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Now we have a former trump campaign aide sam clovis breaking his silence, speaking about this person to the president has repeatedly referenced. he sat down with this person in september of 2016 and heres what he just said about that meeting. >> the meeting was very high level, like two faculty members sitting down and the faculty lounge talking about research. there was no indication, no inclination that this was anything other than just wanting to offer up his help to the campaign if i needed ...

And me to get to george. that was the whole chain hoff events there. >> i believe i got two or more approaches by individuals trying to offered information to the campaign that would have jammed us up in some way, shape or form. its very clear that sam and carter were both approached by a spy. >> sean: lying to fisa judges repeatedly, not telling the judges, no corroborating, not verifying, not telling fisa court judges, spying on trump campaign associates. all of this happened. you know somethi...

Mid-july 2016, a retired american professor approached an adviser to donald trumps presidential campaign at a symposium about the white house race held at a british university. the professor took the opportunity to strike up a conversation with carter page, whom trump had named a few months earlier as a foreign policy adviser. the professor was more than an academic interested in american politics. he was a longtime u.s. intelligence source. in late summer, the professor met with trump campaign ...

To run cover for the president and the fact that your siding polling from the fact that -- the president has attacked the investigation from the beginning, those -- it is republicans who are questioning this investigation, not independents. >> do you think the democrats should be at this meeting? they want to be there. >> i do, actually. i think when we have congressional oversight both parties need to be represented. the republican want this information but there is no reason not to have people...

George papadopoulos. and also sam clovis, a campaign chair. both saying theyre keeping it secret to protect their safety. and at this hour, nbc news has not confirmed. gabby, im going to start with you here first, what was the fbi trying to find out through this informant? >> well, i think they were looking for any eagerness among trump campaign aides to jump at the opportunity to work with either russian officials or receive potentially damaging information on obviously the opponent hillary cli...

Co-chairman of the campaign, going on record through his lawyer, saying that he met with this source, this professor, for coffee in northern virginia in september, the fall of 2016. and yet the source never said anything about meeting up with george papadopoulos or carter page. and now looking back, sam clovis finds that unusual. and so were just trying to piece together the reporting. whats important about this story is that were learning more about the origin of the russia investigation. we kn...

Working inside of the campaign. but this was someone who was learning more about the campaign through meetings. and, for example, we have sam clovis, who was national d co-chairman of the campaign, going on record through his lawyer, saying that he met with this source, this professor, for coffee in northern virginia in september, the fall of 2016. and yet the source never said anything about meeting up with george papadopoulos or carter page. and now looking back, sam clovis finds that unusual....

Sam clovis, papadopoulos, jared kushner, manafort, now the attorney general jeff sessions. among the key figures who have not spoken to the special counsel, at least not yet, the president, the vice president, steve bannon, his former chief campaign strategist, and the presidents son, donald trump jr. we should point out these are names that have been publicly reported. we want to start with nbc justice correspondent pete williams as well as my colleague in the white house jeff bennett. pete, to...

Papadopoulos to this maltese professor, who purports to be the niece of vladimir putin. there are also his connections to the presidential campaign. what do we know about how much contact george papadopoulos had with same clovis, say, or stephen miller, the presidents domestic policy aide, or to michael flynn, the presidents national security advisor? >> his contacts come and go. weve seen a number of his e-mails. obviously he interviews with sam clovis and our understanding is right off the bat...

The campaign. he didnt take any initiative without campaign approval. >> papadopoulos communicated with flynn, steve bannon and adviser rick deer born about topics other than russia and said he interacted with other top officials like paul manafort and sam clovis earlier in the campaign about setting up russia meetings. they have denied, downplayed or say they dont recall interactioning with papadopoulos. she said the campaigns director brian lanza allowed him to do the only interview with the a...