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Multiple e-mails he had with paul manafort, with corey lewandowski, with sam clovis, other senior members of the trump campaign. so he was a little more than a coffee boy. was he an intimate adviser who donald trump was leaning on for advice on what to do about various foreign policy issues? probably not. he wasnt a senior member of the team. and senior members of trumps campaign were responding to his e-mails. >> two points, one, react to the john dean comment when he said, he may know more tha...

They have pleaded not. on march 10th, russian hackers sent phishing e-mails in an attempt to compromise democratic party operatives tied to hillary clinton. within nine days they would have access to at least 50,000 e-mails of john podesta. in a meeting with the washington post on march 21st, trump announced members of his foreign policy team. >> george papadopoulos. hes an oil energy consultant. excellent guy. >> that very week papadopoulos met in london with a russian national and w ties to th...

Case, right? >> well, thats right, in part, boris. the other thing, though, is that this reporting of papadopolous meeting with australian diplomats and being told that russians have dirt and carter page, similarly meeting with russians and being told that russians have dirt, does tend to dovetail some with the memoranda that steele did present to u.s. intelligence agencies which gave rise to the investigation. these things are beginning to coalesce in a way that confirms in part what steele has...

Try to dig up as much dirt on them as possible. do you think that theres a growing rift over this in terms of whats traditionally been the party of law and order in the republicans, that theyre going after the fbi and the department of justice? >> yeah, i think its not only dangerous for the republican party, its dangerous for our institutions of democracy when you attack the fbi and the justice system. people need to be able to count on impartial justice, impartial investigations. and look, geo...

Know about the russian contacts, you should speak up. to me if youre in the trump white house at this stage, this is a very bad news story. >> renata, to that point, does this reporting shed any light on papadopoulos plea deal? >> well we certainly knew, papadopoulos got a pretty good plea deal and he was obviously the first, it looks like the first person who has cooperated with mueller that we know of at least. so i think what it tells us, it gives us a window into what some of the things are ...

Joining us now to talk about this. and michael let me turn to you first. something that comes across in this article is that george papadopoulos played a bigger role than many are saying he did. something that has come across as the story reported out how fractured the campaign staff were. can you give us a sense what it looks like? was >> no, i think the campaign was a manage teritocracy. but i think he was a volunteer. and anyone can go act as private citizen. he reported back to a campaign of...

Reading of the new material today is that he knows who those people are and told mueller who they are? >> yes. i believe thats true. it is, you know, convention not to name them in a document but i believe that when providing information papadopoulos told them who they were by name. >> ari, i should point out that we know who some of those people are. the campaign supervisor, reported today, is sam clovis, the campaign co-chairman. hi and nbc and others have reported is paul manafort himself. so...

Be the ambassador of singapore. >> she wouldnt be the only nominee to face problems because of alleged russia ties, right? >> yes. sam cloves who was nominated by president trump to take a senior level position at the department of agriculture had to withdraw from that position after it was revealed that he had contacts with george papadopoulos. we now know he tried to set up a meeting between trump and putin and was in contact with sam clovis. after it was revealed -- it was revealed during thi...

Clarify her testimony. what does that mean? theyre going to send her back to the white house and the white house is going to have to make a decision about whether or not to be renominated. her chances of being confirmed are exceedingly grim until she does so. so shes probably not going to be the ambassador of singapore. >> shes not the only one to have problems because of alleged russia ties, right? >> yes. sam cloves who was noticminated president trump to take a senior level position at the de...

The senior level of the transition in late december 2016 about communications flynn would have with sergey kislyak, then the russian ambassador. it turns out that senior official was k.t. mcfarland. when she was asked, wolf, earlier this year whether or not she had any conversations with michael flynn about sergey kislyak, she responded to senator cory booker by saying she was not aware of any such conversation. that raised a lot of concerns. people questioned whether or not she was honest with ...