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Its been six and a half months since george papadopoulos plead guilty, and mueller put in open court filings, really the most tantalizing piece of evidence weve seen so far today and thats that he had been told there were thousands of e-mails the russians had stolen. in the six months he plead guilty, we dote know anything about that piece of investigation. for all the other threads in the campaign, the trump tower meeting, the presidents trip to moscow in july or in 2013, this is the one where ...

Look, its tough for congress to get access to documents we are constitutionally entitled to put "the new york times" can review these documents? i think thats an interesting question. >> martha: all right. but what do you think it reveals about this particular issue and looking at whether or not it sheds light on any potential collusion or whether or not its a financial issue for michael cohen. >> we will have to see. that remains an open question. what i do know is the department of justice nee...

The bank fraud. you really care about the information that manafort to give you to lead to mr. trump, impeachment or whatever." it was a striking moment because what he said was true. somehow the mueller investigation continues tonight leaving lives in the wake. the latest target is long-time republican political consultant roger stone. roger stone joins us right now rodger, thank you for coming on. according to nbc -- i want to read a quote you are familiar with -- you are one of the, "top subj...

Information. nice. that is the presidents tweet. but it isnt exactly true because there were several of the questions that clearly revolved around collusion or cooperation or conspiracy between the trump campaign and the russians? >> that was actually an entertaining tweet for a number of reasons. because there is speculation about where that leak actually came from. these questions may be closer to the president than hes willing to admit. and to be fair, there were 49 questions, maybe he didnt ...

Report. republicans saying there was no evidence of collusion and democrats issuing haitheir diss. and now new evidence how close this lawyer was to the kremlin. from a political perspective, does this raise that issue of collusion again or rather give it new life? >> this trump tower meeting in i think it was june of 2016 clearly was the biggest sore spot or one of the biggest sore spots in this entire episode of potential collusion for the president. a, because it dealt with his son who as you...

People to ask questions, gloria, about james comeys credibility? >> sure. thats exactly what the president is doing. but i would say comey is throwing it right back at him. saying it, he felt like he was investigating the cosa nostra again. >> he tweeted today that the three presidents mentioned in his book, one of them is a counterpoint to his points of leadership. >> the president does not reflect the values of this country. he talks women like theyre pieces of meat. et cetera, et cetera. i th...

But the fact of the matter is, he authorized opening the investigation into potential collusion, because of some of the trump aides or trump associates actually getting caught talking to russians about the election and about donald trump. >> just the beginning of this comey media tour, hes going to be here on cnn on thursday with jake tapper, but you have comey saying these things about a sitting president of the united states, john brennan, the former cia director, saying very similar things ab...

Possibilities that you outlined. this could be about whether or not michael cohen was suppressing that tape much like trying to pay hush money for the other people, stormy daniels among others to keep their stories out of the press during the presidents campaign and whether that was a violation of the campaign finance laws, not to report it. that is one possibility. also possible that they are looking at whether the trump campaign and michael cohen had any role in the timing of the wikileaks dum...

That they were looking for information that manafort might have relating to the very wealthy russian real estate family. that family worked with trump previously before he ran for office in efforts to host the miss universe pageant in moscow and also to have talks that never materialized but to have a trump tower in moscow. they were looking into whether manafort violated the financial -- ban on foreign investments in the campaign that would also squarely fit within the campaign. and so what wer...

>> jason: the big question after the latest bombshell revelation in the russia investigation is how will president trump react. we now though know that deputy attorney general rod rosenstein specifically authorized a special prosecutor to investigate paul manafort for potential collusion with russia or ukraine. that information was in a partly redacted and formerly secret government memo filed in court by special prosecutor bob mueller late last night. lets examine the implications of this lates...