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>> shepard: president-elect trump went on a twitter tirade. and said russia never tried to use leverage. and someone was prosecuting him for are wing the election. and ripped the intelligence communication questioning if we lived in nizy germany. he escalated his own word and likening their actions like that of a nazi and call today a tremendous blot on the community if the officials released anything. and the kremlin said russia does not collect compromising material. >> there is ample evidence...

Else. this is something the fbi had for months and they felt the president-elect and the president obama needed to know about this what we remains unclear to what degree this material has been investigated by the fbi. >> just to get back to what you said, it sound like they cultivated him with saying good things about him but perhaps dug some stuff on him something to control him with. >> that was the -- one of the allegation in thats reports did say they gathered compromising material on donald...

The domestic you wing and the military intelligence wing and they did it independently of each other and unbeknownst to one another. it was the rivalry between the two that led to the discovery of the hacks. thats a level of specificity that goes beyond whether hugh sane is moving weapons around in iraq. it relies on digital forensics. >> im curious to hear how you see this playing out. trump can simply undo there are reports that the administration more months that be reluctant to punish russia...

Think that to embarrass ourselves in our elections, you saw it yourself with some of your guest this is your studio. we didnt need the russians help. everyone likes to have someone to blame. when the soviet union was falling apart, the top adviser on america said to me, youre going to miss us. you could blame us for everything. it may be that compromising material came through the russians. but they were only the source. they didnt make the compromising material. when the fbi number two man fed ...

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>> vladimir putin didnt even bother to say, no, we do not have any compromising material on donald trump. he just ordered the press to stop thinking about it. today john brennan referred to donald trump, the trump campaign and the trump businesses as trump incorporated. probably with the intentional echo of the criminal gangs that the news media used to call murder incorporated. craig unger calls it the house of trump. the book describes what he calls the greatest intelligence operation of our t...

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Normalization of russian/american relations. finally, a question on blackmail. >> does the russian team have compromising material on president trump or his family. >> reporter: putin briskly waved off the question, saying only that he hasnt personally known trump very long. i heard about that we had allegedly collected compromising material on mr. trump when he came to moscow. mr. colleagues, i dont know trump was there. trump laughed it off, and end with a tirade about peter struck who forlsly...

Pr pree fer rara submitted. that young diplomat, i talked to him about my class. we sat and had coffee one time. i met him at at a conference at the society, and we met once for coffee and i gave him some of my class notes that my students at new york university were looking at. it was in one ear and out the other. he never asked me to do anything. i mean, it is so preposterous. >> and did anyone at any time, and any russian government official at any time in 2016 talk to you about either liftin...

Against american intelligence agency agencies what was what was the reason for trying to say that both sides are to blame for their poor relationships. chuck schumer said yesterday in his press conference that the only explanation he can think of is that the russians really have some compromising material on donald trump and he called for the whole us national security team to testify before congress they are there are calling for a five person legislation that would ultimately clearly impose sa...