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Dossier alleges the russian government gathered compromising material on the future president. two sources say he viewed the offer of five women as a joke saying he told the russian "he dont did that type of stuff." one of the report hoarse broke that story, national political reporter jonathan allen. what was the context of shillers testimony about this? >> well, i mean, generally speaking i think youve got members of the committee trying to figure out whether that steele dossier is accurate, w...

Moscow, a russian participant in the miss universe contest offered to send five women to donald trumps hotel room. that according to closed-door testimony tuesday by trumps long-time bodyguard keith she will cher three sources who were present for shrillers testimony recounted to nbc news. shillers one-time nypd officer who became head of security of trump tower, followed him to the white house her he served as combination of body man, confidant, and gate keeper before leaving in september. trum...

Youre a never trump guy, have you heard anything about this private intel operation that has turned up supposedly a whole sheef of allegations about trump being connected to russia? about russia having compromising material on trump? and trump being involved, or at least informed about this russia hacking the democratic party? he got a call that was an inquiry as to whether or not he had heard that stuff. hes a guy who hears about opposition research. hes involved in research in republican polit...

They did not do a good job of campaigning. >> how will that be viewed across town? >> its irrelevant to muellers inquiry. he is looking into the implications of russian meddling. it makes no difference the basis of why trump won the election. just to pull this full circle, brian, this diss of the diplomats in russia based on what he said thanking vladimir putin, in effect, choosing putin over our patriots, thats payoff for russian leverage over our presidency, and why is it? is it because the pr...

Winning. we had great team, and i guess i did a good job. and you know what? honestly, they spent much more money than i did by a lot. you know that. they spent a lot more money, and they did not do a good job of campaigning. >> how will that be viewed across town? >> its irrelevant to muellers inquiry. he is looking into the implications of russian meddling. it makes no difference the basis of why trump won the election. just to pull this full circle, brian, this diss of the diplomats in russia...

We had great team, and i guess i did a good job. and you know what? honestly, they spent much more money than i did by a lot. you know that. they spent a lot more money, and honestly, they did not do a good job of campaigning. >> how will that be viewed across town? >> its irrelevant to muellers inquiry. mueller is looking at the national security implications of russian meddling. it makes no difference the basis of why trump won the election. just to pull this full circle, brian, this epic dist...

Can work in that in short order. >> you said theres a lot of members of the trump team working with the russians. we know of donald trump jr.s willingness to hear the compromising material from what he thought would be a russian government official. is there anything more than that? because that, according to trump junior and others, didnt result in much. and are there other incidents or meetings that you can tell us about? >> well, sure, jake. this summer was quite a busy time for the trump cam...

Compromising material in order to keep his job. >> robert mueller saying it would be what he called a violation for mueller to start looking into trump family finances. the president said, quote, look, this is about russia. jeff zeleny begins our coverage this morning from the white house. >> theres no question that today is going to be filled with questions about the presidents own words about his own attorney general. in an extraordinary interview posted last night on "the new york times" webs...

In a an interview, a staggering one, the president says he would have picked someone else to be attorney general if he knew jeff sessions would e recuse himself on russia-related matters. the president also attacking former fbi director james comey telling the times he thinks comey tried to leverage a dossier of compromising material on him in order to keep his job. >> president trump also took aim at special counsel robert mouler saying it would be what he called a violation for mueller to star...

For any intelligence service i assume they would have to have local knowledge. just like the u.s. in iraq would have to have -- its better to have locals giving information. >> absolutely. at this point in the campaign we now know that the fbi notified the dnc about the hacking activity that occurred for almost 17 months prior to this meeting in june. so the russians have been gathering book and what they consider to be compromising material on the candidates chlts they have been hacking into th...