Let s go now to the russia investigation. a new insight into some of the tactics russian spies may have used. a new book makes the case that russia may have collected compromising information on president trump decades ago. here s what luke harding, the author of the new book collusion: collusion, dirty money and how the russians helped donald trump win told me about his findings. in your writes you said research led you to ask whether or not moscow was mailing president trump. what made you suspicious of that? i think so much of the story is in plain sight, saying, russia, if you re listening, find the 33,000 e-mails, which are not there. you also have a long history of engagement. trump first visited moscow in the summer of 1987 and who invited him? the soviet government. they don t do that for everybody. who organized his trial?
Story is in plain sight. when you have donald trump on the campaign trail standing up and saying, russia, if you re listening, find the 30,000 e-mails, but you also have a long history of engagement. trump first visited moscow in the summer of 1987. who invited him? the soviet government. and who organized his travel? a soviet agency which is basically the kgb. in other words, we can say without kpj rating that the kgb has a huge file on donald trump. they re interested in his psychological weaknesses and exploiting that. do you have any sense of what kind of information they were able to obtain from bugging, from following, tailing, everything? well, what s so fascinating and this is my favorite chapter of the book, there are a whole series of memos from that period. from the chief of the kgb saying to his sort of kgb heads of station, including in washington and new york, guys, you need to do more to recruit and cultivate americans. you are failing. try harder.
Here it is. some of this when you have donald trump saying russia if are you listening, find the e-mails, which are not there. you have a long history of engagement. trump first visited moscow in the summer of 1987, who invited him? the soviet government we can say without exaggerating the kgb has a huge file on donald trump. they are interested in his weaknesses and exploiting that. do you think the mueller team has this huge file, has a sense of everything that luke harding has written about in his book? reporter: without a doubt. and, look, as that interview showed, there is so much now that is in plain sight. the contacts, the financial information, look at richard engel s story yesterday about the trump ocean club in panama. this is somebody who has had financial interactions with russia and russians over a very long period of time, a wide