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Hello again, everyone. Thanks so much for being with me. At any moment now Attorney General william barr is expected to release the main conclusions from the Mueller Report to congress. We are hearing that it is coming today. Barr is at the u. S. Justice department right now with Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein reviewing the report. The president , well, he just returned to maralago just moments ago after spending the day at his golf club in west palm beach, florida while he, too, awaits ...

Obviously the special counsel said there was none. >> but it doesnt explain a lot of the bread crumbs that were spread out throughout the filings. why did paul manafort share polling data with a russian intel agent? why did rod rosenstein say in his memo that was unredacted that mueller account investigation collusion as it pertained to manafort and his meetings with russians? it didnt answer a lot of those questions weve had on the team, and that, i think, is what democrats are going to be pres...

Circumstance, the fact that 69.5-year-old paul manafort is now looking down the twin barrels of a sentence from this federal judge in virginia and then another sentence from this federal judge in d.c. that honestly is a crisis of his own making because it was man o manafort and his defense team that elected to not combine the two sets of felony charges against him into one single case in one jurisdiction before one judge. so manafort is now facing sentencing in two different jurisdictions by two...

Charge of recognizing and thwarting and exposing this disaster would somehow be dismantled, taken apart. stymied. think of it as a country going through this if thats easier. if a hostile foreign power played a role in installing somebody at the top of a government, somebody beholding to them they put in the top leadership job in another countrys government, one of the ways that might manifest in terms of that foreign country getting what it wanted is if that leader then moved to shut down all t...

In their final pitch to the jury, robert muellers prosecutors pointed to what they call overwhelming evidence that manafort schemed and lied about his finances for personal gain. manafo manaforts attorney argued the government had not met its burden of proof. deflect the blame on to manaforts longtime protegee rick gates. if found guilty, trumps former campaign chair could spend the rest of his life in prison. ken, i got to go to you first. because you have been in this courthouse for over a wee...

>> i agree the subpoenas, i would be too much into that. its fairly standard present to real tactic of getting these blank subpoenas. i wouldnt read too much into that. i will say i think what weve seen with mueller as to manafort and the referral on the cohen side, its an extremely aggressive prosecutor whos not afraid to play hardball. we talked earlier about how they are treating michael cohen, examples would a drug lord. same thing with speed 24. euler is determined to prosecute this aggress...

>> you consider a pardon for michael flynn? >> i dont want to talk about pardons for michael flynn yet. well see what happens. lets see. i can say this, when you look at whats going on with the fbi and with the justice department, people are very, very angry. >> harris: i want to make it clear that was back in december. now we fast forward and we do hear this call for we will look at some of these people and whether or not he should pardon them. not only has it gone far afield thats not the poin...

First charges were filed. so this is certainly a big moment in this investigation that began more than a year ago and robert mueller took over in may and now were seeing the first charges. >> all right. and muellers team is examining foreign lobbying conducted by former trump campaign manager paul manafort over the course of the investigation. mueller has issued subpoenas for documents and testimony for people close to.manafort. >> analyst michael zelden says mule ser most likely honing in on ma...

Put up according to the documents that we have, which were the accounting documents, an audit of the cyprus linked company, and it was payable on demand. no specific time line when it was to be paid back as well. frankly, either way its troubling. if they were direct payments from a putin linked oligarch to manafort, thats one thing. if hes indebted to the tune of tens of millions, thats also troubling but at this stage we really dont know. >> richard engel, chief foreign correspondent, thank yo...

Documents that we have, which were the accounting documents an audit of the cyprus linked company and payable on demand. no specific time line when it was to be paid back as well. frankly, either way its troubling, if they were direct payments from a putin linked oligarch to manafort, thats one thing. if hes indebted to the tune of tens of millions, thats also troubling but at this stage we really dont know. >> richard engel, chief foreign correspondent, thank you for helping us understand this....