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Headquarters in moscow doesnt make sense. it would have relied on folks on the ground here in the united states. >> do you agree with that. whether its american citizens or russian. or espionage intelligence officials from russia on the ground here that local knowledge would be key. 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 campai...

Manafort, a veritable suite of v ips were trying to get out of this meeting that has been lied about a year ago. that was described as, quote, russia government attorney. we should report she said she has no connection to the russia government. she told nbc news she had no compromising material on trumps opponent. >> she said she was there to lobby against a law she said was affecting her client, a well connected russia a law that also imposed sanctions on russia but she said he was interested i...

Something in russia and didnt pay taxes. i was like what does this have to do with anything? >> good question, donald trump jr. knew why he was meeting with someone advertised in writing as a russian government attorney from that e-mail. the crown prosecutor of russia offered to provide information that would incriminate hillary in her dealings with russia and would be useful to your father as yes, quote, part of russia and its government support for mr. trump. that is what donald trump jr. and ...

Natalia told cnn she was not bringing compromising material even though that is what a british promoter specifically wrote about in his letter to donald trump jr. in his e-mail. and donald trump jr.s response to that was, if its what you say, i love it. >> its still unclear exactly what happened at trump tower with that meeting between the presidents oldest son and the russian attorney who supposedly had dirt on hillary clinton. and when president trump found out about it, well, thats the questi...

Having observed russia in all of these years at the pentagon, why would all of those people be meeting with one, with one political campaign? >> well, theyre trying to establish relationships so that they can then influence members of that campaign. sometimes its through the accumulation of compromising material that can then later be used for blackmail. in other cases its through a series of business ties so that some of these individuals will then be sympathetic to the cause thats being espous...

I got to say when you read that list of names, the one thing that i kind of laughed about is when i hear former military intelligence officer, i mentally scratch out the "former." i mean that goes without saying. so a lot of these indivuals are tied to the intelligence servicesn one way, shape, or form or tied to very powerful people. as you mentioned, the prosecutor general, yury chaika. >> why would -- from your perspective having observed russia for all of these years in your professional cap...

Scratch out the former. i mean, that goes without saying. so a lot of these individuals are tied to the intelligence services in one way, shape or form, or tied to very powerful people, as you mentioned the prosecutor general, yura chaika. >> from your perspective of having observed russia in all of these years at the pentagon, why would all of those people be meeting with one, with one political campaign? >> well, theyre trying to establish relationships so that they can then influence members ...

9th meeting with jared kushner, donald trump jr., the russian lawyer and paul manafort, except theres more. that june 9th meeting was not a party of four. it was a party of six. the russian lawyer who met with the team after a promise of compromising material on hillary clinton was accompanied by a russian american lobbyist who was a former sof yet counterintelligence officer and is suspected by some u.s. officials of having ongoing ties to russian intelligence, something he denies. donald trump...

The kremlin of donald trump jr.s e-mails who said he thought he was meeting with an attorney hired by the kremlin. i have nothing yet from russian officials, but what are you hearing about aman agalarav and why he wanted this meeting, at least according to the e-mail? >> were hearing denials, jake, from pretty much everybody. the lawyer who met with donald trump jr., natalia veselnitskaya, she just spoke with her own matthew chance and insisted she had no compromising material, no compra mate me...

Perjury and financial information about mr. trump. >> this information was provided as part of last weeks classified intelligence briefing. >> the worlds senior most intelligence officials took the allegation of compromising material seriously both on president trump and on president obama to a dossier compiled by a british intelligence agent. in conversations described in the dossier russian officials and others claimed to have personally and financially compromising information on trump. >> ca...