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Quote, my national chairman who at that point would have been paul manafort and maybe one other foreign policy advisor. papadopoulos suggested in this e-mail to his russian contact that the meetings should involve you, his russian contact, also members of the russian ministry of foreign affairs and it should also involve members of president putin's office. this meeting he was trying to set up last summer according to papadopoulos, quote, has been approved from our side. whether or not george papadopoulos was lying to the russians about that proposed meeting being approved from our side, from ...

I would love to get that kind of help on the campaign side. what took place between those interactions, between essentially the russians feeling out the campaign for their willingness to work with them and the ultimate dumping of those documents. so a lot more work that needs to be done, but those e-mails and securing his cooperation, and i hope that was part of the plea agreement, could be very important to answering these questions. >> do you expect more indictments to come? >> i think that's certainly very possible. there have been a lot of public reports in terms of the focus on mike flynn...

You know, to paraphrase donald trump, 400 pounds sitting on a bed somewhere in a basement in moss could if figure out white men between 25 and 44 in macom county whose facebook feeds you want to get in or did someone help them. this does not shed light on that or the relationship in that direction but it does show the willingness to reach out in the other direction and so it like many other things raises questions more than answers them. >> rebecca, i wonder what you think this does to the appearance of both parties until minds of the american people. what we just went through on the tra trump...

They're being used as tools for propaganda. >> not only are they not benign, but that they profited is just the extra crummy part of this. the crummy part is that the russians and automation, whatnot, are we talking about bots? >> some of them. some of them are very clearly targeted to certain populations. it's just taking advantage of the entire system and then these companies benefit financially from them at the same time. and, look, these ads were sold probably by -- i talked to someone at twitter who was there. probably sold by their d.c. office. might have been self-serve stuff. might hav...

Though, from cambridge analytica. what does that tell you? >> well, you know, again, assange is not someone you can trust, so, you know, it may or may not be significant. he confirms the contact. we may or may not be able to believe what else he has to say on this score, but it certainly does show a willingness now of at least a third party to reach out to those that are in possession of thee stolen e-mails, those that are directly affiliated with russian intelligence or working indirectly with russian intelligence, and that shows certainly a willingness by multiple parties in the campaign sim...