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People. that's a feeling here. >> all right. nic robertson from abu dhabi, thank you. there's potentially explosive new reporting this morning that a longtime republican operative tried to get his hands on emails he believed were stolen from hillary clinton's private e-mail server, likely by russian hackers. part two of this "wall street journal" scoop is that the operatives suggested to others that he was working with michael flynn who later became the national security adviser. the general reports the veteran gop opposition researcher, peter w. smith, told associates and people he tried to...

Portrayed mike flynn, then a senior adviser to donald trump in an ali to this quest. saying that mike flynn was aware of what he was doing and appeared to be supportive of that. so we're seeing some connection and we're trying to understand the full depth of it between a campaign adviser to donald trump and this operative who believe head was in touch with russian hackers trying to find damaging e-mails about hillary clinton. >> peter smith has passed away 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...

Operative and what exactly was his connection to general flynn? >> right. his name was peter w. smith. he's a finance person from chicago who has a long history in opposition research going back to the early clinton days where he was responsible for helping to publicize a number of stories about bill clinton's personal life. and his connection to general flynn is they definitely knew each other. but what we found in our investigation is that over last summer into the fall peter smith was engage income this operation to try and find hacked e-mails and telling many of his associates that he was ...

The 81-year-old smith died ten days after the interview. a trump campaign official says smith did not work for the campaign, and they had no knowledge of any involvement by flynn. falcon has offered no comment -- flynn has offered no comment. cnn has not independently confirmed the reporting. senate republicans plan to keep at it through the holiday weekend as they fine-tune a health care reform bill they hope will pass muster with their skeptical colleagues. the latest government analysis may not help efforts. the congressional budget office predicting a 35% drop in medicaid spending in 203...

Investigators. he was portrayed as an ali by smith. >> what are investigators looking at now in. >> investigators are aware of what might be something at the other end of this operation. there is intelligence reporting from around the time that smith was operating showing that russian hackers were discussing ways to obtain e-mails from hillary clinton's server and provide that information via an intermediary to general flynn then working with the campaign. we understand this was the smith operation or that smith was said intermediary but these are consistent kinds of detail and what we're seei...