government. how significant is it that mueller has not one but two cooperating witnesses in flynn and nader who were in on some of those meetings? one of the meetings we know flynn and nader were there themselves? some of the meetings had either flynn or nader. sit more than just an additive result that you get two people cooperating rather than one in secret meetings like this? reporter: it s incredibly important to have more than one because then they can cob rate each other. you get one story from flynn, you separately ask nader. if they tell you the same story, they make it more believable. we also had bannon at one of those meetings so you may have all of them telling you. you can probe their stories to see if they re consistent on the details, if they are it becomes more believable what they re describing. don t forget flynn with the leverage they have over him, he has the incentive not to just
come into the administration. appreciate it. adam entis joining me. adam, in your piece, you write that jared kushner is their dream come true or lucky charm. what happened was chinese were trying to find ways to influence trump campaign and later during the transition and later as a president and they used an entry point through henry kissinger who made the introduction. and they wanted to get the chinese in the front of the
getting ready to come into the administration where obviously he s had a pretty prominent role, especially dealing with foreign nations and foreign contacts. particularly china. adam entis joins me. adam, in your piece, you write that jared kushner is china s dream come true as well as their lucky charm. can you explain what you meant by that? yeah. what happened was the chinese were trying to find ways to influence the trump campaign and later during the transition and later as a president and they used an entry point through henry kissinger who made the introduction to jared kushner. and they wanted to get the
carter page. that that s not the full story. and i think one of the big things is that republicans have undercut themselves perhaps unintentionally when they went out and put out their own memo instead of waiting for the democratic memo. now folks are saying we don t have the whole story, perhaps there was something else in the phase application that feesa application that we don t know about. there s another thing they undercut themselves with. senate republicans were not ever fully on board with releasing the memo, right? a lot of senate republicans at the retreat over the week, a couple of days ago before the memo came out, were saying we want to see the memo, too, before you release anything. we want to make sure sources and methods are protected. you have the fbi saying do not release this. they don t look unified here. that does hurt them a little bit. adam, this memo focuses on the surveillance warrants and the renewals three times for carter page, a former volunteer, foreig
be up to 60 pages long. what about the democrats memo which challenges some of the allegations? why are republicans blocking that release? does the memo undermine itself? republicans claim the fbi and justice department used a dossier originally paid for by democrats to start surveilling former trump campaign official carter page. they claim the surveillance is the base of the russia investigation. the document actually admits the russia investigation started months earlier based off comments by george papadopoulos. and does the memo show anti-trump bias as some republicans are alleging? remember, the fbi is currently led by a trump appointee. the man supervising the russia investigation is a trump appointee. and why would james comey reopen the clinton e-mail investigation if he was so anti-trump? joining me, cnn contributor and writer at the new yorker adam entis, and coness