Come . The president s son, the chairman of his campaign . No. We dont have confirmation yet. We home we dont have to go any further than an invitation but it is scheduled for wednesday morning. Do you believe in an open hearing, you would be in a position to simply say, we have all the time in the world. Tell us all the conversations you had with the russians in the last year and a half. It is an open format. Theon thing from the independent council is to make sure the witnesses testify under oath and publicly. Certainly questions can be asked on a lot of questions. Last june they met with the russian lawyer and he is perhaps speaking on behalf of the russian government. There was a lure, a dangle, and it was, were on the side of mr. Trump winning the election. And well give you help. Wouldnt that be something would carry all the way through election day . It certainly could. It is speculative but not out of the question. We need to nail down as many facts as possible as what went on. Theres a late breaking story that Paul Manafort owes russian banks some 17 million but it could lead to even more questions about manaforts rip. I grew up with the polaroid film developing in front of you. He is willing to give on ukraine, crimea, hes willing to give on election meddling. Maybe even a continuation of the assad regime. Fighting easy. The better over points of of a ad. This president under like others refuses off the full discloesh usual of his financial dealings. The interlocking relationships leads us to ask more questions. You know in this town, it is hardly ever the crime. It is the coverup that becomes the central issue. When youre caught in one of these situations, you need to make full disclosure. Now the disclosures by donald trump jr. Last week i thought were full disclosures. It turns out there were a lot more people in that briefing than we were led to believe. We with 9 11on, he had a lot to hide. He ordered a breakin in the National Committee to make it look like democratic job. He had all this in his head when he got caught with the democratic headquarters in the. It is possible that trump something to worry about. Im putting my money on bob mueller. It is something when a politician trusts. Ive known him for years. A veteran, a combat veteran. All of these things, the facts are cascading on a daily basis. Is it your expense donald trump knows more than hes telling . Well, of course it is. He said initially there were no contacts between them. Do you think hes trying to work a deal with the russians on syria . I have no idea what his ultimate goal is. Jo i dont know fits related to Foreign Policy or businessrelated. I cant tell you what its all about. Is the fact theres such concealment and other facts are leaking out slowly by slowly raises an all lot of questions. Thank you so much. Great to have you on. Im joined now by Eric Swalwell of california. One of our favorite reporters. Let me start with the congressman. What do you make of the fact were going to get these son and soninlaw and chairman of the Trump Campaign under testimony, under oath . Good evening. Lets hear as much as possible. I think the American People are ready to hear exactly why they thought meeting with russians at the time of the campaign and receiving information on Hillary Clinton would have been illegally obtained. I think theres a lot of fair questions for them. Lets have the public finally hear it. I watch all the hearings. Ill always depressed. The members dont seem to coordinate their questions. Everybody is playing their own banco. People get away with stuff. Why dont you just suspend the rules in these committees and saying, starting with donald jr. Youre under oath, buddy and i want to hear every single meeting. Every conversation youve had with a russian in the last year and a half. And youd better not miss any because well get you on it for perjury. Take three hours if you want west wantering. This is what trey gowdy said he wants. It never seems to happen. Do you remember the meeting with james comey, the house intelligence democrats, we met a number of times to make sure we didnt do exactly what you said. We wanted to make sure it was coordinated and we had a narrative so the American People understood in a public setting, the trump contacts, personally, politically and financially. I thought it paid off. Can you make demand of a witness . We want to know right now. Take all the time you want. This is an open exam. Trey gowdy made a joke of it. Ever since he saw dr. Zhivago, tell me every russian you met with. Put it all on the paper right now. Give us the exhaustive list from the time the campaign started until today. Who have you met with . Lets just hear that first. That list continues to grow only when confronted with evidence. Theres more breaking news tonight. And it is just out. The New York Times reports, financial records filed last year in the secretive tax haven of cyprus where Paul Manafort kept bank bts during his years working with ukraine and investing with a russian oligarch, that he had been in debt to pro russia interests by as much as 17 million before he joined donald trump for the campaign. He was in debt for an enormous amount of money to