Mueller Busting Manafort News Today

Today, papadopoulos, gates, many of muellers proposed questions for trump bear down on what he said and meant when talking to comey. meantime, trumps lawyers arguing now, one, there is no obstruction if the probe continued. two, trump didnt say the russia probe should end. and three, presidents have the constitutional authority to fire fbi directors. trumps lawyers also argue that even if that infamous lester holt interview looks bad because, of course, trump bizarrely admitted the one thing you...

Opponent and your son says, id love to have it, that is collusion. it doesnt stop with manafort. the question is how much and how secretive trump was. >> let me push you, is that collusion or attempted collusion if you dont get the stuff? >> well, first of all, collusion, as you know, because youre a lawyer, ari, is not a crime in and of itself. if were talking about coordination, cooperation, an attempt to solicit something of value from a foreigner, which is actually the standard in the campai...

What does your reporting instinct say about whether there is anything for manafort to cooperate on? >> thats the million-dollar question. i think anybody involved in that trump tower meeting, who knows what paul manafort knows, would likely have something to be able to proffer to mueller and his team. muellers been working with everybody willing to work with him. hes been working with george papadopoulos, rick gates. he clearly wants manafort. >> ill let you finish, but all papadopoulos has is t...

Oligarch oleg. mueller is investigating the changes that are made to help russia in the 2016 gop platform and this man allegedly bragged about pulling that off but also denied any links to russian intelligence. >> if there had been any questions about my real allegiance, he would have thrown me out of this administration. you guys believe hes a pro-russian president, but i have my very own believes about him being pro-russian. working with manafort to help this country be a normal country. >> im...

Lines are much more blurred. ive seen that time and time again on other cases that i know very well. >> well, thats fascinating. something you and other experts have been educating us on. the kinds of business distinctions that we see here in the united states are not really right to project in our analysis of how this other stuff works. that, indeed, the cutouts and the mixed use activities are a key part of these influence operations, which raises the question of what muellers pulling at when ...

Associated with paul manafort. also smart enough to get close to the money. whatever anyone thinks of all of this, that sounds like business. at what point does someone like this in that world potentially do both business thats personally enriching but also do something else that could tie back to one of the issues under muellers investigation, which is whether this was money and also putin goals? >> all the time in that part of the world. and, again, i dont know the details of this particular g...

>> and will you expect that they would -- they would continue on with this investigation? >> oh, yeah, sure. i expect that. >> thats an interesting defense as far as it goes. no one knows what mueller will find or do next, just like no one knew that today mueller was indicting another person for obstructing justice in this probe, a person currently residing in russia who worked with manafort. heres what we do know, though, in this entire year here since comey first told this history under oath, ...

Doesnt do any, any interviews, he does sign the big move in this case. thats his signature on these new indictments. manafort is the only american charged by mueller who has not flipped. meanwhile, earlier today, donald trump batted away questions about a potential pardon for him. >> i havent even thought about it. i havent even thought -- i havent thought about any of it. it certainly is far too early to be thinking about that. >> mr. president -- >> they havent been convicted of anything. ther...

People turned over text messages from manafort and he had been trying to conceal all of that effort through encrypted messaging apps. mueller is not only saying those efforts of tampering should land manafort in jail before trail, as we learned earlier, tonight, bob mueller is saying those efforts constitute new crimes and thus manafort and his employee should be tried and sentence for that criminal activity, own strugglbstruction related conspiracy. it goesing is like this, what paul manafort d...

This indictment. today i believe, besides the day he was first indicted, today was probably the worst day thus far for paul manafort and thats because today dramatically ratcheted up the likelihood that he could end up going to jail. earlier this week when that motion came down from muellers team saying that manafort appeared to have obstructed justice, originally it was unclear what kind of impact that would have on paul manaforts freedoms. his attorneys would have been able to argue in court, ...