been cozying up to putin obviously undisputed. just a coincidence that not a coincidence. i think the question literally i don t think you can dispute, jeremy made the point a second ago about the twine and bubblegum. it is a fact the trump campaign was a, kind of i m a circus? i m trying not to use profanity here. a [ bleep ] show? yes, that s what i was trying to find the word for. the donald trump did he know papadopoulos was off doing x, y or z? did he know about individual meetings? i would think it credits donald trump too much to think that he knew about individual actions taken on behalf of him in order to try to collaborate with or conspire with the russians. but did donald trump make it clear to everyone around him that he loved vladimir putin, that he wanted to be in bed with vladimir putin metaphorically? he was happy to have the help of the russians. hey, russia, if you have hillary clinton s 35,000 e-mails bring them on. that s how ceos of the compan
them on. that s how ceos of the company works. what you do is set the broad direction. you make clear he didn t run apple. it was a family office. like how many people did he have to check with to know what was going on in trump tower? well, again, you know, i just don t know the answer to that question. i don t think it s provable. i don t necessarily think i think the day donald trump sat at that table and mentioned carter page as one of his foreign policy advisors, i m not sure he met carter page before that moment and they put a piece of paper in front of him and said read his name. you can see the entire interview with natalia veselnitskaya. when we come back, what the committee knew about the russian informant who found herself deep inside trump tower in the summer of 2016. also ahead, new reporting on the reputational toll that a tour of duty in donald trump s administration is taking on everyone who walks through the