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Republican party is going through a very hard time. There has been a fight inside the Republican Party for a long time. It was the primary. Trump won. He won on issues and united the party. The Republican Party is imploding. This is new day with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. Good morning. Welcome to your new day. Up first, growing questions about possible connections between the Trump Campaign and wikileaks. Sources tell cnn that a Data Analytics Company Working for the Trump Campaign is seeking access to emails connected to Hillary Clintons campaign. President trump, however, spending his time slamming Hillary Clinton and the democrats for denying they knew about an antitrump dossier. A source tells cnn clinton didnt know about the dossier but says she was disappointed it wasnt made public before the election. All of this as Top Senate Republicans are asking why the Trump Administration is holding up tough new sanctions on russia. We have it all covered. Lets begin with shimon. What do we know . What matters here. Well, chris, we have here where the head of Cambridge Analytica, a data firm hired by the Trump Campaign, contacted wikileaks founder Julian Assange, to see if he had emails connected to the Clinton Campaign. Assange confirmed on twitter that the chief executive, the head guy of this guy, reached out but said the request was rejectd. He then sent an email to several people including top trump donor rebecca mercer, revealing he mailed assange. No one from the Trump Campaign. Youll recall wikileaks was responsible for releasing hacked he mails from the dnc that u. S. Intelligence said were stoned by russia and handed over through an intermediary. The Trump Campaign has responded to the report by distancing themselves from cambridge analytics stating once President Trump secured the nomination in 2016, one of the most important decisions we made was to partner with the Republican National committee on Data Analytics. We as a campaign made the choice to rely on vote or data of the Republican National committee to help elect President Trump. Any claims that voter data from any other source played a key role in the victory are false. Alisyn. Cnn has uncovered some facts that refute this . Thats right. We looked at some of the sec records and filings and found just after trump won the nomination, his campaign started a series of payments to the company totaling some 5. 9 million. So its clear there was more of a relationship there than that was conveyed in that statement. Jared kushner told forbes magazines that after the president won the nomination they kept both data operations going simultaneously and a lot shared between them. By doing that we could scale to a pretty good operation. Thank you very much for that new reporting. President trump blasting democrats after it was revealed that the dnc and Clinton Campaign helped fund the research for that dossier against him. The president calls it a disgrace and very sad commentary on the politics of this country. Joe johns is live at the white house with more. Good morning, joe. Reporter good morning, alisyn. It is a path we have seen before here. The white house dealing with a new piece of information that appears to reveal how far the Trump Campaign would go to get dirt on Hillary Clinton. The president choosing to focus on how far the Hillary Clinton campaign would go to get dirt on him. Dont forget, Hillary Clinton totally denied this. She didnt know anything. She knew nothing. All of a sudden i found out. Reporter President Trump attempting to shift the narrative away from the Russian Investigation and onto Hillary Clinton. Blasting her campaigns involvement in helping to fund the now famous dossier of allegations of trump and russia. I think its very sad what they have done with this fake dossier. It was made up. And i understand they paid a tremendous amount of money. Reporter mr. Trump insisting it is fake despite the fact that parts of it have been corroborated by the Intelligence Community. A source familiar with the matter tells cnn that clinton was not personally aware of the dossier until buzzfeed published the document earlier this year, adding she was disappointed the research was not made public before she lost the election. The dossier was first bank rolled by foes during the primaries. Wonder who that might be . I think i know. Ill let them find out. Reporter the president weighing in on the investigation launched by House Republicans this week into the obamaera sale of a Uranium Mining Company to russia while clinton was secretary of state. Well, i think the uranium sale to russia and the way it was done so underhanded with tremendous amounts of money being passed. I actually think that is watergate modern age. Reporter Russia Nuclear officials reportedly sent millions to the Clinton Foundation at the same time of the meeting on the hill. Saying clinton was bribed, a claim that has not been substantiated and clinton baloney. The Justice Department has given a former fbi informant a green light to testify about the detail. President trump also insisting the party is united citing his meeting with Senate Republicans earlier this week as proof. I called it a love fest. It was almost a love fest. Maybe it was a love fest. Standing ovations. There is great unity. Reporter President Trump blaming the media for negative impressions that people may have of him. I think the press makes me more uncivil than i am. People dont understand i went to an ivy league college. I was a nice student. I did very well. Im a very intelligent person. Reporter and, again, defending his phone call with the widow of sergeant la david johnson. I was really nice to her. I respect her. I respect her family. I certainly respect la david, who by the way i called la david right from the beginning. Just so you understand, they put a chart in front that says la david. It says la david johnson. I called him that right from the beginning. There was no hesitation. Reporter in the midst of all of this news, the white house is celebrating a big win in the federal courts this morning, a judge citing in a lawsuit filed by 18 states seeking to force the white house and the federal government to pay subsidies to insurance companies. Chris and alisyn . Joe, appreciate it. Joining us now is cnn political analyst and White House Correspondent for the new york times, maggie haberman. Two big headlines. The first is the potential ties between the Trump Campaign and Analytics Company and wikileaks. What matters here . What matters here is the ask was made, right . According to Julian Assange, he didnt respond. But the top official at Cambridge Analytica reached out to him at some point and a reporter of the daily beast saying we would like essentially some help or we would like to access in some way the missing 33,000 emails from Hillary Clintons server. And Julian Assange wrote back that he didnt want their help. They wanted to do it on their own. The person who runs cambridge, nicks, we know President Trump, then candidate trump, openly called on russia to release the he mails on the assumption they had been hacked. It is not clear there was evidence. This is the closest link we know of between people who were its not clear exactly when this happened. At some point Cambridge Analytical was behind cruz. We know that they worked with the campaign. They have often overstated their role in the Trump Campaign. But there was some outrage. We dont know more than that. We dont know what else this means. But it is going