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Induded 12 agents of russian intelligence in connection with hacking of the dnc computer and setting up a couple websites, d.c. leaks and others to disseminate the information. so all of that would seem to fly in the face of putins denial but hes sticking to it and the president giving him a lot of low way today. >> dana: what the did putin say when he was asked if russia has any compromising information about president trump? its been a subject of speculation over here. >> you know, the word hu...

The trump lies which is that putin wanted hillary clinton in there because she would supposedly be weaker. so i think the media has done a very responsible job about covering this debate about treason and the compromising information and so far. but its not going to convince the hard core followers, its flabber gasing to see that 70-some percent of republicans approved of helsinki. trump seems to be so deep in putins pocket, this is a turn around. i grew up in the 1980s when republicans were den...

The president. the president has compromised himself today. >> let me just press you on that. theres a lot of speculation that at the root of this trump-putin relationship lies some compromising information. you just gave us another example that that effort could be ongoing on vladamir putins part. he recorded the meeting. he today im sure knows that the president tried to walk back what he was so widely condemned for saying yesterday. so he may have added to the leverage that he has over this p...

About it. >> i have to say, if they had it, it would have been out long ago. >> as you will hear later in this program, intelligence officials disagree with that. if vladimir putin had compromising information on donald trump or his family of course he would keep it as his little secret with donald trump so that he could control donald trump, especially in one-on-one meetings with donald trump. and then president trump threw in a last line today to end the press conference with a trumpian dash o...

>> they pulled back, though. >> in terms of going back to putinen and why do it now, this can be viewed by the u.s. government side and u.s. intelligence officials as compromising information. anything that you can do to sort of cast president in a bad light or show that maybe people around him were doing something shady, its compromising information for a foreign government. its what they were concerned about with michael flynn that he was having these meetings and not being honest about them. ...

Timing of trumps decision to run for the presidency. hes also asking about the 2013 miss universe pageant that was held in moscow and questions around the financing of that. and weve also learned that hes been asking questions of witnesses about plans to have two times a trump branded hotel in moscow. none of those plans materialized. we also learned that he has also asked at least one witness if he ever saw any russians at the trump tower in new york in 2015. and this witness said that, no, he ...

Note that dossier was paid for by a law firm paid for by democrats. the democratic opponents, hillary clinton for president donald trump. but key that we know that robert mueller at least asking witnesses questions about their knowledge of, awareness of any such compromising information. >> certainly when asked by "the new york times," the president agreed that there would be a red line when it comes to the investigation in his and his familys finances. >> thats right. thats where the president ...

>> what else can you tell us about the kinds of questions that mueller is asking witnesses. >> its reaching who a whole host of things that happened before the campaign kicked off. including exploration of a trump tower property deal in russia, including the 2013 miss universe campaign, including very specific questions along the lines, questions who was in trump tower -- in the hotel room in moscow during the discussions of the deals with the miss universe campaign, who was tere, who would have...

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Been cultivating donald trump for at least five years before the 2016 election under the direction, of course, of vladimir putin. it claims they were, quote, sweet heart real estate deals being offered and this is important, though none were acted on by the trump organization. by the dossier says several trump associates were in close contact with russian officials. the more salacious claims of sexual misconduct at a moscow hotel tend to overshadow the related point that the russian security ser...