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Here they have yet to answer. >> guys, hang on with me. we just brought in keir simmons. as we mentioned, vladimir putin was involved in a panel discussion with my colleague megyn kelly. besides asking about russian hacking, kelly also asked putin if he talked with the trump team about easing sanctions. take a listen and we'll we'll talk to keir. >> this is a systeria. perhaps there is a pill to cure it. my answer is no, no agreements whatsoever. we never, ever get down to that, never had the time to solve the issues. >> also attending today's event was sergey gorkov, a long-time

Consideration to unilaterally rescind the conventions. he says he received several panicky calls from u.s. government officials who told them they had been directed to develop a sanctions lifting package and imploring him please my god, can't you stop this. it was apparently stopped in large part thanks to pushback from veterans at the state department. but there is a michael flynn connection here, too, as michael isikoff told chris hayes earlier tonight. >> february 13th, michael flynn resigns. he resigns because of the blowup about his secret meetings with kislyak and misrepresenting the fac...

Relation, i'm sure that's the question the fbi wants to know of easing sanctions and if there was a quid pro quo. >> in 1968 there were communications between the nixon team and russians to create a back channel. so part of these discussions could have been about syria and some kind of new strategy to develop that. the economic sanctions is trickier. this is a subject, not just a legal discussion but a political discussion. the question is, were trump officials working and communicating with the russians making promises, potentially, about easing the economic sanctions that are very troublesom...

Contacts with russia. he has denied that he was a foreign agent. page told cnn's jake tapper that when he visited russia last july, he never discussed easing sanctions on russia relating to the seizing of crimea, but interviewed on abc news, page could not provide a clear answer. >> i never offered that, no, nothing along those lines, absolutely not. i mean, it may -- topics -- i don't remember. we'll see what comes out in this fisa transcript. something may have come up in a conversation. i have no recollection and there is nothing specifically that i would have done that would have given peo...

Up. i have no recollection. if it was, it was not something i was offering or that someone was asking for. >> this is somebody who is known to have strong pro kremlin groups, they called him a wak a doodle. he gets on the campaign, potentially talking with russians about easing sanctions. are we starting to get to the why of him being in the campaign? >> we're starting to see more and more evidence u.s. public, via trump campaign, has been a victim of a weapon of mass information. this is carter page and all his eequivocation and pro kremlin views show russians using hybrid warfare. they are u...