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The intelligence investigations would extend to encompass whats going on now in the administration? whether any of those favors might be being paid back in the way the u.s. government is being run now by president trump? >> it has to and it has to look at what the consideration may have been because all the dots here in this investigation continue to connect and the biggest question, of course, is were any of these contacts or ties that the trump team had with russia, were they working with russ...

Way the u.s. government is being run now by president trump? >> it has to and it has to look at what the consideration may have been because all the dots here in this investigation continue to connect and the biggest question, of course, is were any of these contacts or ties that the trump team had with russia, were they working with russia as they ran the interference campaign and now what were looking at is whether u.s. policy toward russia is also changing. that would be pretty powerful evide...

Sight. but i dont know whether any of that rises to the level of conspiracy and whether that conspiracy rises to criminal responsibility. >> an open setting congressional testimony last spring that in the summer of 2016, you at cia were alarmed by, said your radar went up about the number of contracts between russian officials and u.s. persons at a time that russia was mounting this interference campaign. when you say that your radar went up about that, did you radar go up about that because it ...

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Change anything for you and for the house intelligence committees investigation? >> well, anderson, a lot of people said well, isnt this bizarre? but actually for me it fits the pattern. when you look at who was involved, these are the senior principals of the campaign. when you look at what was being discussed, it was how they could damage hillary clinton, which was the goals of russias interference campaign. when you look at where it was being held, at trump tower. and then when it was being h...

Russia, where very often russian nationals are connected to the russian intelligence services, especially around politics. and so the fact that this wasnt passed along to the fbi or the department of state also very much concerns me. >> the idea that donald trump jr. didnt know who the person was that he was meeting with in advance, do you buy that? >> i dont. you know, donald trump jr. is an executive at a business. hes somebody who takes a lot of meetings all the time. time is our most preciou...

Ceasefire now that has been effective for more than five days, the president just announced in paris the extension into another region for a new possible ceasefire. these are all very positive signs. so, lets not prejudge, lets not steal anybodys thunder. these are the two most powerful nuclear nations in the world as rex tillerson said just last week, we should have better relations, lets see if its possible and not prejudged. >> well get to the ceasefire in a second. i do want to ask you last ...

Intelligence committee is going to start its inquiry, its interviews with trump campaign officials. that is sure to bring up even more information about what happened or what didnt happen over the last year. >> jeff, thanks very much. appreciate it. earlier this evening, i spoke with someone whos obviously very interested in the trump jr. revelation. representative eric swalwell. congressman swalwell, this meeting that donald trump jr. had with jared kushner and paul manafort, does it change a...

Campaign to conduct these meetings? and again, if they were all in innocent, then the trump team is owed that. but if this was a convergence of the interference campaign and deep personal and political and financial ties that the trump team had, then people should be held accountable. >> kellyanne conway was on cnn this morning saying there is no evidence of collusion. at this point have you seen any evidence of collusion? >> anderson, the fact that we have an investigation and the fbi has an in...

On the committee are doing precisely? >> he does because tt would come from his pen. again, we believe this is just an eort to distract, deflect, and disrupt a lawful investigation into the presidents ties to russia. >> do you believe -- we have some reporting tonight that the special counsel investigation has expanded. theres a sort of portfolio that includes an existing manafort investigation and then possibly the sort of question of whether the president of the united states obstructed justic...