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I would love to get that kind of help on the campaign side. what took place between those interactions, between essentially the russians feeling out the campaign for their willingness to work with them and the ultimate dumping of those documents. so a lot more work that needs to be done, but those e-mails and securing his cooperation, and i hope that was part of the plea agreement, could be very important to answering these questions. >> do you expect more indictments to come? >> i think thats c...

Todays news. >> well, i think the manafort and gates indictments are significant. this is not a peripheral player here. were talking about the campaign manager. its also significant that at the time of the campaign its been reported that mr. manafort was reaching out to russia through an oligarch close to putin offering information on the campaign in an effort to collect more of the money that hes been indicted for laundering today or thats present in todays indictment, so hes reaching out to th...

About to come out. >> nobody knew about this at all. none of of this leaked, the papadopoulos information, so the question is how much more is there? you know, there could be a lot more. at the end of the day we dont know what mueller has. >> right. >> and it seems like this is very much the beginning of the investigation, not the end. >> we should point out that tony podesta, who worked with paul manafort, and hes a big-time democratic labbist in to democratic lobbyist in town, apparently in re...

Campaign manager paul manafort and campaign official rick gates. the two were business associates employer to the work on the trump campaign. the 12-count indictment against the two men focus on their years as political consultants and lobbyists working in ukraine. the counts include conspiracy against the united states, conspiracy to launder money and seven counts of failure to file reports of foreign bank and financial accounts. both men have previously denied financial wrongdoing and pleaded ...

These indictments may indicate is that as a result of it there will be other trails of evidence that will be followed by bob mueller, and i think theres probably a very good bet that additional indictments will be forthcoming and could involve members of both parties. >> its being floated by allies of the president that maybe he should use his power of the pardon on manafort and gates. what do you -- what do you think about that as a potential path for the president? >> i think thats -- thats re...

Individuals, including manafort and gates to make sure the american people ultimately find out what happened during our presidential election last year. what was the extent to which there was an attempt to have russians come in and to influence that most sacred of all of our institutions. >> papadopoulos repeatedly tried to set up an in-person meeting between president trump and kremlin officials and high level campaign officials were aware of that effort. senator, what does that tell you? >> ag...

Claims, the allegations from the fbi have to do with the campaign, jake, and in these court documents there are all of these e-mails that show these communications between papadopoulos and russians trying to set up a meeting between the campaign and the russians, and also it is clear that -- that he was acting on the campaigns approval, jake. if you look at some of these e-mails, papadopoulos e-mails a top campaign official who turns out to be manafort, according to a source saying russia wants ...

Naze, it could be just the beginning with a eblt po of more charges against manafort and gates and a third campaign associate charged with lying to the fbi cooperating about his time with the campaign when he was allegedly in touch with russians. its the first signs special counsel robert mueller is zeroing in on collusion with russia in the 2016 campaign. george papadopoulos, a former foreign policy adviser to the trump campaign, seen here meeting with trump as part of his campaigns national se...

Gates. does that seem significant to you? >> absolutely. i mean, youve got the hook being people who are part of the campaign who are engaged in activity knowingly to try to work with a foreign agency of some sort or foreign nation to try to collude. thats the crux what have muellers investigation is about. its no longer hypothetical. collusion is not had a nebulous term anylonger. its pinpointing who the actors are, what was the activity and not only was it co-signed. it was encouraged by these...

Because we previously report that the the -- that the justice department had locked at this, those same facts and decided there wasnt enough evidence to bring a case, so well see whether or not the defense can try to figure out whether to poke some holes in what the government is presenting here. >> very quickly, we dont know why his attorney didnt show up. >> well, we talked to his spokesman. he said that it was a scheduling issue, but, you know, during the hearing. >> scheduling issue. >> the ...