was that trump himself was essentially being used by that regime to advance their foreign policy end goals. at the time, it was something that was sort of debated publicly. intelligence community had not released its assessment that the russian government meddled in the 2016 campaign, specifically for the purpose of helping trump win that election. there were people in some corners who thought hillary clinton was going out on a limb by making that accusation. an accusation that, of course, was really significant. now, looking back, the intelligence community has said that their assessment is that the russians were helping trump win. given that mueller has had, you know, an enormous number of indictments, including the former head of trump s campaign, as well as trump s former national security adviser as part of his investigation into russian meddling, and conversations and communications that people link to the kremlin with people at the highest levels of trump s campaign, the comment
how can we make money off of this? the way they make money off of this is by helping trump win. kilimnik is a russian he s not russian, but he s tied to russian intelligence operatives. again, we have russian intelligence operatives talking to the campaign manager about how they can benefit the campaign. the other part that we learned from the filing yesterday has to do with obstruction of justice. we know that what both michael cohen and paul manafort have in common is that after they re charged with crimes, they re still reaching out to the white house, e-mails, text messages. we don t know the subject of those conversations, but we know that it sounds like there s some kind of false narrative being created. again, that s a crime. why would paul manafort want to violate his cooperation agreement? jonathan, he has a deal of the century. this is a man who is 70 years old. he was looking at 10 years in
michael s my attorney, and you ll have to ask michael. reporter: cohen has said he came up with the money using a home equity line of credit. and he claims he didn t inform his own client, the future president. investigators are tracing his steps, how the money was transferred to a shell company and then to an attorney in beverly hills. critics argue cohen might have also broken campaign finance law. that the $130,000 was in essence a campaign contribution aimed at helping trump win. a contribution never disclosed. and tonight, the new york times is also reporting the fbi was hunting for something else. documents related to the payment to another woman, former playboy model karen mcdougal, who claims she also had an affair with mr. trump. she was paid by the national enquirer for her story that was never printed. what s known as catch and kill.
with the russians and russians didn t meddle with the intent to help trump win. the second part, i don t know where you re getting that from. the investigation is ending. we are writing our report based on what we heard over the last year and the scores of witnesses we heard. i m not sure where you ve read or where you seen from my committee we have concluded that the russians didn t try to affect our election because it s not saying that. what our reporting is that they didn t try to interfere with the election with the goal of helping trump win. that s what they re saying. does your report conclude that? they meddle but not to help donald trump. i think that it s far more objective than that. first of all, it has not been written completely. we have been wrietsing i as we have going along over the last year. over the next ten days we ll take input from the democratic
chief former prosecutor. just beginning with you on the legality of this do we know the campaign broke any laws? we certainly do not. that s important. but i think a lot of people find these confusing. let me see if i can break this down. you have the trump campaign and cambridge analytica which is the data firm associated with it. and we the trump campaign was frndly towards russia, candidate trump saying lots of nice thing about putin. we have the russian government, which was interested in helping trump win. yes. but the investigations are all about is whether there was any connection between the two. any so-called collusion. and what makes the daily besce p scoop so important is it establishing a thing between cam bren analytica, julian as saung