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According to my attorney, former u.s. attorney, former new york attorney dennis vacco, that whole exchange with the russian national with the fbi, offering information not from the russian government, but from a ukrainian national who worked for the clinton foundation, was not responsive to the request. if you read the request -- >> what evidence do you have this person was working for the fbi? >> oh, my goodness. are you new to this thing? >> im asking you what evidence. >> i can tell you, nobo...

Wednesday will be in an open public hearing. this comes as "the new york times" reports that cohen spoke last month with federal prosecutors in new york, quote, offering information about possible irregularities within the family business and a donor to the inaugural committee according to the "times." that included a discussion about insurance claims, the company filed over the years, though there was no indication cohen implicated the president in any of those irregularities. you have mueller,...

The grand jury has been hearing testimony about the loans. one of the reporters who broke the story for nbc, jonathan deans explained why local new york prosecutors delayed their case. >> our best understanding is he started looking into this and he deferred to the special council and that investigation into manafort and then once that seemed to be wrapping up they restarted its work. the manhattan d.a. showing deference to bob mueller, but now they are moving straightforward with taking a look ...

>> yeah, i -- i cant think of one, but thats -- thats my judgment. thats not a legal issue. the legal issue i would have here is pretty simple. youre talking about one case in isolation, thats paul manafort. there are other cases, obviously, the special counsel is looking into, for example, other people involved in the campaign who were in contact with wikileaks. the one piece missing here, and were about half a step away from that, don, is we have paul manafort offering information, polling inf...

One, but thats -- thats my judgment. thats not a legal issue. the legal issue i would have here is pretty simple. youre talking about one case in isolation, thats paul manafort. there are other cases, obviously, the special counsel is looking into, for example, other people involved in the campaign who were in contact with wikileaks. the one piece missing here, and were about half a step away from that, don, is we have paul manafort offering information, polling information to someone who is evi...

Snitches cant be trusted. those are good points. heres the part -- and you two hit on it right away -- he is too relaxed in these interviews. these are serious moments and people are watching and he hasnt thought his argument through. >> thats why i feel this is less about a legal strategy and more about a pr strategy, like its always been. >> is robert mueller looking at this and taking information thats important and meaningful? >> hes breaking every rule. hes being glib. hes being dismissive....

Russian interference and meddling in various ways and the united states not putting clamps down on that. >> danny, what does the michael cohen sentencing tell you about that effort from vladimir putin? hes cooperating with prosecutors. we heard that from them in their sentencing memoranda, hes offering information on the russia investigation. whats it tell you broadly about the plan that vladimir putin cooked up? >> michael cohen is offering information, michael cohen is not exactly a cooperator...

>> thanks. >> george papadopoulos offering information on both donald trump and jeff sessions. joining me in new york is cnn national security analyst samantha vinograd. you have george papadopoulos appearing to contradict jeff sessions account of that proposal for then candidate trump to meet with the russian president during the campaign. now, you could say papadopoulos lied and hes going to go to jail for lying to the fbi. but presumably he knows the penalty for lying, lying once again. from ...

Diplomat, about george papadopoulos offering information to the trump campaign. the investigation is underway. only a month after this meeting in september is when the u.s. government, for the first time, publicly says, the russians are interfering in our elections. this was the statement by the director of national intelligence and the homeland security secretary. the very first one publicly. there was another in january. you can understand, at that moment, in this russia investigation, why the...

Is that the president is growing increasingly desperate to tarnish this investigation, to silence people who are major voices in opposition to him and shining a light on what is happening in this investigation. one thing that brennan says that i think that we should all take to heart and make clear to the american people is that the evidence for an attempt to conspire, which would be collusion, on behalf of people in the trump campaign is as clear as the nose on your face. those e-mails between ...