that forced the release of these e-mails, and i think of the people that are let me have a broad answer to your question, i don t know if it matters if there s particular information in these e-mails that really would determine in the minds of the lawmakers that think we have never got ton to the bottom of the hillary clinton e-mail scandal. so, if you re of a mind to do it and you re a republican in congress to control an investigation, you still may come back to work after new year s and say we need to have even more hearings. i say that and people should know, congress has already devoted considerable time and resources to investigating hillary clinton and the e-mails. yeah, these e-mails were released, we should note, as part of a freedom of information request brought about by a group called judicial watch. david, to you, the e-mail release also brought up questions about the tactics used between those in the clinton investigation, things like granting immunity to key witnesse
that s opposition research. everybody does that. but collusion or conspiracy requires the violation of a federal law in connection with that information. now, if these were hacked e-mails and papadopolous was aware that they were hacked, that s it might be a violation of federal law for him to use that stolen property in the campaign. now we ve made out a criminal act. so that s why this is so important. it s the first little bit of build on the actual crime that could be charged ultimately. and the fact pattern doesn t look that dissimilar to what happened to donald trump, jr. holds a meeting on it, accepts the meeting on it and look at cambridge analytica reaching out to wikileaks to help coordinate maybe the e-mail release that they had or ask questions about the e-mails. there seems to be a lot of back and forth here about e-mails and information. of course. we heard at the beginning when the don jr. meeting first came
of what might be russian collusion. if you re looking form, you had to wait for rebecca ballhaus s scoop that came out tonight. there goes my pencil. remember that date again. that specific date when we learned the democratic documents that were stolen weren t randomly taking by some they ll. they were taken as part of a russian intelligence operation. that news first broke june 14th last year. when that happened, it was not subtle. it was everywhere. this was the initial report. russian government hackers penetrated dnc. that started a litany, a tornlt of reporting about that. the refers confirm, the hack of dnc. russia is behind e-mail release. spy agency grows. security experts say russia probably thakd democrats. fbi indicating possible
for the trump campaign at the time the overture happen. that still doesn t the implicate the trump campaign in that part of what might be russian collusion. if you re looking form, you had to wait for rebecca ballhaus s scoop that came out tonight. there goes my pencil. remember that date again. that specific date when we learned the democratic documents that were stolen weren t randomly taking by some they ll. they were taken as part of a russian intelligence operation. that news first broke june 14th last year. when that happened, it was not subtle. it was everywhere. this was the initial report. russian government hackers penetrated dnc. that started a litany, a tornlt of reporting about that. the refers confirm, the hack of dnc. russia is behind e-mail release. spy agency grows. security experts say russia probably thakd democrats. fbi indicating possible
reporter: on cnn s new day, their lawyer said the e-mails don t add up. it s just fantasy world because the reality is if there was something important that mr. agalarov wanted to communicate to the trump campaign, i suspect he could have called mr. trump directly as opposed to having his son s pop music publicist be the intermediary. pamela brown joins us now. i understand we heard from the father of the pop star today. what did he say? reporter: that s right. ross agalarov spoke to a radio station in the wake of the e-mail release. he said he doesn t personally know don junior. he also said he doesn t really know goldstone either. he said it was a, quote, tall tale that goldstone asked trump junior to contact him about dirt on hillary clinton. so, it s clear that all sides involved in this, anderson, are trying to distance themselves from one another. the interesting thing is i talked to the attorney yesterday and he denied there was a phone conversation between donald trum