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Again, as it relates to the oligarchs, we put some of the toughest sanctions on them. but let me just comment that when it came to russell, we weren't trying to hourt the people. we weren't trying to create b problems in the aluminum market and as one of the oligarchs got rid of their position, we're working to deal with these issues. so again, sanctions are very powerful tools and we're careful how we use them. >> so you're well aware that for the fbi to take a russian citizen when they come in the united states, pull them aside for questioning is significant. it's not something they just do....

Months ago tonight, that is when there was immediate speculation about what would happen to the at&t time warner deal. of course time warner owning cnn, the deal reviewed by the justice department. there have been b questions about whether the president himself or the white house try ed to interfere in the deal. was somehow trying to punish cnn by taking on the deal and trying to block it. amid all of that, with that as the backdrop, we know at&t essentially hired cohen as a consultant for what the company says was insights, information. the idea is when a new president comes to town, big comp...

Again, all open source information. >> but does he speak to -- is he saying this publicly because now he is willing publicly to make a statement that the president was unwilling to do? and that perhaps he may have felt and believed the intel community, his own community, before, but was reticent in making that public so as to be in step, you know, with his boss? >> i think that it's hard to be in step with the president when the president used his tweet after this information came out to kind of sow conspiracy theories again and say there wasn't actual kind of any collusion between the preside...

Open source information and see that there was connections between carter page and russian officials going back to 2013 that caused concerns. but what the democrats want to do is say here is what they asked for in the fisa warrant, here's the information it relize lied on. it wasn't the dossier. and then of course the white house is playing games. fbi says don't release the nunez memo, they do. the fbi says we have concerns about the democratic memo don't release is so they don't. this is all about confusing the people about the russia investigation. the dossier is not the key to this and nune...

Recruit one democratic volunteer who was a campaign volunteer for jimmy carter's campaign. in the lead up to the 2012 election, they used the so-called illegals, the non-official cover officers, who were here to collect, you know, "new york times" articles and other open source information on our electoral charkistacteristi. so what we saw in 2016 was on a vastly different scale and the scope of what we saw was quite different. and it's my hope and it's certainly my expectation, it's my hope and expectation that this administration takes those lessons from 2016 and actually implements them. so...