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Manager rick gates as the person who sought the proposals from the israeli intelligence firm. rick gates, of course, pled guilty in february in the mueller investigation and has agreed to cooperate fully. what could the special counsel's office make of this and what happens now? joining us now is ronan bergman, one of the "new york times" reporters who broke this story. he's a staff writer for "the new york times" magazine based in tel aviv. mr. bergman, thank you so much for joining us tonight. >> thank you, joy. thank you for inviting me. >> thank you. we have a slight day. let's first talk ...

I tend to agree that what we're now seeing is this full-on effort by the campaign, itself, to reach out and exploit new media. the issue with technology, sometimes it outstrips the capacity of the law to appreciate conduct that should be legal and conduct that should be illegal. here we have emerging technology. there may not be crimes that completely catch conduct that we all agree will need to be considered for criminalization in thenonetheless, there's activity that forms a conspiracy in this regard. and worth flagging the fact that this goes back to a march 2016 meeting at the mandarin hot...

Special different reasons, not necessarily about the elections, and then feed them with pro-trump and anti-ted cruz reasons why to vote for trump and not for anyone else. and this would be followed up sometimes by other means of connection, even phone calls. the legality of the proposal was also -- please. >> no go on. >> the legality of the proposal was under question and sy group even seek the help and the illegal review of a company of a legal firm in the u.s., one of the most prestigious one, and they have come up with legal review saying there are problems with the legality of this action...

Have great expertise in the different realms of intelligence, human, and manipulation of the social media. clerking of intelligence and deploying this intelligence to manipulate people. they are veteran israeli intelligence. they want to earn some money and they formed these intelligence companies. one of them psy-group. they specialize in the surveillance and manipulation of the social media. they offer their services to countries and organizations worldwide. they are not a liquidation, but during the years of 2014, '15, '16 and '17 they were very, very successful. as you correctly said, they...

Clinton's stolen e-mails from hackers just weeks before election day in 2016. his fund-raising efforts were clandestine. "the journal" says mr. smith appeared to have used an alias, not just for himself but also for the money he was raising, making references to a washington scholarship fund for russian students. which "the wall street journal" says they were unable to confirm even exists. if you're wondering what all of this means, if you're wondering what might connect all these dots, you're in very good company. "the journal" reports that robert mueller is also investigating peter smith's q...