political history. his son, his lawyers and the white house are all flooding the zone right now trying to diminish the story or explain it away. but boy, oh, boy, there's a lot of explaining to do about what happened during the trump campaign. the trump transition and the trump presidency. so here is what we do know. the campaign was a willing partner or at least donald trump jr.'s e-mails suggest this in russia's efforts to influence the election. the transition tried to cover-up the full extent of kmuks with russia and it also tried to set up a back channel to communicate with the russian government using russian facilities. those are facts we now know. and as president mr. trump has gone to some shocking lengths seemingly to help putin or give him some cover. given russian information that government officials say was highly classified, urged the fbi to drop the investigation rfl michael flynn. then he fired the fbi director. and he's made it clear to putin during a face-to-face meeting that he wasn't going to punish