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Youd actually expect all the candidates to be pretty aggressively hawkish on russia, particularly after russia had just invaded one of their neighbors. But it was interesting. In that senate primary, that Republican Senate primary in 2014, this one primary candidate, the local talk radio host, he really went the other way. He called himself a former Pentagon Expert on russia and he told radio iowa that, quote, pushing the russians out of crimea is not a realistic option. He said, quote, i think a lot of people, im not sure they understand the history of russia. You go back, you know, 1,500 yea...

Adviser for priebus or mcgann that already knows what's happening. none of them are having the experience that bannon is having with mueller. >> federal court in washington went for an hour and a half to nearly two hours. associate rick gates, paul manafort, they appeared. what happened? >> we're looking at a trial in perhaps september, maybe pushed into october of this year. the government had earlier contemplated perhaps a trial in may. we're talking about a trial that is going to be pushed into the time when we're talking about the 2018 midterm elections. all of this trial stuff will be goi...

Saying exactly what that means, but depositions, of course, they're out of court sworn testimony that can be used to discovery purposes or potentially at trial. so we know that paul manafort, rick gates giving those depositions. now, the government we know has also handed over certain brady material, that's exculpatory evidence that could be beneficial to manafort's or gates' defense. the government has also released all of this information, all the documents to both defendants as manafort and gates, they prepare for a court appearance monday morning. both of them, of course, pleaded not guilt...

Interview with mueller's team was going to happen. the fact it happened over the course of two days clearly shows there was a lot of ground to cover here. now in terms of what "the new york times" is reporting, regarding the fbi warning her about these russian attempts to reach out to her, we do know that the fbi did meet with white house officials earlier in the year to warn them about the possibility of this happening but "the times" is reporting that, in fact, it did happen. which is certainly very interesting, even after all of this news about the russia probe has been out there, they're s...

President of the united states reportedly dictated a statement that was deliberately misleading, saying that the only purpose of that meeting was, in, in fact, russian adoption. those kinds of evidence are very, very important. hope hicks could shed a lot of light on it. >> yeah, that was that trump tower meeting that is now very controversial. senator, let's discuss the documents and electronics obtained by robert mueller's team in their investigation of fan fort and rick gates. what does that tell you about mueller's case, because the extent of the documents collected is enormous? >> the ext...