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Server in the united states used by the trump organization. we can break it down like this. in the computer world its the equivalent of looking up someones phone number over and over again. sure, theres not necessarily proof of a phone call, but it usually indicates an intention to communicate. thats how several computer scientists put it to us. they obtained leaked internet records that were never supposed to be made public, they were puzzled as to why the russian bank was trying to do this. la...

Of the lookups. computer scientists we spoke to found that very strange. all the corporations involved so far say they have never communicated by e-mail with the trump organization and have different explanations for the server activity. they havent provided proof and dont agree on what the story is. the russian bank thinks it was receiving trump hotel marketing material lt but havent provided a single e-mail to back up that theory. american marketing company that would have been sending those e...

Story here. >> jose? >> this is a great point, because weve asked from the very beginning, either the data doesnt exist, right, thats why there are no secret communications, soor no ones leaked it yet. all the computer scientists who have looked at this have said this needs to be thoroughly investigated. thats all theyve said. what seems to be happening now is this investigation has shifted to the counterintelligence team thats been handling this investigation for the fbi into any potential link...

Organization and a russian bank. could it be the root of president trumps infamous wiretapping accusations against president obama? plus our man in moscow. jon huntsman signs on for what may be the toughest job in the trump administration, ambassador to russia. well talk about all of that. >> cnns justice correspondent pamela brown is looking into this. what have you learned about the investigation? >> don, weve learned fbi investigators and computer scientists continue to examine whether ther...

The computer scientists we spoke to just found that weird. now, all of the corporations involved say they never communicated by e-mail with the trump organization, and they had different, sometimes competing explanations for the server activity. but they havent provided any proof of what was going on and they dont always agree. for example, the russian bank thinks it was receiving trump hotel e-mail marketing last summer but they couldnt provide cnn with a single e-mail to back that up. meanwhil...

This was last summer, during the presidential campaign. so the russian bank was looking up the address to trumps server more times than the server received from any other source. the only other entity doing this as frequently was from a company owned by the husband of betsy devos, later pointed as education secretary by president trump. now, these computer scientists we spoke to said thats just plain weird. as a response, all the corporations involved have told cnn theyve never communicated by e...

Organization and a russian bank. jose pagliery is here with me now. its a complicated tale but an important one. what are we learning? >> whats happening here is this russian bank, alfa bank, was repeatedly looking at the contact information for the trump organization server in the united states. its like looking up a phone number. but it did that 2,800 times last summer. >> that sounds like a lot to a layman. >> it does, but put it in context, the computer scientists found this was 80% of the l...

Health, those two entities alone made up 99% of the lookups. now computer scientists we spoke to found that just plain weird. all the corporations involved said they never communicated by e-mail with the trump organization. and they have different explanations for the server activity. but they have not provided any proof and dont agree on what the reasons were. for example, the russian bank thinks that it was receiving trump hotel marketing last summer but has not provided e-mail with the inform...

Its looking up contact information. so while there isnt necessarily a phone call, usually it indicates something that might be an intention to communicate. thats what we heard from several computer scientists. one particular group of computer scientists who looked at this obtained these leaked internet records. records they were never, ever supposed to make public. and they were puzzled as to why a russian bank was doing this. was it trying to send an e-mail to the trump organization? they found...

Comment. alisyn? >> pamela, when you say the relationship was odd, what was so peculiar about those communications? >> reporter: whats odd about the communication is this russian bank repeatedly looked up the unique internet address of a particular computer server in the u.s. used by the trump organization. in fact, last summer during the presidential campaign, the russian bank looked up the address to this trump corporate server some 2800 times. more lookups than from any other source. the only...