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As well and the russian impression was that, or the russian belief and hope is that this would be the start of a new era in relations between washington and moscow, but obviously, there are political issues back in the united states. the issue of russia is and the connections with the trump administration with the kremlin. hes looming over american politics. and its become apparent to the russians as it has been to everybody else that trump is simply not going to be able to embark on that electi...

With the election on trumps behave, americans have an interest on what is going on. there is nothing more sacred than our election process. >> couldnt donald trump alleviate all of this by saying here are the contacts the people had. here are the phone conversations. here are the russians -- >> sure. i mean, the implication here, the sinister implication is he was conspireing with the russians. >> we dont know the implication. why not come forward and say -- >> i think as i see the stories devel...

States electoral system and american democracy. >> could that be a prior simultaneous, or after the fact? can you be an accessory of the fact to that kind of fiddling with our election process or would have to be prior or simultaneous? crime? >> i think if you are conducting an operation wittingly with an agent of a foreign power, you are in for a world of pain. now, mike flynn, if he delivered flynn facts, that is, falsehoods, to the fbi during his interview, hes looking at slammer time. >> im ...

Can you be accessory after the fact to that kind of fist fiddling with our election process, or it would have to be prior or simultaneous? >> i think that if you are conducting an operation wittingly with an agent of a foreign power, you are in for a world of pain, now, mike flynn, if he delivered flynn facts that is falsehoods to the fbi during his interview, he is looking at slammer time. >> thank you malcolm and tim. when we return, let me finish with trump watch. this is hardball where the a...

Harkening back to water gate. this is a case -- >> not harkening back. the encryptions. im going back to vanona, the way we got all the communication between moscow and america during and before the second world war. that kind of stuff. >> sure, but here we have a case where its not the coverup. its the crime. we know what the coverup is. its lying about the crime. what is the crime here? >> what do you think the crime could be? >> collaboration between russian intelligence services and american...

Story is these talks with russia, do you give some credence to his argument? >> absolutely. i think the leaks is a significant question. but it should not be used as a smokescreen to obscure the underlying grave issue of russian interference with our election process. and by the way, nobody knows where these leaks -- or somebody knows, but we dont know where the leaks are coming from. we know over the last month or so weve had information thats been in the intelligence community but it was relay...

Exactly been sealed when it comes to leaks. >> so leaks could be coming from inside the house? >> of course. there are lots of different places that, like i said, this material about general flynn was in the white house for 2 1/2 weeks before the resignation took place. so, yes, the leaks are an issue. but i dont like to see that used as, you know, as, oh, its the leaks. thats the real issue. thats nonsense. the real issue is, what was -- what the russians were doing in our election process and ...

Is nonsense? given the fact that the main story is these talks with russia, do you give some credence to his argument? >> absolutely. i think the leaks is a significant question. but it should not be used as a smokescreen to obscure the underlying grave issue of russian interference with our election process. and by the way, nobody knows where these leaks -- or somebody knows, but we dont know where the leaks are coming from. we know over the last month or so weve had information thats been in t...

Russia did of misinformation, false news to try to interfere in the election. two, the use of russias hacked information into the dnc and john podesta and selected usage of that information to try to influence our campaigns and our election process. three, any contact between officials of either campaign and russian officials before and after the election. i think any american would want to find that out because the very same tactics the russians use in our election process, im fearful theyll us...

What they are hearing. clearly a very important picture to take in. im going to bring it out to the couch on "outnumbered" ." we dont want to miss the optics of this picture. at sandra, as we are watching this, two things come to mind and that is the two state solution between the palestinian government and israel is not something that he sees as necessary. he sees peace more important than that. >> sandra: they are about to have a very important conversation and that white house that could shap...