aware of them. that s right. if you transport yourself back in time to the spring of 2015 before donald trump was running when he was still a television personality, intelligence officials are picking up reports of the russians that they re routinely monitoring, and talk about donald trump, and meetings with trump associates is popping up. it s puzzling. it s not unheard of u.s. business people or famous people might be mentioned by russians in conversations. but the volume of it is coming across seemed odd to officials at the time. as it was described to me, it becomes this water cooler conversation of what s going on here? why are they talking about these associates? it s not until time progresses and really, frankly, even in recent weeks that we ve seen more revelations coming out, that you go back to that kind of initial dot in the narrative and it starts to make a lot of sense, or look like maybe this was part of the narrative that was building. and i think what we re seeing her
if you transport yourself back in time to the spring of 2015 before donald trump was running when he was still a television personality, intelligence officials are picking up reports of the russians that they re routinely monitoring, and talk about donald trump, and meetings with trump associates is popping up. it s puzzling. it s not unheard of u.s. business people or famous people might be mentioned by russians in conversations. but the volume of it is coming across seeming odd to officials at the time. as it was described to me, it becomes this water cooler conversation of what s going on here? why are they talking about these associates? it s not until time progresses and really, frankly, even in recent weeks that we ve seen more revelations coming out, that you go back to that kind of initial dot in the narrative and it starts to make a lot of sense, or look like maybe this was part of the narrative that was building. and i think what we re seeing here is like a photograph develop