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Conveyed the russian infection to the campaign, and i believe roger stone may have been one of those. clearly in this transcript we see a senior prosecutor on the special counsel team giving us a glimpse into the mind of mueller. by that i mean hes telling us -- and he is actually reminding us, brian, what the special counsel investigation is all about. what was it all about from the start? it started as a counterintelligence investigation. in fact, we recently learned the fbi opened a counterin...

Russia that go way back and predate manafort. lets also be clear, there are other vectors that may have conveyed the russian infection to the campaign, and i believe roger stone may have been one of those. clearly in this transcript we see a senior prosecutor on the special counsel team giving us a glimpse into the mind of mueller. by that i mean hes telling us -- and he is actually reminding us, brian, what the special counsel investigation is all about. what was it all about from the start? it...

Lying about something really important. this is what we think has happened. this is what the larger picture is all about. now, i find it fascinating thats not redacted and there are many, many lines in this transcript that were deemed so sensitive that they were redacted. i can only imagine what those lines read. but the way im reading what is not redacted is that this aint over yet. the russian collusion question is still being worked aggressively and theyre pointing squarely at manafort. now, ...

Plug in, in the trump orbit. what does rick gates provide on the collusion question, conspiracy question and you just talked about obstruction. >> yeah, i mean thats the $64,000 question. whats clear is rick gates is an incredibly valuable witness for them. manafort went off the rails but gates probably knows almost everything that manafort knew. they worked very closely together. and gates brings them this other element, he was the bookkeeper for the inaugural committee, a whole separate invest...

Not mr. giuliani is trying to get ahead of something, moving up the goal posts and talking about collusion may have happened but it didnt happen with the president is maybe a sign that he knows something that the rest of us dont about what mueller knows. we do know that giuliani and the presidents other lawyers have been in constant contact with the mueller team. so, maybe thats a sign that -- of where things are going and where the public may soon know about the collusion question and whether p...

He said not only would it we an issue of obstructing the investigation, but the obstruction itself would hurt our ability to figure out what the russians had done, and that is what would be the threat to national security. it led you to write that the collusion question and the obstruction question are now the same thing. collusion is obstruction and vice versa. explain. >> well, so as mike just described, we had sort of thought of the obstruction investigation as this kind of separate criminal ...

Moscow situation. we have the alleged russian intelligence, and now it feels like there are a lot of dots out there we dont know if mueller is connecting those dots, if they will lead to anything, but the idea that this is a mostly obstruction probe, but it is kind of being put to rest right now, the collusion question is on the table right now and he has not bonded that at all. >> i want to read you one more thing. individual one is the president. cohen discussed the status and project with ind...

Of course, we had the trump tower moscow situation, we have manafort giving polling to his russian -- alleged russian intelligence ukrainian business colleague, and now we have this. it feels like there are a lot of dots out there that we didnt know -- we dont know if mueller is connecting those dots f. thats ever going to lead to anything, but i think the idea this is mostly an obstruction probe, which is a perception that maybe was flawed to begin with but a lot of us had at one point in time ...

African-american vote? we dont have those answers, but we know that sharing confidential polling data with a russian known russian spy and someone connected to the spell jensen agencies, i dont know whether you u call that collusion or what, but to me, that is inappropriate and is one of the most significant items of this whole investigation. >> weve only gotten a peek of this. we dont know what else is in this documentary, but as of now, theres no evidence that the trump campaign itself or the ...

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