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Breaking news, the united nations security council holds a meeting after the launch of a new long-range missile. as president trump arrives in europe for a crucial talk with world leaders, including russian president vladimir putin. i want to start back again with russia. your committee has been investigating potential collusion between russian officials and the trump campaign. the wall street journal reported last week that republican operative peter w. smith sought to acquire e-mails stolen by...

Acting with michael flynn. i should say smith denied that general flynn was involved. i want to ask you, was your committee aware of this particular information as it relates to the continued investigation into collusion? >> jim, i cant comment on the specific allegations that were familiar with or not familiar with or pursuing, but i can tell you this is exactly the kind of allegation that we need to get to the bottom of, and that is if there is a suggestion that someone either affiliated with ...

Knew attorney general flynn and his son well. smith talked about the goings on at the top of the trump team offering deep insights. he went on the discuss research document he says smith sent him that listed senior members of the trump team. president trump spent part of his holiday weekend lashing out at the growing list of states that refused to turn over data to his commission investigating voter fraud. president tweeted out numerous states refused to give out information. what are they try...

Attend the first g-20 summit and come face to face with vladimir putin. the sit down is expected to take place on friday. its unclear if the president will bring up the allegations that moscow interfered with the u.s. elections. there was a report an operative tried to track down clintons missing emails. peter w. smith is convinced that the 33,000 emails were thandse s of multiple russian hackers. one of the people smith has been accused of trying recruit, matt tate who laid out his interactions...

Well connected within the top echelons of the campaign and seemed to know flynn and his son well. he taoffered deep incites. he went onto discuss a research document he says smith sent him that listed senior members of the trump team including kellyanne conway, michael flynn, steve bannon, and more. joining us is a senior reporter at business insider. welcome. >> thank you for having me. >> what do you make of this report. who is tate, exactly, and put these pieces together a little bit? >> tate...

Whole thing that happened with the gop operative in florida named aaron nevens. someone reached out to him with allegedly hacked e-mails, and aaron nevens took advantage of that. it could have been the same thing with smith. he was seeing what he could do with the material he had. >> so david, with that in mind, and there is no evidence right now that peter smith was working on behalf of flynn or anyone else in the campaign, but flynns name seeps to be at the center of the stories as it relates ...

That he thought that smith really knew a lot about the campaign about the interworkings. he knew a lot about michael flynn and his son very well. he seemed to know a bit too much to be that far removed from the campaign and michael flynn. >> this is an important story. it could be the first piece in the puzzle that links to some form of collusion between the trump campaign. kellyanne conway and steve bannon denied any links with peter smith, sam cloves has not responded. its not clear in the rep...

E-mails that clinton turned over to the state department. he was desecting them. he has a lot of experience in this area. so this guy, peter smith, who may or may not have been working on behalf of michael flynn, we dont exactly know, reached out to tate and asked him if he could authenticate some of the hacked e-mails that he said that he was receiving from people on the dark web. there is no evidence that hillary clintons e-mail server was ever hacked which is why he, i guess, wanted tates adv...

Talking to mike flynn and getting his testimony. im sure that the things that are discussed in this latest set of revelations are things that people working for the special counsel are working on right now. >> one other wrinkle is we had the reporter on on friday to talk through this. peter smith actually died a month ago in may. he was 81 years old. theres no reason to believe there was anything suspicious about it, but hes no longer around to explain this story. i want to ask about the meeting...

Anything, so there have been many many weeks of no comment from him. what i found fascinating about this latest story is the reporter matt tates posting and talking about peter smiths claim that he had sources in whats called the dark web in this very shadowy, sometimes quasi legal part of the internet who might be able to help offer information about hillary clinton, about these missing e-mails, et cetera, and it suggests, again, we dont know a lot about what smith was doing or whether his asse...