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Campaign that are targeted by russian trolls. how is that not collusion? >> its not collusion. >> how is it not? >> because polling data is given to everybody. i mean, he shouldnt have given it to them, its wrong to give it to them. >> so its wrong for zblerve i cant speak for paul manafort. of course it is. the most inappropriate, the most inaccurate stuff is internal polling data. >> your thoughts. >> rudy giulianis number one job is to confuse people. he wants everyone to just think this is a...

Theres a term called checkoffs gun. you see the gun in the first act, it has to go off in the second or third. when rude jewel says what he says last nig rudy giuliani says what he says in the first act, the second act were going to find out who did collude. lets play a little bit more of these new parameters set out by the presidents own lawyer. >> hes viable at the head of the campaign giving polling data that winds up having the same faces and places targeted by the campaign that are targeted...

Officials throughout the campaign. >> we should remind folks. go back to the original denials. no contacts between the russia and the campaign. that was proved false. then that the contacts were innocent as we see the sharing of polling data. >> such a good point. >> there was more to it. the evolution over time. you cover the white house. im curious as you are speaking to folks this morning, are they concerned about giulianis revelation? were they surprised by it? were they prepared for it? >> ...

The president never suggested campaign aides in the 2016 trump campaign could have colluded with russians it but in his previous comments giuliani as saying he was only referring to the president himself did not collude with the russians saying in the interview it would only have been a crime if the president had colluded with the russians to hack the dnc emails. he said nothing like that happened so theres no crime here which seemed to leave the door open to the possibility trump campaign ad si...

Developments and revelations in true, does that change the perspective? >> im never sure what people are talking about. the other day there was a story saying, oh, manafort gave polling data to the russians. its like you can look online and get polling data. its out there everywhere. its a dime a dozen. so to say that and say oh, no, low level campaign officials are talking -- polling data -- and? so really we have to think about what were talking about here. are we talking about espionage or ta...

And "wall street journal" reporting. michael cohen hired or tried to hire i.t. firm to try to rig online polling in favor of donald trump ahead of the election 2016. he was reacting on twitter a moment to go after "the wall street journal" article but i did at the direction of an sole benefit of donald trump come i truly regret my blind loyalty to a man that s not deserve it. that is a tweet from a moment ago. and virginia, the allegations that came to the trump tower looking for a $50,000 was g...

President trump said. now there is this weight of evidence that manafort took this polling data and handed it to russian operatives and we dont know whether that was a strategy on behalf of that campaign or was that just paul manafort trying to protect his own interests to curry favor with some of these oligarchs. that and "the wall street journal" story that is just breaking, well talk about that, theres definite connections here about a level of chaos and confusion in the campaign and people o...

His relationship with the russians and putin and russian interference eand the way hes had this fawning attitude toward putin, it fuels the concerns about what is going on. >> we begin with breaking news on these two bombshell reports. president trump first his former fixer and personal attorney cohen just admitted to paying to manipulate polling data before the 2016 presidential election. according to "the wall street journal," cohen paid using a walmart bag full of cash that could break campai...

About debates. campaign finance issues, are they raised here barbara? >> i think they could be. when we were prosecuting cases. we would talk about is it crime or slime? this is certainly slime. i dont know if it amounts to crime. slime being shady operations and political tricks. some of the things that manipulated polling data could be. what campaign finance lost tries to do is provide transparency so there is disclosures and people know whos paying who. if michael cohen and behalf of the trum...

Nothing to do with changing the platform and the language was too strong and it was untraditional for any party platform. you dont buy that as a rational? >> i dont think its credible. it seems highly improbable and because it pushed against strong, strong republican pressure from folks like john mccain, the previous presidential candidate that we needed to up our game for the ukrainian army against the russian little green men. >> the problem with the allegations is it was hard for him to do it...