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Roger stone, a trump campaign operative and long time trump con fidaunt is admitting to meeting with a russian. stone said he met in may 2016 with the russian. he was offering dirt on hillary clinton. sounds familiar, for $2 million. how much jeopardy is he in here for failing to disclose this? >> we now know this is something that the special counsel robert mueller has been investigating and asking questions of. how all this came about is important to know. michael caputto said he set this up. when he went before robert mueller he was asked questions about this and that is where all of this c...

Hill, they say both roger stone and michael caputto's lawyers are trying to claim this is a set up by the fbi that this russian may have been an fbi plant. this meeting that took place in may 2016 is two months before the fbi started investigating the trump campaign for potential russian collusion so that is sort of questionable. certainly not telli members of the hill, misleading them could potentially cause jeopardy for both of them. >> the other big issue here is it is yet another russia meeting. when this all started there was denial of any meetings. this is one where it was a trump confid...

Every to set up the campaign -- effort to set up the campaign. boris sanchez has the latest from the white house. >> reporter: dave and christine, michael caputo and roger stone have long denied any contact with russian nationals in the 2016 campaign, in separate letters to the house committee over the weekend, they acknowledge there was a may 2016 meeting between roger stone and russian national henry greenburg. he was promising dirt on hillary clinton in exchange for $2 million. both men claim they forgot all about the meeting until they were reminded by the special counsel. michael caputo w...

Offering dirt on hillary clinton in exchange for $2 million. the offer not accepted, stone says. the meeting was set up by trump campaign aide michael caputo. but if you ask them today, they say the russian in question was actually an fbi informant. what? shimon prokupecz is joining me now. what is going on? >> reporter: just, more questions about potentially another russian having meetings with someone that is associated with the campaign. this meeting took place as we say during the campaign, in may 2016. this was over two years ago. we're just learning about it recent, really over the weeke...

2016. neither pen disclosed the discussion tinvestigators. they now claim they were being set up. he had provided information to the fbi for 17 years according to the washington post. in the filing he said he had stopped his cooperation sometime after 2013. greenburg denied to the post that he had been denied when he met with stone. the fbi declined to comment. he said he was asked about the meeting but by robert mueller's prosecuto prosecutors. the may 2016 meeting came a few weeks after george papadopoulus said they have dirt on clinton and before they all met with russians on the promise of...