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Its a very appropriate word. its humiliating for americans. this is not a partisan political issue. >> can we come back from this? >> sure. >> were america. thank you. >> thank you, don. >> always a pleasure. >> i need to get to breaking news right now on the russia investigation. a republican operative tried to obtain e-mails he thought were stolen from hillary clintons servers. shane, thanks for joining us what can you tell us about this story? >> reporter: the operatives name is peter w. smit...

Hugely controversial because you had a canada callididate callin foreign power who was already believed to have been hacking to go after his opponent. we should, too, its my understanding from talking to peter smith that he had suspicions about hillary clintons e-mails, even before donald trump made that comment. but it is very notable that this project that smith was leading begins in earnest about five weeks after president trump made that statement. >> so, all right. so then just lastly, stev...

Securitier adviser michael flynn. flynn at the time was serving as a senior adviser to the trump campaign. this all took place before the 2016 presidential election. i also need to note this is the "wall street journals" reporting. cnn has not been able to independently verify the details of this report but we do have the reporter who broke the story here. hes the senior national security writer. hes with me as well as steve hall, a retired cia chief of russia operations. so, shane and steve, th...

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That offer. and he proceeded to explain to me the operation that he was involved in and that he was leading, which tracked very much with previous reporting that i had already been doing. and so, then, continued reporting with the intention of going back to him, some time, in short order to ask him for follow-up questions but unfortunately, he died about ten days after i interviewed him. so we continued our own reporting up until just yesterday when we published the piece. >> so, peter smith, he...

People. thats a feeling here. >> all right. nic robertson from abu dhabi, thank you. theres potentially explosive new reporting this morning that a longtime republican operative tried to get his hands on emails he believed were stolen from hillary clintons private e-mail server, likely by russian hackers. part two of this "wall street journal" scoop is that the operatives suggested to others that he was working with michael flynn who later became the national security adviser. the general repo...

Portrayed mike flynn, then a senior adviser to donald trump in an ali to this quest. saying that mike flynn was aware of what he was doing and appeared to be supportive of that. so were seeing some connection and were trying to understand the full depth of it between a campaign adviser to donald trump and this operative who believe head was in touch with russian hackers trying to find damaging e-mails about hillary clinton. >> peter smith has passed away and he never has told you that flynn was ...

Operative and what exactly was his connection to general flynn? >> right. his name was peter w. smith. hes a finance person from chicago who has a long history in opposition research going back to the early clinton days where he was responsible for helping to publicize a number of stories about bill clintons personal life. and his connection to general flynn is they definitely knew each other. but what we found in our investigation is that over last summer into the fall peter smith was engage in...

The 81-year-old smith died ten days after the interview. a trump campaign official says smith did not work for the campaign, and they had no knowledge of any involvement by flynn. falcon has offered no comment -- flynn has offered no comment. cnn has not independently confirmed the reporting. senate republicans plan to keep at it through the holiday weekend as they fine-tune a health care reform bill they hope will pass muster with their skeptical colleagues. the latest government analysis may...

Investigators. he was portrayed as an ali by smith. >> what are investigators looking at now in. >> investigators are aware of what might be something at the other end of this operation. there is intelligence reporting from around the time that smith was operating showing that russian hackers were discussing ways to obtain e-mails from hillary clintons server and provide that information via an intermediary to general flynn then working with the campaign. we understand this was the smith operati...