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2016 presidential election to stoke arguments. and in some ways also to hurt hillary clinton and help donald trump. >> almost all of the propaganda found so far traces back to the internet research agency, investigators say was financed by a company owned by this man, russian oligarch evgeni pregoeshsen. he's a wealthy business man and part of putin's inner circle. >> they would work in 12-hour shifts leading up to the election. >> there was an entire english language department, designed to insert messages, social media posts in the united states. they were required to watch "house of cards" ...

Putin's ally, victor jarn covism, the former president of ukraine. he was a strong man who presided over a deadly crackdown against pro tessetesters in the streets kiev. he left his country in disgrace. manafort had helped bring him to power. >> paul manafort has for decades been the washington lobbyist and influence peddler around the world for a lot of the most vicious dictators we've seen. >> the question is was manafort also linked to russia's strong man, vladimir putin? >> are there any ties between mr. trump, you and your campaign and putin and his regime? >> no, there are not. it absurd...

Putin's ally, viktor yanukovych, the former president of ukraine. yanukovich was a strong man who presided over a deadly crackdown against protesters in the streets of kiev. he left his country in disgrace. manafort had helped bring him to power. >> paul manafort has for decades been the washington lobbyist and influence peddler around the world for a lot of the most vicious dictators we've seen. >> the question is, was manafort also linked to russia's strongman, vladimir putin? >> are there any ties between mr. trump, you or your campaign and putin and his regime? >> no, there are not. it abs...

Infamous e-mails to donald trump jr., e-mails that promised dirt on hillary clinton. and emin, the singer, would later help goldstone set up the trump tower meeting with russians. and there was one more mystery guest, who would later show up at trump tower. ike kaveladze. trump wined and dined all of them but he was after a bigger well, we've invited president. putin. i know he'd like to go. >> before the miss universe deal, donald trump almost never spoke of vladimir putin. it was 2013 when he seemed to address an intense admiration for the russian strong man. >> he's put himself -- a lot of ...

Russian ambassador. >> they discussed setting up a back channel with moscow at russia's own embassy. >> you have to say that raises a red flag and say, well, why wouldn't this reported? >> kushner claimed he wanted to discuss syria and said the arrangement was never set up. some in u.s. intelligence believe that kislyak was one of russia's top spies in washington. >> did you recruit any members of the trump administration? >> december 13th, 2016, kushner meets with sergei gorkov, the head of a sanctioned russian bank that's often funded putin's pet projects, like the sochi olympics. the bank w...