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It's a very appropriate word. it's humiliating for americans. this is not a partisan political issue. >> can we come back from this? >> sure. >> we're america. thank you. >> thank you, don. >> always a pleasure. >> i need to get to breaking news right now on the russia investigation. a republican operative tried to obtain e-mails he thought were stolen from hillary 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 hilla...

Hugely controversial because you had a canada callididate callin foreign power who was already believed to have been hacking to go after his opponent. we should, too, it's my understanding from talking to peter smith that he had suspicions about hillary clinton's e-mails, even before donald trump made that comment. but it is very notable that this project that smith was leading begins in earnest about five weeks after president trump made that statement. >> so, all right. so then just lastly, steve, flynn seems to be, obviously, the key -- the key piece here that could lead to some answers. we...

Securitier adviser michael flynn. flynn at the time was serving as a senior adviser to the trump campaign. this all took place before the 2016 presidential election. i also need to note this is the "wall street journal's" reporting. cnn has not been able to independently verify the details of this report but we do have the reporter who broke the story here. he's the senior national security writer. he's with me as well as steve hall, a retired cia chief of russia operations. so, shane and steve, thank you so much for coming on, and shane, this is a -- quite a piece in the paper. so, i mean, co...

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That offer. and he proceeded to explain to me the operation that he was involved in and that he was leading, which tracked very much with previous reporting that i had already been doing. and so, then, continued reporting with the intention of going back to him, some time, in short order to ask him for follow-up questions but unfortunately, he died about ten days after i interviewed him. so we continued our own reporting up until just yesterday when we published the piece. >> so, peter smith, he believed that hillary clinton's missing e-mails had been stole bin someo -- stolen by someone and s...