but as cbs s haley ott reports, some nations are not putting out the welcome mat. reporter: as desperate afghans try to escape the taliban, world leaders pledge millions of dollars in aid for resettlement. but in europe, some said they wanted to focus on helping people in and around afghanistan, not in their own backyards. that s because many european nations don t want more asylum seekers to try to reach their shore, according to zoey gardner. there has been a sustained move to the demonization and denial of refugee protection across europe over the past decade, and in particular, since 2015. reporter: six years ago, over a million people made their way to europe, many fleeing the brutal civil war in syria. their arrival caused political crises across the continent. since then, european governments have fortified borders and made it more difficult for people to travel using so-called irregular
months before those raids stunned the nation, the special counsel was searching cohen s e-mails. as you have been trying to read through these hundreds of pages of documents between coming on live with us to talk about them but that is what struck me, too is back to between you had mueller s team of prosecutors looking at the e-mails that guy back to 2015. reporter: we learned two months into the special counsel s investigation they had already asked for their first warrant of michael cohen s e-mail accounts. they in total obtained four search warrants for three accounts and one of his i cloud storage accounts. the information was provided to the u.s. attorney s office in manhattan by february of 2018 when the investigation into campaign finance violations was referred to them. since then the u.s. attorney s office in manhattan had made
of 2015. something not supported by the evidence or the testimony of the former fbi director saying it began seven months later. this investigation began in late july. reporter: the president s proof? text messages between two fbi officials. trump tweeted about discovery, spygate is in full force. but this may be where the president learned about the claim. unredacted texts and may have initiated spies into the trump campaign as early as december, december of 2015. reporter: that fox report came after the far right website gateway pundit seized on a twitter user with a claim of the text for foreign agents against trump. that got picked up bay reddit forum and cnn review of the text messages of the officials show no evidence to back up the claim that the russia investigation started in december 2015.
believe it s counter intelligence investigation boo the campaign. still that s not how trump friendly media portrays it. sent a tweet to the followers and then the conspiracy flourished on fox new that is evening. certainly appears that they were looking to put more lures into the campaign in 2015. reporter: republican congresswoman who joined the attacks said this. so this did not just start on the 31st. comey testified in may of 2017. i think he yeah. exposure as a result of that testimony. reporter: but on capitol hill on thursday some republicans scratched their heads at the president s latest conspiracies. i haven t looked at the evidence but i have seen no indication that a confidential informant placed in the trump
number of spies into the trump campaign as early as december. december of 2015. reporter: that fox report came after the far right website gate way pundit seized on a twitter user who took a photo of the text to claim the fbi was unite using foreign agents against trump. a cnn review of the text messages between the officials show no evidence to back up the claim that the russia investigation started in december 2015. the texts in question are not even new. the same text messages had been sitting on it shines a light on how trump seizes on conspiracy theories to further his political arguments, like when he falsely claimed barack obama wasn t born in the united states. to his latest, leveling unsubstantiated charges that spies have been placed in his campaign to help hillary