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Systems. clearly some of the hacking had occurred when they reached out to this staffer or volunteer, but some of it had not. now, to cross that bridge into the criminal code, the most obvious way to do it is if there was some discussion before a hack. if there was knowledge that a hack would occur, then you would be in serious criminal area. i mean, the white house is correct. the manafort complaint notably was removed in terms of its center of gravity from the campaign. i expected to be more o...

>> i mean, thats six months after we now know from a federal charging document that someone who in national security meetings with donald trump is being promised e-mails from hillary clinton by someone representing themselves as an agent of russia. >> yeah, i think thats exactly right. and one of the questions bob mueller obviously have had for papadopoulos is who did you tell? and he is going to go up the chain of command. and if papadopoulos told someone else, mueller is going to ask that pers...

Facebook ads. think about facebooks response after the election, oh, cmon, think about the white house response on and off the record, oh, nothing. >> immature. >> 1 and like 126 million americans reached by these facebook ads and a small, small, small fraction of that 126 million helped donald trump get elected in key states plus, chuck grassley makes a great escape on capitol hill, some senators simply wouldnt talk about the manafort indictment, theyre like knocking flacks over, casey hunt was...

>> go ahead, jeffrey. i just think its also important in the papadopoulos -- in the charging document, theres a reference to the thousands of e-mails that the russians apparently have. that certainly raises the question of what did the trump campaign know about the hacking that had already been done, and it is also worth remembering that it is a crime to aid an abet the hacking of e-mails. so that reference to thousands of e-mails will certainly want to be teased out. who was on the other end th...

Guilty plea entered by george papadopoulos, although, of course, the charges against paul manafort and rick gates are quite serious, this plea, this admission that he lied to the fbi regarding contacts that the trump campaign had with russian officials is really very serious because it goes to the heart of what the special prosecutor was investigating, and i was particularly particularly interested in the charging document which makes clear that there are more facts that are known both by papado...

Individuals from russia. hes investigating whether foreigners made contributions illegally in the u.s. election. for the first time ever we could see an indictment that has russian people and americans in the same charging document, the same indictment. to me thats pretty shocking, pretty big news. >> and the fact that apparently a search warrant was involved is also something of significance, you believe? >> for sure. what that means is the fact that a search warrant was involved means that bob...

Undermine our elections and has enough evidence to get a search warrant. >> when you say we can see foreign names and american names on the same charging document, you mean that people from facebook could be charged with a crime for taking money for these ads? >> i dont know -- let me explain that. i dont know who in the united states, if anyone, was involved in helping the russians. maybe they did it all on their own. but if you know about criminal activity and you help to make it succeed, your...

Bench trial. theres a place for the accused to vindicate or fail to vindicate the charges against him. in an uncharged conduct, as the old saying, where do i go to get my reputation back? >> it is a corollary of the rule that the fbi does not disclose derogatory information, investigate of information about an uncharged subject that even when a subject has been charged, you limit yourself to the conduct that is charged in the indictment and information and in the charging documents or subsequent...

It will be resolved by a jury or a judge if its a bench trial. theres a place for the accused to vindicate or fail to vindicate the charges against them. with uncharged conduct, the old saying, where do i go to get my reputation back. >> its a corollary of the rule that the fbi does not disclose derogatory investigation -- investigative information about an uncharged subject that even when a subject has been charged, you limit yourself to the conduct that is charged in the indictment in the char...

Judge if its a bench trial. so theres a place for the accused to vindicate or fail to vindicate the charges against them. with uncharged conduct, you know, its the old saying where do i go to get my reputation back. >> it is a corps larry of the rule that the fbi does not disclose derogatory investigation -- investigative information about an uncharged subject that even when a subject has been charged, you limit yourself to the conduct that is charged in the indict or charging documents or in su...