with how aggressive russia has been with regard to putting troops on the ground, with regard to moving into areas that don t 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 you re not going to get it unless you investigate a political rival of the president of the united states is absolutely abhorrent. that s what happened. michael gearhart and shawn turner, thanks very much. less than one year ago or out rather from the 2020 election and a poll shows the battle for battle ground states can be summed up as tight. president trump neck and neck with the top three democratic candidates beating everyone it looks like except joe biden. we are all over those new numbers. we got the memo. cnn obtained special counsel mueller s interview notes and found that officials repeatedly spoke about how to get access to
. a newly released document give insight into the mueller report and president trump s 2016 presidential campaign. cnn obtained pages, highly redacted from robert mueller s 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, let s begin here. the e-mails are referenced several times throughout the documents. what does this tell us? this was a consistent topic of conversation we re learning within the trump campaign leading up to the election. the president and other top campaign officials repeat lid discussing how they could get that access to the stolen democratic e-mails that wikileaks had. that s all according to the interview notes from rick gate, the deputy campaign chairman and gates was cooperating with
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 don t do this, don t do it. i m 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 of interview notes, emails from robert mueller s investigation. the documents reveal discussions within the trump campaign as it pursued damaging information about hillary clinton. cnn has more for us. reporter: the newly obtained fbi interview reports show how president donald trump and other top 2016 trump officials repeatedly discuss how to get access to the stolen wikileaks
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own people feared an election victory would be tied to russia. a mere three days before the 2016 election. steve bannon, trump s campaign ceo, sent an e-mail about paul manafort, trump s ex-campaign chairman, later convicted for criminal financial crimes. bannon says, quote, we need to avoid this guy. that s 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, cnn obtained more than 270 pages of interview notes, e-mails, and other documents from the team who did the investigation under robert mueller. he stepped down after finishing the report back in may. hard to believe it s been that many months. let me bring in our cnn crime and justice reporter. you ve been reading through all of those documents. what else are you finding? it is really fascinating to see how much donald trump but also his family, meetings with family members, and his campai