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34 pages. right there. deposition transcripts from former u.s. ambassador to ukraine, marie yovanovitch and michael mckinley former state department official who resigned in protest of the way the state department is churning up and spitting out their own personnel in part of the impeachment thing. shy of 500 pages between the two of them. also the fascinating complaint from e. jean carroll who is suing president trump for defamation after she alleges that he raped her. she -- he responded to th...

Pushed this theory to the president who has now talked about the debunked theory numerous times in public. all these revelations are gleaned from the interview notes with rick gates the deputy campaign chair who cooperated with muellers team the interview notes saying this. gates recalled manafort saying the hack was likely carried out by the ukrainians not the russians. gates also noted this theory was supported by a long-time associate of paul manaforts, also a key character in muellers report...

During the campaign rather, of course, than the conclusion from u.s. intelligence that it was, in fact the russians. so what were seeing in these documents, these interview notes putting it this way, saying gates, who was rick gates, recalled manafort saying the hack was likely carried out by the crew yan yans, not the russians. this of course is a conspiracy theory that the president has been pushing publicly. it was a big part of the july 25th phone call with yun craukr president. the document...

Michael flynn, who later became the short-lived national security adviser, said that he could use his intelligence sources to help get those emails. so gates talked about how flynn had the most russian contacts and also how trumps advisers and family members as well as trump himself really push this effort to get those stolen emails. of course we saw that the mueller report exposed how the trump campaign was, in fact, interested in getting the hacked documents from wikileaks. but really, guys, t...

With how aggressive russia has been with regard to putting troops on the ground, with regard to moving into areas that dont belong to russia, and so this assistance, this security assistance, is critical to making sure the ukrainians can feel safe on their borders and for the united states to hold this up and say that youre not going to get it unless you investigate a political rival of the president of the united states is absolutely abhorrent. >> thats what happened. michael gearhart and shawn...

. a newly released document give insight into the mueller report and president trumps 2016 presidential campaign. >> cnn obtained pages, highly redacted from robert muellers investigative notes. it is the first publicly released behind-the-scenes look at the investigation and it outlines the high-level pursuit within the trump campaign to get dirt on hillary clinton and her missing e-mails, even of course things stolen by russia. >> our jessica schneider is all over it. jes, lets begin here. t...

Her. something wrong with her. if you look at what is happening, if you look at the poll numbers, if you look at the poll numbers in the swing states, they are saying dont do this, dont do it. im fine with it. we did absolutely nothing wrong. >> reporter: clearly there placing blame on nancy pelosi. three other aides were supposed to testify tomorrow on capitol hill and we do not know if they will show up. >> kristen holmes in new york after a late night, thank you. cnn has obtained 274 pages ...

Own people feared an election victory would be tied to russia. a mere three days before the 2016 election. steve bannon, trumps campaign ceo, sent an e-mail about paul manafort, trumps ex-campaign chairman, later convicted for criminal financial crimes. bannon says, quote, we need to avoid this guy. thats manafort. like the plague. they are going to try and say the russians worked with wikileaks to give this victory to us. the new information comes from a freedom of information request. from it,...

Not only do i want ukraine to look into joe biden, i want china to do it, too. i mean, this really is an embarrassment of riches when it comes to impeachable conduct. the question really becomes, what witnesses do you need to prove-up these various presidential abuses of power. i think that may be the decision that sort of drives the house train with respect to which one of these incidents they should formally offer as an article of impeachment. >> possibly adding to that, katie, the doj yesterd...

>> the last thing you want to do is have that unsecured somewhere that nobody knows where it is and so then the negotiations started. >> make sure you tune in sunday night at 11:00 eastern and pacific right here on cnn. great to have you with us this week. we begin with new information on the russia probe. yes. flash back to the russia probe. the new details tonight add new perspective on president trumps 2016 campaign. and its search for stolen e-mails and wikileaks possession. cnn obtained m...