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>> wikileaks. i love wikileaks. this wikileaks is unbelievable. wikileaks is fascinating. this wikileaks is like a treasure trove. >> quote, beginning in june 2016, forecast to senior campaign officials that wikileaks would release information damaging to clinton. wikileakss first release came in july 2016, around the same time candidate trump announced he hoped russia would recover e-mails described as missing from a private server used by clinton when she was secretary of state. he later said ...

>> this wikileaks is unbelievable. >> this wikileaks is like a treasure trove. quote, beginning in june 2016, forecast to senior campaign officials that wikileaks would release information damaging to clinton. wikileakss first release came in july 2016, around the same time candidate trump announced he hoped russia would recover emails described as missing from a private server used by clinton when she was secretary of state. he later said he was speaking sarcastically. to be fair, this comes ...

Associate of gates and manafort. "the times" is reporting that oleg deripaska is suing the u.s. government and our treasury secretary for good measure demanding that sanctions be lifted that that he claims have cost him $7.5 billion. he also calls himself a victim to reaction to russian interference in the 2016 election which may be the definition of chutzpah. with us to talk about it tonight is chuck rosenberg, former u.s. attorney and former senior fbi official. and jessica ross, now a profess...

Possible that there are lines of investigation that we dont know about yet. >> and what kind of realm would be participating in that? >> well, i think -- well, part of the reason why i say i think its very possible that these lines of inquiry exist is because of the redacted material in the filings with respect to manafort and the cryptic allusions that judge amy berman jackson found he had lied to the prosecutors when he was trying to cooperate. it could be they pertain two things. russians, ot...

Hes still calling into question muellers investigation. writing, quote, the special counsel should never have been appointed. he continues. there should be no mueller report. thats especially bracing considering this is the day after the entire house voted to make the mueller report public, and on the mueller investigation front today we learned that rick gates, the former deputy to manafort on the campaign, is still talking to prosecutors. his lawyers and the special counsel have filed a status...

Think the train went off the cliff a long time ago. i understand that. but it seems to me that if mueller comes back with clear and convincing evidence, the story changes pretty rapidly. >> wow. jon meacham, always a pleasure. thank you very much. and ever quotable. well just let that endnote sit there and folks can contemplate that over the weekend. thank you, jon, for coming on our broadcast. coming up -- >> thanks, brian. >> -- a speech jon meacham knows well delivered on this very day at a...

But if you are part of the mueller effort, joy, what interests you most about all of this? >> here we actually have a clue from one of muellers prosecutors who in the earlier hearing with mr. manafort, much of which was redacted, we learn theres real interest in this meeting and viewed as being a seminole meeting in the mueller investigation. and i think that thats because, brian, it goes to one of these foundational questions. was this manafort out with a little side hustle essentially where he...

Involved in this sort of coordination back and forth with russians sharing campaign nfrgs. thats a question mueller is certainly eager to answer. >> ned, talk about manafort as a potential target here, as a potential dupe. hes living part time in trump tower. he offers donald trump his services for nothing. and we know he had, shall we say, mounting financial obligations in his personal life. >> thats right. and we also know, brian, that those mounting financial obligations led to this desire of...

Russia john, how many times do i have to say it? are you a smart man? i have nothing to do with russia i have nothing to do with russia. >> well, the lies, boys. turns out according to "the times" those top officials were some of the worst offenders. they report 18 undisclosed contact between roger stone and russians before inauguration day. the report 17 for donald trump jr. and six each for president trump and his former campaign chairman paul manafort "the washington post" put its this way in...

Will move to quash it and months of litigation probably going all the way to the supreme court. does mueller want to put his investigation on hold while that fight plays out or wrap up his investigation without the subpoena? i think thats the question mueller is asking. i dont know the answer, i think thats the question. >> its interesting they even went back to the trump team and said we want to talk to the president in person, knowing all of that. thank you for being with us. what do we need...