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But on the cyber security issue, i dont think thats one of them. >> matthew, does it make any sense that the u.s. would want to work with russia on cyber security and do you see president trumps meeting with vladamir putin as the president standing up on the issue of hacking? >> so i think the problem with this general term of cyber security is that it lumps two things together. one is attacks that happened to use signer mechanisms on critical infrastructure. you could count in that our lector c...

Mcdonalds and someone comes up and says i have this information. this was through a contact who worked on the miss universe pageant in russia. so there must have been an e-mail or phone confidence wen donald trump, jr. and this person with an explanation of yeah, there is this attorney with russia. he must have known to some degree, no? >> well, to someone who has maybe worked on a number of campaigns and be a part of this over the past 20 years of campaigns that ive done, i cant think of a sing...

Someone else along to see what kind of crazy stuff they might say. >> brian lanza, to counter that, though, ive seen quotes from donald trump, jr., talking about the difficulty of doing business in russia. and one of the problems is, you never know who youre meeting with and you never know their agenda. hes savvy enough, to jasons point, but he knew enough about russia to know that its kind of a murky area and you dont know who youre meeting with. >> i dont think its murky. he had a casual acqua...

Richard painter joins us later, who tweeted, when a russian agent calls to off a dirt, a loyal american will call the fbi. now, to be accurate and fair, we dont know that the russian lawyer trump jr. met with is a russian agent, only that she was on the fbis radar and has ties to vladamir putin. cnn has not been able to independently verify that. she does represent the russians that want the sanctions against russia lifted. a a number of former campaign managers say that not all campaigns do thi...

Substantial. at the very least, it suggests that at the highest levels of the campaign, they were okay with sitting down with someone like that. even if this meeting didnt get that kind of information. >> anderson, you just said to ryan, you said, well, he didnt know her name, but he invited paul manafort and jared kushner in a meeting. this is what is so crucial. by his own admission, he knew what the context of the meeting was. he has said he knew he was going into a meeting to get negative in...

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