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Diplomacy and there is theres some kind of thing that might be nefarious. i thought the interesting point in the reuters story, about is there a quid pro quo between relaxing sanctions and making deals with banks. thats an inappropriate conversation. >> hugh, back to you. >> i wanted to point out there was precedent for back channel. and three administrations in a row attempted russian resets. the ironry of course is that the war room is being set up in part by jamie gorelick. james st. claire, ...

To russia was requested. looking at the way donald trump operates his white house i think both scenarios are plausible. its plausible he didnt know, its plausible he was briefed on it and did know. thats what the investigation i think is ultimately designed to get at, thomas. >> all right. well figures out who will ask the howard baker question coming up. great to see you, ken, thank you. happy memorial day weekend. >> you too. great to be with you. >> i want to bring in molly, congressional rep...

Diplomacy and there is theres some kind of thing that might be nefarious. i thought the interesting point in the reuters story, about is there a quid pro quo between relaxing sanctions and making deals with banks. thats an inappropriate conversation. >> hue, back to you. >> i wanted to point out there was precedent for back channel. and three administrations in a row attempted russian resets. the ironry of course is that the war room is being set up in part by jamie gorelick. james st. claire, r...

He loosened the rules. it was almost lost kind of under the radar. right before he left office he also did another step which loosened this information and how other agencies could access this raw data. that was done on his way out the door. >> its low level employees who have access to this information that are able to pull this data. not even when youre talking about the high level classified officials that are handling this data. this creates the question about susan rice where it was about t...

Collusion because they did take place after the election. but how critical could they be in this overall investigation? put the puzzle piece in for us. >> well, as some in this investigation have been doing for quite a while, this adds more dots to a density of russian relations which donald trump and those closest to him have. its an extraordinary thing if you were to graph it, put it on a graph and just look at the density of relationships of everyone around donald trump. and jared kushner who...

Why after they knew so much about michael flynns vulnerabilities on russia and the money that he got from russia was jared kushner so defensive of him. so, i think that these pieces are more dots. matt has done wonderful groundwork laying out what the questions ought to be, but we need to be getting answers. >> you see the white house is setting up this war room we were talking about earlier in the hour. it sort of speaks to, matt, what you write about also, that the russia investigation is gett...

Are not moving no matter what donald trump does, the party has to get over it if they want to have any viability after 2020. >> mike, to your question, the sheriffs office did site gianforte for assault. connecting the dots between trump and this montana candidate, quote, at an event lasted by the advancing conservatism society. an audience member reportedly said, gianforte said, we have someone right here. it seems like theres more of us than there was of him. the republican later told the bill...

This is the period when vladimir putin was an active kgb agent. so you start to put the dots together. donald trump has this affinity. then he has a need. and if you are russia and youre the spy services, who would you target that would be vulnerable? it would be something who is needy or greedy. theyre not just cultivating donald trump. ross perot was on the same trip to go and meet gorbachev. you have this active according to being done of the potential american oligarchs who might have needed...

Officials on kaspersky labs. so were following these threads. the senate intelligence committee got a closed door briefing today on a russian firm that is linked to mike flynn that is also link ed to the mysterious treason arrest right after our election. those are the dots. i do not know what the connections are between the dots or if there are any, but this is one of those nights things are sort of moving fast. we he are following a bunch of different news stories tonight. im going to take a b...

And now tonight abc news reports that the senate intelligence committee met behind closed doors today in classified session for a briefing from top fbi and homeland security officials on kaspersky labs. so were following these threads. the senate intelligence committee got a closed door briefing today on a russian firm that is linked to mike flynn that is also linked to the mysterious treason arrest right after our election. those are the dots. i do not know what the connections are between the ...