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Get together for a few vodka shots. >> it seems more conspiratorial to you? >> it seems much more conspiratorial to me. the whole tone of the e-mail sz conspiratorial. >> do you think that these donations were part of a russian campaign to influence the election and help president trump? >> absolutely. after reading this e-mail exchange, i have nary a doubt. >> we wanted to ask simon kukes about his background and this mysterious e-mail exchange. why was he offering political briefings to a russian official? why did he send those photos? was he just bragging? look at how close i got to a presi...

Good. the most respected mayor, rudy giuliani. >> that made my blood run cold because there is so little said and yet so much conveyed. >> what is conveyed? >> to me what's conveyed is, i was with donald trump. we have a plan in action and it's going to work. this guy is going to win. our guy is going to win. >> why send the photo? >> the photo is basically what we might call bona fides. it's proof that, okay, i really can produce what i'm saying i can produce. here i am with giuliani. >> we talked to giuliani. he told us he doesn't remember meeting simon kukes. we looked at the photo's metta ...

In conjunction with the guardian newspaper. in politics, money buys access. and simon kukis got his money's worth. the russian-born american businessman donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to donald trump's 2016 run. that got him and his young russian girlfriend right up close to the future president. in political circles, no one had ever heard of simon kukes before. >> he's an american citizen and he's never given a political contribution. >> robert meyer works at the center for wisconsin politics. >> suddenly he starts giving to trump allies, joint fund raising kmeetz, republican part...

Significant. i liked how the cia expert said it seemed like there was something going on in these communication ands there was something veiled going on. i mean, this is exactly the type of stuff that you have a special counsel to investigate. you know, you call people in, you try to find other e-mails if these e-mails exist. there might be other e-mails out there in the same chain or that go later or earlier, and these are things that you can bear down on depending how far robert mueller wants to go in chasing the russian money trail into the trump campaign. and there's a whole lot of other r...

Because there is so little said and yet so much conveyed. >> what is conveyed? >> to me what's conveyed is, i was with donald trump. we have a plan in action and it's going to work. this guy is going to win. our guy is going to win. >> why send the photo? >> the photo is basically what we might call bona fides. it's proof that, okay, i really can produce what i'm saying i can produce. here i am with giuliani. >> we talked to giuliani. he told us he doesn't remember meeting simon kukes. we looked at the photo's metta data. it shows it was taken august 13, 2016, when giuliani attended a fund-rai...