that took place both in the states and europe between trump advisors and russians known to u.s. intelligence or russian officials. what is the stats into the impetus for those other meet shz? so far over the past few months, there s been so much public evidence. so carter page, who just a few weeks after this meeting goes over to moscow and they said well, he was just going over there to give a speech. now that you understand what this meeting was about, the carter page trip to moscow seems a lot less innocent than they explained. the way i look at this is you get a vision test and they show you lens one and lens two and they say is it clearer or blurrier? this evidence just made our investigation, i think, a lot clearer. just to be clear, sally yates, acting attorney general. the president was given yet another opportunity to answer
russians known to u.s. intelligence. what is the status of the investigation into the function impetus for those other meetings? so far over the past few months, there has been so much public evidence where the trump team has offered these innocent explanations. carter page a few weeks after this meeting with donald jr., he goes over to moscow with the permission of the campaign. they said well, he is just going over there to give a speech. now that you understand what this meeting was about, the carter page trip to moscow seems a lot less innocent than they explained. the way you logistic at this and you go to the eye doctor and they show you lens one and lens two. it is clearer or blurrier. this evidence just made our investigation i think a lot clearer. just to be clear, i said earlier sally yates, former fbi director of course acting attorney general. the president was given yet another opportunity today to answer the most basic question of this investigation. is it clear to yo
register as a foreign agent for turkey, and he also failed to disclose that he was 235id fopa trip to moscow to appear at a dinner sponsored by russian state television and alleged to have lied about contacts with the russian ambassador. man m both of these men under pressure. and typical playbook would be to charge some of the conspiraf of conspiracy ters with crimes. and there is new reporting that says fwlin continues to support donald trump and in fact received a message from trump recently urging him to stay strong. so flynn initially under investigation because of his ties to turkey. i believe that is what first alerted the doj back when the transition was taking place.
tillerson s trip to moscow where russian officials are quoted as saying the relations between the u.s. and russia are at the lowest point since the cold war. there is no if vladimir putin was colluding with the trump campaign to get a pro-putin guy elected president it backfired, hasn t it? shannon: we ll continue to follow this reporting. the confirmation of the fisa order is a big development in the story. thanks for joining us to break it down. bill: apparently there was a fiery start to talks about today secretary of state rex tillerson and his russian counterpart foreign minister sergei lavrov giving tillerson an earful over the air strike at an air base in syria last week saying that moscow has questions about the administration s foreign policy calling it ambiguous and contradictory among other things. however, here at home at the pentagon defense secretary james mattis saying the mission in syria could not be more clear.
view, at least for now. but what is his ultimate goal? we are prepared to do more. but we hope that will not be w necessary. just last week, mr. trump s secretary of state backed away from the policy of regime change in syria. i think the status and the longer term status of president assad will be decided by the syrian people. now, a week later. acts he has taken, it would seemhe there would be role for him to govern the syrian people. an american official says russians on the ground were given notice that the missiles were coming.le flights from the base have already resumed. and secretary tillerson s trip to moscow this week is still on. at home, most of washington s foreign policy establishment is applauding the llstrikes. the strikes were impoant, i think they were the signal, it is as important ashe actual damage that washi done. while a coalition of liberals and conservatives, skeptical of intervention without approval from congress, oppose them.