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Of ukraine in its fight against the russian backed rebels. a few days later, the first batch of hacked dnc e-mails was released by wikileaks. do you think thats more co-e e coincidence or maybe not? >> there are a lot of dots there, and i dont know which dots we can connect. thats something a committee has to investigate. on that issue, its also notable that president trump was asked by george stephanopoulos at one point about the weakening of the convention platform language. he said he had no ...

All the dots seem to connect but they seem to dmekt a conspiratorial world view which i find disturbing. >> i hear your caution 100% and i think this story ends up giving vertigo for that reason where you feel like you might be standing at the chalk board. its coming from intelligence leaks often, some of it is coming from amazing reporters, from our colleagues, but the point you make about this not turning into catch the russian, the nefarious russian as s an important one to keep a hold on thr...

From what was happening with trump to try to help trump, and thats been the narrative all along. so then you find out and you connect all the dots that when these contacts are taking place theyre at very strategic moments. for instance, when the russians are trying to get reassurance on sanctions. and, you know, the meeting with sessions right now maybe in a vacuum doesnt seem very significant, but think about it. think about him meeting with the russian ambassador at the same time that the news...

>> no. no, theres a lot of dots that are being connected now, thomas, including -- so donald trump -- heres the time line, right. paul pan afort takes over, who has deep connections to russia and to pro-russia regime in ukraine. he takes over and about a month later is when donald trump publicly calls on the russians to hack hillary clinton. i wants also right around the same time that the gop platform is being changed at the convention to be more pro russia. its also about the same time the amb...

Bunch of diplomats got kicked out of the country and lied about it, lied to the vice president, lied to everyone whether theyre talking about sanctions which is suspicious as all heck. >> but were also talking about general michael flynn who is known for being a loose canon, for basically what was considered by his colleagues and intelligence to be insane, who is known -- gratuitously released secrets on iraq five or six years ago. this is -- again, this is not a normal political actor. all the ...

Relationship. what do we know about what went on? >> reporter: well, i dont think we know a lot about what went on inside his meetings as laura said because, you know, they werent recorded or we dont know that they were recorded so well have to see there. jeff sessions used to say that he had not met with the russian ambassador and then they were saying they hadnt discussed the campaign and now hes sayg he didnt discuss the campaign in any sort of meaningful way so the story has changed a little...

Access to local intelligence and contacts in the citys immigrant communities. >> what you lose when you take away the local police department is you lose that on the ground knowledge. >> that limits both sides ability to connect the dots to share data and gain access to potentially vital leads. >> information must flow both ways on these cases. thats vital. and that should transcend any politically -- any political beliefs held by the mayor or the administration of san francisco. >> agents tell ...

This where they could secure a special prosecutor, gu again, republicans in congress are being as was said, i think very firm in standing by the administration even as it is uncomfortable. do you think this is leading to some grand conclusion thats going to tie the dots together in a big way? and hope they could pressure republican leaders into relenting into scial prosecutor which, you know, you heard one or two republicans start to lean in that direction. democrats are going to try point to ac...

Emboldened the russians to do what they did. theres no question, apparently none from what the fbi has told us, that the russians did interfere in the campaign and in the election. >> youre not ready to connect those dots about? let the fbi do it if its there. kasie hunt has a question for you in washington. >> senator, youve called the fbi the tip of the sphere on this more broad question about these investigations. do you have full faith in jim comey, the fbi director? >> fountain fbi is given...

These two previously undisclosed meetings with the russian ambassador, and i cannot connect the two, but you do not have to be sherlock holmes to see the dots they are and think about connecting the dots where some of the information that had been left out there by the obama administration, did it include these contacts with jeff sessions? >> jon: let me go back to "the new york times" piece because the second paragraph says this. "american allies including the british and the dutch have provide...