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Charges in the russia investigation. special counsel robert mueller shows no sign of slowing down. political reporting reporting mueller filed new charges in the case of paul manafort and his aide rick gates. those new charges rrnlgs under seal which means we dont have a lot of detail on them. we know theyre there. we know mueller and his team have been very busy in the past few days. on friday, mueller indicted 13 russian individuals three russian companies for interfering in the election. he h...

This order, that doesnt say anything specific about the case against flynn but reasserts to muellers prosecutors that they have the responsibility to hand over anything that turns out to be favorable to mike flynn, the judge made the order, reminder, you have to hand over any exculpatory evidence to the defense. and i think its the second time a judge has made that reminder. is it important that the judge has made that kind of an order? is it a red flag that the prosecutions done something wrong...

The way this filing was made and what led up to this filing in manaforts case today makes it appear that these might be new charges against paul manafort, maybe even a whole new superseding indictment in the manafort case. thats just a guess. as of now, its a sealed document, basically a mystery and a very intriguing one at that. well have more on that tonight as well. so, watching all of those stories tonight, well have more on that over the course of this hour. but if you saw any news today, u...

>> he will look at book im sure but not rely on the book, conduct his own interviews, interviews that may very well included interviews of people who have been interviewed in the book. probably already interviewed quite a few of them. may conduct additional based on what he sees in book or press or other places when people choose to leak. i would be interested in interviewing steve bannon if i were robert mueller. he may have already, may want to interview him again if he already has. hell condu...

True. >> matthew, how does this continue to haunt the administration that, after all, continues even though the traveling white house right now is on the other side of the world? >> in some ways its convenient that theyre over there in asia for now while this news drops. sarah sanders and the rest will have to confront this when they get back. it would be hard to overstate how serious this is. obviously the manafort indictment was serious for which white house. that was someone who left the camp...

World? >> in some ways it is convenient that they are overseas while this news drops, but sarah sanders will have to confront this when they get back. it is hard to overstate how serious this is. obviously, the manafort indictment was serious for this white house, but that was someone who left the campaign in august. mike flynn is someone who was with the campaign through the end, prominent on the transition and served in this white house over the warnings of people like president obama who told...

Serious for the white house. even more serious than the manafort case. >> matthew, lets go a little deeper on that, because this is more than just a news media distinction. flynn does put it closer to the oval office of a sitting president than anyone else. people may have seen splashy headlines about paul manafort and others, but this would put it in a different category. >> thats right. at the end of the day, as important as paul manafort was in this campaign, he was the campaign chairman. he ...

You a lot about how this investigation is going to go. >> the conventional wisdom as soon as this raid was broken and, by the way, how much time lapsed between the raid happened and the news broke, but conventional wisdom is theyre trying to build a case and then flip him, more or less, to get to trump. is thering e anything that you read between the lines to suggest otherwise? >> no, i think its that way but there are multiple angles to the manafort case. hes got issues with the son-in-law and ...

Prosecutors orders him to cooperate fully, truthfully, completely with the government in any and all matters as to which the government deems the cooperation relevant. you may recall president trump was sympathetic to manafort during his first trial praising him for not breaking under pressure from the feds. >> one of the reasons i respect paul manafort so much is he went through that trial. they make up stories. people make up stories. this whole thing about flipping, i know all about flipping....

>> unless something happens, i mean it is possible that he may take a message from this case. if he gets acquitted, i expect he will go to trial and try to beat that case, as well. if hes convicted, i wouldnt be surprised if he tries to reach some sort of resolution in the washington, d.c. case. but ive been confused by his defense strategy before. >> just to be very clear and to say it one more time again, this is not a trial about president trump. this is not a trial about russian meddling per...