protest of the way the state department is churning up and spitting out their own personnel in part of the impeach the thing, shy of 500 pages between the two of them. also the fascinating complaint from e. jean carroll who is suing president trump for defamation after she alleges that he raped her. she he responded to that allegation by calling her a liar. she says that that s defamation. she s not lying and she can prove it. that was another 28 pages today. thanks to buzzfeed and cnn we then got the interview notes, the 302s. fbi interview notes from the mueller investigation for a bunch of key witnesses in that investigation. that s another 278 pages. that s literally north i m going to hurt my back if i try to pick it all up. hold on. scooch it over. okay. now inhale. north of 800 pages of reading before we even got started on anything else that might be in the news today. right? this is our life now. we measure the revelations about the president s behavior in tons. it s almos
34 pages. right there. deposition transcripts from former u.s. ambassador to ukraine, marie yovanovitch and michael mckinley former state department official who resigned in protest of the way the state department is churning up and spitting out their own personnel in part of the impeachment thing. shy of 500 pages between the two of them. also the fascinating complaint from e. jean carroll who is suing president trump for defamation after she alleges that he raped her. she he responded to that allegation by calling her a liar. she says that that s defamation. she s not lying and she can prove it. that was another 28 pages today. thanks to buzzfeed and cnn we then got the interview notes, the 302s. fbi interview notes from the mueller investigation for a bunch of key witnesses in that investigation. that s another 278 pages. that s literally north i m going to hurt my back if i try to pick it all up.
pushed this theory to the president who has now talked about the debunked theory numerous times in public. all these revelations are gleaned from the interview notes with rick gates the deputy campaign chair who cooperated with mueller s team the interview notes saying this. gates recalled manafort saying the hack was likely carried out by the ukrainians not the russians. gates also noted this theory was supported by a long-time associate of paul manafort s, also a key character in mueller s report, and was indicted for allegedly trying to tamper with potential witnesses against paul manafort. prosecutors have also said he has ties to russian intelligence though he has denied this and then once paul manafort was ousted from the campaign we saw in these documents that steve bannon tried to make it clear that there should be a separation including in this e-mail to jared kushner when he said we need to avoid this guy like the plague. they are going to try and say
during the campaign rather, of course, than the conclusion from u.s. intelligence that it was, in fact the russians. so what we re seeing in these documents, these interview notes putting it this way, saying gates, who was rick gates, recalled manafort saying the hack was likely carried out by the crew yan yans, not the russians. this of course is a conspiracy theory that the president has been pushing publicly. it was a big part of the july 25th phone call with yun craukr president. the documents really also unveiled how involved paul manafort was in the campaign even past when he left in august, 2016, and then how steve ban nonwarned that they should avoid manafort s influence. in one email in particular he wrote to jared kushner, we need to avoid this guy like the plaik. they re going to try and say, probably the opposition that the russians worked with wikileaks to give this victory to us.
michael flynn, who later became the short-lived national security adviser, said that he could use his intelligence sources to help get those emails. so gates talked about how flynn had the most russian contacts and also how trump s advisers and family members as well as trump himself really push this effort to get those stolen emails. of course we saw that the mueller report exposed how the trump campaign was, in fact, interested in getting the hacked documents from wikileaks. but really, guys, these interview notes now obtained by us, cnn, shows much more in-depth effort how this was a constant subject of communication and talk in the campaign for those few months in 2016. clearly a priority. yep. and jess, in these 270 plus pages, paul manafort is mentioned a lot. what s the significance about that? yes. and they detail how paul manafort really pushed that conspiracy theory way back in 2016 that it was the ukrainians who hacked the dnc commuters