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Use of twitter and how the russians may have in fact created trends on twitter in an effort to influence the election. there is a lot more work even before we get to the question of did they coordinate this in any way? the targeting so specific that it couldnt have happened without the benefit of the data analytics generated by the campaign. >> i know your committee today spoke with trump campaign associate who bragged publicly about being in touch with julian assange of wikileaks and showed he ...

>> i know your committee today spoke with trump campaign associate who bragged publicly about being in touch with julian assange of wikileaks and showed he was in direct communication with whoever it was identifying them as guccifer all identified publicly by the intelligence committee as having been tools of the russian operation to target our election. stone brags about having been in touch with all of them and having gotten advanced notice about their activity from all of them. does his testi...

Donald trump jr. and trump senior himself kept denying that russian his anything to do with it. they kept saying thats not true. the democrats are just ginning this up. they had reason to believe from those e-mails onward that the russians were involved. so they were helping to cover up what the russians were doing. they had inside information and they said the opposite. this already is a big scandal regardless of any of the meetings or anything else we learned about that particular meeting. >> ...

A call from the white house he said i cant tell them no over the phone. i dont know this for fact, wolf. i suspect this is what happened. he has to say, im going into the white house and have a conversation with them and say thanks for the honor, 12 years is enough. >> supposed to serve ten but he got an extension during the obama administration, president obama wanted him to stay an extra two years. laura, also an intriguing element today and during the testimony 2 1/2 hours of q & a with the t...

Or whether he was as a campaign associate. i think theres a difference there, and we dont know that and wont know that for some time. >> but if he was as a senator, youre never not a senator, right? but if he did discuss anything in his role as a senator, would it be okay then not to list it on the security clearance form? >> i would believe so. >> all right. >> all right. so, and by the way, thats what his team is saying, that they were told, look, you dont have to do this. as a senator, you do...

And that was hard statement to make, to say im calling a press conference and i cant tell what you im going to say. i was loving this. i knew this would be disastrous for me personally but it is the best way to take care of the institutions. >> then they fired back asking why he didnt publicly acknowledge the probe into russias connection with campaign associate before the election. >> had there been public notice that there was renewed investigation into both campaigns. i think the impact would...

And ask you what sort of coordination is under investigation here? >> so were told, don, that most of the fbi has spoke with the stolen and published e-mails by wikileaks including the dnc and those that started in july. the dossier also suggested coordination between trump campaign associate said and russian operatives. >> simone, do we know exactly who is being investigated? >> we dont. our sources and the officials that we spoke to who are familiar with this investigation have not told us. bu...

Intelligence committee, but he still raised the issue with andrea mitchell in an enter true yesterd interview yesterday where he said there may be transcripts out there that show potential russians talking to campaign associate, i want to see those transcri transcripts. and andrea pressed him does that mean you believe these transcripts exhibit and he said yes. again, a giant piz he will auzz trying to piece together. so i apologize that were getting in to these detailed nuance ways of looking a...

That stated paul manafort will tell the truth. one way to read that is it could be an indication of the trump team is bracing for testimony for manafort detrimental to the president. hes become the fifth trump campaign associate to cooperate with the special counsel after pleading guilty to charges. that includes michael cohen who was been talking to the mueller team according to a new report from vanity fair out late today. joining me now is tom winter, investigations reporter for nbc news. bar...

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