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Mifsud -- or mifsud is there and later goes and tells papadopoulos about the e-mails, right? >> right. so they met at some point in the spring of 2016, and papadopoulos at first, if mifsud was not interested in papadopoulos at all. he thought he was some low level energy consultant. and upon learning he was actually associated with the trump campaign, thats when mifsud started to take interest in papadopoulos, according to special counsel robert muellers court filings. now we dont know where mif...

See you around, giulia ♪ new developments in the russia investigation got somewhat buried in the many other headlines this week. we learned that foreign intelligence agencies also picked up evidence of communications between trump associates and russian officials and other russians known to western intelligence. also contradictory statements from former trump campaign adviser carter page about his

I was offering or someone was asking for. >> well, jim sciutto joins us now along with cnn political analyst david gergen. >> jim, do you know whether the senate and house intelligence communities are going to be looking at the evidence gathered by the europeans or have they already? >> absolutely. i spoke with a source close to the congressional senate investigation today and said if its relevant they will look at this. you have u.s., british and multiple european intelligence agencies picking ...

This. you have u.s., british and multiple european intelligence agencies picking up communications between russians known to western intelligence and trump associates. that could be innocent communication, but we know that not only the hill committees are looking at this, but also the fbi. they are exploring whether theres any evidence of collusion between those russians and trump officials who they dont know yet, but theyre looking at that question. >> would you be surprised if the trump admini...

The latest now. >> reporter: tonight cnn has learned that the british and european intelligence intercepted communications between trump associates and russian officials and other russians known to western intelligence during the u.s. presidential campaign and shared those communications with their u.s. counterparts. multiple u.s. and western officials tell cnn. these sources stress stress at no point did western intelligence, including the britain gchq, target these trump associates. instead, t...

British and other european intelligence officials, we are learning, interneted the conversations over certainly months and shared them with u.s. counter parts. jim sciutto is "out front." >> reporter: tonight u.s. has learned that british and others intercepted trump officials and other russian officials and shared those communications with their u.s. counterparts. these sources stress that at no point did western intelligence, including britains gchq, responsible for uk surveillance, target the...

Correspondent has been digging into it, jim sciutto. what are you learning? >> were first to report intercepted communications between trump associates and russian officials during the campaign. we are learning others captured communications, this during routine surveillance. they detected over months and passed the intelligence on to u.s. counterparts. tonight cnn learned british and european intelligence intercepted communications between trump associates and russian officials and other russia...

To a chemical air strike. jennifer griffin has the latest the pentagon. >> a russian warship is heading towards the two u.s. navy destroyers that launched air strikes last night into syria. the warship crossed over an hour ago from the black sea. that got the u.s. navys attention. the admiral for the warship is armed with missiles. we also learned that one of the u.s. navy destroyers that launch those missiles into syria last night has returned to an undisclosed location to rearm with more tomah...

Tasking to shoot more muscles but there are remaining tomahawks on board each destroyed appeared western intelligence sources tell fox the syrian chemical weapons unit responsible for the attack tuesday is called unit for 50, and it is led by syrian brigadier general hassan. three years ago, he was sectioned by the u.s. government, but so far, he has not been brought to justice. these images we are showing you of him are the first time that we have seen pictures of him. they were provided to us ...

Understanding the person who did it, im sure, get what is a big deal it was they must understand the danger. they must understand the risk and they chose, for whatever their reasons were, to do it anyway and thats a big deal, heres where this comes together because we dont know whats going on in terms of the law enforcement and intelligence investigations. the fbi, cia, nsa, treasury department investigations into links between the trump folks and the russia folks. we dont know. we know a little...