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Thats more speed than at&ts comparable bundle, for less. call today. were following breaking news. a new report in the "wall street journal" said robert muellers investigators are asking questions about an august 2016 e-mail in which trump ally roger stone he wrote, he dined with julian assange. how would this e-mail fit into the bigger picture weve seen emerging between trump campaign and wikileaks if at all? >> well, roger stone has been at the front of this relationship with wikileaks and w...

Bob goodlatte is demanding a turnover. >> these are 3,162 documents that they have had to peel apart for months, sean. they have had the most difficult time, the congressional committees investigating this, because the doj and the fbi have not been forthright with the information. i think this information is explosive. why?y? it shows that even when john brennan briefed harry reid, went to meet with him and the gang of eight, and w august, 2016, that early that month, at the beginning of august,...

Medias ceo, david pecker, is a close friend of donald trumps and according to court documents, regularly takes part in so-called catch and kill arrangements, killing the story before it can damage trump publicly. the president denies the affair but mcdougal says she met trump at a party at the playboy mansion. "new yorker" magazine reported the two met later, talked for a couple hours, then got naked and had sex. mcdougal, a former playmate of the year, claims shes been threatened with financial...

Cambridge analytica has suspended its ceo after undercover reports showed alexander nix discussing bribery and entrapment. the data analytics firm best known for its work on the trump campaign. new video showed nix and the associate claiming credit for the presidents winning strategy. nix described questions he faced from the house intelligence committee and said republicans finished with him in five minutes. democrats questioning went on for two hours. >> meantime, the "washington post" reporti...

Merciers funded, which steve bannon helped found, and where he served as vice president. its interesting, though. just a few months before that happened in december 2015, the guardian newspaper in britain had reported that cambridge analyticas work for the ted cruz campaign appeared to have something sort of rotten at the center of it. cambridge analytica was supporting ted cruz, and they appeared to be using millions of facebook profiles that had effectively been stolen off of facebook without ...

Analyticas work had something rotten at the center of it. they were supporting ted cruz and appeared to be using millions of facebook profiles that had effectively been stolen off facebook without the users consent. it was a minor campaign controversy at the time. facebook wasnt too bothered by the reporting. they took quite a few months until late 2016 before they even bothered anybody about it. a new whistle blower who is the former research director has come forward to the "new york times" to...

going to get that kind of ruling. lets look at how the department initially began looking at manafort back in august 2016. it was because of his connections to people in ukraine and all these charges basically extend from his connections with people in ukraine. these werent just random ukranians. this was a ukraine jan leader who was basically a pro putin head of state. and his -- manaforts other connections in ukraine were with pro putin oligarchs and others from russia and russian interests...

That hacking had been previewed to george papadopoulos who was on the trump team, so the presidents knowledge is key here. >> and congressman, how interesting that the morning after the republicans decide that theyre going to release something without getting the information in about no collusion we have the "washington post" breaking the story that roger stone told associates in 2016 that he had contacts with wikileaks founder julian assange. >> yeah. roger stone also previewed to the world, jo...

Information to mueller and his team. there may be avenues we dont know about. this begs questions about steele and his dossier in the piece. it was revealed after he signed on he learn his work was funded by the dnc and clinton camp even though the fysa application said he did not know who was paying for it. and if putin was trying to impact the election, as you noted, why didnt president obama and his team stop him. steele, quote, liking it to the attack on pearl harbor he thought obama needed ...

>> first of all, i think julian assange is a hero. i think hes taking on the deep state both republican and democrat. i expect youre going to see more from mr. assange who again, i think is a hero. >> we have mutual aquaintance who is a fine gentleman. i happen to be one who thinks that assange is a hero. >> mueller probinging whether that hero was involved in helping the russians, stones own record raising those questions. august 2016, stone says he knew about key information against clinton fr...