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For months. His longtime lawyer, business associate, one of the men he is closest to is under investigation, has been braid the fbi, and could be indicted at any moment. And we just learned his own son held multiple meetings with agents of Foreign Governments offering help in the 2016 campaign. Thats just the tip of the iceberg. Now, it also turns out that the fbi back in 2016 was so alarmed by the Trump Campaigns various suspicious contacts with russia, it reportedly sent an informant to meet w...

It is treason. Another guilty plea on the outside. I see papadopoulos today, i dont know papadopoulos. Another Camp Campaign aide is sentenced. Mueller has his sights set on a bigger target. The threat to our democracy doesnt just come from donald trump. It is indifference. President obamas return to the Campaign Trail. You are the antidote. I began by telling the president there was a cancer growing on the presidency. Dire warning from a man who would know on the last day of the kavanaugh heari...

Your legal work was handled by michael cohen? >> well, as a percentage of my overall legal work, a tiny, tiny little fraction. >> tiny, tiny little fraction, i barely knew anything about his business. or how about this? take another example. george papadopoulos, trump knew him until he didnt. >> george papadopoulos, hes an oil and energy consultant, excellent guy. i dont know papadopoulos. i dont know him. i saw him sitting in one picture at a table with me. thats the only thing i know about him...

Oil and energy consultant, excellent guy. >> reporter: but just hours before todays sentencing the president saying he didnt remember him. >> i dont know papadopoulos. i dont know him. i saw him sitting in one picture at a table with me. thats the only thing i know about him. i dont know him, but they got him on, i guess, a couple of lies is what they are saying. >> reporter: papadopoulos pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi about his contacts with a professor who claimed the russians had obtai...

Essentially by an agent of russian intelligence who approached him, who saw him as low-hanging fruit, an advisor to the trump campaign, a junior person, 29 years old. and this professor, joseph nipsud told papadopoulos the russian hz obtained dirt in the form of thousands of e-mails on hillary clinton. papadopoulos possessed this information. we still dont know who inside the trump campaign he told about that information. but papadopouloss lawyer thomas breen said that after meeting with him, pa...

I mean, we see these sorts of effects in his whole kind of circle. i think, by the way, everything that ken said is dead-on. ill just add that bob mueller knows everybody what papadopoulos said inside the trump campaign what he told about the meetings and the sort of follow on, and it may be revealed in time. but the notion that they would -- i think a good lawyer would not endorse this strategy, but that papadopoulos, it could have appealed to him. this is what the commander in chief says, you ...

>> mara, rachel maddow said on wednesday this feels like the end of the beginning or the beginning of something new. do you feel this week hes at a turning point in how we cover him? we now have someone who sees him up close, amongst ourselves, we talked about the 25th amendment. >> well, one of the happy coincidences or silver linings, rather, of the piece being anonymous is that the problem is if the piece had been openly written by a specific trump official who came forward, we would all righ...

Diplomat that first sparked some interest in whether there was coordination and/or a conspiracy. you help me purge the word collusion from my vocabulary. but talk about george papadopoulos and who he is in this story of russian meddling in the 2016 election. >> you know, when he was overseas advertising his affiliation with the trump campaign as a foreign policy advisor, he was approached, not surprisingly, but russian intelligence and asked basically if he was interested, if the campaign was in...

Read, did george turnout to be helpful to mr. mueller? >> its not clear thats what drove the sentence. its a light sentence, of course, but the judge is a fairly light sentencer. we do know because of how long the -- it it took until papadopoulos was sentenced that he gave up everything to mueller, including his assertion that both trump and sessions green lighted the meeting with the russians. i think the sentence does not reflect that, though. its just a light sentence for what the court sees ...

First person to lie to the mueller investigators about his contacts with russians, but he sure as heck was not the last. flynn lied about his contacts with russians about the topic of russian sanctions. jeff sessions lied to congress about his contacts with russians. gates pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi, we dont know exactly if that was about his conversations or contacts with russians, but why do you think everyone was lying about their contacts with russians? >> well, i think it became a a...