MSNBC breaks down 'direct nexus' between Trump and Russia revealed in new Mueller indictments

Katy Tur's panel on MSNBC detailed the "direct nexus" between President Donald Trump and Russian hackers revealed in today's indictment of 12 Russian intelligence officers.

Tur played the infamous clips of Donald Trump saying, "Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing."

Russia attempted stealing Hillary Clinton's emails "for the first time" only hours after Trump made his request for campaign assistance from Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin.

MSNBC played the clip of Tur following up on the Trump's request, during a contentious back and forth.

"Do you have any qualms about asking a foreign government -- Russia, China, anybody -- to interfere, to hack into a system of anybody's in this country?" Tur asked Trump on July 27, 2016. "Does it give you pause?"

"No, it gives me no pause," Trump replied. "If Russia or China or any other country has those emails, to be honest with you, I would love to see them."

NBC News intelligence and national security reporter Ken Dilanian explained the significance of Tur's back-and-forth with Trump.

"The exchange you played is remarkable, it shows there is a direct nexus between Donald Trump's statements and the actions of these Russian hackers," Dilanian noted.

"It was a very bizarre statement at the time," agreed MSNBC chief legal correspondent Ari Melber

"If taken literally, it was seeking foreign help, which can be a crime itself," Melber observed. "They immediately tried to get away from it being literal."

"You, as a journalist, pressed him at the time," he continued. "Those questions obviously proved prescient and perhaps you were triggering him."

Tur then read a quote from the indictments that Melber had cited.

“The object of the conspiracy was the hack into protected computers of persons and entities charged with the administration of the 2016 U.S. elections in order to access those computers and steal voter data and other information stored on those computers and stage releases of the stolen documents to interfere with the 2016 U.S."

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