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Investigations that were proceeding alongside our special counsels investigation here, those manafort investigations last year not spiked by the ukrainian government. they got shut down. the order from the government, quote, blocked prosecutors issuing subpoenas for evidence or interviewing witnesses. the prosecutor told "the new york times," quote, we have no authority to continue our investigation. so why did the ukrainian government spike those paul manafort investigations last year? well, at...

Attorney general jeff sessions for those two members of congress being indicted, saying it would hurt republican chances of holding control of the house of representatives. the president said, quote, two long running obama era investigations of two very popular republican congressmen were brought to a well-publicized charge by the jeff sessions justice department. two easy wins now in doubt because theres not enough time. good job, jeff. rule of law! rule of law! as it happens, congress collins ...

Again, of course, unless hes the whistle-blower. i mean, he is ex-cia. i dont think hes the whistle-blower. but now in addition to the president, the secretary of state is up to his neck in this impeachment scandal. he is there alongside this guy, the attorney general of the united states, william barr. "the washington post" has an actually shocking report tonight about the attorney general, william barr, personally traveling around the globe personally trying to get foreign governments to help ...

That european reassurance initiative, which the u.s. government started not because president obama thought it was a great idea and he conjured it out of nowhere, it came from congress. it came from the administration, it came in bipartisan fashion from the united states after russia invaded ukraine. the whole idea was that the united states would stand up in order to help our nato allies push back against russias new interest in invading its neighboring countries and taking over parts of them. ...

"the new york times" this weekend published a long excellent rundown about this big change our country has suddenly gone through toward ukraine and how it hasnt been run through any normal policy process. it hasnt been articulated at all. its been this off the books odd process involving people who were not sure who they worked for and maybe in giulianis case hes doing energy deals on the side. just this mess in terms of not even knowing who is acting as a lawyer, who is being paid by who. one o...

What else would they do next and to whom would they do it? so, in 2014, when all this happened, president obama went over there. he traveled to eastern europe on a trip that was designed to reassure our nervous allies, particularly our nato allies, that they would be protected, that they had our support. president trump gave a speech in warsaw in poland behind a backdrop of f-16 fighter jets that were used in joint military exercises between the u.s. and poland. and obama declared in that addres...

To please the trump administration. unless they did something that the u.s. government wanted them to do. and they came to believe what they needed to do in order to get those missiles was stop those live investigations into paul manafort. in early april, ukrainian officials gave the order to halt the investigations into paul manafort and halt ukrainian cooperation with the mueller investigation. on april 30th thereafter, ukraine announced they had finally received those missiles, which they had...

Today. i dont know what kind of message that sends. the other on jubjection that i i routinely see defense. manafort is older and white and wealthy and hes a quasi celebrity. there is a disparity that i think is hard to ignore. >> to that front, you have judge ellis noting that manafort quote "lived a blameless life" and talked about him being a good friend and a generous person. no one knows whats going on in manaforts personal life neither does the judge. hes trying to conpartmentalize what wo...

Man. hes like a lot of other people, probably makes consultant fees from all over the place. >> but most consultants dont receive tens of millions of dollars in loans from their clients. we asked manaforts spokesman to explain the loans. he said mr. manafort quote did not collude with the russian government. >> joining me now, global opinions editor for the washington post and charlie savage, washington correspondent for the "the new york times." so this is pretty damning reporting coming from r...

Involvement with president trump, no involvement with the campaign. no involvement with russia. >> there is also this report in "the new york times" back trumps former lead counsel. john dowd e-mailed lawyers representing other clients that have been drawn knew mr. muellers inquiry that mr. manafort quote has no info on president or campaign. we should be crystal clear here. no one has any idea what john dowd is basing that on. earlier on this network harvard law pro iffer alan dershowitz who wh...