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Agents and decided which dnc e-mails he decided to hack himself. we have a long list of contacts between the trump campaign and russians including manafort. i commend people to read david ignatiuss piece today. we wrote about this in our book, michael and myself. then you also have this happening while the attack is under way. you know, trump signaled to the russians again and again and again with many different actions that he didnt mind the russian attack on the american election. and even ear...

Capable of compartmentalizes his permanent interactions with people in this probe. im not making light of the fact that perhaps rudy giuliani is influential and that his reputation will proceed him in this case. but whether or not they can accelerate a position where we do not know where the targets are. we heard only two weeks ago the president was not a target, was perhaps a subject in some respects. i think its a fantasy still. even with reputation, can counsel, a chance that he would acceler...

People, including manafort, including jared kushner. and so the legal team was aware at this time that these e-mails existed. and, of course, the times would subsequently report that the e-mails existed and exactly what was in them and donald trump saying, if you say if its dirt like you say, i love it. >> i love it. >> they knew all that at the time that we first made this call, at the time that they made -- that they were putting that statement together. and the thing that, you know, got sort ...

He didnt say yes or no. i have been told by a campaign official to push back against this narrative, just because he was a volunteer he wasnt important. so many people were, in fact, volunteers, including manafort. >> thank you so much. always food reporting. lets bring in analyst jonathan alter, also a columnist for the daily beast joining us shortly, jonathan, with a good day to you. >> good morning. >> can jeff sessions make the case that he honestly did not recall the contacts? how far doe...

Nothing that what manafort and gates have been charged with has anything to do with what robert mueller was charged with in his investigation? >> that may be factually accurate but the way that federal investigations usually work is that they look to squeeze lower level people on violations that may be unrelated in order to get them to cooperate with the government and prosecute people higher up on the ladder. so its not so relevant whether or not what they are charged with is related to collusi...

Understands how serious it is, that a foreign power was trying to interfere in the election, and it would also show that he takes very seriously the concept that it could happen in the future. i mean, were investigating what happened in the past, but the russians are clearly not going to stop. they do this all over the world, so i think as a country we do need to use this opportunity to focus on how to stop it from happening in the future. >> one of the things that people seem to be saying also ...

Others today with the campaign say he was a low-level player, he was unpaid. he was kind of a third-tier hanger on and maybe, you know, didnt have the authority to be having some of these conversations, and so i think theres more to learn about papadopoulos role, but i dont think we should mistake him for someone who was in a high-level position in this campaign. >> we dont know if he was in a high-level position or not but as someone who worked on several campaigns, he sent e-mails to manafort ...

Seriously. they do sort of come up a plan saying, look, well have to have some low-level people handle this. this is not something for the candidate to do. look, that doesnt tell me that this is -- that theres nothing here, and, you noey, to lauras point, this is collusion. a lot of people wondering what that is. weve been talking about how theres no specific crime of collusion hand what youve seen described in the papadopoulos plea agreement is certainly what collusion would look like. >> laura...

Home decorating, activities that federal officials say were ongoing while both manafort and gates were working on behalf of the campaign. president trump briefed on the charges from the white house this morning distanced himself from manafort tweeting. sorry, but this is years ago, before paul manafort was part of the trump campaign. but why arent crooked hilary and the dems the focus? also, there is no collusion. and today the government asked for bail set at $so million for manafort and $5 mil...

El at the end of the day they are part of this. he doesnt -- if you were innocent, donald trump would be acting completely differently because were talking about a foreign government interfering in the democratic process to help one person and hurt another. >> white house press secretary sarah sanders responded this afternoon to the indictment of trump campaign chairman manafort and deputy campaign chair gates and news that papadopoulos, george papadopoulos had pleaded guilty lying to the fbi, h...