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Dealing with -- rudy was going in a bad direction of this stuff. ive heard nothing new. >> have you been listening? >> i have. i have. talking about ukrainians, this is a political article, 10,000 words, really well researched by ken vogle. just to read it. its really important. this starts out. the headline is, you know, ukrainian efforts to sabotage the president backfired. >> when was that? >> 2017, right after the election. ken vogle, 10,000 words. ukrainian officials tried to help hillary c...

Eliot nest. theres no one to this administration thats untouchable. when benedict arnold gave the plans to west point and they captured major andre, they didnt have any real plaevidenc linking those plans to benedict arnold. every one knew it was treason when they caught the man and they hung him. at some point theres going to be a bridge of data that will be unassailable. if donald trump through a series of coindens knew nothing about the myriad of basic activities around him that started back ...

>> thats part of what mueller seems to be trying to figure out is whether russia is trying to use manafort to sort of push trump further on this. trump had already said a number of things. there was already reason for russia to believe that trump would be a better president for them than hillary clinton. what we see here, potentially, if this is, in fact, sort of blessed out reach by russia through this guy through the trump campaign through paul manafort is an effort to figure out whether they ...

The trump campaign and the kremlin. to that point, the times reports a closer look at the transcript from that hearing shows that the prosecutors have been keenly focused on discussions the two men had about a plan to end the conflict that followed russias invasion of ukraine. that so called peace plan for ukraine was so sensitive that manafort lied to prosecutors about discussing it. it may explain what russia expected in return, the unprecedented help they lent donald trump and his campaign ag...

Report that came out from the new york "times" according to what ken vogle is reporting the fbi and bruce ohr working along together were trying to see how they might get russian oligarchs on to well flip on our side if you would, the u.s. side. what is this process like? and why would they want it? >> this is a very interesting development. we need to understand when we talk about.laundering when it comes to russia, there is a different perspective they have on this. for russia, laundering mone...

Things like that. i think that just adds to the perception that its possible theres something here to investigate. >> ken, i want to bring you in. did the lowells explanation take the focus on jared kushner? >> no, in fact it highlighted the way the parallel investigations are building on one another to expose holes in stories to expose lapses in document production. the reason why these documents were flagged in the first place, these e-mails were flagged as having been missing from kushners pr...

Entities, thats what they should pay attention to and not create a partisan gotcha game. >> the perception is built because of the sf 86, the fact he didnt disclose those contacts at first and the fact that these documents they say are missing that were provided by others -- >> when you say he did not disclose on his fs-86, a misperception. it was sent first time with a hit of a send button before it was complete. then within days and weeks it was completed. thats just silliness. >> it took a co...

Conspiracy rabbit hole but isnt it convenient for two white house lawyers to have a loud conversation at a popular steakhouse doors down from "the new york times"? >> it would have required they would know that ken vogle was sitting there and disbelief by one of the lawyers, ty cobb, who was last heard responding to a dummied accounts by some e-mail impersonator, and ty engaged this guy over and over again. >> there is a pattern. >> i think what we have seen around president trump during the cam...

They dont tell you to have loud conversations. no. i mean, you know, there are two big things here. obviously it was inappropriate to do this in close quarters near, you know, where ken vogle -- >> and good for ken for being an aggressive on the spot reporter. >> an expensive lunch. >> that actually struck me. im impressed he was eating in a fancy place like that. but the fact that lawyers in the white house were debating how much to cooperate, theres nothing particularly extraordinary about tha...

Would see himself outside of the party at all times because hes never been a part of it. so this should be very little surprise there. >> i mean, ken, vogue him, if the white house exists outside of capitol and the party, they already have a chief of staff who never worked on the hill doesnt have the relationship, certainly knows all the guys from wisconsin, hes friends with paul rienl. he wasnt the most effective person of negotiating with the co-equal branch of the government down the road. ho...