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Used for blackmail. in other cases, its through a series of business ties so that some of these individuals will then be sympathetic to the cause thats being espoused by these russians. and theres a whole variety of other tactics that are employed. by the way, viktor medvedchuk is the primary intermediary that putin uses in ukraine, on the ukraine crisis. his daughter -- putin is godfather to his daughter. these are people who are all linked, some of them to the inner circle, to putin himself, a...

Tactics that are employed. his daughter, putin is godfather to his daughter. these are people who are all linked some of them to the inner circle, to putin himself, and some of them to some of the outer consent rick rings around putin. >> one last question for you, and i thank you, again, for coming back and doing this longer interview with us tonight. i listed some of whats been reported in the press in terms of intelligence reports that have been described to reporters that came out starting a...

You can hear them talking. its okay to pay attention to the words that they say so you know what they have said but dont take it as a representation of what happened in the world. i dont take pleasure no noting that is true about them but they freakin earned it now. luckily for us as american citizens, people trying to know whats going on in our government, luckily for us we do have other ways of obtaining information beyond just having to listen to our government, which isnt proving particularl...

Noise theyre making at the white house at the moment. for example, one of the things were going to be talking about tonight is the stack of intelligence reports that have been reported on since the beginning of this scandal. quietly over the course of this week, we actually got a bunch of new reporting about what our intelligence agencies knew and when they knew it as the russia attack was unfolding. this is not an exhaustive list but just for for example, we learned this week from "the wall str...

Russians and theres a whole variety of other tactics that are employed. by the way, victor is the by mayor intermediary that putin uses in ukraine on the ukraine crisis. his daughter -- putin is god father to his daughter. these are people who are all linked, some of them to the inner circle, to putin himself and some of them to some of the outer concentric rings around putin. >> one last question for you mr. carpenter and i thank you again for coming back and doing this longer interview with us...

This piece is particularly important now, because investigators can go back, relook at those reports from 2015, and say, is there something in there that we didnt recognize as significant at the time? but now we see maybe why that matters or why it marries up to information thats come out since then? >> is there anything controversial about this surveillance? obviously if this is surveillance of surveillance of russian persons, not particularly controversial in terms of u.s. law, but people who ...

And the surveillance that led to those intelligence reports. he does say in the wall street journal -- in this wall street journal piece, though, quote, the reports in and of themselves -- meaning the reports of these meetings -- in and of themselves were not alarming, but the volume of the mentions of trump associates by the russians did have officials asking each other, whats going on? so thats one. again, thats about 2015, before trump ever announced he was running. the other thing shane harr...

Layered on to it. this piece is particularly important now, because investigators can go back, relook at those reports from 2015, and say, is there something in there that we didnt recognize as significant at the time? but now we see maybe why that matters or why it marries up to information thats come out since then? >> is there anything controversial about this surveillance? obviously if this is surveillance of surveillance of russian persons, not particularly controversial in terms of u.s. la...

Details. can we put that headline up on the screen, please? well have shane harris here in just a moment to talk about the importance of what he has just reported here, what hes found. but it seems to me, looking at this new story he has posted, that there are two very important new things here. the first is whats in the headline, russian officials overheard discussing trump associates before campaign began. in the spring of 2015, before trump ever announced he was running for president, u.s. in...

Of being national security adviser and ultimately white house national security adviser and private citizen and holding out the possibility that he may have been doing things in the latter role. >> and that of course may have something to do with the other big half of your scoop, which was that investigators have seen intelligence reports that describe russian hackers discussing how to obtain clinton e-mails and get them through an intermediary to mike flynn. if those intelligence reports exist ...