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REPORTER FOR USA TODAY HEIDI PRYZBILA.
GOOD MORNING TO YOU ALL. >> I WANT TO START WITH THIS,
IT'S REALLY INTERESTING, WE HAVE BEEN HEARING FROM CRITICS OF THE
SPECIAL COUNSEL FROM ROBERT MUELLER THAT THEY'RE LEAKERS.
THEY LEAK LIKE THIS THEN YOU GET THE FIRST INDICTMENTS OUT AND
TRUMP AND EVERYBODY ELSE, OH, THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE
CAMPAIGN AND THEN BOMB. THEN WE GET THE OTHER SHOE DROPS
AND MY GOSH, YOU SIT THERE GOING, WAIT, THEY ARRESTED
ANYONE? WHEN AND THEY'VE HELD ET FOR
THIS LONG. IT SHOWS BOB MUELLER RUNS AN
EXTRAORDINARILY TIGHT SHIP. >> HE DOES AN MANAFORT AND GATES
HAVE GOTTEN TARGET LETTERS. SINCE THE NEWS GOT OUT ON
FRIDAY, EVERYBODY IN WASHINGTON WAS WONDERING WHO IT MIGHT BE.
MANAFORT WAS ON ALMOST EVERYBODY'S GUEST LIST.
WHEN THE NEWS HIT 90 MINUTES LATER THAT GEORGE PAPADOPOULOS
WAS CHARGED AND THEREFORE PLED GUILTY AND COMMITTING OF A CRIME
TO THE FEDS. >> THAT SHOWS THAT BOB MUELLER
HAD NOT ONLY ONE SCALP BUT HE ACTUALLY NOW HAD A MAJOR
COOPERATING WITNESS. >> WE'LL GET TO THE MANAFORT
WITNESS. PERHAPS THE MOST SURPRISING
DEVELOPMENT YESTERDAY WAS THE THIRD MAN CHARGED.
ONE WHO HAS ADMITTED TO CRIMES AND IS COOPERATING WITH THE
GOVERNMENT'S INVESTIGATION. GORGE PAPADOPOULOS ADMITTED TO
LYING IN ITS INVESTIGATION IN THE RUSSIAN INTERFERENCE IN THE
2016 ELECTION. YESTERDAY'S REVELATION SHOWS HE
WAS ARRESTED MORE THAN THREE MONTHS AGO ON JULY 27th AND PLED
GUILTY OCTOBER 5th A. COURT FILING SAYS HE TOLD THE FBI THAT
HE HAD COMMUNICATED WITH AN OVERSEAS PROFESSOR WHOM HE
UNDERSTOOD TO HAVE SUBSTANTIAL TIES TO RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT
OFFICIALS, BEFORE HE BECAME A FOREIGN POLICY ADVISER TO THE
TRUMP CAMPAIGN AND THAT PAPADOPOULOS HAD KNOWLEDGE ABOUT
THE RUSSIANS POSSESSING QUOTE DIRT ON THEN CANDIDATE HILLARY
CLINTON IN THE FORM OF THOUSANDS OF E-MAILS BALL BEFORE JOINING
THE CAMPAIGN. BUT IN TRUTH, PAPADOPOULOS
LEARNED HE WOULD BE AN AD ADVISOR TO THE CAMPAIGN IN EARLY
MARCH OF 2016 AND MET THE PROFESSOR LATER, DUE TO HIS
STATUS WITH THE CAMPAIGN T. FILING SAYS THE PROFESSOR TOLD
HIM ABOUT THE THOUSANDS OF E-MAILS ON OR ABOUT APRIL 2016
AFTER HE HAD BEEN A FOREIGN POLICY ADVISER TO THE CAMPAIGN
FOR OVER A MONTH. TO REVIEW THE TIME LINE, THAT IS
A MONTH AFTER CLINTON CAMPAIGN CHAIRMAN JOHN PODESTA'S E-MAILS
WERE HACKED AND NEARLY TWO MONTHS BEFORE THE FIRST DNC HACK
WAS MADE PUBLIC AND THREE MONTHS BEFORE PRESIDENT TRUMP MADE THIS
JOKE. >> RUSSIA, IF YOU ARE LISTENING,
I HOPE YOU'RE ABLE TO FIND THE 30,000 E-MAILS THAT ARE MISSING.
