feeding trump and his team valuable intelligence on his opponents, including democratic presidential candidate hillary clinton for several years. >> a new link has surfaced between the president's name sake and a russian lawyer. >> we now know at least nine trump associates had contacts with russian officials during the campaign or the transition. meetings happened in new york, in washington, in europe, in russia. former trump adviser carter page has told congressional investigators that despite his previous denials, he did meet with high-ranking russians in moscow in july 2016. christopher steele had reported as much. at the time in the dossier. >> been forced to acknowledge he had encounters with senior russian officials continuing to say it was meaningless and wasn't about collusion and the things in the dossier are not true but the account significantly changed. >> what is now the most notorious trump campaign/russia meeting happened in june 2016 at trump tower. donald trump jr., paul manafort