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War with them. now what appears to be happening is that they are running an operation to select or influence their preferred candidate to get into the white house. we are in danger. our national intelligence and national security and the american direct, sorry, democratic establishment of choosing a presidency is under attack right now, and we really need to take this seriously. >> in case you missed the date on that clip, that was malcolm nance on this show almost exactly one year ago, predicting the russiagate crisis that has engulfed the trump administration. in the year since, malcolm made...

Launched a quest to obtain emails he believed were stolen from hillary clinton's private server while implying he was connected to michael flynn. another "wall street journal" story that broke overnight revealed that smith also listed other senior members of trump's campaign in a recruitment document including steve ban none, kellyanne conway, and sam clovis. senior adviser at the agriculture department now. "the journal" says there's no evidence smith sought information from the campaign officials. author of "the plot to hack america" navid jamali former fbi double agent and author of "how to...

Clinton's servers. shane, thanks for joining us what can you tell us about this story? >> reporter: the operative's name is peter w. smith. he is a gop figure who has a long history with the clintons and opposition research on hillary and bill clinton. he embarked last labor day in the home stretch of the campaign on this effort to find these e-mails he believed that russian hackers stole from hillary clinton's server. and in this everyday he portrayed mike flynn, then a senior adviser to donald trump as an ally on this quest. saying that mike flynn was aware of what he was doing and appeared ...

Protections for handling classified information and believed that hillary clinton herself would have been a likely target for a foreign government, which is not a stretch to believe that, of course. and believed also that if you were going to have someone trying to hack her server, it would be very likely an adversary power, in this case, russia, although he imagined others might want to get access too. what he really was driving him in this, though, was his belief that hillary clinton was hiding something in these e-mails that she claimed to have deleted from her personal server. we should al...

And he never has told you that flynn was involved. >> he said he knew michael flynn and others said that he had been talking to flynn about this project and there are e-mails to that effect that portray flynn as among a small number of people who were working on this. but we should be clear that the agree of involvement, if there was any involvement by mike flynn, that is not clear and perhaps will be a matter for investigators. certainly, he was portrayed as an ally in this by smith. >> what are investigators looking at now? >> investigators are aware of what might be something at the other e...