It is a was therefore unsettling when we learned that Medvedchuk had been one of the Trump campaign`s contacts in 2016 when Russia was intervening in our election in Trump into the White House.
Maddow expresses concern over Medvedchuk's connections to the Trump campaign during Russian interference.
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