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Peddling information on hillary clinton and then trying to get sanctions lifted, at the very least why didn't he go to authorities? why didn't he raise a red flag? why didn't he inform anybody in that campaign that this is not something you do? listen, there were no rules at this campaign at the time. very few people knew who was in charge, frankly. very few people knew how to take in information. there was no opposition research team, there was barely a communications team, there was very little campaign structure. ultimately donald trump made all the decisions. so if donald trump made all th...

Campaign officials were making themselves potentially vulnerable or people of the presidential campaign back in june of last year who didn't know they were meeting with. there were these questions at the time even walking into the meeting. >> look, no question that trump ran an unconventional campaign that didn't quite have the management procedures that you would see in republican or democratic campaigns. i think what underscores or what is evident here is that this is the sort of meeting that would not have happened if they had had kind of a more campaign structure in place. wouldn't take a ...

This letter that was sent to the trump campaign committee was signed by richard burr along with mark warner of virginia. they have a strong professional relationship as they work on this investigation, at least according to my reporting. so you do have two main investigations right now. it's the federal probe, which is now being led by the special counsel bob mueller that used to be called the fbi investigation. that's now the special counsel justice department investigation, which is really part of the fbi investigation, an extension of it, an evolution of it. then you have the senate probe, ...

>> well, it is. you have multiple condutacts of people close to trump, or at least advising trump during the campaign at certain points and russians. now, it does show the risk of having what was an unformed, i suppose you could describe it, campaign structure where you had people with varying degrees of qualifications, frankly, and even also closest to the candidate himself who were meeting, at least claiming to be speaking for trump or claiming to have access to him through this campaign. and that shows you one of the risks of having what was a largely unformed operation even as you got into...

Process. >> that sounds like a pitch for, in our day, what we called movie of the week. remember that? >> let's hope so. >> donald trump jr. actually met with his banker last year. jim, there is also this. a former trump campaign adviser carter paige telling buzzfeed that he met with a russian diplomat named victor -- i can't say his last name -- back in 2013 in new york. this diplomat was later charged in 2013 as working with a secret agent. he tells buzzfeed, mr. carter, that nothing was sinful there. this is just another point of contention hanging out there for them. >> we're at least advi...