possible ka told the kremlin every time he had a contact with the fbi and the d.o.j. it doesn t look like there was any hope there of this working. in retrospect. at the time they had reason to believe he would be willing to talk. he had previously engaged with the u.s. over a totally unrelated issue. so they thought well maybe there is a chance here. then when we hear the names, ohr, and steele, and their involvement in this clandestine effort, these are two of the president s favorite punching bags of late on twitter. does it hurt or help trump s argument that this whole thing is a witch-hunt. i think it depends where you sit right now. it s easy to look at in and see kinds of a vast conspiracy. when we know, and one thing the people have to understand is there is a network of people in the u.s. and in europe who for more than a decade have been interested in, been aggressive about pursuing russian organized crime and russian intel intelligence. one of those people is bruce