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Wrong. >> to be clear in terms of following the money here, youve been able to track americans from whom smith raised money for this project. we dont know if smith sent money to the russians or anybody else to pay for what he thought he was getting. >> correct. >> shelby holiday, keep going. good luck. great to have you here. well be right back. stay with us.

Plus one other story that i think is potentially really important that just broke in "the wall street journal" that relates to the old peter smith case. the republican operative who was trying to pay the russians to get hillary clintons e-mail. big, interesting break in that case today. well have more on that coming up, as well. theres a lot to keep track of tonight. but, of course, the biggest thing of all is this hurricane. at the storms height, wind gusts up to 175 miles per hour. thats the f...

Peter smith was a longtime republican operative, last may he was found death in a hotel room, ruled as a suicide. just a few days before he died, he did an interview in which he told them about a project he had been working on during the 2016 campaign, trying to track down what he believed were thousands of e-mails that had been hacked from hillary clintons private e-mail server. he contacted people who he believed were russian hackers online to encourage them to get clinton e-mails, so they cou...

Related to her work in the obama administration. >> now, the other part of this that has rung for so long, since the "journal" first broke this story is that smith kept saying when talking to other people about this project, about his efforts to get hillary clintons e-mails, he talked about how he was happy to try to get them from russian hackers, but he also bragged about his relationship with the trump campaign. didnt he brag about having a relationship with flynn? >> he used flynn as a person...

Relationship with flynn? >> he used flynn as a person helping the effort. he dropped his name a lot. and he haddockmen documents tha steve bannon was involved, kellyanne conway.nied knowing h. michael flynn is not talking, but he hasnt pushed back as fiercely as some of the others in the trump campaign. >> to me, thats the super clarifying thing about this story. i followed every incremental development. for me, this is like weve now taken a turn. without knowing anything about peter smith other...

>> to me, thats the super clarifying thing about this story. i followed every incremental development. the reporting team on this has just been amazing. >> thank you. >> for me, this is like weve now taken a turn. without knowing anything about peter smith other than his activism, him dropping lots of names, dont worry, this is legit, the trump campaign has me working on this, he might be a crazy dude. but if theres corroborating information, that might have been about something real, because hi...

Of appeals substantiates these claims against kavanaugh, its not clear how it will affect kavanaughs time on the bench at the supreme court. supreme court justices send to sort of be pretty much above the law in terms of their own conduct. but now he is the first supreme court justice to ever take a seat on that court while his fellow judges recommended that misconduct claims against him are serious enough to warrant judicial review, and now that judicial review will begin in the 10th circuit. s...

Online to encourage them to get clinton e-mails, so they could be used against clinton in the election for trumps benefit. in other words, peter smith, u.s. citizen, volunteered to "the wall street journal" last year that he, as an american citizen, really had tried to collude with russia to influence the presidential election in trumps favor. since then, one important question about that story has been, well, was he just doing this as peter smith, private citizen, or was he doing this as an age...

Michael flynn and vladimir putin sitting elbow to elbow at a fancy dinner in moscow. come on, make it more subtle. it was taken december of 2015. general flynn was about to take a job with the trump campaign. vladamir putin was working behind the scenes to attack our election to help swing the election in trumps favor. all a little obvious. were going on three years now since that picture was taken. given all thats happened since then, the picture almost looks weirder -- it looks weirder now tha...

We know that they were in touch in 2015. we dont know if any business deals came of that. we dont have any reason to think they did, and we dont know what they spoke about before michael flynn left and hopped on that plane to russia. >> at the time, mike flynn had left the defense intelligence agency under difficult circumstances. he had formed a private intelligence group, and you suggest in the story that its possible that peter smith was looking at a potential investment opportunity, maybe wa...