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Forma meeting on the very rare location he was in washington for the speech. the guy neverlanded on the campaign. he never had a role. he never got paid. >> why did sam clovis entertain his suggestions and encourage him? why did paul manafort engage with this guy? wasnt he too busy to engage with a nobody? >> he sent a red flag up saying these are not the kind of meetings we want to have. >> not to spend a signal. what part did that peen? >> if a denial of a meeting came from a senior level of t...

Heres what savannah guthrie asking him. >> as the campaign manager to the trump campaign, i was receiving thousands of e-mails a day. i dont know if that was specifically referring to me or was that paul manafort or rick gates or somebody else. >> this high-ranking official unnamed was being told that papadopoulos had desires to meet with russia. "the washington post" seems to have put two and two together and said, lewandowski is one of the people named here. >> this is a conversation based on ...

Discussions. i thought the most important thing about the entire papadopoulos episode was that in his original appearance back in july the government sought to keep his arrest sealed because of his proactive cooperation with the. >> laura: he gave many interviews. >> proactive cooperation suggests more than interviews. it suggests that he might have actually been an active participant in the investigation. >> laura: wired? >> either through emails or through wiring. i dont know that, but proacti...

Participants in his discussions. i thought the most important thing about the entire papadopoulos episode was that in his original appearance back in july the government sought to keep his arrest sealed because of his proactive cooperation with the. >> laura: he gave many interviews. >> proactive cooperation suggests more than interviews. it suggests that he might have actually been an active participant in the investigation. >> laura: wired? >> either through emails or through wiring. i dont kn...

Which is was there any collusion between the trump campaign and russia during the election? >> george papadopolous has always been an interesting character in this. he was one of the youngest and least experienced advisers on trumps campaign. he could come in and reportedly make trumps advisers uncomfortable by trying to broker the meetings. at one point, sam clovis said, shouldnt we be consulting nato allies before meeting with top russian officials? im looking over some old "washington post" r...

Adviser sam clovis. im going to go back to my friend ken. ken, if you look at this thing unwrapping, trumps current redoubt or the wall he puts up lately there was no russian attempt to influence our election, nub at all. thats huckabee sanders job to keep saying that and wait a minute here, if there is no collusion, why is papadopoulos, why was jared kushner your son-in-law, why were all so ready to meet any time the russians wanted to meet, they were there. they were trod show up and collude. ...

>> youre saying something important, put it back on the screen. those three people, your reading of this new material today, a lot to digest, he knows who they are and already told mueller? >> i do believe its true. its convention not to name them in document but i believe in providing information he told who they were by name. >> ari, should point out we know who some are. campaign supervisor is sam clovis, the cochairman of the campaign. at least one of the high ranking campaign officials as i...

The russians right now. they need to be able to get their oil and gas out. they need to be able to do business with american businesses, and theyre not able to do that. and youve got all of the oligarchs who are friends of putin. their assets have been frozen around the world. they cant move their cash. they are not happy campers. so all of that is the target of change. and theyre trying to see a candidate like trump who might be able accomplish that mission for them. >> well, nbc news is also r...

The first evidence we have of an overture from the russians, that they want to provide some dirt on hillary clinton. and the first evidence that perhaps, and mother than perhaps, the trump team is responding. they want to go back and meet. they are suggesting who should go pick up the documents. it does have sort of a crime scene atmosphere to it, a dealing that is taking place here. renato, give us a sense of what you think the prosecutors are up. to. >> sure. what i think, chris, its clear tha...

In addition to mike flynn peter smith, this republican operative running that operation to try to get involved in that russian attack, to try to help the russian attack, the journal reported last friday night that he also claimed to be in communication with, in coordination with not just flynn but a number of other people who were senior campaign officials on the trump campaign at the time and who are now senior officials in the trump administration. he said that he was involved with, he was in ...