trying to figure out whether the american consultants were involved. so even though it was long before the campaign, it s about whether or not there might have been undue influence or leverage around the people around trump. understood. another question, a lot of supporters of the president are using news being surveilled as proof that he was wiretapped by obama. do your sources see any connection to that? no. in fact, it s been quite the opposite. everyone we have talked to have denied that allegation and in fact, the department of justice has publicly denied that allegation in court filings. and the former fbi director when he testified before the hill also denied that allegation. so from everyone we have talked
there s no question that the russians clearly tried to influence our election. 18 intelligence agencies came to that conclusion, and i think everybody pretty much sees that russia deliberately tried to do that. so the fundamental issue here is was there any collusion between the russians and members of the trump campaign, and obviously there s there have been a lot of meetings as we ve seen with mr. flynn. there s been a lot of money exchanged. ultimately that all has to be investigated in order to determine whether there was any kind of deliberate collusion or whether these were a bunch of people operating on their own. we don t know the answer to that. it s up to the investigation. secretary leept yeah, we have much more to talk to you about, including fake news being peddled to influence the french presidential election and questions about whether russia is behind that. please stick around. we ll be right back.
fascinating back story of how apparently the new york times found out the meeting wasn t a go because of the tweet, then it was back on and then, you know, we ve all been hanging on everyone s last word because so much news has been made out of this on-the-record meeting. well, it s a combination of news being made based on what trump said and the fact that he said it to the new york times. i mean, if you were going to pick the perennial media enemy, according to the trump supporters, the villain, it s the new york times, right, they re the place that treats trump the most unfairly, they re the ones out to get him more than anyone and so the fact he has this meeting with the new york times, the fact that he answers all of these in-depth questions and they re all sitting there tweeting it live is sort of i think telling for what to expect in the trump administration moving forward. look, i just hope he keeps having on-the-record conversations with the media.
when someone is in power it is a mistake. i have nothing to say about hillary, and what has done. she is liar. it has not surprised me. we ll keep it will hillary, making news being in the same visnty with reporters. still hasn t announced an interview since her announcement of national candidacy. she spoke without with violence in baltimore that americans, need to come to terms with hard truths, of race and injustice quote. she reportedly gone longer than any other presidential candidate without appearing on a tv news network or a sit-down interview with the national press. according to research going back two decades the longest any candidate waited roughly for days. for hillary clinton it has been more than two weeks. you get her in a press conference situation adam what the first thing you ask her? can i pull out my i got a
community have to stand and be ready and be committed to make these changes, be ready, not to be afraid to deal with what is right in front of us, that we have a very real problem not only in the city of cleveland police department but all across this nation, as you have been highlighting in your show. we also got some new information today, again, also fairly disturbing, about the officer, timothy loehmann, who shot and killed tamir rice, the 12-year-old boy holding that pellet gun. we found out he had unsuccessfully applied to be a new york city police officer, he was turned down, he had then joined a suburban police department, independence, ohio, and was asked to leave after less than a year at that police department, described as emotionally unstable, unfit for duty, including handling of firearms described as dismal. it appears the cleveland police department never checked his past record. how is that news being met there in cleveland? you knorr, it s very disturbing. he shou