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BALL: "I'm not a lawyer and I'm not a trump spokesperson. But I do think that there is -- if there is a smoking gun that shows that Donald Trump personally was directing this activity or was apprised of this activity, even if by your standard you would have picked up on it, you think he should have known, if that smoking gun exists, it either has not leaked in all these other things that have leaked, or it hasn't been found yet. And that's what you keep hearing trump saying when he says no collusion at least on my part. I don't know --"
MATTHEWS: "A lot of this is totally legal. Trump saying nice things about the Russians, fluffing them to use a crude expression, all the time saying nice things about Putin. At the same time he knows, certainly he's been informed they're trying to influence the election. At the same time they're helping him, he's helping them. I mean I don't think he had a nickel out of it, but why is he being so supportive of the notion we got to get together with these Russians at the same time the Russians are definitely trying to influence him?"