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Individuals, including manafort and gates to make sure the american people ultimately find out what happened during our presidential election last year. what was the extent to which there was an attempt to have russians come in and to influence that most sacred of all of our institutions. >> papadopoulos repeatedly tried to set up an in-person meeting between president trump and kremlin officials and high level campaign officials were aware of that effort. senator, what does that tell you? >> again, it says that there definitely was a thread that was seeking to be connected. and i think there'...

Claims, the allegations from the fbi have to do with the campaign, jake, and in these court documents there are all of these e-mails that show these communications between papadopoulos and russians trying to set up a meeting between the campaign and the russians, and also it is clear that -- that he was acting on the campaign's approval, jake. if you look at some of these e-mails, papadopoulos e-mails a top campaign official who turns out to be manafort, according to a source saying russia wants to immediate with donald trump and that that's been approved. he forwards it on to another campaign...

Naze, it could be just the beginning with a eblt po of more charges against manafort and gates and a third campaign associate charged with lying to the fbi cooperating about his time with the campaign when he was allegedly in touch with russians. it's the first signs special counsel robert mueller is zeroing in on collusion with russia in the 2016 campaign. george papadopoulos, a former foreign policy adviser to the trump campaign, seen here meeting with trump as part of his campaign's national security team last year, pleaded guilty for making false statements to the fbi about his contacts wi...

Gates. does that seem significant to you? >> absolutely. i mean, you've got the hook being people who are part of the campaign who are engaged in activity knowingly to try to work with a foreign agency of some sort or foreign nation to try to collude. that's the crux what have mueller's investigation is about. it's no longer hypothetical. collusion is not had a nebulous term anylonger. it's pinpointing who the actors are, what was the activity and not only was it co-signed. it was encouraged by these two men who walked into a court today and had the 12 dark count indictment on them and i don't...

Because we previously report that the the -- that the justice department had locked at this, those same facts and decided there wasn't enough evidence to bring a case, so we'll see whether or not the defense can try to figure out whether to poke some holes in what the government is presenting here. >> very quickly, we don't know why his attorney didn't show up. >> well, we talked to his spokesman. he said that it was a scheduling issue, but, you know, during the hearing. >> scheduling issue. >> the public defender said he's going to hire a private attorney. >> laura, the other big case, of cou...