4 20. Thank you, chuck todd. Tonight we begin with a twist in the russia probe. Democrats have just filed a new lawsuit and they allege that the russians conspired with the Trump Campaign for the hacking that so defined the 2016 election. This is brandnew. Its a civil suit. It names in Intelligence Services that are run, of course, by putin. It also explicitly names Wikileaks Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and the Trump Campaign itself, as well as explicitly naming senior figures in it, including suing those two members of the president s family you see right there, Jared Kushner and donald trump jr. The Trump Campaign now is punching back. They say this is a sham lawsuit about bogus collusion. All of this coming, of course, as james comey has exposed many things about donald trump in those new memos, including he was allegedly upset he didnt know about a phone call from putin right after the inauguration. Trump then confronting Michael Flynn about it and flynn said the return call w
Well as explicitly naming members. The Trump Campaign is punching back. They say this is a sham lawsuit about bogus collusion. All of this coming as james comey has exposed many things about donald trump in those new memos, including that he was allegedly upset that he didnt know about a phone call from putin right after the inauguration. Trump allegedly then confronting Michael Flynn about it, and flynn said the return call to putin was scheduled a few days later, which prompted a heated reply from trump that six days was not an appropriate period of time to return that call. So not only was putin one of the first people to call donald trump after his inauguration, but trump was apparently incensed about the return time of those calls. Diplomacy. And another unusual interaction getting a lot of attention tonight. Comey writing that trump brought up the russia dossier repeatedly, that he denied those very salacious allegations that weve reported on and saying although they werent true,
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