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He was nominated and became the republican nominee. his campaign had already had seven contacts with russians at that point. they never, despite the fact that the fbi asked them to, never continued to report contact with russians. >> it is bizarre. evelyn, i will come to you on this. to build on what we just heard from frank and maya, the fbi was alerted to donald trump's weird behavior even during the campaign. one piece of the "new york times" story. investigators watched with alarm as the republican party softened the convention platform on the ukraine crisis in a way that seemed to benefit...

Donald trump even the morning that he gave that primetime address was calling, you know, the news media fake news but of course needed the networks. >> of course. >> to give him that time. you talk a little about the background of him doing it. we know it's been a fund-raising bonanza. they immediately began fund raising. i tweeted out the text. lawrence o'donnell talked about the letters they sent out to fund raise off of it. it was a fund-raising success. how did the negotiations work with the networks to get them to allow him to do that? >> well, you know, really this is a breakdown in the ...

Night. >> are you now or have you ever worked for russia, mr. president? >> i think it's the most insulting thing i have ever been asked. i think it is the most insulting article i have ever had written. you look at what's going on, i fired james comey. i call him lying james comey. he was a terrible liar. he did a terrible job as the fbi director. i have been tougher on russia than anybody else. probably any other president, period. including the fact that we are doing oil like we have never done it. we are setting records with exporting oil and many other things. it was a great insult and th...

Actually do something about steve king. now, they could have said something earlier. right now they have another problem, which is all right, you've said these terrible things, what are you prepared to do about it? are you prepared to kick him out of the caucus? are you prepared to take away his seats on committees? are you prepared to censure him? so they're caught between what they know is an unacceptable position and they refuse to throw the bums out. they have to make a fundamental choice. with donald trump, they are making the wrong choice, i think, which is to tolerate, encourage, wink w...

>> and the house of representatives has voted multiple bills to reopen the government. there's nothing more the house can do in terms of that. what do your republican colleagues say to you behind the scenes, if anything? how do they justify hurting this many people over a thing that cannot and will not be done? there isn't going to be a wall across the southern border. ike most americans have figured that out. maybe even trump supporters have. how do they just pify it? >> most of them are embarrassed. the typical encounter is we walk on the elevator together and they start looking down at thei...