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I did not collude with russia more do i know of anyone else in the campaign who did so. i had no improper contacts. i have not relied on russian funds for my businesses. and i have been fully transparent in providing all requested information. >> joining me noy jeremy bash former chief of staff at dod and cia and importantly former chief counsel for the house intel committee and the former u.s. ambassador to russia during the obama administration. veteran diplomat mike mcfall guy i do this as ro...

Information i have with the investigating bodies and ive done so today. the record and documents i have voluntary provided will show that all of my actions were proper and occurred in the normal course of events of a very unique campaign. let me be very clear. i did not collude with russia more do i know of anyone else in the campaign who did so. i had no improper contacts. i have not relied on russian funds for my businesses. and i have been fully transparent in providing all requested informat...

>> right. one thing thats interesting to note is that the russian interpreters are trained to take notes. so it is likely that russian webs besides what putin would remember as mike pointed out, the interpreter himself or herself would also have taken likely would have taken notes on the russian side. i think its -- this is a very dangerous situation. we dont have a president who is well versed in the issues. who knows the pit falls. who understands the role of the united states and role of russ...

And this goes back to the obama administration, by the way. but most certainly in the trump era, he wants to cooperate but it is his advisers getting in the way, the national secured adviser, the secretary of defense, his russia adviser. the idea he could talk to him one on one without any of those people around, that is in putins interest. >> and you would think that the president would be even more cautious given the fact that going in and his news conference in poland he still expressed doubt...

Suspicions and problematic geopolitically given all the challenges we have with russia in concert with our allies sitting around the table. it raises lots of questions and it is unfortunate because it is yet another sort of piece of the scandal and suspicion around russia. >> and here, jane, they just announced what we expected, they finally announced that jon huntsman will be the nominee, he has to be confirmed obviously, but jon huntsman has a big challenge ahead as the u.s. ambassador in russ...

If you dont have your staff number in the high level meetings which often times as mike mcfall just said, they would tell the senior staff what happened. the senior staff can gently guide the president toward what their view is on the issue at hand. but i think, you know, whats disturbing is president trump could have said to president putin, were going to give alaska back to you and the american people wouldnt know, you know? and then now that could be, we dont know whats going on inside the st...

Barely with angela merkel, not with president zi to talk about north korea, but just putin, that raises all kinds of alarm bells. why putin? why not these other leaders? >> just moments ago, former u.s. ambassador to russia mike mcfall, talking about president trumps side by side meeting with vladimir putin, not just a brief pull aside as has happened at these dinners. it was in fact were told from many multiple sources, a lengthy meeting. joining me is jane harman, former nine-term member of co...

Attended only by his official interpr interpretorand a few witnesses who saw this, a few participants told bremer about this. this wasnt a casual sitdown lets just chum it up a bill bit. >> again im going by what youre reporting. i dont have any way to validate it. but that suggests to me thats a pretty long conversation. obviously we would like to have our translator at a meeting that long that our president, any president -- >> i think weve lost mike mcfall whos on the phone, but i do have ron...

Investigation. here to put the pieces together, make some sense of it. lynn sweet with the "chicago sun times," and the national reporter for the "new york times." i hope you brought your "a" game. i dont understand this connection. somebody tweeted a picture of this lawyer who was in a meeting with donald trump jr. sitting behind ambassador mike mcfall at some point, implying some connection. now that shes in america is somehow on the administration. >> the first thing is people who approve vis...

Before with respect to the intelligence community. what really matters is the agency that is were involved in making the determination, and the agency that is have the relevant responsibility for looking at major counterintelligence issues are the agency that is were involved in making that assessment. and its not just the agencies. its the director of national intelligence who sits atop all of the intelligence community. its the former director of national intelligence and president trumps curr...