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Days after the trump tower meeting. the person who brokered this meeting, rob goldstein, a publicist, e-mails one of the russians and this is on the day that news breaks that russia has hacked into dnc e-mails. he copies and isn't this, quote, e eerily weird and one said it was an innocent explanation. because we did not discuss the dnc breach in that meeting in trump tower, that's the reason that it was weird that five days later the story broke that, in fact, russia broke the dnc. whether you believe that explanation, that's up to people watching the story and also senate and house investiga...

From the whole world. arthel: congressman franks, is this going to get done by christmas? >> i think it is. you know, i'm stupidly optimistic at times, but i really believe this has a chance. i'm concerned that afterward we might think that we've solved all the problems and in the senate rules on the appropriations process are going to become very difficult to deal with after that. arthel: and we have to leave it there. thank you for your time. >> all right. thank you very much. happy thanksgiving. arthel: and to you and your family as well, sir. eric: new denials in the russian investigation,...

Expire pretty much blocking foreign ships from bringing any aid to the island? >> reporter: so this waiver was only designed as a short term fix, to last ten days. there is still a lot of push in congress to permanently exempt puerto rico from the jones act to allow them to continue to benefit from the exemption during recovery. senator john mccain introduced a bill last week or a few weeks ago to permanently exempt the island and he now that the waiver has expired, he's calling on congress do through and pass that. but it's unclear if they will take it up with their long to do list. >> all ri...

The financial dependencies are. so there is a lot on the table for the russians conductinge e t espionage. >> can you go back before 2015 and 2016 and find out relationships they had with investors. after all they had the miss universe contest in moscow. >> the whole meeting on june 9th was arraigned by rob goldstein with people that trump was friendly with. and there are all kinds of financial relationships.

This is part of russian government efforts to support trump, and he doesn't blink at that, he doesn't even seem surprised. what efforts are you talking about, seeming to know precisely what rob goldstein was talking about. he took the meeting as a courtesy, as an acquaintance. but why spribring two of the mo important people on the campaign to come. apparently he thought it would be important. so it certainly seems like they expected something coming into the meeting, i don't know why we