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>> tucker: max blumenthal joins us in studio. i love that exchange because it similar to so many ive had on the show or if you call into question the facts beingr asserted you are immediately accused of being a handmaiden to vladimir putin. let me ask the broadest question.vl you are not a trumpou supporter, a lifelong man of the left and yet you dont think that this russia story is helpful to the left or makeses sense, why? >> we have to talk about the issue of efficacy. in addition to the fact...

If, in fact, there was nothing of value to be provided. i think thats part of what well have to see about what specific help the russian government provided the campaign. and connecting the dots essentially between that meeting and those e-mails. and the actions of the russian government in disclosing hacked e-mails and so on later on during the presidential election campaign. >> okay, and then the presidents son-in-law, one of the campaign officials in that room, now, he still works in the whit...

Would a assume that nothing came out of it. >> so he believes collusion, are any meetings off of the record beginning to believe that as well prepare there now no dots to second? >> they dont believe it is collusion. not on a legal level, but on laymens terms. there is a secret agreement here. they are trying to work before going out, and beyond that, the russians wanted to help elect trump and donald trump himself solicited russian help in doing that. and we are getting the details. >> the pres...

There. its not that meeting per se. thats just one data point. theres a whole lot of smoke out there. at the bottom, we know there was an illegal hacking. >> im curious, what you want to make of the latest developments in the russia probe in terms of taking a look at what some of your democratic colleagues have been saying. here they are. >> the presidents son clearly knew he was getting derogatory information from a hostile foreign power and laid out a timetable to use it. in my mind, thats col...

Meeting. but if this is it, there isnt a whole lot more. the next meeting is going to be a huge story and youre going to start connecting dots. i think its important this administration realized they have damage done here and if theres anything else to be disclose said -- >> if there was a phone conversation between donald trump jr. and this russian pop star which is saying had to be because he had to know what this was about. the family for the pop star has denied there was any phone conversati...

And unfortunately, if youre not schooled in politics and dont recognize that they will find out everything that youve done, youre going to make these mistakes. and they have. i understand what youre saying about the significance of this meeting, but if this is it, there isnt a whole lot here. the question is, is there more? thats where i believe trey gowdy is right. if there is any more, get it out there. get it out there now. because the next meeting if there is one or was one is going to be a ...

House, the uncertainty as to exactly what the american policies are and then, the apparent infatuation with president trump and the russian and putin. keeping in mind that the most recent effort by the u.n. to ratchet up, to increase the sanctions, was vetoed by the russian government. so this lack of clarity, this uncertainty is what has really got everybody concerned throughout the entire pacific region. leland: but connect these dots for me. is it that people in the pacific, i assume you mean...

Today? >> well probably hear her reinforce her call for independent counsel saying you need outside sources to look at connecting the dots to what happened. special counsel bob mueller is looking for crimes. he has a different mission. he might not care about knowing the details of the story. if he concludes that there was no crime, for example, in the meeting, he might not -- he might move on. an independent commission such as the 9/11 commission can put together their whole story from start to...

>> right. the jailers, people who lead to the jailing and. >> go ahead. >> yeah. so -- but it made the russian government quite angry because they were people close to the kremlin. in retaliation they passed a law preventing americans from adopting russian children. >> which is why youre referencing a meeting about adoptions. >> right. >> congressman, it becomes inconceivable to connect some of these dots. the idea that somebody connected to the kremlin even in a secondary manner floats this ide...

To change their story three or four times as you just explained, theyre also willing to mislead about it. thats all mueller needs. he now -- thats enough to start connecting dots, right? everything else has been a series of events. are they connected? are they not? suddenly if you look at this timeline and it begins with this set of e-mails with donald trump jr. on june 2nd and you follow the timeline from june 2nd to the start of the democratic convention, all of a sudden, everything looks like...