dangerous people in russia. The oligarchs dont play patty cake. The russians play on financial distrust. This was testimony we elicited from are james comey during hearing. He did acknowledge that financial distrust was a vulnerability in someone that the russians would expose if they could. They would use it over you. So we wanted to know, if that is why the Republican Party platform toward ukraine changed is that why carter page, while he was the chairperson of the campaign, went to moscow and he was a senior Foreign Policy adviser for the campaign. A lot of questions about Paul Manaforts financial ties to russia. Lets put this element, im not sure the rope has been tied together. But there are two roams. Starting last june we know there are emails saying the russian government was out the help trump win the election. We know there was a meeting set one the president s son for the purpose of sharing dirt on his adversary at the time Hillary Clinton, the democratic nominee for president. We know they sent pout overture. Lets meet. We can help you. And then we watched trump say nice things about russia until recently. Sitting down with him at the g20, chatting with no one tlels. We know his soninlaw was trying to set up a private channel with the kremlin. All this nice behavior from our end followed by an overture of i can help you politically from the other end. Can you tie it together yet . Yes, you can. It reminds me when you go to the eye doctor. You have a vision test. They say is it lens number one or two . Which someone clearer . Which someone blurrier . The don jr. Email chain makes everything clearer. All the previous innocent explanations that were offered are no longer so innocent. This excuse that he was just 90 even and didnt know what he was doing. Somebody who says can we wait to have this information throughout at the end of summer, right before the election, is exactly somebody who knows what theyre doing. President trump spent his summer praising the putin campaign. Lets watch all this. That. They say donald trump likes Vladimir Putin. So heres the story. By the way. If we could get russia to help us get rid of isis, if we could actually be friendly with russia, wouldnt that be a good thing . Hes a better leader than obama because obama is not a leader. So hes certainly doing a better job than obama. Is you have to understand. Putin, if we could get along with russia, i think that would be a good thing. Not a bad thing. Putin called me brilliant. I like it. Putin said donald trump is brilliant. Hell be the next leader. As journalist, what would you like to see come out of that testimony that occurs next week the president s son and the cheryl of the campaign . With all the russian entanglement, has the virgin forest here. Thats why it is fraught with peril duflt see the time stamp on the recordings that you just played . That was right around the time when Paul Manafort was bending the ear of the trumps. Donald trump jr. Has been making statements to tv hosts that have been proven wrong. Here eeld be under oath talking on very savvy lawmakers who know the facts and will get him on the record on a host of issues, including the one most suspect, which is did you really have no additional ties no, additional contacts no, additional emails following meeting during which you were hoping the get goods on Hillary Clinton . And i think the just getting him on the record, on those points, will be critical. Then also, the money angle. This news breaking news about the New York Times. Theyre ties to the russian oligarchs. Hes issued requests to the federal crimes unit. So this is weaving all the threads together. I think it is significant that this is an invitation and we have no indication of whether hell accept it. What daddy trump has been saying, he wants a warm relationship with putin. Yeah. Especially as we know, we suspected all along. Paul manafort was the one behind a lot of this. And like the cran said, if you line things up, a lot of the most suspect statements were made around the time, within weeks of when will manafort took over as Campaign Chairman in terms of altering the ukraine platform and the rhetoric from trump himself including calling on the russians to hack Hillary Clinton. So absolutely. It sounds like the son was very much interested in getting information on Hillary Clinton. Heres what we know. They may not have delivered in that meeting but they delivered, all right, in the form of wikileaks which turned out to be very effective for trump. I think lawmakers will want to know. Did you really know nothing about that . Thank you. By the way, a big wall with all of these connecting points. Talking about the meetings going up to what trump said yesterday. The money end of what manafort did with the oligarchs. All the meetings with kislyak. All the people like carter page and the rest of they will. Roger stone. I think this is one big map of power. Coming up, the former director, James Clapper will be here on trumps meeting with putin. In fact, the meeting with the russians also. And whether the trumps are making russia great again. It sounds like thats what trump has been doing. Plus, growing unthe ref mock some republicans about President Trump. But coming to real pies trump may claimfully victory he can for himself. Blame the rest on them. 