"'Kostya, the guy from the GRU'" yup, Kilimnik, the Russian intelligence guy who worked with the Trump campaign to take Ukraine out of as a campaign issue. Rachel Maddow Show 3/9/17 TRUMP RUSSIAN CONNECTION [yt]-sHCedMguSQ[/yt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sHCedMguSQ == Russian intel officer flew in for Republican Convention to oversee Donald Trump’s platform change By Bill Palmer | March 9, 2017 | https://www.palmerreport.com/opinion/russian-intel-officer-flew-in-for-gop-convention-to-oversee-donald-trumps-platform-change/1859/ See also my first reply .. Manafort’s man in Kiev http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=129344065 also Add .. Rachel Maddow is amazed that people in the intelligence community and the heads of the congressional intelligence committees who are supposed to keep check on irregularities and abuse of the system by people about the White House. - White House uses GOP intel chairs to push media on Russia: WaPo The Rachel Maddow Show 2/24/17 Rep. Jim Himes, member of the House Intelligence Committee, talks with Rachel Maddow about a new Washington Post report that the Republican chairs of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees have been working at the request of the White House to wave reporters off the story of the connection between the Trump campaign and Russia, which they're in charge of investigating. Duration: 8:03 ©2017 NBCNews.com http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/white-house-uses-gop-intel-chairs-to-push-media-on-russia-wapo-884676163911 -