August 15 2016 News Today

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Indepth interviews with leading newsmakers, plus discussions with Americas preeminent political minds. Important meeting because i never even heard that. As far as you know, this is all of it. This is everything. This is everything. All right. So who do you believe . Joining me now to break this down, former state Department Senior adviser. Paul butler, Professor Of Law at georgetown law school. Former fbi agent. Clint watts author of messing with the enemy. David k johnson and former watergate ...

To cancel his summit in helsinki with Vladimir Putin on monday in the face of this, new charges brought by the Department Of Justice. Whats your take on this . I agree, he never should have taken the meeting to begin with. I mean we have no idea what he would hope to gain from this. What we know quite clearly, these were not lowlevel operatives, ali, who were indicted. These are highlevel people who worked very closely with the Senior Leadership in russia. We know putin knew this. Donald trump i...

Mark: so the lawyer is cautious and says stay out of it. >> and a couple others. mark: they said you will hurt business.l >> so this is what i am supposed to do and i dont back down for anything. so august 15, 2016. 10:00 a.m. i walked into mister trumps office and it was just him and i and he said are you a christian? i said yes. i said this is a divine appointment mister trump. ie said that with my foundation and i was recovering to help addicts and he talked about how he would bring jobs back...

Influence. if the presidents worried about the democrats winning in november because the russians are tipping it towards him, he is the president of the united states. he can do something about it if he wants to. i dont know why he has to get on twitter and cry about it. >> not only him, malcolm, but the republicans. one would think its a bipartisan issue that we do not want foreign adversaries attacking our elections, but the republicans are -- mitch mcconnell came out and said, they better not...

Russian military intelligence agents we dont expect those intelligence agents to turn up anytime soon but we are awaiting some knock on revelations we expect to derive from that indictment. for example, that indictment of all those russian military intelligence officers also says bluntly, on or about august 15, 2016, the conspirators, posing as guccifer 2.0, received a request for stolen documents from a candidate for the u.s. congress. the conspirators responded and sent the candidate stolen do...

For is fairly straightforward. the fell criminal child is due to start in less than a week. potential jurors are expected to show up for the paul manafort case, starting on tuesday. also the bombshell indictment. we dont expect the military agents to show up any time soon but we are waiting some revv plagss we expect to derive if that indictment. for example, it also says bluntly, or or about august 15, 2016, the conspirators, posing as goosifer 2.0, received a request for stolen documents from ...

Ou out. >> there is no allegation that any american citizen committed a crime. there is no allegation that anything affected any election result. >> roger stones attorney for one was quick to quite this is proof is that the case for others not charmed? joining me, the chief investigative cooperate for yahoo news, co-author with this best seller "russian rule let." the inside story on putins america and election of donald trump. paragraph 44 of the indictment had this language. ill read a sentenc...

Third down as proof of innocence. joining me now the perfect guest to break it down, michael isikoff co-author with david corn of "russian roulette". michael, lets drill down on roger stone for a moment. paragraph 44 of the indictment had this language. well put it on the screen. ill read a sentence. on or about august 15, 2016, the conspirators wrote to a person who was in regular contact with senior members of the presidential campaign of donald j. trump. thank you for writing back. do you fin...

Maybe a 400-pound guy, we dont know if it is russia. now we know it is russia and now we know while they were doing this, he was covering up what they were doing which is for his benefit. and that part of the story still needs to be told. >> this strikes me as knocking on the door of the trump world. and the reason it is knocking on the door is because roger stone, a confidant of the president is not mentioned by name but appears in the indictment. on or about august 15, 2016, the -- thank you f...