if the russians were placing bets, they weren t on palm manafort. there were a number in donald trump s inner circle who had prior relationships with the russians, general flynn received money from russian today and sat next to vladimir putin. a huge insult to the united states. so there are a number of efforts the russians at least were making, the question remains, did the trump campaign take them up on it and work on it. my college shane harris has been out on this story. he talked to this republican operative pet ter smith. he is 81-years-old and committed suicide. days after talking to shane and told him and acknowledged he was out there soliciting from hackers these 33,000 e-mails they thought were out there that assumed were in russian hands. that s unclear, he would tell people i m working with mike flynn. i can get these to the trump campaign. that s what happened. he committed suicide after confirming that story and now
his business past bear on the question of trump campaign collusion with russia? that we don t know yet. but that s where this is all going. well, if you are trump, you must wonder, did i start this or did the russians start this? at some point you go, you know how russians do, you meet a pretty girl on the subway platform, lfrls you are having a relationship, all of a sudden she is a spy, are you a fool. you are shaking your head, i think that s russian trade craft. i think what we have here is the fundamental question that everyone must answer, before they do anything, is, is this a russian operation? was this a large scale long-term operation in which they tap their asset, palm manafort to come out and try to manipulate this? i think that s where this is going. as i mentioned earlier, according to wall street journal again, mueller s team is looking into michael flynn s role with an effort to work with hackers to obtain hillary clinton s deleted e-mails. in fact, last july, p