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Intelligence that russia tried to interfere in the election. it is rooted in his own feelings about his own election, his insecurity that by admitting that russia did this interference campaign it would somehow delegitimize trumps electoral victory. so thats been sort of a blinder for the president. >> and joyce vance, something that speaks to your line of work, just before we came on the air our friend ken vogel at "the new york times" tweeted out this. "new court filing. rick gates is still co...

That russia did this interference campaign it would somehow delegitimize trumps electoral victory. >> and joyce vance, something that speaks to your line of work, our friend ken vogual tweeted out this. new court filing, rick gates is still cooperating with prosecutors and is a potential witness in the trials of greg craig for lying about ukrainian work, roger stone for lying about wiki leaks and paul manafort. what is the take away here? >> rick gates seems to be one of the most successful coop...

This is fact according to our intelligence agencies, according to all of our intelligence agencies. its not just former special counsel robert mueller who testified to it, but the presidents own hand picked intelligence chiefs including dan coats, the soon to be former director of national intelligence who had been warning for several years now that russia is continuing to try to interfere in our election, will try to do so again in 2020 and other countries may follow suit. this is a profound se...

>> president trump getting a bit of a chuck until there while sitting next to vladimir putin and seemingly making light of the threat of russian election interference. the u.s. intelligence community said that putin, a former top russian spy, directed the 2016 coordinated interference campaign and as cnns kaitlan collins reports, that isnt the only controversial comment that the two leaders bonded over. >> reporter: with a grin on his face, trump finally brought up election meddling with russian...

Refocus our attention on the big picture and thats russias interference campaign and attempts to help donald trump win the election. what did you make of his comments on that regard? >> i just mentioned. i thought that was so compelling. at the very end of i had statement he he says essentially by the way folks weve been focusing on this obstruction thing. did you notice all the indictments and all the russians and election interference i found. that was my mission. that is what i found. sure en...

>> so mueller is trying to prevent sensitive information from being passed onto rousha. -- russia. theres a section in the filing that reads like this. it says the sensitive discovery identifies uncharged individuals and entities that the government believes are continuing to engage in operations that interfere with lawful u.s. government functions like those activities charged in the indictment. so what does that tell us? could there be more indictments on the way? >> yeah, certainly there coul...

Sorts of national security issues. >> so mueller is trying to prevent sensitive information from being passed onto rousha. theres a section in the filing that reads like this. it says the sensitive discovery identifies uncharged individuals and entities that the government believes are continuing to engage in operations that interfere with lawful u.s. government functions like those activities charged in the indictment. so what does that tell us? could there be more indictments on the way? >> ye...

Under wraps. >> you talked about the interference campaign that the mueller team, the special counsel, came out with with indictments. i want to show you the running list of what the mueller special counsel has led to. 5 former trump advisors or associates have pled guilty. 26 russian nationals have been charged, essentially, for interference, along with return russian companies. we still await the big question, the whole basis for why this was started. when you see that graphic and you see with...

>> look, a big mystery that i have around the mueller investigation is how much he cares about cambridge analytica. weve reported and we know that federal prosecutors have interviewed witnesses connected with facebook and cambridge analytica. theyve asked questions about their finances. theyve asked questions about data sharing. it could be mostly about facebook and securities issues. it could be partly connected to russian interference because the big question mark, i think, and know n no one h...

Intelligence agencies and certainly at counter interest to our justice department and the american public interest. and that is just -- just staggering. >> is there -- with that kind of leadership, with that being the stance of the president and his national security advisor, do you think that that essentially functions as a directive to the intelligence agencies and to law enforcement at the federal level in terms of actually fighting these efforts? i mean, we were all fairly shocked early on i...