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Delanian. what do you think she was up to in the united states? it seems like a great story here. >> reporter: its incredible. she was an agent of influence. shes not accused of trying to get military secrets. thats why shes not charged with espionage. she is accused of trying on build a back channel, to specifically republican politicians through national rifle association. it is amazing. those of us who cover this case closely have known about her for some time but never in my wildest dreams d...

>> go ahead. >> there may or may not be collusion. we know there was interference. the idea we shouldnt be investigating this, thats false. thats one. two, in terms of the collusion question, we know that donald trump jr., paul manafort, others, kushner, met with people they believed to be representatives of the russian government giving dirt on the clintons. so whether there was a violation of criminal law we dont know, but there certainly is smoke there. >> julian, theres -- >> let me finish. ...

There may or may not be collusion. there was interference, the idea we shouldnt be investigating this or that is false. thats one. two, in terms of the collusion question, we know donald trump jr., we know that paul manafort, we noel that others, kushner, met with people who they believed to be representatives of the russian government giving dirt on the clintons. so whether there was a violation of criminal law we dont know. there is smoke there. there have been 19, let me finish, there have be...

American/russian connections and they have matched up in many cases with a lot of people reaching their arms out, too. these squid-like arms coming out and grabbing them and connecting with them. >> theres a russian under every rock. i would agree if something is going to happen before september, its going to be on the outside segments because on the inside, the heart of it, we read this and think, oh, boy, maybe theres something up with don junior or roger stone or kushner. my experience would ...

For accepting responsibility. so defendants always have some ips incentive to plead guilty. they have more incentive, get more consideration if they have valuable information. that said, steve, its really hard to imagine that this guy doesnt have valuable information. perhaps its not about the president. it could be about michael cohen. it could be about kushner. it could be about a whole bunch of other people, folks whose names have not even surfaced yet. either way, i think he has incentive to...

Attorneys will no doubt pass on that information. >> and what is important here is that if this is an attempt by mueller to squeeze manafort to get him to give more information about somebody higher up in the campaign, whether it is trump or kushner or who knows, prosecutors say, and laura you know this much better than i, prosecutors say it is easy to hang tough until you spend the first night in jail and that is when people have who have previously said i will not cooperate or flip change. >> ...

Policy is being decided by trump or kushner family interests. are you still going to push for the release of the tax returns? >> ive made my point clear on that. it isnt going anywhere but i made my point clear because its a 50-year tradition that has served this country very, very well. every president, rare or democrat, has done so but more importantly -- and this is as a former governor -- i released my tax returns twice as i became the nominee for my party back home. there was a value to the...

The other members of the group has been going in a different direction? >> the macron relationship has been hot and gold. had you macron tweeting out that graphic that said "make the planet great again." they had the tense handshake and macron was bragging about the way he squeezed the presidents hand really hard. it li i its like omarosa on "the apprentice." >> coming up, a discussion on why prison reform remains unchanged in the age of trump with johnsons daughter and the woman who rallied kus...

Junior, kushner, the campaign manager, with the idea of bringing dirt on hillary clinton. the president himself a week after that meeting went on national tv and basically said hey, if youve got dirt on hoda kotb, why dont you just bring it out and you then had the president go ahead and basically doctor a statement about the contact of that meeting. so just those items you show an awful lot of intent to include from the russians and you obviously see from donald trump jr.s own e-mail traffic th...

The mueller investigation has brought 14, 15 indictments. guilty pleas. the indictments include the presidents campaign manager. weve got the one of the individuals, mr. papadopoulos who clearly the russians reaped out to with information that was harmful to the clinton campaign and hes already pled guilty. there was a, i think it was two years ago today where there was the infamous trump tower meeting where russian agents were brought in to meet with trump junior, kushner, the campaign manager,...