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Coincidence, this is just god hates me, its that news about them tends to break on friday night as well and that is the case tonight in the "the washington post" and the associatedpress. "the washington post" was first. they and all the pattern warnings he was given about his contact with russian government officials during the transition. so between the election and when president trump was actually sworn in. according to tonights front page scoop in the "the washington post," mike flynn was wa...

News dumps tonight that we will be getting to later on in this show. but in addition to the friday night news dumps where they just hide stuff late on a friday thinking no one will notice it, the other thing that happens with the trump administration on friday, and this has to be a coincidence, this is just god hates me, its that news about them tends to break on friday night as well. and that is the case tonight in the "the washington post" and the associated press. "the washington post" was fi...

With the trump administration on friday, and this, i think, has to be a coincidence, this is just god hates me, its that news about them tends to break on friday night as well. and that is the case tonight in "the washington post" and the associated press. "the washington post" was first. they front page the mike flynn and all the apparent warnings he was given about his contact with russian government officials during the transition. so, between the election and when president trump was actuall...

But in addition to the friday night news dumps where they just hide stuff late on a friday thinking no one will notice it, the other thing that happens with the trump administration on friday and this has to be a coincidence, this is just god hates me, its that news about them tends to break on friday night as well and that is the case tonight in the "the washington post" and the associated press. "the washington post" was first. they and all the pattern warnings he was given about his contact w...

Kremlin to get inside the mind of donald trump to probe his strengths and weaknesses. its a dossier being prepared for president putin in advance of the meeting of the two leaders, the date which hasnt been set. i understand from a former deputy foreign minister that its being prepared not just by kremlin insiders, people who work for president putin, but outsiders as well. its apparently seven pages long and mostly focuses on the last two to three months. this goes way, way beyond any kind of b...

>> is he laughing in the cripple lynn at the minute. >> absolutely not. not laughing. its very serious. and the whole team is nervous. >> ali, its not usual in advance of a very important first meeting or a summit for presidents to get a briefing document, but this seven-page psychological dossier seems to be something else. and there you heard from him, he is saying that mr. putin is preparing for very tough talks and hes preparing to meet a different kind of president, not president obama, who...

Face-to-face historic visit between putins people and trump. putins people are already drafting a psychological profile of the 45th president in advance of the visit. bill neely is in moscow with the story. bill, tell us about this dossier theyre drafting on president trump. this will probe his mental strengths and weaknesses, being prepared by kremlin insiders and outside political consultants for president putin in advance of the first meeting between the two presidents the date of which hasnt...

Adviser kellyanne conway came on this broadcast. we had a lengthy interview where he had she was misleading on two points. one, according to her, our reporting that president-elect trump was presented with this information was not true. and two, that we, like the online news site buzzfeed, were hyping and/or linking, excuse me, to a 35-page memo full of unsubstantiated allegations against mr. trump that the shorter briefing document was based on. lets take item one. i pointed out multiple times ...

We had a lengthy interview where she was misleading on two points. one, according to her, our reporting that president-elect trump was presented with this information was not true. and, two, that we, like the online news site buzzfeed were hyping or linking to a 35-page memo full of unsubstantiated allegations against mr. trump that the shorter briefing document was based on. lets take item one. i pointed out multiple times last night to kellyanne conway that we have multiple sources telling us ...

Just strainge credibility to ths is this the sort of thing that should have been in that briefing document when they briefed the president and the president-elect? what was your gut on that when you first read that? >> when i first read it, i thought the following, in a sense, it was strange that they didnt wait until they had established precisely what they thought was true and false in the document, at the time when it is widely circulated. you could argue part of the job of the presidents int...