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Sergeant baker, how are you? they were on it. it was unbelievable. having insurance is something everyone needs, but having usaa- now thats a privilege. were the bakers and were usaa members for life. usaa. get your insurance quote today. new tonight, fresh details about alleged russian operative maria butinas actions in the united states. buzzfeed reporting about a series of bank transactions totaling nearly $300,000 by butina, and a republican operative that were flagged by wells fargo as qu...

Who lost. this is about national security. this is about corporate responsibility. and this is about the deliberate and multifaceted manipulation of the american people by agents of a foreign hostile government. >> for just pennies on the dollar they can wreak havoc in our society and in our elections. and im concerned that even after 18 months of study, we are still only scratching the surface when it comes to russias interfere warfare. >> tarini with buzzfeed joins us around the table. i want ...

What is your response to that? >> well, i dont believe it was wells fargo that said that. that was probably the fbi source that leaked to buzzfeed. there is a reason suspicious activity reports, it remains private because they can be easily misconstrued. most people that leak them probably cant interpret them properly. i saw nothing in the transactions that were described that at least with regard to maria are unusual. for example, she has a russian bank account which is not unusual for a russia...

If marias bit of erickson withdrew some money from his account, put to it her account and she paid a credit card bill, its unclear to me whether thats $4,000. >> all together? >> im not positive that 300 is even the right number. but even if it were, like i said, the 100,000 through her account over four years, thats $2,000 a month. thats not unusual. and the rest of the amounts would got knot be unusual for someone like paul erickson. >> let me go through the rest of the account. buzzfeed sayin...

Three candidates for election. >> can you tell us who they are? >> we cant disclose that information because we maintain our customers privacy so i wont go there. i can tell you they are all people because of their positions might have been interesting targets from an espionage standpoint as well as an election disruption standpoint. >> microsoft vp tom burt went on to say the attack was unsuccessful and "buzzfeed" reports an analyst traced them to a group widely accepted to be run by russias mi...

To find out how our people felt about that potential nomination. heres why is that should jump out at you and why we should consider why federal prosecutors might have put that you conversation in particular in this public charging document. >> march, jane maier at the new yorker published a profile of christopher steele whos memos it became the infamous steele dossier. one little bombshell was that in addition to the dossier of christopher steeles memos that buzzfeed published last january, the...

Anton, obviously, the national security spokesman for the president. he was and has been on this show and many others defending. he was scheduled to be on the show and hes not on because he said hes not going to defend what he did today. i want to play the exchange between the a.p. reporter and putin about kompromat and whether that is what is responsible for what trump said today. here it is. >> do you -- does the russian government have any compromising material on president trump or his famil...

>> laura: according to a new reports, the fbi may have been bamboozled unwillingly by a multiple version of that infamous russia gaussian periods this revelation comes from peter strzok who wrote an email to fbi leaders when buzzfeed made the dossier public, and january 2017. he said i have the iphone comparing. they are only identical to what mccain has. it has differences. since then claiming three different versions. count them. that means the fbi has obtained all three versions. john mccain,...

Its now public, whos corn and simpson? >> based on direction by the fbi, sir, i am not able to answer questions about ongoing investigative matters. >> i want to figure this out, agent strzok. youre referencing three copies of the dossier, the buzzfeed copy you have, the one john mccann staff gave to you and the one that you said you got from corn and simpson, the one mccain gave to you and the one buzzfeed had are identical in your words but they have the corn and simpson one is different. its ...

Mr. sanford, for five minutes. >> i appreciate it, chairman. if i might, im going to yield my time to my colleague from ohio. >> ladies and gentlemen, for yielding, agent strzok, i want to go back to this e-mail you sent on january 10th regarding the buzzfeed publishing of the dossier. do you have that in front of you again? >> i do. >> okay. in my last round of questioning, you said you spoke with bruce orr several times in the 2016-2017 time period, is that accurate? >> thats correct. >> okay....