>> BUT I DON'T THINK IT WAS A JOKE ACTUALLY.
>> YEAH. IT SEEMED LIKE AN AD MISSION.
>> WHAT'S THE IMPACT? WHEN YOU ARE LOOKING AT THIS AND
YOU LOOK AT EVERYTHING THAT'S HAPPENED, THE HACKING, THE
RELEASE OF THE E-MAILS THROUGH WIKILEAKS, THE MEETING WITH THE
RUSSIAN LAWYER IN DON JUNIOR'S OFFICE, DONALD TRUMP LYING,
ORCHESTRATING THE BIG LIE ABOUT THAT MEETING, WHERE DOES THIS
ALL FIT IN TO THE OVERARCHING NARRATIVE?
>> WELL, IT SHOWS, JOE, HOW AGGRESSIVE RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE
WAS AT NOT ONLY ENGAGING A PROPAGANDA DURING THE CAMPAIGN.
THERE WAS A LOT OF INFORMATION IN THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY'S
ASSESSMENT IN JANUARY OF THIS YEAR.
NOW WE ARE LEARNING MUCH UP MORE ABOUT THEIR AGENTS, HOW THEY
HANDLED, SPOTTED, ASSESSED, RECRUITED AND HAND HIMMED THEIR
AGENTS. I THINK WE NEED TO DO AIR
QUOTES, HE CLEARLY WAS A RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE OPERATIVE, A
CUTOUT, SOMEONE RECRUITED BY THE RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE SERVICES TO
HANDLE AN ASSET DEEP INSIDE THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN?
>> THIGH FOUND A MARK, SOMEONE WHO SITS IN NATIONAL SECURITY
INTERESTS. HE SHOWED AN INTEREST IN GETTING
DIRT FROM A RUSSIAN ENTITY ABOUT HILLARY CLINTON PLAIN AND
SIMPLE. >> THERE ARE SO MANY MARKS.
WE DON'T HEAR THIS WITH THE CHINESE, WITH OTHER COUNTRIES.
>> AND YOU HAVE A CANDIDATE ALL THE TIME WHO JUST LOVES RUSSIA.
>> THE FIRST TWO PEOPLE I THINK HE LISTED WITH WASHINGTON POST
IN THAT EDITORIAL BOARD MEETING, CARTER PAGE AND THIS GUY, BOTH
OF THEM WERE DETECTED WITH RUSSIA.
YOU LOOK AT THE NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER, FLYNN IS, GETS
PAID. THIS IS ONE AFTER ANOTHER AFTER
ANOTHER. >> THIS IS A HUGE CASE,
OBVIOUSLY, THERE IS A WINDOW THAT OPENS A LITTLE.
I WILL GIVE YOU INSIGHT THE PAPADOPOULOS WINDOW IS HUGE.
HOW DOES THE SPECIAL PROSECUTOR GET TO HIM?
WHO TIPS THEM OFF? THE FACT THAT THERE IS JULY TO
OCTOBER THAT THERE IS NO WORD THAT THE INDICTMENT HAS BEEN
HANDED DOWN AND THAT THE PLEA IS LISTED.
>> THAT SHOWS THE SPECIAL PROSECUTOR IS BOTH AGGRESSIVE,
INCREDIBLY TIGHTLY YOU KNOW HELD INFORMATION AND THE PAPADOPOULOS
INFORMATION HAS ONE KEY WORD THAT SHOULD FRIGHTEN EVERYONE IN
THE WHITE HOUSE, THAT KEY WORD IS GUILTY.
