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Here they have yet to answer. >> guys, hang on with me. we just brought in keir simmons. as we mentioned, vladimir putin was involved in a panel discussion with my colleague megyn kelly. besides asking about russian hacking, kelly also asked putin if he talked with the trump team about easing sanctions. take a listen and well well talk to keir. >> this is a systeria. perhaps there is a pill to cure it. my answer is no, no agreements whatsoever. we never, ever get down to that, never had the time...

Consideration to unilaterally rescind the conventions. he says he received several panicky calls from u.s. government officials who told them they had been directed to develop a sanctions lifting package and imploring him please my god, cant you stop this. it was apparently stopped in large part thanks to pushback from veterans at the state department. but there is a michael flynn connection here, too, as michael isikoff told chris hayes earlier tonight. >> february 13th, michael flynn resigns. ...

Relation, im sure thats the question the fbi wants to know of easing sanctions and if there was a quid pro quo. >> in 1968 there were communications between the nixon team and russians to create a back channel. so part of these discussions could have been about syria and some kind of new strategy to develop that. the economic sanctions is trickier. this is a subject, not just a legal discussion but a political discussion. the question is, were trump officials working and communicating with the r...

Contacts with russia. he has denied that he was a foreign agent. page told cnns jake tapper that when he visited russia last july, he never discussed easing sanctions on russia relating to the seizing of crimea, but interviewed on abc news, page could not provide a clear answer. >> i never offered that, no, nothing along those lines, absolutely not. i mean, it may -- topics -- i dont remember. well see what comes out in this fisa transcript. something may have come up in a conversation. i have n...

Up. i have no recollection. if it was, it was not something i was offering or that someone was asking for. >> this is somebody who is known to have strong pro kremlin groups, they called him a wak a doodle. he gets on the campaign, potentially talking with russians about easing sanctions. are we starting to get to the why of him being in the campaign? >> were starting to see more and more evidence u.s. public, via trump campaign, has been a victim of a weapon of mass information. this is carter ...

Accused obama associates to spy on him. that is not what happened. they were targeting russians and russian officials and others and as they did that, they picked up conversations between russians and advisers during the trump campaign. >> and there were ambiguous comments today as well. >> at best, confusing, at worst, conflicting, when he spoke to jake tapper yesterday, jake asked him did you as you met with the russians did you bring up the idea of easing sanctions, for instance, and keep in ...

Treaty. sections were lifted back in 1996 under president clinton at the time. in 2014, rather 2016, i remember, no, 2006, i apologize. july 4th, i was on the air and they fired seven ballistic missiles. all of these threats come obviously. now they see we mean business and were going to to go in th. at what point to the united states go and strike north korea? easing sanctions, that hasnt helped. >> chris: north korea is probably the second behind maybe somalia, the second or third worst place ...

And britain. carter page provides a confusing, even conflicting story acts his contacts with russian intelligence. >> its just such a joke that its beyond words. >> reporter: he told jake tapper he never discussed easing sanctions on russia related to the seizing of crimea. >> did you talk to anybody about he would be willing to get rid of the sanctions? >> never any conversations such as that. i mean, look -- >> what do you mean direct -- i dont know what that means. direct conversations. >> im...

Were picked up as incidental collection during routine surveillance of known rush arean targets. the u.s. and britain are part of the so-called five eyes agreement along with canada, australia and new zealand which calls for open sharing among member nations of a broad range of intelligence. this new information comes as former trump foreign policy adviser carter paige provides confusing and conflicting stories about contacts with russian intelligence. he has denied he was a foreign agent. >> th...

And once you get those, lets say there were contacts that you arent comfortable with, and there was discussion of easing sanctions. then what? >> well, first of all, we should be able to get these transcripts as part of our oversight responsibilities, and in addition to our investigative responsibilities. if those transcripts show evidence of illegality by flynn or others, thats something the fbi ought to be investigating and pursuing. and if there are other issues, other actors within the white...