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This compromising information that could blow up trumps campaign at any given point. >> what do you fear more when it comes to president trump. that he is compromised by putin, or one of the alternative theories is that he just agrees and it is his world view, too. >> trump has an affection for dictators, and he has praised all that you can find on the map. with putin i think it is different. trump has been trying to hide notes about his meeting with putin. it is another that it was something th...

Direction. this is not just any old perjury. if it happened it is something that gave more compromising information to the government. >> is it possible that putin is thinking "i didnt want trump to win, i wanted an extraordinarily weak hillary clinton so that trump could be a foil and continue to -- that everybody here -- that he got too much of what he wanted. >> that was most likely the case. i think putin originally believes that he could be an ice breaker to weaken hillary clinton, and trum...

President trumps been dogged by questions about what, if anything, russia had on him. the issue came up when he met with vladimir putin last year. joining us now to talk about this is john nickols, u.s. national affairs and sfoern policy expert at the harvard extension school. he wrote a column saying all signs pointed to putin having compromising information on the president. tom, thank you for being with us. what do you think this is about? >> i think the president has had a long history with ...

Himself was the subject of a counterintelligence investigation. the president has gone to serious lengths to conceal his discussions with an enemy foreign leader and his panicky tweeting and subsequent interview on fox news -- >> we need to play that. >> -- it says the president clearly has something to hide and the president fears president vladimir putin for reasons that can only suggest the existence of compromising information. tom, you dont have to explain the led zeplin thing again. >> tha...

When you start threatening people lives, thats when people start to question whether they can support him. >> thank you. stay ahead, we have much more on two bombshell reports raising new questions about donald trumps ties to russia. tom nichols say all the signs point the same way that, vladimir putin has compromising information on our president. tom will be our guest. >> plus "the washington post"s philip rucker joins us with his new reporting about the presidents inability to a reliable nego...

And what are they trying to do with an ad as weird as that. >> the tex tend to which and they have sought to interact with human beings. and they want people to offer compromising information so they could be blackmailed down the road which is a time honored intelligence agency technique. there was job postings. all kinds of bizarre ways in wish these social media groups, they sought with interacting with and the other thing, katie, is we have a statement just out from google which is the last o...

Of 2015, which is the earliest contact that we know of between the russian government and the trump campaign offering, quote/unquote synergy. and remember, on top of all this, the lies from donald trump on down about all this happening. and theres all the compromising information because we know the russians knew about all this. so they had blackmail material on the man who is now the president of the united states. it doesnt get any more serious than this don. >> yeah. okay. so let me ask you, ...

About, which is transparency, denying voters the information they needed to make and i formed decision just as they lied about the fact when trump was pursuing a project in moscow even as he was locking up the republican nomination. he is now an illegitimate president whos election victory is called into doubt. >> max, it seems there are even more connections between the russians and the campaign and the administration than we were aware of even just yesterday. >> right, no, exactly. you had the...

Know until we get the blacked out lifted. i have a question, do you think pence brought in manafort or do you think the russians suggested it? >> he owed a ton of money to the russians. >> yeah. >> he had been working in ukraine. >> that ostrich jacket cost money. >> what that was, a $15,000 jacket. and they are -- they were obviously looking and now were learning more and more, they were trying to get into the trump campaign as early as 2015, what do you think the chances are? >> it appears to ...

To what he was saying they were doing business with russia during the campaign, which not only is -- was directly contrary to what the president was assuring the american people, but because of that and because the russians obviously knew it, put the president in a position to be blackmailed by putin at any time. which may explain why he was so obsequious to putin and what other compromising information the russians may have on the president. and this is -- and that is why, by the way, mr. whita...