>> HEIDI, YOUR THOUGHTS ON THIS I SHOULD POINT OUT, SO MUCH
CRITICISM. YOU HAD DONALD TRUMP ON THE SHOW
SO MUCH DURING THE CAMPAIGN. HE CAME ON OUR SHOW, WE
QUESTIONED HIM REPEATEDLY ON RUSSIA AND REPEATEDLY ON TAPE
THERE IS THIS PRESIDENT THEN CANDIDATE JUST REFUSING EVEN IN
THE MOST EXTREME CASES OF TELLING G HIM, PUTIN MURDERS
REPORTERS AND HIM REFUSION TO SAY ANYTHING BAD ABOUT RUSSIA.
>> THAT NOW IS ABLE WAS AVAILABLE TO THE PEOPLE WHEN WE
WERE INTERVIEWING HIM, SHOWING THIS DIFFERENCE IN THE WAY HE
WOULD TALK ABOUT SOME PEOPLE VERSUS OTHERS.
PUTIN ALWAYS BEING IN THE GOOD CATEGORY, SOMEBODY WE HOW OLD
PROTECT AND RUSSIA BEING SOMEBODY HE WOULDN'T TOUCH.
>> IF YOU NOTICED YESTERDAY THERE WAS A TWEET STORM THAT
FELL SILENT ONCE THE PAPADOPOULOS NEWS CAME OUT.
NOW WE ARE GETTING HOTTER ON THE QUESTION OF COLLUSION.
NOW YOU HAVE A SECOND CAMPAIGN OFFICIAL TO POTENTIALLY CLUED
WITH THE RUSSIANS. THE RUSSIANS WERE AGGRESSIVE,
THEY WERE SHOPPING THESE E-MAILS, THEY HAD A RECEPTIVE
POTENTIAL BUYER HERE IN THESE HIGH LEVEL AIDES.
IN ADDITION TO WHAT MIKE BARNICLE SAID WORDS THAT SHOULD
CHILL THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN AND OFFICIALS AND THOSE COURT
PAPERS, IT SAID NEXT TO PAPADOPOULOS' NAME, COOPERATOR,
HE PLED TO A LESS SERIOUS CHARGE, THAT IS CLASSIC CASE OF
HIM COOPERATING. THIS RAILING ABOUT LEAKS, THIS
IS BEING HELD QUITE QUIET. THIS IS ONLY THE BEGINNING OF
CHARGES EITHER FOR MANAFORT AND FOR ADDITIONAL PEOPLE AND WE
SIMPLY DON'T KNOW WHERE THE TOP OF THE FISHHEAD IS.
>> JEREMY, SEVERAL PEOPLE GIVING EXAMPLES IN THE PAST HOW THAT
TERM, PROACTIVE WITNESS ACTUALLY HIS MYTH IN PAST COMPUTER
FILINGS WOULD WEAR A WIRE. >> SINCE HE WAS ARRESTED COMING
OFF AN IRKT AT DULLES INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT OUTSIDE
WALK, HE HAS BEEN UNDER THE CONTROL OF THE FBI AND HE'S NOT
ONLY TURNED OVER ALL DOCUMENTS HE HAS AND THEY PROBABLY WERE
ALREADY IN HIS E-MAILS. HE COULD HAVE BEEN WEARING A
WIRE AND BAITING OTHER CAMPAIGN OFFICIALS AND EVEN POTENTIALLY
CURRENT WHITE HOUSE OFFICIALS INTO TALKING WITH HIM.
WITHIN THING ABOUT THIS ISSUE. >> THE DANGER OF THAT BEFORE WE
MOVE ON THE DANGER OF THAT IS, YOU KNOW, IF HE CALLED OTHERS
AND SAID, HEY, I'M IN TROUBLE AND THEY'RE SITTING THERE
TELLING HIM, YOU KNOW, TO LIE. OR, HEY, WHY DON'T YOU JUST SAY
THAT, D.O.T. D.O.T., SUDDENLY YOU ARE IN THE REALM OF
OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE? >> GETTING THEIR STORIES
STRAIGHT. WHO ELSE WERE VOLUNTEERS?
DON JR., ERIC,
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