and this is the pattern we see with the approach through the professor to papadopoulos, then the approach to the foreign ministry, then the approach to the meeting at trump tower, and you see that they re getting the message effectively back from the trump campaign, yes, we are receptive to this, in fact, the president s the president, himself, as candidate says quite publicly that he wants the russians to help by hacking and you see the russians come through. now, whether there is sufficient proof of conspiracy beyond a reasonable doubt involving the trump campaign, bob mueller is in the best position to know, what i can see are different pieces of this puzzle. but what i can see also has missing pieces. i don t know, for example, who papadopoulos talked to about the russian approach. we were going to bring in john mashburn, one of the policy advisers for the trump campaign this week. he d agreed to come in, but as soon as we informed the majority he was going to come testify, the m
now, whether there is sufficient proof of conspiracy beyond a reasonable doubt involving the trump campaign, bob mueller is in the best position to know, what i can see are different pieces of this puzzle. but what i can see also has missing pieces. i don t know, for example, who papadopoulos talked to about the russian approach. we were going to bring in john mashburn, one of the policy advisers for the trump campaign this week. he d agreed to come in, but as soon as we informed the majority he was going to come testify, the majority intervened to tell him not to come. the majority doesn t want to know who in the trump campaign was aware of this approach and who might have been in the know prior to the meeting in trump tower. but bob mueller knows at this point, and we ll just have to wait to see whether the next indictment on the hacking and dumping operation, if there s another, is focused on americans. as you say, bob mueller knows, donald trump knew for some time here with advan
asking for the document search to include multiple spellings of papadopoulos s name. dearborn and mashburn did not respond to requests for comment. earlier this year, the new york times reported that john mashburn, who is currently at the department of energy but was a campaign official at the time, he said in the judiciary committee of the senate that he had a recollection of you sending an e-mail alluding to these e-mails. hillary clinton s e-mails. so i met john once in my life at the rnc convention along with rick dearborn, so of course if there was an e-mail, as john is alluding to, especially with various members of the campaign copied on this, it doesn t matter if i deleted it if that s what he s trying to say. they would have had a receipt of my e-mail. and i don t think that proof has