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>> and tim obrien, donald trump is trying to negotiate this deal with russia at the very same time russia is attacking our electoral process, invading through cyber crimes, stealing e-mails from the democratic party. and so vladimir putin is getting very clear communication from donald trump that donald trump wants to be in business with vladimir putin while vladimir putin is waging this war on the american electoral process. >> i think, you know, youve hit on a very central issue here which is ...

>> yes, i did. yes, i did. because he talked about bringing the u.s./russia relationship back to normal. >> ben rhodes, it was hard then to imagine it getting worse than that, but questions to vladimir putin and donald trump about a bribe of a $50 million apartment in moscow would have been even more interesting to watch. >> well, yeah. and, lawrence, i think the important point here is, first of all, why was michael cohen involved in these dealings with the russian government? if you want to bu...

And so vladimir putin is getting very clear communication from donald trump that donald trump wants to be in business with vladimir putin while vladimir putin is waging this war on the american electoral process. >> i think, you know, youve hit on a very central issue here which is the crinology on all of this. trump previously has said they stopped negotiating to deal with this in 2016. michael cohen as said it continued into june of 2016. that infamous trump tower meeting where don junior met ...

Involved in these dealings with the russian government? if you want to build a building in russia, you dont necessarily have to go to the kremlin for that. but, you know, i think even more importantly here, if youre vladimir putin, what would you rather have, a $50 million apartment and a gaudy trump tower or a president of the united states you have compromising information on and a president who will up end the international order and diminish the united states in the world? vladimir putin got...

Anybody at that summit believes for one second that the reason that dr. canceled this meeting is out of some principled stand. and it is believed obviously that he gave putin a pass, and also that putin has had compromising information on trump for the last two years, because he would have been aware of the trump tower relationship in moscow, and which he denied and so i dont believe that nobody believes donald trump cares about ukraine and that is dramatically going to the undercut the credibil...

People this morning. they presumed that they have got flakes vote, actually in the end. i dont know if they are right about that. thats one of the reasons mitch mcconnell was willing to go along with this because he said im going to get flake as a result and maybe susan collins as well. they are not sure about murkowski. flake and coomns have to come together. >> those two are the strongest voice in setting the pram terse of this investigation. if they are silent, we dont have anything. >> they ...

Theres fire. >> during the nearly five month period that paul manafort worked on the trump campaign, he was close to the center of power, organizing and directing the republican national convention for the future president and attending a now notorious june 2016 trump tower meeting with a russian lawyer, reportedly offering compromising information about hillary clinton. >> that meeting could be at the heart of the conspiracy case involving collusion with the russian election interference. >> ma...

Youre here and im glad that youre here because i made a quick list, im sure you can make a longer one, of things that manafort could tell mr. mueller and his team about. the trump tower meet egg, the platform change, where it became pro putin, for the first time in gop platform change history. an offer to brief a russian oligar oligarch. hes been convicted of -- he was convicted of eight felonies. how useful do you think manafort could be to muellers team? >> i think narrowly useful. i think the...

But papadopoulos is an interesting case. i mean, he was talking about the russians possession of compromising information openly at a bar. he was telling strangers at a bar. so its hard to imagine that he wasnt -- we know he was talking to the trump campaign, to his colleagues there, trying to convince him there should be a meeting between trump and vladimir putin. its hard to imagine that as a part of that hes telling people at a bar that the russians have compromising information on trumps opp...

First interview since pleading guilty. he said he does not recall telling campaign colleagues that russians that he met had compromising information on hillary clinton. take a listen. >> there are going to be people out there who think there is no way george papadopoulos didnt tell anyone on the campaign. did you tell anyone on the campaign? >> as far as i remember, i absolutely did not -- >> you didnt tell cory lewandowski. >> as far as i remember, i did not share this information with anyone o...