interview with a russian news agency as foreign outreach. trump campaign deputy communications director bryan lanza told papadopoulos you should do it. so does this contradict the picture the trump campaign had originally painted of papadopoulos, who is now cooperating by the way with robert mueller? it does in the sense that after the papadopoulos plea was revealed remember, papadopoulos plea sort of surprised all of us. no one really knew who he was or what role he played in the campaign. then all of a sudden there s this one-count lying to agents information. so everyone said, what s this all about? and the trump surrogates and the campaign said he was a coffee boy and had a de minimis role and wouldn t recognize him in an elevator if i saw him kind of stuff. now what is coming out is the role that papadopoulos played was more significant than the
papadopoulos despite being described as coffee boy was in frequent contact with senior campaign officials and we just found out, and this got a little lost, this is important, that papadopoulos had been informed that the russians could assist the campaign by anonymously releasing the clinton e-mails, which sure as heck sounds familiar. ranking member adam schiff explained the significance of that revelation monday night right here on this program. our memo discloses for the first time that the russians preview to papadopoulos that they could help with disseminating these stolen e-mails. we knew from the papadopoulos plea that the russians had told the trump campaign very early on in april of 2016 that they were in possession of these stolen e-mails. we now know that the department of justice presented to the fisa court information that the russians previewed what they would do with this information. their dissemination of it. so the russians have
publicly about the fact that the campaign, at least george papadopoulos was aware both the russians have these stolen e-mails and that they were prepared to help with the dissemination of those e-mails. that was one of several things that stuck out to me. can you speak a little bit more than? we know there was this cut-out figure that was telling him the russians have the emace. what did they say further about help in disseminating them? unfortunately, can t go beyond what the department of justice has thoshzed eauthoriz disclose in the memo. but i think it s the first time the public has been able to see one of the links here. and that is we knew from the papadopoulos plea that the russians had told the trump campaign very early on in april of 2016 that they were in possession of these stolen e-mails. we now know that the department of justice presented to the fisa court information that the russians previewed what they would do with this information, their dissemination of it. so
it s a document of remarkable forensic detail that describes a major intelligence operation or covert operation against the country. whether it will protect rosenstein and mueller requires you to spend predictive time in the mind of donald trump, which is something i sort of try to avoid doing. this is, as you know, a highly capricious individual who you know, comes and goes. so whether it has that effect only time will tell. it certainly does establish to any reasonable person, which by the way, so did the flynn and manafort indictment and papadopoulos plea, it establishes again to a
so whether it has that effect only time will tell. it certainly does establish to any reasonable person, which by the way, so did the flynn and manafort and papadopoulos plea, it establishes again to a reasonable person this is an extremely serious investigation looking at very serious conduct that is should be of grave concern to any american. ari, how did you read the press conference today, and why didn t we hear from robert mueller at that press conference? in the past when charges came out we discovered them basically through judicial proceedings in court with the actions that occurred in court. this is the first press conference and the lead