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But one point is clear. these indictments and convictions show why i fought so hard for a special council. and very tellingly, to answer your question, is cnn's report about what was said at the papadopoulos plea proceeding, there is a larger investigation in which this agreement is a small part. this investigation is in a sense just beginning, it's the end of the beginning. not the beginning of the end. and we can expect to see more indictments. >> so on the issue of george papadopoulos, this is what goes to the heart of collusion. the former policy adviser for the trump campaign has pleaded ...

Papadopoulos never acted in an official capacity. >> he reached out and nothing happened beyond that, which i think shows his level of importance in the campaign and shows what little role he had within coordinating anything officially for the campaign. >> e-mails included in the court filing indicate he did at times have campaign backing. including one in which a supervisor told papadopoulos, i would encourage you to make the trip if it is feasible. >> he had repeated communications with senior campaign officials. beyond that the time line of events potentially telling. in april, papadopoulos...

Relations with multiple russians, talking about a meeting that's been approved from our side, referring to someone high ranking at the trump campaign and refers to paul manafort directly in one of these e-mails, is this in your view, what we have here -- is it collusion? >> it's very compelling evidence that points toward collusion, when it's viewed along with all the other evidence, the concealeds meetings, including jeff sessions, the june 9th meeting involving kushner and russian agents, and the meetings with the russian bank with jared kushner, the outreach by the cambridge analytics to wi...

Hillary clinton. >> today's nounsment has nothing to do with the president, the president's campaign or campaign activity. there's clear evidence of the clinton campaign to smear the president and influence the election. >> evan perez and jim sciutto are covering every detail of this breaking news. i want to begin with you, jim, and then to you, evan. this is as close as we have gotten to collusion, and the evidence that was unveiled today of george papadopoulos in those e-mails, some of which refer directly to the campaign chairman, paul manafort is startling. >> indeed. >> from the beginning...

Detailed accounts of his e-mail exchanges with high level folks in the campaign. man in a fort and gates, talking specifically about hillary clinton e-mails and russia, we use the word bombshell over and over throughout the course of this investigation, i think this was one of those days, well, this really was a bombshell, for the first time, we really got a sense that there were conversations at the uppermost levels of the trump campaign about russia, about hillary clinton and about e-mails, you have the white house still saying, with pap do house, there was no there there, he was just a volu...