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Completely on their own, by the way. same thing with special counsel. that didnt happen like -- >> why do you think he shared that information? >> i think he owed them money. a lot of money. and i think he was sucking up to them. sucking up to his clients, making them feel important. the sharing of -- >> i think they owed him money. >> oh, im sorry, other way around. so he wanted to get paid. youre correct. youre correct. they owed him money. and he wanted to get paid. they were -- he had a pers...

Think what is so important here is the credibility of the office of the prosecutors and it doesnt serve the prosecutors to actually leak anything. it actually works against their job. it makes their job harder. so it simply wouldnt make sense that it would come from muellers team. >> you think they were trying to protect the reputation of the office and saying, hey, let me shut down the idea that any of this information came to buzzfeed from our office, from the mueller office? >> i think thats ...

They rejected it. if there was collusion with the russians, they would have used it. the collusion part, were comfortable with because there is none. >> i dont know if thats a crime, inclucolluding with russ >> back now with robby mook, jim schultz and carrie cordero. was giuliani confused or confused last night or saying something different last night as part of a strategy? >> look, hes had a history of being imprecise, no question about that. the motivations behind that, whether there was moti...

But i also want to take a step back and say, you know, something was going on in this campaign whether trump knew it or not that so many felt either sort of like they had a welcome mat to talk to the russians. and that comes from the top. you know, trump set a tone for the campaign, which was this kind of behavior is okay. and that we have to remember. >> and then obviously now this leaves him only sticking out and saying the president himself didnt collude. thats the only thing thats left here....

Polling data to russians. so first of all, thats a really weird thing. i was not in the practice as a campaign manager of sending our internal strategic polling to foreigners, just in general. so lets put that. >> no russians? no syrians? >> no syrians, no mexicans, no french. so lets go there. but we are contorting ourselves. jims having to do gymnastics here to explain how the campaign was not colluding. so i just, again, whats disturbing to me here is were not asking ourselves how did this --...

Places seemed to be very similar to the ones that the russian trolls were, how did they get that information? was it a consequence or was it the fruit of the polling data that manafort somehow got to them and then theres something else thats going out against the presidents favor in the analysis. he didnt know anything. what would he have done if he did know? thats one of the basis of analysis. were always talking about mueller. would he really act this way? not this guy. the president has shown...

>> seems like -- >> sent this polling data over the russians is clearly disturbing, and im giving a legal analysis to this. and robby, youre making political statements. and i get that. thats what you do. >> heres whats odd -- heres whats odd from a counterintelligence perspective. if we were to take rudy giuliani at his word that the president didnt know anything about what paul manafort was doing, the reaction after the fact to that information being revealed publicly has been sort of odd, bec...

He didnt know about the internal polling data and on and on. that puts him in a very difficult position. it was karl clifford who said under investigation, they put me in a petition of being a criminal or a fool. i think thats where donald trump find himself. giuliani isnt helping. >> ultimately what do you see as exposure? >> im not sold on this has to be a crime. its in the crime of public opinion. well reply on polls like never before. what percentage of the people believe whats in the report...

Chairman gave polling data, it is alleged to the russians. we already knew that the presidents national security adviser apparently authored relief on sanctions on russia during the transition. i think it is important to look in that broader pattern. another part of that pattern that michael cohen has pled guilty to a crime of taking the presidents direction to break campaign finance law. that part of the pattern is listening to the president to do either shady things or illegal things. >> micha...

Look at the real issue, which is that our president is probably compromised and has demonstrated that. >> look, its a little self-serving of robby -- >> go ahead, jim. >> i think its a little self-serving of robby on this one given that he was campaign manager for hillary clinton and there is probably sour grapes there. but what he is saying, there are a lot of things that go on in campaigning, and robby knows that he didnt have his finger on everything that was going on the campaign. >> jim, we...