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Reason why everything was a lower grade? everything that you did in 16, that you couldnt be as robust in a bipartisan sense because mitch mcconnell didnt sign on? >> what i know is the intelligence committee approached -- >> the so-called gang of eight. >> approached in early august, 2016. several members of that group did not take the briefing until early september, 2016. indication number one of a lack of urgency. number two, the president asked the four leaders in a bipartisan meeting in the ...

States can do that. we cant. thats the way we run elections in this country. >> you brought up the lack of sort of bipartisan urgency at the time. i want to play something former vice president biden said about mitch mcconnell. >> mitch mcconnell wanted no part of having a bipartisan commitment that we would say essentially russia is doing this, stop. bipartisan. the dye had been cast here. this was all about the political play. >> do you stand by what he said, that mitch mcconnell is the reason...

Call -- >> so-called gang of eight. >> in early august 2016. several members of that group did not take the briefing until early september. 2016. indication number one of lack of urgency. number two, the president asked that four leaders in a bipartisan meeting in the oval office to join him in asking the states to work with us on this question. it took over three weeks to get that statement worked out. it was dramatically watered down. you can ask harry reid and nancy pe loisy. >> watered down ...

After manafort was fired back in august 2016, rick gates stayed on the trump campaign. he was part of the candidates traveling entourage right up through election day. and he went on to take leadership roles on the presidents inaugural committee and of the outside nonprofits started to promote his agenda. yet as they did after george papadopoulos pleaded guilty, calling the foreign policy adviser a mere coffee boy on the campaign, the presidents allies are now desperately trying to

Over the past few weeks, the special counsel has unveiled some very special indictments. first the indictments against 13 nationals including a kremlin-connected oligarch for waging information warfare on the 2016 election. then remember the surprise guilty plea by a dutch lawyer who no one really heard of who lied to investigators crucially about communications with gates and paul manafort pertaining to work he did on behalf of pro kremlin interests in ukraine. and then finely, that man, gates ...

And it memo also lays out the fact that many of us know just as a fact, you can google it and see it on the internet, carter page had a long-standing relationship with russia. carter pages relationship did not start in july 2016 or august 2016. it goes back for a long time. so i think this memo really points to the fact that several members of the trump campaign had long-standing relationships with russia. flynn had a relationship with turkey, and thats very concerning. i can tell you, i have be...

Former campaign adviser to president trump, steve koch. the special counsel is reportedly looking at whether the loans were made as part of a quid pro quo. manafort got the loans and steve koch was promised a job in the trump administration. while new york prosecutors are investigating possible money laundering. both manafort and koch have not commented. koch did not get a spot on the cabinet, but was a member of candidate trumps economic advisory council in august 2016. manafort who served as t...

Thats manafort. the guy on the other side of this, the guy who reportedly, apparently, may have given the green light to all the money, steven calk. he started working on the counsel of economic advisers in august 2016. that is right around the time paul manafort was ousted as chairman. when questions were ramp up about the millions of dollars he received from pro-russian interests in ukraine. we asked the white house and steven calk for comment. neither gave us one. a spokesperson for manafort ...

Election day. and russia unleashes an even larger set of hacks and information warfare, and what do we do about it? thats what happened before the may 14 french election. the media didnt report on it, its part of that countrys somewhat odd blackout rules. donald trump recently suggested america should copy frances approach to military parades. tonight some americans concerned about russian interference are concerned about whether we should copy frances approach to combat russian hacks. john matt...

Van der zwaan did an interview with d.o.j. prosecutors and fbi special agents. he was represented by counsel, he was warned that intentionally false statements could subject him to criminal charges. he indicated he understood. van der zwaan thereafter made materially false statements. the special counsels office lists three things they say van der zwaan knowingly lied about. they said he falsely stated his last communication with rick gates had been in mid august 2016 and it had been an innocuou...