Are Russian ties to Trump team a true cause for concern?
Just how far from Moscow is Washington D.C.?
It's a question that gets more difficult to answer since the ascent of Donald Trump to the U.S. presidency.
Questions about coziness between the Kremlin and the White House first emerged back during the election campaign ... when a damaging hack into Democrats' emails appeared to have Russian hands behind it.
Since then there's been a steady stream of Russian revelations.
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On Feb. 13, National Security Advisor Mike Flynn admitted he gave "incomplete information" to VP Mike Pence about discussions with the Russian ambassador to the U.S. He resigned.
And U.S. attorney general, Jeff Sessions, disclosed he held two undisclosed meetings with the Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak in 2016.
On Feb. 13, National Security Advisor Mike Flynn admitted he gave 'incomplete information' to VP Mike Pence about discussions with the Russian ambassador to the U.S. He resigned.
"There's new revelations every day, but the problem is the evidence does not necessarily back up the strength of the revelation," Hosenball tells The Current's Friday host Megan Williams.
Even though the allegations that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia are not substantiated, Hosenball says it's still legitimate to report on the story given Trump "screaming about fake news."
"Sometimes the fake news is in fact not fake … it's pretty heated material."
Hosenball, who has been covering Washington for decades, says it's hard to predict how this will unfold but it's not a story to ignore.
"Arguably, if it turns out the Russians did this with the collaboration of Donald, or his entourage basically put stuff out that damaged Hillary Clinton, that could be, as they say, worse than Watergate."
Paul Robinson, a professor in the graduate school of public and international affairs at the University of Ottawa, tells Williams the reaction to the allegations is "frankly very silly."
"Mr. Sessions for instance did not just meet the Russian ambassador, he met ambassadors of 25 countries. So this is something he did as a perfectly normal part of his activities, as a member of the Senate committee," Robinson tells Williams.
"And we would expect senior officials to meet with foreign officials, and we would expect people who are running for office and hoping to win the election and become part of a new presidential administration to be speaking with foreign countries and finding out what they're interested in."
Related: A timeline of Trump's ties with Russia
He adds what is strange is the "hysteria" created by these allegations.
"You're having people saying that just speaking to Russians is a sign of treason and people are seriously accusing the Trump administration of treason for what is really a perfectly, normal and reasonable thing to do."
Bessma Momani, senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation at the University of Waterloo, argues Mr. Sessions was the only one that met with the Russian ambassador in his office — "twice."
"I mean it does not make sense that if the majority of [people] he's met are NATO partner ambassadors and that he's met with them twice. That's really quite peculiar."
Momani says there's nothing wrong with meeting foreign officials, it's lying about it under oath that's the issue.
"That's where I think this is really getting the Trump administration into hot water. From Flynn to now Sessions to who knows next?"
Listen to the full segment at the top of this web post.
This segment was produced by The Current's Kristin Nelson and Sam Colbert.