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Theyre suing the trump campaign for what they allege was the trump campaigns participation in the russian hack of e-mails from the dnc and their subsequent publication online. quoting from the lawsuit on information and belief, defendants, meaning the trump campaign, entered into an agreement with other parties including agents of russia to have information that was stolen from the dnc, publicly disseminated in a strategic way that would benefit the campaign to elect mr. trump as president. now,...

Lawsuit goes ahead, and ihink it has a reasonable chance. the discovery process in this lawsuit will allow the lawyers who are arguing this to obtain trump campaign documents, to depose trump campaign witnesses under oath. this will become a whole new source of what will eventually be publicly available information about that part of the russian attack that the lawsuit alleges had trump campaign cooperation around those dnc documents. totally new avenue of information in this scandal if this thi...

Last night we reported on a new avenue of investigation on the trump-russia affair. a new lawsuit filed by a high powered group, a former obama administration lawyers. theyre suing the trump campaign for what they allege was the trump campaigns participation in the russian hack of e-mails from the dnc and their subsequent publication online. quoting from the lawsuit on information and belief, defendants, meaning the trump campaign, entered into an agreement with other parties including agents of...

Subsequent publication on-line. quoting from the lawsuit on information and belief. defendants, meaning the trump campaign, entered into an agreement with other parties, including agents of russia, to have information that was stolen from the dnc, publicly disseminated in a strategic way that would benefit the campaign to elect mr. trump as president. now, the main reason i think this lawsuit is so important nationally is because if this lawsuit goes ahead -- i think it has a reasonable chance -...

Computer systems, the undisputable fact that private information was released for the whole world to see of these private citizens. we know that the russians and guccifer and wikileaks were involved in this. their argument is that they believe the trump campaign and, in particular, one individual were involved, and theyve got lots of meetings and lots of information. and now, of course, their case was strengthened this past weekend with the release of the e-mail showing that senior officials of ...

Recounts suffering personal harm as a result of that exposure. they allege not just that they were harmed by russian government hackers stealing their information. the important part here is that theyre alleging specifically that members of the trump campaign conspired with the russians to release the information that the russians had hacked. quote, defendants agreed with each other and with other parties, including russian government officials and wikileaks, to publicly disclose on the internet...

>> no, they eventually will have to meet their burden of proof as plaintiffs, but theres plenty of information to allow them to go forward. you have the indisputable fact that there was a break-in to the computer system and the undisputable fact that private information was released for the whole world to see of these private citizens, that we know the russians and gucifer and wikileaks were involved in this. their argument is they believe the campaign and one individual were involved, and they ...

A whole new avenue by which we might learn through the discovery process whether the trump campaign worked with russia deliberately on the part of the russian attack that was the hacking and the repurposing of all those e-mails and documents from the dnc. joining us now is walter dellinger, former acting solicitor general under president clinton. thank you very much for your time. >> thank you. >> i know that you are not personally involved in this lawsuit. i also know that you are an important ...

Phone records, other primary source documents. through this discovery process, and this lawsuit, they want to depose witnesses, they want campaign documents. again, this is specifically looking at whether there was trump campaign involvement, and what has otherwise been seen as a russian operation. so -- and i should mention that the lawyers involved in this, the people who are suing the trump campaign here are freaking highfalutin high-powered people. so theres that. think about this from the p...

Glimpse of the presidents finances. its nowhere near as detailed as the federal tax return. trump refuses to release those. and they would reveal the specifics ethics experts want to see. for example, if the president benefits from his own tax proposals and the identity of any foreign business ties. theyre concerned money from foreign governments could influence policy. the president has not yet disclosed the sources of any foreign money to his business empire, prompting democratic lawmakers to ...