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More than a year. as has robert mueller, the special counsel. he has questioned witnesses connected to the late mr. smith, including at least one before the grand jury. he apparently has a trove of documents and hard drives that belong to peter smith. but sort of bottom line here, this one american, now deceased, who cheerfully admitted to colluding with russia to getting hillary clinton's e-mails, is dead now, but he does appear to have had a real working relationship at the time with someone at the top of the trump campaign. what exactly does that mean and what happens next here? joining us ...

Mr. smith in 2015, a crucial time for this timeline, what can you tell us about that e-mail, circumstances of it, and whether you see it i guess as hard and fast evidence that that relationship did exist? >> the person that wrote the e-mail declined to talk to us. we've seen the e-mail and the e-mail led us to believe that yes, in fact, there was a relationship between these two men before flynn, as you said, took off to moscow and then later joined the trump campaign. we've been able to confirm that with sources. we know that they were in touch in 2015. we don't know if any business deals cam...

Well, tonight, "the wall street journal" has figured out a piece of that. tonight, "the wall street journal" adds the news in which the story of general flynn and that dinner moscow and the strange story of peter smith and his attempted collusion around hillary clinton's e-mails, those stories kind of come together. a veteran republican activist whose quest to get hillary clinton e-mails from hackers dominated the final months of his life, he struck up a relationship with michael flynn as early as 2015. and told associates he was using the general's connections to help him on the project. smit...

Opportunity, maybe wanted to become involved in flynn's business. >> peter smith was an investor, he had a lot of different connections. he was a republican, his friends describe him as an ardent conservative. so it would make sense if they were trying to connect on a business level that they would have a meeting. again, we don't know if anything came up related to hillary clinton's e-mails. but we do know that peter smith, for a long time, was convinced that hillary clinton's e-mails were out there, that he could get them, and they would be very damaging to her and spill secrets she didn't wa...

Relationship with general flynn in 2015. we spoke with him on the day he left for his trip to moscow. so that's what mike flynn was doing before he hopped that plane to moscow. apparently he was talking to peter smith, who was trying to reach russian hackers online to get hillary clinton's e-mails. we spoke with him on the day he left for his trip to moscow. "the wall street journal" has done incredible reporting on this story, pulling at this for more than a year. as has robert mueller, the special counsel. he has questioned witnesses connected to the late mr. smith, including at least one be...