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Thank you, mr. Chairman. Welcome, everyone, to the last gasp of the russia collusion Conspiracy Theory. As democrats continue to voice this expect tackle on the American People as well as you, mr. Mueller, the American People may recall the media first began spreading this Conspiracy Theory in the spring of 2016 when fusion gps, funded by the dnc and the Hillary Clinton campaign started developing the Steele Dossier, a question of outlandish accusations that trump and his associates were russian...

Thank you, mr. Chairman. Welcome, everyone, to the last gas of the russia collusion Conspiracy Theory. As democrats continue to foist the spectacle on the American People, as well as you, mr. Mueller, the American People may recall the media first began spreading this Conspiracy Theory in the spring of 2016. When the fusion gps, funded by the dnc and the elder Clinton Campaign, started developing the Steele Dossier. A collection of outlandish accusations that trump and his associates were russia...

Trends. the word trend is all over the data. joining us now is andrew weissmann, a former senior member of robert muellers team, the author of "where law ends, inside the mueller investigation." great to see you. thank you for joining us tonight. >> nice to be here. >> i know that there are parts -- you have to be careful, your ethical obligations to the justice department as a former prosecutor are real and present and i know you take these very seriously, and i dont want to ask you to talk abo...

Linked campaign chair be sharing protected valuable internal campaign polling data with a russian intelligence officer while russia was carrying out an attack on our election to try to get trump elected? that was what fully half the mueller investigation was about. what russia did to our election to try to elect trump and how the trump campaign was involved in it and perhaps assisted it. what we thought happened happened. trumps campaign chair, paul manafort, sharing this kind of data with a rus...

Assisted it. what we thought happened, happened. trumps campaign chair, paul manafort, sharing this kind of data with a russian intelligence officer is the proverbial smoking gun in terms of how the trump campaign was involved in it. giving russia material they could use to target their interference on trumps behalf which they then did. andrew weissman the prosecutor who led the case against paul manafort joins us next. e case a manafort joins us next

Russian intelligence officer, man named konstantin kilimnik. documents show kilimnik bragging on eight separate occasion about him having ax says to internal, non-public trump polling data. in one court transcript were just seeing today for the first time, a prosecutor in the special counsels office andrew weissman describes what exactly trumps campaign was providing to this russian intelligence officer in august, 2020. at that crucial turning point in the campaign while russia was working to tr...

Saw not only what it was that the trump campaign was giving, but there was also a discussion of what it was that russia wanted in return. which was an effort to take over half of ukraine, which was discussed before the election and after the election. so there was quite a lot of data there, as you noted. one of the things we learned from -- recently, is we did not know what kilimnik did with the data. obviously, we had strong suspicions he would have passed it on to russian intelligence officers...

Associate of manafort who they say is a russian intelligence agent. last month, the u.s. government asserted manafort did share those documents with kilimnik, and he shared them with russian intelligence. we have long known the broad outlines of this part of the story but we now know from these newly unredacted filings that number one, manafort lied to prosecutors about the nature of the data he was sharing. he insisted it was no big deal. it wasnt internal valuable material. it was all just stu...

Data there, as you noted, one of the things that we learned recently was we did not know what kilimnik did with the data. obviously we had strong suspicions that he would pass that on to russian intelligence officers, but thats now been confirmed by this administration. and, you know, one has suspicions about where that came from. but thats now been set in stone by the current dni of what to kilimnik did with this. >> can you talk about the suspicions a little bit? i mean, it is interesting that...

>> i know you have to be careful your ethical obligations to to justice department as a former prosecutor are real and present and i know you take these very seriously and dont want to ask you to talk about anything youre precluded to talk about from the ethical constraints youre under. with that said, at the time you were detailing manaforts lies to the court in 2019 and can see so much more of that with these new unredactions, weve learned since then that he was passing on polling data to the ...