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Introducing gigspeed internet from xfinity. Finally, gig for your neighborhood too. The last time President Trump met with russian thats the in the oval office in may, he reportedly revealed highly classified information from israel and told them firing james comey who he called at the time a nut job relieved great pressure on him with regard to the Russian Investigation. Well, yesterday we learned the president met alone for an hour with Vladimir Putin at the g20 conference in germany. An hour the two of them were present with a translator. The white house never disclosed the meeting. It was first reported by ian bremmer with the group the youre asjha group. Many of the leaders, including americas most important allies were quite surprised. They found it unusual and note worthy. The body language, the chemistry, the fact it went on so long. And it reflected a much warmer relationship between trump and putin than he has with any of the other leaders in the room. Well, white house Spokesman Sean Spicer told the New York Times, it was pleasantries and small talk. How would sean know . A report that fake news story of secret dinner with putin is sick. What happened afterwards . The Washington Post reported President Trump is planning on ending the Covert Program to arm and train syrian rebels. According to the post, officials said the phasing out of the secret pral reflects trumps interests in finding ways to work with russia as an assault on his interests. Im joined by James Clapper, director of National Intelligence under president obama. He said his whole goal with russia is to develop a deal of some kind to fight isis and it looks like everything hes been doing so far, forgiving them on crimea, even to forgive them on interfere with the election. Bringing a blind eye to it. Now to forgive them for supporting isis. Coming across to me like a polaroid film. This is what trump is up to. Youre the expert. What do you see trump doing here . Well it seems clear to me that he is very, very interested in a productive working relationship with the russians. I guess what concessions are being made. If there are concessions being made, or agreements being made, what is the quid pro quo for us . What is the United States getting out of this . Ive read the media reporting about stopping our support for the modern opposition groups, a very pro found move. And i should caveat by saying that certainly his prerogative as the president to do that. Through there are serious implications. It appears to me that he is throwing in with the russians and helping them as they have sustained propping up assad, who by the way was the original cause of the civil war in syria to start with. If were stopping that assistance, then were cutting the knees out from tunneled modern opposition groups who have grown very dependent on us. And i think other things to gauge the reaction of the regional neighbors. Are i read that jordan is supportive. Im not sure all the others would be. So if this is true, this has huge implications. What do you make of that first meeting in june of last year. It seems to be the first year when donald trump was approached for the proposition that the russians apparently, at the government level, had some dirt on Hillary Clinton. Based on your knowledge of russian methods, what were they up to there in establishing a relationship with trumps son . Well, first of all, this was the classic textbook soviet and now russian trade craft. The soft approach. And i think the principle, the two objectives. One was to determine whether those close to then candidate trump would be interested in talking with them about, and receiving dirt on Hillary Clinton. That was point one. And point two was plausible deniability. And these are characteristics of typical soviet russian are intelligence trade craft. And i think that was the primary objective. To find out if they reached out. If they would be interest and there was. What kind of a response did they get . Trump seemed very pro russian in the months after that. Thats true. We published our assessment on the 6th of january and briefed him at trump tower about the russian interference in our election, in 2016. And he also was skeptical about it. Although he wasnt while we briefed him. But the subsequent commentary was disparaging of it and at one point he said nazis for having reported to him what our judgment was about the magnitude and the extent and the scope of russian interference. And the results for them, i think. All theyre going to do. Do it more. Theyre going to be back there and emboldened to be more aggressive. So even after sending the men to Paul Manafort, the chairman of the campaign at the time, and his son that they were on his side, that they were willing to hurt Hillary Clinton in the campaign. Even arrest getting that men clear as a bell. He told you folks, the intelligence experts, that he didnt believe the russians were trying to help him. He didnt, he just kept it rating the possibility that it could have been somebody else. It could have