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Russians with the person who they may be making a deal. this is a man running fort preside -- for the presidency of the united states, but even if you lost that, hes a very powerful businessman with considerable influence now. >> reporter: personally, alex, i would not trust dmitri peskov to tell me what time it was, so i will not take his word seriously at all. someone in a business deal who is on track to become the republican presidential nominee and then ultimately become president is not in...

Sound bite. this is the incoming house judiciary chairman -- excuse me, jerry nadler. i should say, its not a sound bite but him saying that cohens guilty plea is proof of russian leverage over trump, something he said earlier on the sunday morning shows. david corn, do you agree with jerry nadler, incoming chair of the house judiciary committee? >> well, i think this is what hes getting at. trump is telling the american public during the campaign, i have nothing to do with russia. never had any...

From the very beginning. from the transition. because, of course, russia knew the truth, right? russia was on the other end of the phone. they knew that these guys had been having conversations about russia. right? it wasnt secret from russia. but it was being kept secret from the american public, the american press, the american congress, and even the fbi. and that is called leverage, right? that means russia compromised them both. russia was in a position to lord something over the both of the...

Response. from michael cohens plea in court yesterday, we know they did reply to him. that means the kremlin was helping cover this thing up too. just step back from this a second, right? this means, yes, during the transition, the top two national security aids in the incoming trump administration were compromised by russia. russia had leverage over them, because of them lying about their dealings with russia. also, as a presidential candidate, trump was definitely, we now know compromised by r...

Officials, the number one and number two officials at the national security council under this new president, they were both compromised by russia. from the very beginning, from the transition, because, of course, russia knew the truth, right. russia was on the other end of the phone, they knew that these guys had been having conversations about russia. it wasnt secret from russia. but it was being kept secret from the american public, the american press, the american congress and even the fbi. ...

Too. just -- just step back from this a second, right? this means during the transition, the top two national security aides in the incoming trump administration were compromised by russia. russia had leverage over them because of them lying about their dealings with russia. but also, as a presidential candidate, trump was definitely, we now know, compromised by russia. he was lying about his dealings with russia and russia knew it and russia was helping him to keep the secret, right? so this is...

Agreed upon outcome and its nounced. and there are no meetings with the officials from other side until the dinner tonight. so that is something the president has doubled down on his china policy, cracking down on chine. but china hold as lot of leverage here as well. the president also, as you said meeting with angela merkel, even as so many russian headlines are hanging over this, were waiting to see what type of conversations the president will have with vladimir putin on the sidelines. all o...

Continued to be. it may never have happened that the project in moscow went forward but the russians knew that he was lying to the american people. they enabled him and now they have that leverage over him. so he is compromised. they put out the statement. whats your response? >> my response is one more piece of evidence why matt -- so quickly before we go to the washington post today they went through every single thing they

Why were they lying about it? i mean, on its face, they didnt need to. it would make sense that theyd be talking about sanctions to the russian government conceivably. theyre the top two security officials in the national security agency for the incoming administration. obviously there is going to be a change on the policy. its not that weird. but they lied about it. and the fact that they were lying about it meant that those two senior trump administration officials, the number one and number t...

Greeting mohammad bin salman, the crown prince of saudi arabia who the cia says ordered the murder of "washington post" journalist jamal khashoggi. trump has cast doubt on bin salmans role in that murder. we dont know why. we dont know if anything the saudi crown prince might have on president trump. what we do know is this, trump has made clear he is willing to lie to cover up his business interests. last week he insisted he doesnt make any deals with saudi arabia. back in 2015 he was telling a...