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New tonight, a significant development in the russia investigation. new e-mails show steve bannon, then chief executive of the trump campaign, e-mailed with roger stone about wikileaks just three days before wikileaks released those stolen e-mails from clinton campaign chairman john podesta. this comes after we learned that bannon met with special counsel robert muellers team for at least the third time last week in which they talked about stone and his ties to wikileaks. evan perez is "outfront...

Clu colluded with a foreign adversary to get assistance. and when you talk about roger stone, ultimately what is likely to come out of this is the collusion question. if the americans read the file report carefully it will read like a novel in terms of attempts to get intelligence service engaged and the use of russia to use wikileaks to get e-mails out. people like roger stone, the dirty tricksters, they thought they were helping their candidate and doing things to reach out and help. what was ...

>> we had it feels like a fire hose of russia mueller investigation of anything and probably just have a little droplet. its remarkable what it can be. >> dont rain on my droplets. i have a little bit more of them. but we know -- to your point, we know so much less. and to the point earlier, we know so much about the collusion question than we do about the obstruction question. the collusion question is what donald trump denies every morning, seemingly randomly on twitter. its the caravan and fo...

This, this broke while we were all here. special counsel investigation into president trumps longtime ally roger stone is pressing witnesses about stones private interactions with senior campaign officials and whether he had knowledge of politically explosive democratic e-mails. this seems to get at the heart of the collusion question. on friday muellers team questioned steve bannon, trumps former chief kpcampaign strategt about the wikileaks alleged e-mails allegedly hacked by russian operative...

Now a transmitter to our foreign intelligence adversaries is broadcasting the presidents most secret desires, the ones he doesnt want his chief of staff to hear. whether thats private conversations to his friends, an unknown mistress, revealing information of a clandestine or of a classified nature. the only subdescriber to that right now are donald trump, his friends, and all the third parties who have the capability of targeting him because he is the worlds top most single intelligence target....

Broadcasting the presidents most secret desires, the ones he doesnt want his chief of staff to hear. whether thats private conversations to his friends, an unknown mistress, revealing information of a clandestine or of a classified nature. the only subdescriber to that right now are donald trump, his friends, and all the third parties who have the capability of targeting him because he is the worlds top most single intelligence target. >> theyre listing in on the stuff he doesnt want to tell joh...

Privately as we have been reporting, roger stone has told according to some people that he did know about this in advance. that is what the mueller team is looking at. whether or not roger stone had knowledge that these e-mails are going to come out. the bigger question is was the campaign or president trumps campaign aware of this and coordinating with roger stone for this information. thats where the collusion question could be answered. we really dont know. we know that people have appeared b...

Saying muellers own indictments make the case. >> and when one reads those indictments, the inference one naturally draws is, no collusion. the natural, most reasonable inference to be drawn from the two indictments, at least from this reader, and i read them carefully, is zero collusion. to the contrary. >> ken starr, always plenty confident in his legal views. nothing in the indictment says one way or the other anything about the collusion question. trump may have more confidence with his supr...

But peace and prosperity. >> he tries to do that. they cant impeach me things are going too well. its in there. so counter to who he is. if he today just looked at the camera and said look i dont want to talk about it any more. when it comes out well deal with it. obviously they are doing what they are doing. im running the country. im making sure you have a job. im making sure isis never attacks us. im the president. im acting like a president. >> hes incapable of -- >> we know that. >> two thi...

And weve seen rudy giuliani, the presidents lawyer, say finally out loud, what if m of us have been saying for weeks and weeks that the president wants to suppress the special prosecutors report. theyre looking for ways to claim executive privilege. if he gets a new attorney general, he can order the new attorney general to say dont turn that report over to congress, that this obstruction question also goes to the collusion question. why is the president of the united states unwilling to answer ...