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On him to perhaps cooperate. it would appear to us, who have been covering it, that the goal of this, to get rick gates cooperation is to try to put more pressure, the continuing number of indictments that come out and superseding indictments. it seems that manafort is digging in. sticking to his defense. he released a statement earlier today. ill read it to you. it says, notwithstanding that rick gates plead today, i maintain my innocence. i hoped and expected my business colleague would have h...

Mueller investigation. the first trial of the scheduled for may of this year. obviously, this new case cant go forward while that one is going forward. this is looking like an investigation that will go into 2019 that means it goes until 2019, and thats certainly a burden to the president. >> if you go through the lengthy charging document and try to get through it, theres so much incredible detail here on research theyve done, the reporting theyve done on all these financial transactions is eno...

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John? >> yeah, shep. i learned from a source with intimate and full knowledge of the investigation and this is a single source but is a very knowledgeable source, that the trump transition official that was not named in the court documents, someone called a ptt official, the one with whom michael flynn spoke on december 29 about what to say to sergei kislyak is k.t. mcfarland and is now the u.s. ambassador to singapore. running more traps on this is a source with full knowledge of the investigat...

Ambassador sergey kislyak during the republican convention, after the december meeting at trump tower. the one involving flynn and jared kushner, in which kushner asked about setting up a private communications channel with the trump team and the kremlin. so this transpired after related developments, and prior to many others, including the president allegedly asking james comey to go easy on flynn. his firing then of james comey, leaning on republican lawmakers to end their own investigation. a...

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His underlying conduct? >> it was in the early part of january, where we got some indication about what he had been involved in. and then sort of the middle part of january when there were false statements that started coming out of the white house based on misrepresentations he had made to people there. >> she was fired five days after first warning the white house, and flynn was allowed to stay on another two weeks, even though the white house knew flynn was lying about russian contacts. getti...

Then he calls sergey kislyak, and according to the charging document, lies about it to the fbi. the russians youll recall do not retaliate for the sanctions, which raised questions at the time. the 30th, president-elect trump tweets -- kellyanne conway was at mar-a-lago, and her line, nothing was going on. >> weve been talking about this for a while. i think that all we heard all through the election was russia, russia, russia. whenever it came to anything donald trump said or did, and now since...

President, i woulded vise -- advise him not to say anything about this. but certainly i think hes trying to engage in misdirection or trying to obfuscate and trying to draw attention away from this. but look, what we have here is, you know, in terms of the papadopoulos charging document, you have somebody who has agreed to cooperate with robert mueller, somebody who has agreed to testify, agreed to, you know, potentially he has recorded conversations. you know, he is -- if you look at that docum...