Strzok said, 'It tells me that he is surrounded by people who have a pervasive pattern of contact with the Russians, and not only contat, but contact that they're hiding.' 'What do those two facts tell you about the president?' Todd asked. Giuliani was working with a Russian operative who ended up being sanctioned by the U.S.

Todd brought up how Trump's original personal lawyer Michael Cohen - now out with an anti-Trump book - had been secretly working in 2016 on a Trump Tower Moscow project.Īdditionally, he pointed to Rudy Giuliani's travels to Ukraine in order to pressure the government there to investigate Hunter and Joe Biden, Trump's political rival. 'And I think when you take a look at the Trump financial enterprise, particularly its relationship with Russian, with Russian monies and potentially those related to organized crime and other elements, that those interactions have placed him in a position where the Russians have leverage over him and are able to influence his actions,' the former agent continued. 'One of the largest ways that people in foreign governments gain leverage, certainly in the case of the president, is through financial entanglements,' he said. On 'Meet the Press,' Strzok, a Russia expert, explained that being compromised by a power 'takes a variety of forms.' The president has tried to use the text messages as evidence that the FBI's Russia probe was biased, as Strzok was - for a time - the most senior agent working on Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe. Peter Strzok (left) was one-half of the 'FBI lovers,' which also included his former mistress Lisa Page (right), a former FBI lawyer

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