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An FBI agent involved in analyzing the since-debunked Trump-Russia collusion claims pushed to the bureau by Democratic cybersecurity lawyer Michael Sussmann testified that an analysis rejected claims of a secret back channel to Russia within days.

An FBI cyber expert testified Tuesday that the bureau's counterintelligence unit opened an investigation into former President Trump's alleged ties to a Russian bank in September 2016, even though his team had raised questions about the evidence provided by a Clinton campaign attorney.

An FBI agent told jurors Tuesday that Clinton campaign attorney Michael Sussmann's purported evidence tying former President Trump to Russia's Alfa Bank strained credibility because there was no effort to hide what Mr. Sussmann claimed was secret back-channel communications.

An FBI cyber expert testified Tuesday that the bureau's counterintelligence unit opened an investigation into former President Trump's alleged ties to a Russian bank in September 2016, even though his team had raised questions about the evidence provided by a Clinton campaign attorney.

Here is the question. i hear theres a story, a wonderful anecdote about the elevator in the state house and mitts attitude towards it, which is one of those stories i always like because it explains human behavior in a way that voting records dont. explain the elevator and mitt as governor. >> well, the man of the people, the guy who was so bipartisan, actually for the first time in, you know, history that anyone could remember took an elevator that was previously open to the public and kept it ...

What will he say no to? >> i cant answer that. i think his core belief is pragmatism above all. he looked at that debate in audience and said this is my biggest audience. he sold a centrist message. i think the president was so surprised by the extent, you know, of kind of romneys shifts there that night, i think thats partly what explain his performance. >> shannon, if you told him two months ago or a year ago, you can be president of the united states but you have to follow the policies of bar...

Legislation, twice what his republican predecessor did, bill weld, who let people on that elevator while he was governor for almost eight years. you know, 800 vetoes. these were not just small things. these were things like vetoing the minimum wage, vetoing access to contraceptive rights. sometimes they were petty and partisan. vetoing a special bill that would have helped a disabled cop. vetoing money that would have paid for kosher meals for elderly people in nursing homes. 800 vetoes and i th...

recent polling shows the difference in popular backing for what obama has done, the saving of the auto industry, the rescue of the u.s. economy itself, the killing of bin laden, health care for working americans, against what romney is offering is roughly zero. as i said, its that close. so tonight we look at how obama can regain the lead. is it with a populist message, a challenge to romneys politics of by and for the wealthy? is it a step by step dismembering of romneys tax plan for ...

saving of the auto industry, the rescue of the u.s. economy itself, the killing of bin laden, health care for working americans, against what romney is offering is roughly zero. as i said, its that close. so tonight we look at how obama can regain the lead. is it with a populist message, a challenge to romneys politics of by and for the wealthy? is it a step by step dismembering of romneys tax plan for a tough, positive declaration of what he has managed to do by president? whatever st...

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