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Can get it from a crime or not. congressm congressman, mueller is saying he was in contact with him in the months leading up to the collusion and gates knew that this person was an intelligence agent, was a spy. how significant could that be, that he was both in contact with this individual, that he knew this individual to be a russian spy, and that this happened in the months before the election, congressman? >> well, as richard said, it certainly establishes a tie between the campaign and the ...

Counsel robert mueller is looking at collusion between the trump campaign and russia. with the help of a key trump campaign official. that official is the former deputy campaign manager rick gates. he pleaded guilty to charges from mueller and is cooperating with the special counsel. and one of the things mueller is looking at includes gates contacts during the 2016 campaign with alleged russian intelligence agent who also had close ties with the trump campaign chairman paul manafort. this is a ...

Russians or trump and russians. no collusion. bottom line, they all say there is no collusion, and there is no collusion. >> gates is cooperating with mueller, and he is crucial in the investigation h he was manaforts right hand man and had intimate knowledge what was going on inside the campaign. as one person with knowledge of the situation said of gates, he was an implementer. the alleged russian intelligence agent is referred to as a in court documents, but we understand it is constantine wh...

We learned from court documents filed this week by the special counsel, rick gates, the former campaign deputy chairman, worked with the a former russian intelligence agent, someone he knew was a former russian intelligent agent, and told other witnesses in there, you and i talk over the past several months about contacts between the trump campaign. would that be -- i dont know if appropriate is the word, but what would it be right to speak as someone he knows? >> i read an article characterizin...

Told -- excuse me, rick gates has apparently told bob mueller, when i was in the campaign i was speaking to a russian intelligence agent. wow, what were you speaking about or getting anything of value. gates is manaforts partner, before and after the campaign. gates has pled guilty to a small fraction of what he was charged with and its a treasure trove for bob mueller. >> sandra: what else are we going to learn on the front? where will mueller go with that new information. as you called it hes ...

Team saying that rick gates who is paul manaforts associate during the campaign had contacts with someone considered to be a russian intelligence agent. the fact that this is now appearing in a court filing from muellers team, what do you make of that? >> its a troubling sign for gates whos cooperating and manafort whos still yet to go to trial. he worked on a ukraine matter that manafort was the middle man. we believe is the guy that ran manaforts office. this is a person whos believed to be a ...

Government run roughshod over customs and kill people on european soil. >> he may not necessarily pull back. just ask the ukraine where russia is today. >> putin respects force, but one of the problems with today is, yes, you had to do it, but is it going to change russian behavior? probably not. this message has worked for vladimir putin with his people that the west is against us. now, look, they are all acting against us. so there is going to be a lot of support for reciprocity. what i have h...

. i have had no dakts for russians or intermediaries for russians. i have no russian clients, no russian communications. >> so roger stone was wrong. we know in fact he was in contact with not only a russian but a russian intelligence agent. and not just any russian intelligence agent. the russian intelligence agent who claimed credit for hacking the dnc. the dnc reports that the guccifer 2.0 hacker "was, in fact, an officer of russians military intelligence directorate." how do we know stone ...

Special analyst. how was it discovered the person that roger stone was communicating with, this guccifer 2.0, was a russian intelligence agent? >> joy, its basically out of a spy thriller. the russian operative in question, an officer for russias largest intelligence agency known as the gru slipped up in a crucial bit of trade craft. usually when guccifer 2.0 went on line connected to his twitter account, connected to his word press blog he secured his ip address, his originating location, so to...

Guccifer 2.0, was a russian intelligence agent? >> joy, its basically out of a spy thriller. the russian operative in question, an officer for russias largest intelligence agency known as the gru slipped up in a crucial bit of trade craft. usually when guccifer 2.0 went on line connected to his twitter account, connected to his word press blog he secured his ip address, his originating location, so to speak, digitally, through a vpn, something that would prevent an outside observer figuring out ...