nuclear policies 1984 presidential election and written by the head of the kgb to the government. this is like having a document by the current head of the russian fsb how directly to putin to say here s an offer being made by senator so-and-so and it is all laid out right there. we are left with a meeting with donald junior of what took place now we read a newspaper that perhaps manafort shared polling information or something like that. we have calls for impeachment and indictments that this is the same media that completely ignored what you have discovered and written about original documentation and if we had a prosecutor at that
please get it out there quickly? yeah. it s funny, it s like we re sitting in the shutdown, cornell, and you have this out there. it does color everything that is facing us right now. well, you know, two things. one is i want to underline sort of the all the people around the trump campaign involvement sort of touching base with russians because we learned that they passed polling information on to the russians, chuck. as a campaign pollster, our polls in our campaigns are sort of what you see, you know, a horse shot of the horse race. it is strategic, right. what we re doing in these polls, we are outlining strategy and decisions and where you should target. and for a campaign to be giving it to the russians, how is that not collusion, right? i don t know if it s collusion in a court, but certainly in the public opinion it has to be. i think it smells like a duck, sounds like a duck, walks like a duck, it is in fact a duck.
what do you make of the new york tim times report that fbi started an inquiry of working with russia? does this give greater urgency? it makes me very anxious about getting the information or some sense of what the fbi was relying on when they launched that investigation. it s very frightening. the two things that happened this week, that new york times story which should chill every american that we have russian asset in the white house but secondly the news that paul manafort actually shared polling information with russian operatives. you have prima facie evidence of cooperation between the trump campaign and the russian government. you have all the elements you would need to certainly warrant
helped him get that plank changed during the convention, because it is an echo effect of what he was talking with his russian buddies ability. that s going to go to the depth of this campaign and who knew what manafort was up to and who helped him. chris, it s a rare moment. i m half a step away from agreeing with you. write this down in the bad book. look, people are not paying attention to this. we re dealing with the question of whether the campaign cooperated inappropriately and potentially illegally with people affiliated with russian intelligence. have you the campaign manager who is in debt to some of those people, passing information about that campaign. in this case, private polling information to people who were paying him. why did he pass that information, chris? because he wanted to? or because he thought those people could use that information to, to influence the american political campaign. chris, let me cut to the chase. please. we have half a step finding
trump s top polster in the campaign. he was also an ex-associate of paul manafort. evan perez has more. reporter: they interviewed tony fabrizio last year as part of the russia investigation. this is a discussion that possibly takes on new important now that we re learning that investigators everyo s even rece asking questions internal polling data that paul manafort shared with a former business associate who the special counsel says is connected to russian intelligence. manafort s lawyers this week accidentally made public in a court filing that prosecutors claimed manafort was lying to them about sharing the polling information with his business associate konstanin kilimnick. we don t know why that information was being shared and whether any of that data ended up with the russians who at the time were trying to launch a campaign to try to help donald trump win the white house. the president was asked by