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Donald trump publicly told the russians to find hillary clintons e-mails and release them. we see evidence in this indictment that the russians responded to this request. moving forward, we need to do a better job believing these things when theyre right in front of us and we can do something about it. moving forward, as i said before, the president needs to cancelel th this meeting with president putin. his own justice department has put out overwhelming evidence that this happened and he needs...

Together circumstantial evidence of a culpable mental state, theyre looking at things such as text messages, communications between people for whatever reason. you would agree with that? >> i would, yeah. >> oh that indicates someones mental state, that you are going to say, beyond a reasonable doubt we can demonstrate either intentional or knowing by this cumulation of circumstantial evidence, right? s >> rephrase the question, sir, please. >> this is not hard. when youre trying to prove culpab...

>> primarily ci work. we differentiate criminal. >> you are familiar with criminal investigation, correct? >> yes, sir. >> you understand you are looking for a couple of areas, to see if there is an act. >> right. >> you are also looking for culpable mental state. intentional, knowingly, reckless. >> almost always, yes. >> and you would agree, that sort of some statement against interest, most of the time, the culpable mental state of intentional or knowingly, that is done through circumstantial...

Indictments. manafort and his longtime associate with russian intelligence ties, konstantin kilimnik, have been charged with two new counts of obstruction of justice and conspiracy to obstruct. both are accused of knowingly and intentionally persuade another person with intent to influence, delay, and prevent the testimony of any person in an official proceeding. sounds like tampering. >> it sounds also like special counsel mueller has a bad attitude about witness tampering, about trying to inte...

Law enforcement agencies. no one will want to cooperate with us after this. they are doing this knowingly. we know that devon nuance has done this because they want to push the narrative that theres a spy in there when in fact it was a counterintelligence agency operation. it was a spy hunt in order to find a foreign national team of foreign spies who may have co-opted american citizens to protect technically the trump campaign themselves, but its not the narrative they want to push. they are re...

Russia for potential assistance to the campaign, so far there hasnt been anything really reported about manafort reaching out to russia for help. to you does this mean that mueller has something there or could they simply just be asking because manafort is in a whole bunch of other trouble? >> well, pretty basic rule of interviews like this is that you already know the answers to the questions that youre going in to ask. you still owe -- ask them in an open ended way, so the person can give thei...

Laws that if someone gets a weapon that you own and someone is killed, that that person could be in trouble with the law? >> yes, if you have not protected the weapon adequately. but thats even different than a situation where a person has been adjudicated to be a danger to himself or others, had the guns removed, the guns were as inexplicably given back to the father and the father decides to disregard everything that the authorities have told him, and knowingly gives the guns to a delusional p...

Dealings. and i dont think hes being manipulated. i think its an equal partnership. hes been manipulating knowingly. thats what well find out. th >> denying any ethics violations. has met with numbers rather saying that kushner has met with hundreds of business people and has taken no part of any business, loans or projects with or for the family company since entering the white house job. frank, as youve been watching what mueller has been doing, where were at in just this last week as we hear ...

Allude to it the fred that rosenstein use, there was no american knowingly, star referenced inputtingly, the conscious effort to do anything wrong and the fact that no american did anything, trump obviously is an american, how do you reconcile that? >> sure, when you look at the indictments and the language thats used, its related to the crime that they are accusing the russians about, the social media campaign and identity fraud and thats just one element of the whole collusion debate thats goi...

Who came to the united states were able to sort of absorb much more directly than you hear on the ground, don. >> it says by early 2016 defendants operations supporin supporting the presidential campaign and communicated with unwitting individuals associated with the trump campaign. you say this goes to the very heart of russia-gate. >> right, this is whats at issue is to what extent did the donald trump campaign cooperated with these russians knowingly, was there collusion on their side? the ru...