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his history with the president. he had concerned once he took the unusual step of trashing the spouse of a senior aide. >> he had his own relationship with the president for a while now. it wasn't as if they never spoke. >> it dated back to 2006. the president relied on george conway to help him in a dispute at one of his properties in new york. some of the residents were trying to take the name trump off the building. george conway came in. then the two had a number of encounters over the years. in 2016, they went together to a party at the home of rebecca mercer. the president's consulted george conway over what lawyers he should have for the russia probe, how he should handle cases. how he should handle a good bit of his white house in the early days. the president would consult with george conway. that has soured now.
funding from gop donor, rebecca mercer, to spread a story based on no evidence that bill clinton has a love child. i raised 150 k for the digital campaign, tell rebecca to send us some money. the request could run a foul of federal election laws. stone says he never received money from the mercers and maintains he is innocent. >> there's no crime in connection with the 2016 election or anything else. >> even though roger stone insists he has done nothing wrong he would not be surprised if mueller brings charges against him, and stone says the charges would be trumped up and designed to get him to flip on president trump. cnn, washington. >> joining us now is jeffrey toobin, a former federal prosecutor and staff writer at the new yorker. i am about to steal john berman's opening question. >> go for it. >> is roger stone in more legal
e-mails showing stone asking bannon to help get funding from rebecca mercer, to cover a story that bill clinton has a love child. the request could run afoul of federal election laws. stone said he never received money from the mercers and maintains he is innocent. >> no crime in connection with the 2016 election or anything else. >> even though roger stone says he is innocent, he also said he wouldn't be surprised if the special counsel brings charges against him. stone insists those would be trumped up charges, designed to get him to flip and cooperate against president trump. >> stand by. mark mazzetti is with us as well. cnn national security analyst. you have been reporting on this story as well. tell us more about the e-mails that clearly are of great interest to robert mueller and his team. >> the significance of e-mails
knows. to see if there's anything more there. stone had -- assange had just held a press conference and bannon was asking stone what he knew. and if there was anything more there. you know, look. stone was doing a lot of work for the president. a lot of stuff outside, really trying to help undermine clinton's campaign. and one of the e-mails even shows stone was asking bannon to have rebecca mercer send money to his outside group trying to show that bill clinton had an illegitimate child. so a lot going to there between stone and the campaign. >> and frank figliuzzi, donald trump seems to be doing a volume business of sleaziness and hoping he'll avoid the long arm of the law. if i can start reading through some of these e-mails for all of you and take me through what, as an investigator, these e-mails would mean. let me start with you, frank figliuzzi. for matt boyle who is at breitbart to roger stone. assange, what's he got? hope it's good. that's from matt boyle at
white man. this president has stirred the pot when it comes to racial tensions. there are people that call him the divider and chief now. going back to the question that you asked about steve bannon, he's indirectly getting words from steve bannon again. steve bannon is part of the problem with this division issue. because when steve bannon left, there were some people in the white house, i will say that the president's children were saying, hey, steve bannon is gone now, we're going to get everything backing to. more inclusive. steve bannon is back indirectly through people like rebecca mercer. he's listening again. >> josh, steve bannon is over there in europe, promoting nationalism in various countries.
through people like rebecca mercer. he's listening again. >> josh, steve bannon is over there in europe, promoting nationalism in various countries. is this the bannon influence or do they align on this issue? >> i do think they align. i think it's unfair of putting off this off on steve bannon, trump is capable of racial whistling himself. i do think bannon was one of the people early on who helped trump to understand he could forge a connection with a very loyal base of unhappy, largely white men who feel as though they've been displaced in american culture by other people who feel threatened by the rise of immigrants, by gay people, all the people that tend to gravitate toward the democratic
the hike was after the michael wolfe book was published and it had been reported rebecca mercer and the mercer family had pulled financial support from mr. bann bannon. he stated to me he wanted me to convey a message from the qatari government to steve bannon. he requested i set up a meeting between him, the qatari government, and mr. bannon to say qatar would underwrite all of his political efforts in return for his support. now this guy, who helped found this basketball league, had a previous business relationship with steve bannon. maybe it's a normal thing, hey, i need to you hook me up with bannon. yes, technically, by the rules of logic. step back from this as a citizen. this is crazy pants, right? this is a lawsuit about qatari
a favorite arguments in the west. gatestone has a popular -- and promoted online by russian bots. the russian organization that was recently indicted by robert mueller for the pro-touch russian attack on our election. nbc news documents that the gatestone group has been well funded by robert and rebecca mercer, the top trump donors who also funded breitbart and cambridge analytica, and was a johns bowlen super-pak, which reportedly has ongoing concerns about of conflicts of interest. nbc reporting that the conflict of interest meetings with white house lawyers have continued since he has started the job, but he has started the job. he is national security adviser
people are on the way to being extinguished because of immigration. the great white death. arguments like these that open societies are dangerous and democracy is a failure and white people are going to die out unless they turn against the nonwhite people among them, these are favorite arguments of a lot of different extremist movements in our own country but they're also favorite arguments about the west in russian propaganda so john bolton's gatestone incident has been a favorite source for rt outlets. they've also found themselves supported online by russian bots, including the russian organization that was recently indicted by robert mueller for its role in the pro-trump russian attack on our 2016 presidential election. nbc news documents today that john bolton's gatestone group has been funded, well funded, by robert and rebecca mercer, the
country. >> developing news on cambridge analytica which is the firm that misused the data profiles of 50 million americans. in a moment, you will hear directly from the cambridge wlisel blower testifying to the the british parliament about the firm's conduct. but first, this is what we know about cambridge in russia. last fall, mueller had everybody turn over their data, and what we know is that he reached out directly to julian assange asking for help on working with wikileaks and the hillary are clinton e-mails, and mike flynn said that he is on the payroll of cambridge's parent company which has a lot of unanswered questi questions. this firm, cambridge analytica is tied to the gop donor are rebecca mercer, and her company with steve bannon who is called the cambridge vice president,