time. pete: unofficial competition last time. pete: people watching thought it looked like i lost. this time there will be a counter. abby: thats a tease. pete: your money is on me, right? ed: no. pete: the camera shakes. abby: nope, nope. ed: smart man. ed: president is not tired of taking on the swamp. we heard this official story for so lon...

Who reached out to or talked to about this informant, you see nothing wrong with that versus they are investigating the campaign. >> you definitely articulated there are independent red flags that make the fbi concerned about potential russian interference in the trump campaign. it would be natural for them to begin an investigation which they didnt do until august 2016, and a natural step in that process would be if they had a confidential informant, to use a confidential informant. thats not t...

Involved if this meeting. it was a meeting convened by erik prince. hes somebody known to a lot of people as the long-time ceo of blackwater, a company that went through a lot of changes along the way. the brother of betsy devos, the education secretary. joel zamel i believe is also fielding questions from robert mueller and his team. you wonder what the heck was going on. >> right. i think this was hugely important in that it shows a coordinated pattern or practice on the part of the trump camp...

And what was discussed at that meeting? >> weve been reporting for a couple months that mueller is investigating the possibility that there were other countries beside russia who were also lending support in terms of money or other support to the trump presidential camcampaign. weve been focusing on a guy name george nader, a key cooperator in the investigation. for the first time we established there was a meeting with nader and senior trump campaign officials before the le election. august 201...

Investigation. maybe a special counsel never should have been appointed not based on illegal leaks. >> a year to the special counsel probe, new details emerged about its origin in summer of 2016 and the major pivot by the fbi. >> we cannot find the case that would support bringing criminal charges on these facts. >> the fbi launched a counterintelligence investigation codenamed crossfire hurricane involving russian contact with the trump campaign. by august 2016 according to text messages fbi ag...

If true its bigger than watergate. >> i havent spoken with him directly about that but certainly seeing their reports and if there is any truth to that, it should certainly be looked into. >> by august 2016, then cia director john brennan. briefed then fbi director jim comey as well as senator harry reid. this letter became one of the first public acknowledgment of the secret rapture probe. in october, the fbi and justice department obtained the first surveillance warrant for term campaign aide ...

Russian oligarch. we learned that he discussed with one of his own business associates whos linked to russian intelligence how he could use his position on the campaign to "get whole." the implication being that mr. manaforts gig as campaign chairman for trump could somehow be used for his own financial benefit, especially with regard to this one russian oligarch with whom hed previously been in business. the very day, the exact same day that paul manafort resigned from the trump campaign amid r...

>> a year into the probe, new deal details emerge about an origin in the summer of 2016 ana major pivot by the fbi. >> we cannot find a case that would support bringing criminal charges on these facts. speak >> the fbi launched a counterintelligence investigation codenamed cross fire hurricane. by early august 2016, according to the text messages, fbi agent peter strzok, later removed from the russia case for anti-trump bias, went to the u.s. embassy in london and interviewed a key witness. the ...

Learned that he was offering private briefings about the campaign to a putin-connected russian oligarch. we learned that he discussed with one of his own business associates whos linked to russian intelligence how he could use his position on the campaign to "get whole." the implication being that mr. manaforts gig as campaign chairman for trump could somehow be used for his own financial benefit, especially with regard to this one russian oligarch with whom hed previously been in business. the ...