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Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Former Trump Campaign chairman Paul Manafort is on trial. Charges predate the Trump Campaign but could have ramifications for the campaign if he is convicted and could face up to 10 years. Lets take a look at some evidence presented by the Special Counsel against Paul Manafort. Case stands on two basic legs. One that manafort Made Tens Of Millions working for ukrainian politicians and russian oligarchs that he never paid ta...

Purpose. word is being used as a sort of catchall term. hes only technically right when he saying its not criminal. legal experts say under u.s. code collusion is federal crime only applicable under antitrust law. that is a collaborative agreement usually secret among roo rivals. basically its price fixing and bid rigging. but what is a crime is conspiracy. under the federal conspiracy statute a crime is committed when two or more persons conspire either to commit any offense against the united ...

Turning now the russia investigation, the presidents lawyers met face to face with special counsel investigators last week to outline the topics muellers team would like to ask the president about. meantime, the president shaking up his legal team. c nps abby phillips is live at the white house with more on that. good morning. >> good morning, erica. sources tell cnn that an interview between president trump and robert muellers investigators could be scheduled in the next several weeks. but as a...

Him good counsel. if theres nothing there, cooperate just as trey gowdy said, cooperate and this will be over because mueller has the sort of intestinal fortitude to say there is no there there if there is nothing there. but the president just cant resist his own worst instincts which is to fight. now he brought in joe. we worked together. i was joes deputy. we took president bushs testimony together. and we didnt limit the scope of that in any way shape or form and wouldnt allow bushs lawyers t...

Has repeatedly pedalled a conspiracy theory that the fbi fabricated the russia story to frame mr. trump. >> there was a brazen plot to illegally exonerate hillary clinton and if she didnt win the election to frame donald trump with a falsely created crime. it wasnt the russians who corrupted the presidential election. it was the american officials at the department of justice and the fbi. >> reporter: but as one lawyer joins trumps legal team, others may be on their way out. "the new york times"...

The one interesting clue, the trip wire device we saw this week, that tells me that whoever staged that operation, whoever put the device there, didnt have a specific target in mind, maybe they had a neighborhood in mind. when you have a trip wire device, youre not looking at a specific involved, theres no race involved, no ethnicity involved. initially we had questions about whether race might be a motive. when you have a trip wire, youre trying to hit anybody that goes by. >> phil mudd, stick ...

Kislyak in december, 2016. "the washington post" reports president trumps legal team provided the special counsel with written descriptions of these events and others in hopes of limiting the scope of a potential future interview. a source tells cnn that president trump wavered behind the scenes about whether to agree with an interview with mueller, despite publicly boasting that hes eager for a sit-down. >> are you going to talk to mueller? >> im looking forward to it actually. >> you want to? ...

Mueller team let on they want to talk about the firing of the fbi director james comey and want to know jeff sessions involvement in the james comey firing and michael flynns phone calls with russian ambassador and they want to talk about outreach to intelligence leaders about the russia probe here. we understand through cnns reporting, michael, again theyve given some granular detail to what theyre after here. and theres something about this granular detail to what theyre after that seems to ha...

To the trump organization and certainly includes obstruction of justice. and so if the president was of the mistaken belief that somehow they were going to be able to narrow the scope of the mueller investigation to a few questions that the president chose, hes sadly mistaken. and thats his own fault, if you will, because nobody who is a student of history of these investigations would ever see a prosecutor who has any self respect accepting the clients determination of what they will be asked. ...

Investigators sat down for a rare face-to-face meeting last week. the two sides hashing out the details about the topics muellers team wishes to discuss with the president, including the role attorney general jeff sessions played in the firing of fbi director james comey and what trump knew about michael flynns phone calls with sergey kislyak in december, 2016. president trumps legal team provided the special counsel with written descriptions of these events and others in hopes of limiting the s...