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Wolf Blitzer looks at politics, breaking news and international stories. Alongside manafort and even stole several hundred thousand dollars from him. I want to quickly go to our justice correspondent jessica schneider, monitoring all these developments. Whats the biggest takeaway so far from todays dramatic testimony . The biggest takeaway, woman, just how elaborate this financial scheme was and how involved is Paul Manafort really seemed to be, directing the movement of money here. Rick gates h...

A look at Breaking News, politics and reports from around the world. Its more of a custom inside the justice department. It doesnt say that there cant be an investigation 60 days out from an election. What it says is the norm is that there isnt an overt move in an investigation dealing with an elected official or somebody on the ballot at 60 days before the election. For example, a subpoena, an indictment or pushing to get an interview during that window. Thats true. But at the same time you all...

A look at breaking news, politics and reports from around the world. Manafort would send me a list of wire requests. Gates admit that had he used information provided by manafort to create invoices for fake amounts of money but the money never went to the vendors, instead it went to the banks. The purpose of this, according to gates, so that the wire transfers would not be recorded on u. S. Business records. Nonetheless, prosecutors elicited testimony from mr. Gates and from one of mr. Manaforts...

The days biggest political and news stories, with interviews and reporting from around the nation. Leadership criticisms for this president that we know about, lets be clear and fair. Anger, ego, incompetence, thats not enough. The higher bar here is corrupt intent in a persons mind. So mueller is saying, like any careful prosecutor, he must question trump before he can conclude his work. And tonight trumps lawyers are leaking their new ongoing negotiations with mueller to show that as of tonigh...

>> we spoke early yesterday evening about a variety of topics cluing the "new york times" op-ed and pivoted to the latest negotiations. he couldnt have been clear. one thing about giuliani hes consistently inconsistent. and he changed his story a few different times. after i spoke to him he cleaned up his remarks. when i spoke to him, it was clearly an attempt to lay down another marker in these ongoing interview negotiations in which he said the president would not talk, he would not field ques...

Investigation because, quote, great scholars have said there never should have been a special counsel, the president told bloomberg. so you have great scholars, which the president is not specifying who that is. lets also pull up federal judges and their views of whether or not the investigation is legal. so if you take a look at these four federal judges from presidents from both parties, all of whom have ruled that the special counsel is, in fact, legal. so, despite what maybe is being heard o...

Republican congressman ted yo of florida is joining us. thanks for joining us. >> you bet, wolf. great to hear you. >> is it appropriate, congressman, for the presidents attorney rudy giuliani to be treating this investigation as a political football by dragging out the interview negotiations with robert mueller and suggesting, you know what, if theres no interview, that might be good in generating support among the presidents base going into the midterm elections? >> you know, i think rudy giul...

Up to the supreme court where trump is currently trying to install a hand-picked judge known for his skepticism of the power of prosecutors like bob mueller. so lets get to it. im joined by l.e. honig, joyce vance and mike lupica. ill begin with you. youve tried many cases and been around many cases. have you ever seen live leaks of interview negotiations on a call-in show. >> no, ive never seen anything like it. i think whats happening is theres a chess game getting under way. rudy giuliani is ...

But it seems theres another sticking point right now. namely, the obstruction investigation. lets go to our white house correspondent kaitlan collins outside the presidents bedminster golf resort in new jersey. the president has been vacationing there over the past several days. where do we stand right now on the interview negotiations, kaitlan? >> reporter: wolf, we still seem to be very much in the middle of this. this has been going on for eight months now, the back and forth between the pres...

Looking to do this in good faith and trying to get as full a picture and set of facts as he can. >> but if the interview negotiations fall apart, this could potentially, if theres a subpoena, wind up before the u.s. supreme court, what happens then? >> it could and thats the $50,000 question, right? theres a number of variables, one of which is the confirmation of the nominee judge brett kavanaugh to go up to the supreme court. i think, you know, congressman nadler had it right. theres pretty cl...