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It began with an offer for dirt, and by many accounts, ended up as a frustrating 20-minute conversation about sanctions and adoptions. so what were the russians up to? the man who set it up has a theory. >> so do you agree with national security officials both prior and current who believe that this meeting was a probe set up by the russian government, of the trump campaign? >> i have always looked at it as a bait and switch. >> goldstone says he thinks the offer of incriminating information was...

It began with an offer for dirt, and by many accounts, ended up as a frustrating 20-minute conversation about sanctions and adoptions. so what were the russians up to? the man who set it up has a theory. >> so do you agree with national security officials both prior and current who believe that this meeting was a probe set up by the russian government, of the trump campaign? >> i have always looked at it as a bait and switch. >> goldstone says he thinks the offer of incriminating information was...

Americans." >> im sorry, we dont kill people. jesus. >> we wouldnt. >> he doesnt even do this kind of work anymore. he quit. >> one of the real-life russian spies caught in the seen here talking to an undercover fbi agent in a coffee shop. like butina, chapman was an attractive woman but neil says he sees a difference. >> butina was more creating relationships for what we might call back channel communications. chapman, on the other hand, was actually accessing people who were higher up in the f...

Staffer, natasha bertrand. we already know theres compromising material the russians had on donald trump. the compromising material is that he was lying to the american people, a lie they could reveal that they chose not to. what are the implications of that? >> a lie that they continued to conceal until they had to admit it when "the new york times" reported on it last year. when "the new york times" reported on these e-mails between michael cohen and felix sater. we did not know about this unt...

Can be good and stand up for human rights. but we cant do both. >> i think its obviously a false choice. false narrative. you can do both. you can win at the same time. i think when the president talks about not in our country, right, i think what hes trying to get at, youre not going to be able to have 100% certainty, because our fbi, our police, or anybody, you cant get down to it. were never going to know with any degree of certainty what happened in the consulate in saudi arabia. were not go...

Highest court in the land for the rest of his life. >> democrats on the senate judiciary committee, senator, say they still havent received a response from the fbi on whether it is investigating this allegation. president trump says he trusts the process. so should he request that the fbi follow through on this investigation? >> well, ill be perfectly honest with you. i dont have much trust in what the president says he will and wont do when it comes to our intelligence agencies. he spent most o...

So page 230 of the book we learn that the national security council and the national security adviser to the president concluded last summer that the president had somehow, quote, picked up russian government propaganda and started tweeting to it the american people. the national security adviser knew about it. he told for some reason the white house economic adviser and the white house staff secretary, and he told them that it was confirmed both by him and his shop and by intelligence experts t...

Started tweeting to it the american people. the national security adviser knew about it. he told for some reason the white house economic adviser and the white house staff secretary, and he told them that it was confirmed both by him and his shop and by intelligence experts that the president had obtained and was distributing russian government propaganda. oh! that seems like a story. i would like to know more. were there consequences of that? how did the national security council handle that? h...

About what happened at helsinki. >> reporter: and that former intelligence officials say say problem. >> if our intelligence boss, thats what former senator coats is, doesnt know, certainly the working people in the intelligence community have no idea what actually happened in that closed door session between two men in helsinki. >> reporter: former spies tell cnn that presents two potential disasters, president trump could have divulged classified information to putin and u.s. intelligence woul...

Her approach left men wondering what she is really after and sources say she bragged about her ties to russian intelligence when she was intoxicated. some reported her to law enforcement sources tell cnn. she pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiracy and acting as a foreign agent after her arrest in july. her lawyer says she is not a spy and wont cut a deal with prosecutors if it means saying she is one. >> the problem is cutting a deal but if youre not an agent for a federal government you ca...