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Polling data from your campaign with the russians? >> nothing about it. >> let me ask you -- when you shared poll data, macro reason were winning. we could win this, keep helping us. the other one is inside information how to move a state. is that where we understand a debate? >> dont know. >> we know they were playing around the army vote, turned off to hillary. >> and we know the russians and research agency are targeting different aspects of the american electorate. so far i dont see a tremen...

Connections that all go back to president trump? >> well, the russian fingerprint is all over his campaign, especially paul manafort who was in kiev working with two russian intelligence officers, staff officers. paul manafort takes polling data, gives it essentially to russian intelligence. if youre in the fbi or cia, would be a strong presumption that trump is under some sort of control of russia. everything he has done since does not detract from that, thats when you would open an investigati...

Agents also sought to determine whether mr. trump was knowingly working for russia or had unwittingly followed under moscows influence. what do you say to that? >> you know, don, you have to step back. my jaw is on the floor. you could not imagine this happening. but its a little less shocking when its donald trump. this is not something that comes out of the blue. there is a lot of evidence why the fbi would want to be looking into whether the president is, in fact, a foreign agent. start with ...

Passed to the campaign. were told that manafort gave polling data to russians, if any of that is confirmed, would that reach a legal bartha pu fsh -- that puts this president in jeopar jeopardy. >> i think he has nothing else to lose and will tell the truth to the congress and american people. ive seen oop la lot of witness over the years. ive seen a will the of witnesses lie. ive seen a lot of witnesses see the light and tell the truth. i think this is one such witness who has decided hes done ...

I never bumped in to more than a handful of rugdss. 101 contacts with russians during the campaign. >> i think what robert muellers interested in is the inauguration costs $107 million. the most in history. where did the money go? i watched part of the inauguration on tv. it didnt look like $107 million worth. hes following the money. the law is they have to report who -- >> who passed through the inaugural ball to the trump people? >> they just have to report where they get from not where it go...

How much foreign money was funneled into the election of january 2017. two years ago. the "new york times" reports that among the guests that ceremony and the inaugural ball there, were at least a dozen ukrainian and political business figures. some were promoting grand bargains or peace plans that align would russias interest. including by lifting the sanctions. they want to know how the pro-russian ukrainians got into the ball. however, theres another dimension. we learned this week that durin...

Make it public will be pretty tough to resist. >> some exclusive cnn reporting. i want you to comment on that the team mueller interview trump campaign pollster, a former business associate of paul manaforts who we learned this week gave data to a russian operative. what does this tell you about the direction of this investigation? >> i think this is a very significant development. first, the revelation about sharing manafort sharing polling data -- all we saw is really a glimpse of what im sure...

Himself or did do by himself. because the reporting is clear. when the original plank came out, trump people from the campaign were reportedly in the meeting, rejected it, scripted new language and got it passed. relevance. >> yeah, chris, heres whats relevant about cnns reporting on the manafort polling data. we now have information that would suggest that coordination with both ways. that is to say the russian lawyer close to vladimir putin in the june meeting at the trump towers, providing in...

Information influence during the campaign during the presidential campaign. >> just to be clear here, sharing that internal polling data, does that mean collusion. >> at least that is a glimpse. i dont know that that in and of itself would meet the threshold for collusion. but just as a layman, it certainly does a number on all these denials of no collusion, no collusion. there was. and if you add that to some of the other things that had been observed, this to me is pretty significant. >> thank...

Public. that will be must-see tv. which means we could all learn a lot more about what cohen now a convicted felon has told mueller. but the president, his attitude seems to be, what, me? worry? >> im not worried about it at all, no. >> and then theres paul manafort, the former trump campaign chairman and another convicted felon. president says he knows nothing about manaforts sharing of polling data with a russian intelligence-linked operative. >> no, i didnt know anything about it. nothing abo...