There is a “nexus” between Donald Trump’s planned Trump Tower Moscow and efforts by the Russian government to hack the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s campaign chair, BuzzFeed News reporter Anthony Cormier explained on “The Rachel Maddow Show” on Thursday.

Cormier was one of the reporters who broke the bombshell report that the Trump Organization discussed giving Vladimir Putin the $50 million penthouse in Trump Tower Moscow.

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“Do you believe that the Trump Tower Moscow deal, or anything else that Michael Cohen was personally involved in during the course of the campaign, is directly related to Russia interfering in the election to help Trump — any cooperation, conspiracy, collusion between the Russian government and the Trump campaign to work together to help Trump get elected with foreign assistance?” Maddow asked.

“So there is a small line in the story — in both the one we published in May and the one we published today — in which two FBI agents with direct knowledge of this inquiry before [Robert] Mueller got involved told us that Michael Cohen had communications with more than one individual who either knew about or took part in the election interference,” Cormier replied.

“So he is talking to them about Trump Tower Moscow, but they themselves were involved in or had knowledge of the interference operation?” Maddow asked.

“That’s exactly right,” he replied.

“I don’t want to speculate, but there is something about this particular deal, Moscow Tower and the interference connect, there is a nexus there, and I don’t get it yet,” he added.

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