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Mifsud -- or mifsud is there and later goes and tells papadopoulos about the e-mails, right? >> right. so they met at some point in the spring of 2016, and papadopoulos at first, if mifsud was not interested in papadopoulos at all. he thought he was some low level energy consultant. and upon learning he was actually associated with the trump campaign, that's when mifsud started to take interest in papadopoulos, according to special counsel robert mueller's court filings. now we don't know where mifsud himself got the information. that of course is the biggest question. there are a bunch of con...

See you around, giulia ♪ new developments in the russia investigation got somewhat buried in the many other headlines this week. we learned that foreign intelligence agencies also picked up evidence of communications between trump associates and russian officials and other russians known to western intelligence. also contradictory statements from former trump campaign adviser carter page about his

I was offering or someone was asking for. >> well, jim sciutto joins us now along with cnn political analyst david gergen. >> jim, do you know whether the senate and house intelligence communities are going to be looking at the evidence gathered by the europeans or have they already? >> absolutely. i spoke with a source close to the congressional senate investigation today and said if it's relevant they will look at this. you have u.s., british and multiple european intelligence agencies picking up communications between russians known to western intelligence and trump associates. that could b...

This. you have u.s., british and multiple european intelligence agencies picking up communications between russians known to western intelligence and trump associates. that could be innocent communication, but we know that not only the hill committees are looking at this, but also the fbi. they are exploring whether there's any evidence of collusion between those russians and trump officials who they don't know yet, but they're looking at that question. >> would you be surprised if the trump administration or its defenders used this british incidental story to try to cloud the water around the...

The latest now. >> reporter: tonight cnn has learned that the british and european intelligence intercepted communications between trump associates and russian officials and other russians known to western intelligence during the u.s. presidential campaign and shared those communications with their u.s. counterparts. multiple u.s. and western officials tell cnn. these sources stress stress at no point did western intelligence, including the britain gchq, target these trump associates. instead, their communications were picked up as incidental collection during routine surveillance of known rus...