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good evening. with funerals under wade of the victims of last weeks school shooting in uvalde, texas. we have another mass shooting to report tonight. police say at least three people are dead plus the shooter in tulsa, oklahoma. cnns joe johns is working the story and joins us now. what do we know so far, joe? >> reporter: anderson, what we do know, at least according to the authorities so far is that three people have been reported dead as a result of this shooting, a fourth if you i...

Being with russians is minimal. if there was stuff going on, by going in, you brace them and you disrupt the activity in time to protect the election, but it doesnt hold water because august 4, they contacted head of russian intelligence and said we know what you are up to and you better stop it. they did it in later august and president obama did it directly in september. it doesnt strike me as plausible that you would tell the russians who were guilty of interference, but you wouldnt go and ta...

But like you said theyre playing the 25% and theyre trying to show that this activity was actually patriotic. and that anything that anyone else says, whether its the fbi or the special prosecutor or congress theyre a bunch of fools. we have a very serious propaganda problem going on if this is the case. >> matt miller speak to that and this illegal and security notion of who is giving up the goods. because it is certainly true that campaigns try to lawfully collect negative information on their...

Felonies if they know its the fruit of a crime. they cant try to legally collaborate with or get assistance from foreigners. i dont want to be unfair to the defenses being offered but it does seem were hearing a pred cat for the open defense of that kind of potentially illegal collaboration. >> theyre saying the campaign financed laws that accepting a thing from a foreign national dont apply and other laws thdot apply. i think theres one thing unreported. we know that the russian american lobbyi...

Dont muck it up. is he laying out the pred cat if they dont pass a jobs bill or something to put back the guys coming back from the war, put them to work doing ccc kind of work. is he laying down the predicate for you guys blew it? >> hes trying to make sure congress is on notice. something needs to get done. something needs to shift this unemployment rate for the good of everybody. not necessarily just for the good of the presidents prospects. its a marker. he intends on -- >> this is clarity, ...

Itself was legal or a potential element of a crime. even if robert muellers folks dont find this meeting was the pred cat to a crime, does your committee have an interest whether it is evidence of foreign interference that would itself be a problem for the united states. >> of course we do, ari. that is no longer a question. obviously the intelligence community told us long ago there was a concerted effort on the part of the russians to attack our election and do it on the part of donald trump. ...

Federal election laws, felonies related to computer hacking, statutes on conspiracy, and being an as accessory after the fact to a crime. we know laws were broken in 2016, hacking being the most bla tent. the question isnt whether statutes were implicated but rather people like trump jr. were witnesses to those crimes or accomplices. i turn to a member of the house intel committee, which investigates a lot of these russia issues. put aside whether the meeting itself was legal or a potential elem...