that was the followup story from the wall street journal. we reported that friday night, as that news broke. that same night, after the show, another shoe dropped in this story when one of the people who was contacted by peter smith about these efforts to get hillary clinton s e-mails from the russian hackers, one of the guys who was sort of in on it, who knew about it in realtime, he published his version of events. the title of his piece was, the time i got recruited to collude with the russians. his name, as you can see the byline there, is matt tate, a british cybersecurity expert. he says peter smith contacted him in the heat of the campaign, asking for his help in authenticating supposed clinton documents he had obtained from russian hackers. matt tate is very explicit that peter smith clearly didn t care if he had to collude with the russian government in order to
had partisan leanings in our election. is it your sense that he might have been involved in this, to the extent he was, because he was trying to hurt hillary clinton s chances, trying to help the trump campaign? no, not at all, far from it. in fact matt didn t really have a dog in that fight. peter smith contacted matt, as he told this to me and is now clear from the facts coming out, because he was aware of that matt, who has quite a twitter fo following, actually, had been commenting during the release of hillary clinton s e-mails from her server and commenting on the what the makeup of that server might have been, peter smith sought him out. i think peter smith may have assumed to some degree, based on my reporting, that matt was sort of allied in this idea with peter smith of supposing hillary clinton. but clearly that was not the case and ultimately matt tate did not go forward with peter smith in this effort that he tried to recruit him for to get
that same night, after the show, another shoe dropped in this story when one of the people who was contacted by peter smith about these efforts to get hillary clinton s e-mails from the russian hackers, one of the guys who was sort of in on it, who knew about it in realtime, he published his version of events. the title of his piece was, the time i got recruited to collude with the russians. his name, as you can see the byline there, is matt tate, a british cybersecurity expert. he says peter smith contacted him last july in the heat of the campaign asking for his help in authenticating supposed clinton documents he had obtained from russian hackers. matt tate is very explicit that peter smith clearly didn t care if he had to collude with the russian government in order to get these documents that might hurt clinton. although he can t definitively prove it, matt tate says it s his belief that peter smith was
these e-mails from russian hackers. and shane, in your reporting, you re very clear about the fact that there s no indication that smith was working for the trump campaign when he was doing this. you describe it as being an independent effort in support of trump s campaign, but independent from the campaign. in matt tate s writeup, he s basically saying smith described himself as being part of the campaign, that he listed his own name under the subheading trump campaign when he was circulating this document of people who were at least being read in on what this effort was all about. does that seem contradictory to you? i don t think so. i think what we re dealing with right now is trying to understand the degree of connection between these two worlds. for the first part, it is clear that peter smith knew people in the trump campaign.
attend the first g-20 summit and come face to face with vladimir putin. the sit down is expected to take place on friday. it s unclear if the president will bring up the allegations that moscow interfered with the u.s. elections. there was a report an operative tried to track down clinton s missing emails. peter w. smith is convinced that the 33,000 emails were thandse s of multiple russian hackers. one of the people smith has been accused of trying recruit, matt tate who laid out his interactions. tate wrote this, although it wasn t initially october dourd me how independent smith s investigation was, it was immediately apparent that smith was well connected to the top echelons of the campaign and