western intelligence sparking the investigation. papadopoulos is asked repeatedly if he told members of the trump campaign about the russians having clinton e-mails. watch. did you tell anyone on the campaign? as far as i remember, i absolutely did not. you didn t tell corey lewandowski? i did not. share this information with anyone on the campaign. now papadopoulos is on the offensive, suggesting his run-in at the war may have been a setup, and the professor who told him about the hacked hillary clinton e-mails may have been a plant. papadopoulos is willing to testify before the house and senate intel committees, quoting i think both committees deserve to know the truth about this suspicious downer meeting and the players involved. papadopoulos s wife believes her husband was set up and has testified to democrats on the
you didn t tell corey lewandowski? as far as i remember i absolutely did not share any information with anyone on the campaign that makes it even less compelling when it comes to what mueller is investigating. it s a little odd. he was clearly a low level functionary of the campaign, he wasn t involved very long. he was brought into the fold in part because there was a lot of professional republican, foreign policy specialists who weren t ready to embrace donald trump yet. and so they had to get together a team of advisors that might sound somewhat impressive and papadopoulos was a name put on this list. so you know, he was it appears he was having contacts that may not have been appropriate, but if he wasn t sharing the information, but he has of course equivocated a little bit on what he remembers and what he doesn t. it remains to be seen. but in terms of what they have actually proven thus far doesn t seem to really move the ball that far. jon: meantime, the great es game
campaign? as far as i remember i did not. you didn t tell corey lewandowski? as far as i remember i did not share this with anyone on the campaign. not sam clovis? anyone. dearborn? anyone. mashburn? anyone. waleed ferris? i might have but i can t guarantee. all i can say is my memory told me that i never shared it with anyone on the campaign. that meeting, as you know, is the reason that operation cross fire hurricane the fbi investigation into possible conspiracy between the russians and the trump campaign, why that operation, the fbi operation, was launch eed because of your meeting with mifsud and mifsud making an offer. it it was a statement, it was a proclamation. he wasn t trying to see if you and the trump campaign wanted them? no. he was just saying i heard the? yeah. and that s why it was an interesting like you said, it was a momentous statement but i
supposed russian dirt on hillary clinton. there are going to be people out there who think there is no way george papadopoulos didn t tell anyone on the campaign. did you tell anyone on the campaign? as far as i remember i absolutely did not. you didn t tell corey lewandowski? as far as i remember, i absolutely did not share this information with anyone on the campaign. not sam clovis? any1. dearborn? any1. wally fer is. i might have. i have no recollection of doing. so all i can say is my memory is telling me i never shared wit anyone on the campaign. you can watch more of that interview at 11:00 a.m. in london, also at 8:00 p.m. on the eastern u.s. that s on a cnn special report. the mysterious tape of george papadopoulos. we don t know what s in it. we know the letter is on its way. kim jong-un writing to president trump. we ll go live to north korea when we come back here.
been provided. so you think he misremembers. i think he misremembered, yeah. there are going to be people out there who think there is no way george papadopoulos didn t tell anyone on the campaign. did you tell anyone on the campaign? as far as i remember, i absolutely did not. you didn t tell corey lewandowski? as far as i remember, i absolutely did not share this information with anyone on the campaign. not sam clovis? anyone. dearborn? anyone. mashburn? anyone. waleed ferris? none of them? i might have, but i have no recollection of doing so. i can t guarantee. all i can say is my memory is telling me that i never shared it with anyone on the campaign. but that meeting, as you know, is the reason that operation crossfire hurricane, the fbi investigation into possible conspiracy between the russians and the trump campaign, why that operation, the fbi operation, was launched, because of your meeting with mifsud and mifsud making that offer. actually, it