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That states guard and ready reserve, to the southern border, paid for by one wealthy donor. is this what were doing now? as someone asked on twitter tonight -- and im paraphrasing -- can bezos up it to a billion, put together a suppression force on the other side of the border? since when? >> to me, thats one of the most scary things -- so many scary things happen. thats one of the most scary things happen, that a sitting governor would use a national guard, one, for political purposes, and have...

Came from the training camp that we visited, it is clear theyre doing more than just training troops here. >> they are part of a sprawling business empire owned by this man. an oligarch sanctioned by vladimir putin. and a cnn investigation based on hundreds of documents have established that the companies are also providing the mercenary muscle. he is believed to be the man behind russias most contentious contractor. we notice were being followed. we try to approach, but the car drives off. we c...

The day of the 2018 midterm elections. the infamous internet research agency, a troll farm, was seeking to disrupt democracy again. >> the official said the american strike was part of the first offensive cyber campaign against russia, designed to thwart attempts to interfere with u.s. elections. and get this, the quote, internet research agency is backed, ready for this, by an oligarch whos well known to be close to vladimir putin. >> joining us now, nbc news reporter, ben collins. ben, tell us...

Effort. >> okay. >> that this starts in 2014. in summer of 2016, counter intelligence investigating possible links between russia and the trump campaign and then in the fall of 2016 fbi wents to an oligarch. he was in new york at the time. and said to him, asked him about whether his former business partner paul manafort served as a link between the kremlin and the trump campaign and didnt start out as a kind of attempt to find dirt on trump. it later kind of grew out of a fbi investigation star...

Behalf of an oligarch. it does require him to talk to mueller reading from the plea agreement. here to put this latest deal into perspective, political investigations and enterprise reporter for "the washington post." me who patton is, first of all. >> he is a long time republican operative consultant. he had done some work for the george bush campaign in 2000 and like a lot of people employed in this field, he traveled the world doing work overseas. he had also run for a time, the office of the...

Lying to their face, breaking faith with them, taping his client, which is disbarable offense. i dont see how he has credibility. people in your profession told me, this guy will flip because he is inherent, pathological liar. >> harris: daniel, what do you think actually happened? >> daniel: my assessment of the meeting in june 2016, there was nothing meant to be clandestine about it. you dont go to trump tower with the security and three loony tunes russians, a former soviet military lawyer an...

Kushner, youre talking about the key figures in running the digit call campaign, which ran circles around the democrats campaign. just what role they played and how advanced it was. >> well, the rnc had developed troves of data themselves, but they brought cambridge analytica in. cambridge analytica uses algorithms to predict how a voter might cast a vote, and they also do personality surveys to figure out what might change their vote and what messaging might get under their skin. so a certain t...

The president when its not convenient. but, remember, nepotism is illegal in the federal government for the 2.7 million civilian federal employees who work for the president and all the uniformed military officers. but here we have the president holding himself and his family to a lower standard than the people he supervises. >> so, doug, other administrations have had family members in high profile positions. whats different about this? >> good ones. robert kennedy was attorney general to john ...

Against nepotism because it became problematic in a lot of peoples minds. in this case were seeing donald trump really in my mind almost abuse his power. hes almost acting like an oligarch. hes able to bring whoever he wants and members of his family, and they can benefit from living in the white house. ivanka trumps living on private aviation around the united states that taxpayers are paying for. and its become a problem that its sort of a white house that seems to have a mafioso attitude towa...

You know, its not just the sale of donald trumps palm beach mansion back in 2008 for more than double of what he had paid for it back in 2004 for $95 million that he sold it. its not just the fact that in 2013, the miss universe pageant was brought to moscow by an oligarch who paid $20 million, a third of those fees went to donald trump. its not -- you know, it goes on and on, the connections between donald trumps family and the russians. and those are the things that according to all of that in...