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Wrong. >> to be clear in terms of following the money here, you've been able to track americans from whom smith raised money for this project. we don't know if smith sent money to the russians or anybody else to pay for what he thought he was getting. >> correct. >> shelby holiday, keep going. good luck. great to have you here. we'll be right back. stay with us.
Plus one other story that i think is potentially really important that just broke in "the wall street journal" that relates to the old peter smith case. the republican operative who was trying to pay the russians to get hillary clinton's e-mail. big, interesting break in that case today. we'll have more on that coming up, as well. there's a lot to keep track of tonight. but, of course, the biggest thing of all is this hurricane. at the storm's height, wind gusts up to 175 miles per hour. that's the force of an ef-4 tornado. that makes it the fourth strongest hurricane on record to make landfal...
Peter smith was a longtime republican operative, last may he was found death in a hotel room, ruled as a suicide. just a few days before he died, he did an interview in which he told them about a project he had been working on during the 2016 campaign, trying to track down what he believed were thousands of e-mails that had been hacked from hillary clinton's private e-mail server. he contacted people who he believed were russian hackers online to encourage them to get clinton e-mails, so they could be used against clinton in the election for trump's benefit. in other words, peter smith, u.s. c...
Related to her work in the obama administration. >> now, the other part of this that has rung for so long, since the "journal" first broke this story is that smith kept saying when talking to other people about this project, about his efforts to get hillary clinton's e-mails, he talked about how he was happy to try to get them from russian hackers, but he also bragged about his relationship with the trump campaign. didn't he brag about having a relationship with flynn? >> he used flynn as a person helping the effort. he dropped his name a lot. and he had documents that said steve bannon was in...
Relationship with flynn? >> he used flynn as a person helping the effort. he dropped his name a lot. and he haddockmen documents tha steve bannon was involved, kellyanne conway.nied knowing h. michael flynn is not talking, but he hasn't pushed back as fiercely as some of the others in the trump campaign. >> to me, that's the super clarifying thing about this story. i followed every incremental development. for me, this is like we've now taken a turn. without knowing anything about peter smith other than his activism, him dropping lots of names, don't worry, this is legit, the trump campaign ha...