to be yet another thread for investigators to pull. To remind people what was happening on the campaign trail at that time, july 2016, the president talked about this on the campaign trail and in fact, invited wikileaks to become involved. Listen to this moment. Russia, if youre listening, i hope youre able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press. Okay. That tomb was russia. Other times it was wikileaks. Now what they are doing today, the white house is doing today, nothing to see here. But look over at this dossier we know Hillary Clintons campaign and the dnc paid for. Are these political dirtdigging operations equivalent . No. One is asking a Foreign Government to meddle and the other is looking to see if a Foreign Government was meddling in an election. The way that the clinton folks and the dnc. And its not broadly the clinton folks. It is is certain individuals. And same with the dnc. Whatever their reason, whether it was client confidentiality, whatever reason, they were not forth coming about what was going on in terms of the dossier. The problem with that is when it becomes revealed later, it raises questions about motive. Right. The basic question for the dossier, is the information in it true or not true . They have substantiated some of it. Certainly not the most salacious stuff. But at the end of the day, the main question is not where it came from. The question is its voracity. It was continued later by the fbi as we know at least to extent. It is not a great look to have it come out now they were involved in coordinating it. Not because there is some wrongness there. There is nothing wrong with doing this research. The problem is they have claimed all along, understandably, that their concern was that russia had ties to trump and there was some motivating factor in terms of the emails. If you dont just say that outright. And the fact that you paid for some of it. Yes. We were looking for it because federal officials were not doing their jobs in our minds. That is what got Hillary Clinton in trouble. Very often its not the crime, it is is how you cover it up. Right. But there is a material distinction here that the president is waving away and its working with certain of his supporters. As it often does. He is the president of the united states. Hillary clinton is a failed president ial candidate, former secretary of state and senator. She is an important person. She aint nowhere near as important as he is. Thats why there is so much more attention on him. There has been a false parody set up here. If you talk about wikileaks, you have to talk about the dossier because trump and clip are equal in this, as you know. He is the most powerful person in the world. Not just him. He has a huge chunk of the media helping him out, the pun it did community. Yeah. But he creates that when it is useful for him. He does do that. It is obviously not the case to your point, she is a failed candidate. This is the up fortunate thing, it does not mean what he and his folks are saying is correct. A lot of republicans say isnt this a game changer . What part do they think . That this is all fake and mueller should be shut down. The Mueller Investigation is not taking place because of the dossier. It is taking place because President Trump fired james comey. Oh, okay. Right. Did the investigation of james comey predate the dossier . The dossier was certainly part of it, but the fbi was already investigating and federal officials were investigating the hacked emails that were leaked by wikileaks that belonged to john podesta. There is a lot of stuff going on here. It is reductionist to say, oh, it is about the dossier. You have to remember how comey and the Intelligence Community used the dossier. They told the president it is out there. They didnt act on it. They thought a lot of it wouldnt be actionable. Some of it turned out to be. Others they are still looking into. It is a window into the president s mind. Remember, that happened during a transition meeting at trump tower. The president later today, to my colleagues and me, that he interpreted that essentially as comey wanting to have leverage on over him. Im paraphrasing. It was about comey wanting to hang onto his job. Thats how the president hears everything. It is zero sum and about him. Not that this is bigger by a foreign power on the presidency of the united states. He just hears it as all about him. It has stuck in his mind. You know he gets something in his head and its hard to get it on out. Thank you very much. Congress in a rare display of bipartisanship voted unanimously for new sanctions against russia. They are not being enforced. Why . Republican senators put it at the feet of the president. We will talk to inspect senator angus king about it. 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Does that mean to you that the russia investigation is founded on a hoax because the dossier is the basis for everything youre asking about . No. The dossier has very little to do with what we are asking, there are some questions about what parts are true and what parts arent. That is part of the investigation. It is certainly not a central point. My understanding all along is it was originally funded by republican sources during the primaries after the primaries and mr. Trump became the nominee. Then it was funded by some part of the democratic establishment. I dont think thats a great surprise. It is certainly not a central part of the investigation that we are engaged in. There is insist answer that clintons role in funding it and not coming forward is proof that thats what this is all about. What do you say to people who believe that . I dont know how to respond to that. I think thats a separate question. Should she have come forward sooner . Perhaps. I just dont know. She claims she didnt even know about it. Wished they had. I dont know the answer to that. That gets beyond the real point here which is russia committed an egregious attack on our democracy and civil society, and theyre still at it. They havent paid any price for that. So is thats where the focus really needs to be. All the focus on the Political Part is obscuring what i think is the real story. That is what the russians did, what theyre continuing to do, and how do we prevent it from continuing to happen. All right. Headline number two. Trump money almost 6 million, went to a Data Analytics firm that reached out to wikileaks and is asked them for access to some of the he mails that were stolen from Hillary Clinton. Does that matter . Well, it matters only insofar as those we are now reasonably certain that those leaked whatever wikileaks had in the way of leaked emails came courtesy of the russians and courtesy of their hacking here in washington. But, again, that was an attempt to do kind of Opposition Research, which unfortunately happens in virtually every political contain cheese days. Is it different from what Clintons Campaign did with fusion . No. I think it was app attempt to get dirt on the other side. That is pretty much part of every political campaign. You will see a line for Opposition Research. And there is a couple degrees of separation. There is pushback here that, no, this is the closest tie weve seen of the Trump Campaign to efforts to expose themselves to those who are trying to interfere in the election, that it takes you down the collusion road. Do you accept that premise . I think it is one of the pieces of evidence that has to be considered. You go back to the famous meeting with jared kushner, donald trump junior and they were told we have di