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Supreme court. you have a lawsuit with facebook and google. you got it on appeal. part of the ruling was that the judge said, you cant have a first amendment case because this is not a government actor or state actor. its private company. >> the best analogy i can give is, lets say delta or american are united announced, we wont allow anybody on who carries "the wall street journal" on board. well, they are a private company, they can make their own rules but everybody understands that when you ...

Who won supreme court on free speech, but google and youtube, the judge kicked it out, got it on appeal the part of the ruling was the judge that you cant have a first amendment case because this isnt a government or state actor. >> the best analogy i can give is if delta or american or united announced we wont allow anybody on who carries the wall street journal on board. they are a private company, they can make their own rules but everybody understands when youre the conduit for millions of p...

Research all of the real estate holdings that trump had and who was buying them and every time i got to the russian name and i started to googling it. what you will find is an extraordinary number of contacts. trump says that he has no contacts and i found at least 59 and they are all listed in the appendix of the book. and the shocking thing is that so many of them were part of the russian mafia and trump was laundering money for them, and he had real estate and found a way to anonymously sell ...

Well in toronto. >> one more question, sir, im just pushing to get it all in. does this finding in your theory of the case mean that collusion in 2016 was more likely because of a history of relationship, or irrelevant because theres a financial debt irrespective of whether there was campaign conspiracy? >> no, i think it absolutely means its more likely there was collusion. whats important to understand about the russian mafia is its a state actor. americans may think of the mafia in terms of "...

It. whats interesting to me is now you have russian kgb sources saying the same things weve been hearing from the cia. >> if you had enough for 10,000 pages, how much does robert mueller have? >> he has enormous files. theyve been after it forever, i think. doing this research, normally when you too investigative report -- normally when you do investigative reporting, you hit a dry hole now and then. every time i googled russians in trump-related buildings, it was like hitting the jackpot again ...

>> one more question, sir, im just pushing to get it all in. does this finding in your theory of the case mean that collusion in 2016 was more likely because of a history of relationship, or irrelevant because theres a financial debt irrespective of whether there was campaign conspiracy? >> no, i think it absolutely means its more likely there was collusion. whats important to understand about the russian mafia is its a state actor. americans may think of the mafia in terms of the god father, th...

Billions of dollars in money laundering from the russian mafia. you had criminals living in trump towers and the fbi was chasing mobsters, they found that they werent living in brooklyn, they were living in trump tower, this went on for more than 30 years, i found 59 people one of the key parts of this, one of the most important things i want people to understand. the russian mafia is a state actor. russia is often called a mafia state. ahead of that, they are working for russia, in much the sam...

Using trump properties. you had criminals living in trump towers and the fbi was chasing mobsters, they found that they werent living in brooklyn, they were living in trump tower, this went on for more than 30 years, i found 59 people one of the key parts of this, one of the most important things i want people to understand. the russian mafia is a state actor. russia is often called a mafia state. ahead of that, they are working for russia, in much the same way the cia -- >> its starting in 1984...

Perhaps to get something out of the deal for themselves. what was their objective and why did they identify donald trump? >> well, he was -- he was simply business person initially. and i think it started out just to launder money, but it grew into more than that. i interviewed general head of kgb, the russian mafia, thats another part of the kgb. its a state actor, thats why this is so important. its very different. americans grow up watching "the godfather" and think of the italian mafia. this...

So what i hear you saying is if they are right that this meeting should not go forward this second summit, is that right, congressman? >> yeah, i would have to be leaning to that side, and i think more sanctions need to go forward. keep in mind, theyve been meddling with us for 70, 80 years and theyre going to continue to do that. and if its not the russians its going to be the chinese or north koreans or another state actor. this is something we have to come together as americans and protect ou...