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Aleksandr torshin, who was the deputy governor of the russian central bank and somebody who was close to putin and was somebody who was focused on infiltrating the nra and, through the nra, republican politics. >> i want to play this for you. this is a clip of butina asking then-candidate donald trump a question. it was at a campaign event in 2015. here it is. >> i'm visiting from russia. >> ah, putin. good friend of obama, putin. he liked obama a lot. go ahead. >> if you would be elected as president, what will be your foreign politics especially in the relationships with my country, and do y...

Butina is cooperating with federal prosecutors as part of a plea deal. so let's bring in max boot. he's the author of the corrosion of conservatism, why i left the right. max, what kind of information could butina provide to american investigators? >> well, it's very interesting, don. this really seems like something out of a sequel to the manchurian candidate, but this is fact, not fiction. the reality is robert muelle has already indicted 25 russians on charges of interfering in the u.s. election, but maria butina is the first one who is actually in u.s. custody and who is cooperating with a...

Government much of this would have been wilegal, but she was doing it secrecy and trying to cultivate influence with the trump administration and at one point in 2015 she appeared in the audience a q&a and asked donald trump a question on sanctions of russia and he answer ed th answered that he wanted the to build good relations with putin and he did not feel that sanctions were necessary. so what can she give the government about any relationship between the russians and the national rifle association is what we are looking at right now, andrea. >> and pointing out, clint watts, she asked the...

Everybody was expected to behave professionally and problems were worked out informally. now there's going to be a code. it's pretty clear there will be some sort of written down rules which will make it easier for the white house to eject reporters in the future because of this. >> laura: i was looking at some old reagan footage today and during one of the turkey pardons. and hilarious. it was chris wallace shouting a question at reagan. but it was aggressive but it was such a different era. it was such a different -- reagan, frankly, behaved in a different way than trump. and the press behav...

There was not a code. everybody was expected to behave professionally and problems were worked out informally. now there's going to be a code. it's pretty clear there will be some sort of written down rules which will make it easier for the white house to eject report ores in the future because of this. >> laura: i was looking at some old reagan footage today and during one of the turkey pardons. and hilarious. it was chris wallace shouting a question at reagan. but it was aggressive but it was such a different era. it was such a different -- reagan, frankly, behaved in a different way than tr...