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Campaign to collude with russian agents. >> let me state this clearly, colleagues, i have never met with or had any conversation with any russians or any foreign officials concerning any type of interference with any campaign or election in the united states. further i have no knowledge of any such conversations by anyone connected to the trump campaign. >> but sessions was present at a march 2016 meeting with george papadopoulos who we now know pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi about an effort...

The government here is building is leverage that they believe for whatever reason, they think whatever manafort has to give, they can use that to leverage it and have him flip up. and look, the issue here is that theres not many people above manafort in the hierarchy of this campaign. were talking about the president, were talking about the people who are most close to him, his family members. >> or that they could squeeze gates and then maybe get to manafort and then to whomever else they want....

That out. if there was, well find that out. we will get an answer, either ox on rating the president, exonerating the president, or condemning him and his team, as manafort and others will tell them. >> when you read between the lines of the documents filed yesterday, what message do you think that bob muellers trying to send to the trump universe? >> i think the message were all getting is that he has a strategy. its even referred to in the plea document were now reading on papadopoul papadopou...

Russian influence, into the election, and whether or not there was influence. so there was a continued investigation. the charges against him, again, indicate that he lied to investigators and they showed that there really was intent on the part of the russians and knowledge on the part of members of the campaign that there was russian intent to be involved with the campaign. so what his plea document demonstrates is that not only was he trying to set up meetings with russian government official...

Encourage him to go. your answers, senator. >> that statement of offense, the plea document, is a remarkable tableau. a chilling story of the collusion that russia was seeking to arrange and the multiple contacts that took place in march and april of 2016. to say it would have been a private, unauthorized trip simply fails to pass the smell test. and whats really happening here is the special counsel is saying to all of the potential witnesses, the train is leaving, this plea occurred on october...

Campaign. >> i agree. i mean, if youre a 29-year-old campaign volunteer, what else are you there for, besides passing on those kinds of offers? >> right. >> you could argue that maybe in a normal campaign they would have called the fbi but thats not what happened here. senator richard blumenthal, member of that same judiciary committee that has oversight of the department of justice where jeff sessions is the attorney general. does jeff sessions have a credibility problem? >> enormous credibil...