the republican party, a source tells cnn, ericson sent an e-mail to a campaign adviser of trump trying to facilitate a meeting between trump and vladimir putin. those efforts were rebuffed by the trump campaign. was he used by the russian half his age? a lawyer says their relationship was real and cites this video of them recording beauty and the beast in the studio and a source close to the situation tells cnn ericson has been visiting her in jail, even recently. but in court papers, prosecutors say, quote, she appears to treat that relationship as simply a necessary aspect of her activities. what would his best defense be? your best defense is that you were a dupe. you were an unknowing participate in certain activities. reporter: former spies say deploying a young woman is tried and true russian spy craft. she was definitely a honey trap.
the russians had over trump whether it was exposed or not is something that we didn t know before but now is sort of fully exposed by michael cohen. that s a very, very good place for the russians to be because it s destabilized not just the presidency but of course, our american democracy at this stage. this is a no laugh day today. this is pretty shocking. > bob baer, you say since 1986, russia has viewed trump as a man they could do business with and they play the long game. explain that. well, they could see right away that he was biddable. in 1985, he started taking russian money, mobster money from brighten beach. these people were connected to the kgb. he hosted a lot of these people. they re buying and selling apartments. and he also mimicked, parroted the soviet line in those days and he was perfect. the perfect dupe for the russians and so they hang this
1986 russia has viewed trump as a man that they could do business with and they play the long game. explain that. well, they could see right away that he was biddable. in 1985 he started taking russian money, it was dirty russian money, mobster money from brighton beach. these people were connected to the kgb. he hosted a lot of these people. they were buying and selling apartments. and he also mimicked, parroted the soviet line in those days. and he was perfect. he was the perfect dupe for the russians. and so they hang this hotel over him in moscomoscow. the russian his no intention of letting him build a hotel in 87. i know for a fact. but they invite him there. intourist supposedly but it s the kgb. they look at him as a replacement for armen hammer, very pro soviet, but he was ailing at the time. they had report after report after report. they knew even his running in
learned in the course of her work, she provides it. what some of my sources have said is they wouldn t send the a-team if they were testing. because they don t know whether the trump team is going to call the fbi and everyone is going to be arrested. it s possible the russian lawyer may not have known the real reason she was in the meeting. if this were an intelligence operation, you might pick someone just like this russian attorney. her inability to make people happy at the meeting might be actually consistent with her being kind of an unwitting dupe. the untrained eye could look at this trump tower meeting and see a bunch of amateurs trying to get their own business done. but the counterintelligence lens tells us that this would be exactly how putin would do it today. what s more, goldstone now says the trump tower meeting wasn t the end of it. he was asked to arrange meetings again after the election and around the inauguration. so after this, as you paint it, really kind
they couldn t fathom. they understood it but nearly unbelievable just the impact of the 10 to 15 foot storm surge and the destruction it does. just outside the town this house is a total loss. that will be up to the adjuster. it is wrecked, depressingly wrecked for him and his wife. they could barely believe what they returned to. there used to be a dupe electrics there. a single family house there and now they re rammed into my house. take a look at this aerial photo. a woman was checking on her grandparents property and noticed something above the red car. help spelled out on the lawn. she called the sheriff. deputies went by. her grandparents who rode the storm out were still there. no injuries, and also fortunately finally at least one happy ending in all of this.