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Intelligence to help defeat primary race opponents and hillary clinton according to interviews and copies of the proposals. the trump campaign's interest in the work began as russians were escalating their effort to aide donald j. trump. though the israeli company's pitches were nayoar than moskow's interference campaign and appear unconnected the they saw an effort to swing voters in mr. trump's favor. investigators have obtained copies of the proposals and questioned the israeli company employees. according to "the times," the trump aide who requested the proposal was rick gates who pleaded ...

Media. all of this was, in effect, a fraud that they were considering to be placed on the american electorate, and this is in some ways parallel to exactly what the russians did. in that case it was sponsored by the russian state which, of course, violates a whole other panoplea of american federal law. unclear if this operation was directed by another foreign government. >> indeed, and let me read this quote from the times article. the trump campaign's interest in the work began as russians were escalating their effort to aid donald j. trump. though the israeli company's pitches were narrower...

Same day that the gru was actively looking for it. so, there is collusion in plain sight. but i don't know whether any of that rises to the level of conspiracy and whether that conspiracy rises to criminal liability for that conspiracy. >> you described in detail before congress an open setting congressional testimony last spring that in the summer of 2016, you at cia were alarmed by, said your radar went up about the number of contracts between russian officials and u.s. persons at a time that russia was mounting this interference campaign. when you say that your radar went up about that, did...

That conspiracy rises to the level of liability. >> you in an opening congressional testimony last spring that in the summer of 2016, you at cia were alarmed by, your radar went up about the number of contacts between russian officials and u.s. persons at a time that russia was mounting the interference campaign. did your radar go up about that because it appeared that that russian operation had the engagement of americans toward that end? or specifically, because of the americans, the specific u.s. citizens, who the russians were targeting? i am well aware. intensive effort, as i said in

Terms of gates and manafort and their connections to the whole russia investigation, they were in the loop on george papadopoulos campaign aide who pleaded guilty trying to broker a meeting between putin and trump. there's a lot left to be told about what they knew between campaign and russia. they were the most russia connected of any of these advisors. manafort came to the campaign working for free, flat broke, right. scrambling for cash. in debt. and the question is how desperate was he what was he willing do if the russians put the finger on him and asked him to help in their interference ...