The Report, Part V: Russian Overtures

Published: Aug. 19, 2019, 12:47 a.m.

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It\\u2019s the morning of April 25, 2016. At a hotel in London, a Maltese professor meets with a young foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign. The two have been in touch over the past few weeks; the professor has been helping the young man connect with Russian officials. Now, over breakfast, the professor lets him in on a secret. On a recent trip to Moscow, high-level government officials told him that the Russians have \\u201cdirt\\u201d on Trump\\u2019s opponent. What was the \\u201cdirt\\u201d in question? \\u201cEmails,\\u201d he says. They have \\u201chave thousands of emails.\\u201d

This is the fifth episode of our narrative audio documentary, The Report, which tells the story Robert S. Mueller lays out in his famous 448-page document. This is the story of three men associated with the Trump campaign: George Papadopoulos, Carter Page and Paul Manafort.

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