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New information tonight on the mueller investigation. a source is telling cnn polling data that paul manafort shared with a russian operative during the campaign was intended to go to two pro-putin ukrainian oligarchs. steve hall is here. he's the retired chief of the cia's operations, laura coates, and michael isikoff, the co-author of "russian roulette." we have a lot to get to tonight. this is so interesting. michael, cnn is learning that paul manafort intended for the polling data to go to pro-putin ukrainian oligarchs and those discussions about a ukrainian peace deal. what is going on he...

And the oligarchs there, whether it was through mr. kilimnik, it all went back to an oligarch, probably deripaska. but most importantly it got back to putin, who then could use it as part of his influence operation. whether that's illegal, i'll defer to laura and others. but it's definitely a c.i. problem that needs to be looked into. there's all kinds of things the russians could have done with that campaign information. >> we talked to seven people who have either worked on presidential campaigns or polling in general, and we got different answers about what sort of information a campaign mi...

It's just not what happened. but beyond that, what do you make of the divide between the president's pro putin, pro russia rhetoric in many ways versus his argument that he has done more than obama in other ways, such as arming the ukrainians and imposing sanctions. the sanctions are being imposed. do you think he is being tougher on the russians, as tough as you want him to be? >> well, i think it's important to be clear-eyed with regards to vladimir putin. and russia has a real problem. their population is shrinking. their work force is shrinking. john mccain used to say that they are a gas ...

Have their back as long as they praise them, as long as they do business with him, and that cannot be our principle behind our foreign policy. >> there's a report out this weekend that indicates your committee -- you'll be the chairman of the house intelligence committee in january -- is stepping up on money laundering and forensic accounting experts. is that true? if so, why? >> i don't want to talk about our staffing, but it is certainly true that one of the issues that the republicans would not allow us to investigate when they were running the committee -- and i don't think congress has lo...

Problems. those are not donald trump problems. >> it's harder to blow it out of proportion, jeff, if your title is chairman of the campaign. it seems like a pretty big time. >> absolutely. and remember what's charged with. he is charged with taking millions upon millions of dollars from victor yanukovych who was the pro putin politician in the ukraine. >> ukraine. >> so it's not that this is completely unrelated to the whole russia situation. remember too that during the convention, they changed the platform toe make the ukrainian section more pro-putin. so the entire thrust of the trump campa...