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Give the nra a hard time. how would you convince someone that your sources are credible or that you know this? >> the sources we have been talking to have been talking to us on and off for months, and they have proven to be correct, they have good information and we believable theyre trust worthy, we wouldnt have gone with it if we didnt have experience with them. >> peter stone, you are a serious reporter with serious sources and you have a serious story on your hands so thanks for telling us a...

Of anything that was illicit or how they explain this? >> the nra hasnt commented publicly. they havent said anything to us, we have heard that a comment may be coming, but we havent seen anything yet. >> is that weird on its face, peter? it would seem to me they might want to knock this down. >> it would seem to us too that they would want to put a lid on this as soon as they could. but its taken over a day and a half and we havent gotten a comment from them yet. we asked even today again, woul...

Fbi is investigating whether a russian blank with ties to the kremlin illegally funneled money to the nra to help trump win. good to see you. so the blank is known to have connections with the kremlin and the nra. what did you learn about how this alleged funneling tao took place. >> we dont know there was cullening, chris. my partner, peter stone, led the way on this, did great sleuthing. but what we do know is that the fbis counterintelligence division has been investigating to try to determin...

House. in december, there was another piece to this puzzle because the "new york times" reported an email that was sent to jeff sessions and a key advisor rick dearborn that said that trump would attempt to use the annual convention to make first contact. lets be very clear, if a foreign government or espionage operation did weaponize the nra to funnel money to the trump campaign, that is not just a scandal in that it sounds terrib terrible, that is a federal felony. thats whats under investigat...

For propaganda. facebook comes out and says, no, they have no evidence of that occurring. all right. well, then in july, mcclatchy reports that, quote, investigators at the house and senate intelligence committees and the justice department are investigating whether the trump campaigns digital operation overseen by jared kushner helped guide russias sophisticated vote targeting and fake news attacks on hillary clinton in 2016. they cite several people familiar with the parallel inquiries. peter ...

The bots and products were largely millions of twitter and facebook posts on internet sites like breitbart and infowars as well as on kremlin-backed rt news and sputnik news. that was the scoop that mcclatchy had in march. importantly, in march, mcclatchy noted that those bot attacks, those were now the subject of federal investigation being led by the fbi counterintelligence. the fbi was looking into whether conservative websites in the united states, sites like breitbart news and infowars, whe...

Posts on internet sites like breitbart news and infowars as well as on kremlin-backed rt news and sputnik news. that was the scoop that mcclatchy had in march. importantly, in march, mcclatchy noted that those bot attacks, those were now the subject of federal investigation being led by the fbi counterintelligence. the fbi was looking into whether conservative websites in the united states, sites like breitbart news and infowars, whether they might have knowingly helped russian operatives who we...

The other piece of puzzle was this news from mcclatchy, news from the counterintelligence investigation looking into the trump campaign since july of last year, according to mcclatchy sources, that investigation includes investigation specifically into the russian use of bots and trolls, to spread pro-trump/anti-clinton news online both of the real variety and of the madeup variety. gregor don is a national correspondent for mcclatchy news. he co-bilined that with peter stone of mcclatchy. tha...

Country last year. today donald trumps former campaign chairman paul manafort was mentioned by a house intelligence committee as a potential witness who should perhaps expect to appear before that committee in its investigation. the next thing we heard about paul manafort today after that was that paul manafort has now hired a crisis management public relations firm. that probably makes sense. the other piece of puzzle was this news from mcclatchy, news from the counterintelligence investigation...

Thanks for being here. >> thanks for having me. >> what got you going on this story? were you following this investigation and heard about this piece of it or were you following the bots and trolls part of it and heard it might be the subject of investigation. >> weve been working on the trump and russia thing for months like most media outlets in washington. and one of our sources tipped my colleague peter stone who has done some great reporting for mcclatchy as a freelancer and we dived into i...