According to this report, the same man, Paul Manafort has been extensively wiretapped by Law Enforcement officials both before and after last years president ial election. Now, of course, both of these stories broke at like 7 00 tonight, which is we have had a joke on our show staff for awhile now, once you get into like 7 00ish, it becomes russiaoclock. Russiaoclock hit with a bunch of tells in toning in the distance. When we had been planning to report as the big news in the russia investigation tonight before this stuff blew it up, what we thought would be the big rush of the story tonight was about something called the Asset Recovery initiative. Which was started by attorney general eric holder during the obama administration. Last week President Trump hosted the Prime Minister of malaysia given Everything Else going on, was not the highest profile story in the world. But that visit by the malaysia Prime Minister was notable in terms of corruption and Law Enforcement and high Publi
Second. Including a live interview with one of the New York Times reporters that broke that story this evening. That broke within minutes of this report from cnn. Com from lady reporter evan lead reporter evan perez. According to this report, the same man, Paul Manafort has been extensively wiretapped by Law Enforcement officials both before and after last years president ial election. Now, of course, both of these stories broke at like 7 00 tonight, which is we have had a joke on our show staff for awhile now, once you get into like 7 00ish, it becomes russiaoclock. Once its a weeknight. Russiaoclock hit with a bunch of bells in toning in the distance. When we had been planning to report as the big news in the russia investigation tonight before this stuff blew it up, what we thought would be the big russia story tonight was about something called the kelp tocracy Asset Recovery initiative. Which was started by attorney general eric holder during the obama administration. Last week Pr
Troubling for the u. S. Is the third person named in the records also unsealed today. A Trump Campaign National Security adviser, George Papadopoulos pleaded guilty to making false statements on those he believed were close to the russian government. His role could be significant when it comes to establishing collusion between the campaign and russia. He is not cooperating with federal investigators. As for the indictment, rick gates also worked for the campaign as manaforts deputy. They are set to make the First Court Appearance at about 90 minutes from now. President trump is scheduled to have lunch with the attorney general of the United States, Jeff Sessions this hour. A source close to the president said he is briefed on the charges and he reacted on twitter. More on that in a moment. Lets bring in our National Security chief National Correspondent and sarah murray. Tell us first of all more about the case against George Papadopoulos whose role could be very significant in this in
Issuing a stern warning to the rest of the world as the United Nations prepares to give a thumbs down to President Trumps proposal to move the u. S. Embassy to jerusalem. Good afternoon, everyone, welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. Less than a week before christmas and President Trump says hes delivering his fellow americans a big, beautiful tax cut for christmas. He and Congressional Republicans are celebrating a huge legislative achievement and a political gamable, pass transform that will affect nearly every part of americas economy. It was a little team. We just got together and we would work very hard, didnt we . It seems like it was a lot of fun. Its always a lot of fun when you win. If you work hard and lose, thats not acceptable. The bill sharply cuts the Corporate Tax rate and as of now temporarily delivers tax breaks to individuals. That also repeals the individual mandate part of obamacare and permits drilling in the Arctic National wildlife refuge in alaska. How the bill
Do with Ongoing Investigation of russia and possible obstruction of justice. The other item appears to fit a patternment another alleged instance in which President Trump tried to asscertain or obtain the loyalty of the top official of justice, we are talking about rosenstein in this case. The new reporting according to our sources that shortly before rosensteins testimony, the president asked him, are you on my team. This is after asking mccabe and james comey for his loyalty. Well have more on both of the stories tonight. We want to begin with the deal of the investigation and the people running it and the latest socalled nunes memo memo. The fbi and Christopher Wray now publicly releasing it and addressing security issues. The white house intends to get the memo out one way or another. The president was caught on an open mic saying the chances of it being released are 100 . Dont worry. 100 . Can you imagine that . 100 . That was last night. The fourpage memory row alleges that the f