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Clinton, but the indictment doesnt contain any evidence of actual collusion her say. we have an apparent willingness to get information from the russians perhaps, and then he lies about it, but i dont see any evidence here that papadopoulos actually got the dirt. >> well, you know, we have to put these pieces together and look at the big picture. here we learned that in april of last year the trump campaign becomes aware that the russian government is in possession of thousands of stolen hillary...

White house press secretary is speaking to, the line of response that the president himself wants, and the i think the second is they dont have much of a better story, and i think thats one of the problems that they are going to continue -- a challenge that they will continue to have is that the gates/manafort indictment may not be the last word on this, and so in an increasing my today call approach by the -- by the special counsel, constantly being met with just the refrain that there was no c...

Have a lot of the tax information and the financial information surrounding paul manafort and flynn, and michael flynn, the former national security adviser, who now seem to be at the center of the mueller probe. >> why did they -- some of your reporting is that initially, they did not want to cooperate with the mueller probe. why not? >> right, so the two sides were at odds for months over the scope of the special counsels investigation. you know, this started as a russia meddling investigation...

Has not really been focused on, and i would like to remind people that this president said he would lift the sanctions. thats what putin really wants and he wants it now. he wants the sanctions lifted so he can drill for oil in the arctic. its worth billions of dollars. this is what tillerson wants him to do. tillerson negotiated the deal for exxon, and a number of the allies around this president, including flynn, including manafort, including roger stone, including cohen and many others of his...

With ukraine, with the oligarchs, with other countries, the shady payments hes gotten over the past decade, now the fact that they came and did an early morning raid because a judge had obviously felt that he was going to hide important data, important information if they didnt do it that way. hes in a heck of a lot of trouble. the question is does he know anything about other people inside the white house, namely the president, and their dealings with russia? the president, from day one, has sa...

>> tim, at bloomberg, youre reporting that the special counsel has also reached out to other business associates, including manaforts son-in-law and a ukrainian oligarch according to one of the people. those efforts were characterized as an apparent attempt to gain information that could be used to squeeze manafort or force him to be more helpful to prosecutors, and that has to be what donald trump is worried about here more than anything. so were watching this fascinating moment where today, do...

Businesses and one of his business partners. in addition to those subpoenas, bloomberg also reports that the special counsel has also, quote, reached out to other people, including manaforts own son-in-law and a former business partner who happens to be a putin linked ukrainian oligarch in an apparent attempt to gain information to squeeze manafort to force him to be more helpful to prosecutors. prosecutors have reached out to those other people. an fbi raid i get. a subpoena i get. what does it...

>> his consulting fees are probably from all over the place. who knows. i dont know. did i mention i barely remember the guy? yesterday we learned at the drekt of special counsel bob mueller the fbi raided paul manna forths home, seizing tax records and banking records. we dont know exactly what the fbi was looking for at paul manaforts house or why they felt like they had to go after anything with a search warrant and armed agents instead of just sending a subpoena. but today at bloomberg news,...

Purview is to subpoena documents. so i think well start to see a lot more of that now that this grand jury is operating under mueller. >> cnn has learned that they subpoenaed documents and notes from the donald trump jr. meeting with the russian lawyer as well as the members of the campaign including manafort and jared kushner. president trump has not shied away from talking about russia. in fact, just this past thursday at that big campaign style rally in west virginia he said this. >> the russ...

Russian facilities to do it certainly speaks to criminality. and his inability to understand that he absolutely had to disclose his meetings and his involvement with russians, and now trying to claim that he just overlooked is not acceptable and not believable. and so im a little bit sad because i see us moving steadily to the point where were going to unveil all of this collusion, all of those persons that were involved, and it leads right to the president of the united states, which ive always...