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Both sides and the president s side, the Special Counsel side had a facetoface meeting last week. A rare facetoface meeting after weeks of informal discussions and were told by a source familiar myself, my colleague that Robert Muellers Team Provided more granularity on the topics they would like to discuss with the president in a possible interview under the umbrella of the firing of james comey as well as the firing of the former National Security adviser Michael Flynn. The specifics include t...

You have been watching an extraordinary press briefing, im Brooke Baldwin, youre watching cnn. That was a true show of force right before the president begins his ten day summer vacation. You have these different federal intelligence chiefs stand he at the podium warning of russian interference both about past and upcoming u. S. Elections. To assure americans that the Trump Administration is actively confronting those Cyber Security threats. We have subsequently made the determination to make th...

Its even. >> after the announcement president trump tweeted, the now convicted roger stone of lying and want to jail him for many years to come. what about hillary? comey, so on and so forth? >> mueller. >> yeah. did they lie? you get a sense of pardon is in stones future? >> well, certainly stone thinks so. but you know, you never know what the president is going to do. that doesnt require a legal analysis. that requires psychoanalysis. you can look at roger stone. bad news for roger stone, and...

Got dropped. paul manafort was under investigation and millions of dollars in illicit off the books -- and that was ukraines money that went up the chimney with those guys. as part of their investigations of manafort we believe those ukraine wherein anti-corruption prosecutors were cooperating with the domestic investigation of paul manafort here at home, the one part of the special counsels investigation and ultimately would result in m manaforts prosecution on multiple counts. mysteriously wit...

Pl employed at the correct levels with the appropriate commitment to success" and in manaforts view, the appropriate commitment was reportedly $10 million a year as specifspecified. the a.p. says they saw transfers of millions and millions of dollars to paul manafort in conjunction with that contract, starting that year, 2006, and ending, we dont know when. over the years, oleg deripaska and paul manafort would have a lot of different political and business engagements together. m manafort, of c...

Pressure to release as much information as possible so they can quote on quote check his homework and see if the investigator truly followed the facts and werent impeded by politics. theres some indication well find out this weekend. and we will just have to see how far he goes. >> lets use your powers of deduction. if there was a criminal conspiracy to advance the russian interference in our elections led by the president, many would be involved. flynn, it could be manafort, it could be certain...

And nobed ay else was involved. theoretically others were involved. >> he organized this whole thing by himself. that he had his people involved in doing it for him. none of his kids, nobody. no indictments. >> right. i mean one evidence -- piece of evidence that i thought was pretty striking was the meeting between mr. manafort and kilminik in new york where he passed private polling data to him who was thought to be connected to t connect russian inittelligence services. m manafort lied about ...

Going. then lied about it. manafort met with a russian intellig talked about a plan that would help the kremlin. he did t the behest of a putin-friendly oligarch and the big lie saying the whole campaign the russians were not attacking to help him, when they were and he was briefed it was happen. weve fallen in a trap of criminal collusion when we see time and again -- >> prosecutors go after crime. thats all im saying. >> but this is bigger than crimes is what im saying. >> tonight we dont have...

Party is about. if theres nothing that is a complete and clear indictment of the president, they will refuse to act. thats what theyll do. they are just the rear guard. >> i say fay langs. thats my roman term. >> thats a nice way. >> your book is great on thi this what does this do in terms of none of the kids, none of the henchman have been indicted. how can the president be accused of being a ring leader if hes not accused of a crime? >> i think we fell on a trap that the only issue was crimin...

This up. prosecutors from muellers office stressed that point when it comes to paul manaforts history. when he worked in the 1980s, by president ronald reagan he had been part of something called the overseas private investment corporation. while he was serving in that public capacity, prosecutors say m manafort was acting by the justice department about the fact that public officials cannot be agents of foreign principles. manafort was confronted back then with the choice. he can keep that poli...