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A large scale corruption investigation prosecutors say ten there was arrested on charges related to alleged graft in the construction of a nuclear power plant was president of brazil from twenty sixteen to two thousand and eighteen he has denied any wrongdoing. venezuelan forces have reportedly arrested the chief of staff of opposition leader. roberto marrero was taken into custody during a raid on his caracas own according to. the u.s. and other countries do recognize mr interim president and h...

Subpoenas and were told reports were not accurate, leading the president to back down. what does that say to you? >> that this president doesnt want this investigation to go forward. hes made clear that he doesnt think the special counsel will find anything. but the american people deserve to know what the special counsel has found and given the long history of wrong doing, cheating consumers, engaging in shell game trades to launder money for russian oligarchs, there is a a legitimate possible ...

Resolution that they do want to be made public but it falls to the attorney general. shannon: donald trump said all along, let him do this investigation and see what happens. depending when. >> it was supposed to be last week, then this week. shannon: and the week before. democrats in the meantime are hoping robert muellers russia collusion probe will tie donald trump to wrongdoing. former us attorney for the district of columbia warns it could create an even bigger problem for the other 2016 ca...

Ukraines top prosecutor now looking at whether his country tried to help hillary clinton when the 2016 election, this as the mueller probe wraps up reportedly. todd pyro joins us with new reports to the public. good morning. >> a new little twist is the prosecutor investigating acclaim from a member of the ukrainian parliament the director of that countrys anticorruption bureau attempted to help clinton amid reports of an audiotape discussing manaforts alleged wrongdoing in ukraine. >> the direc...

Regards to the res, if the president or candidate donald trump or businessman donald trump was engaged in any illegal activity in communicating about it with michael cohen, the special counsel knows? >> well, exactly. and, of course, now that, you know, michael cohen transitions to be -- to be a cooperating witness, when you have evidence of -- empirical evidence of the communications patterns, that enables some pretty pointed questions that investigators could ask michael cohen once he became c...

Things right here. >> right. >> that we know about. >> to your previous point, this is also -- like i worry about the bar being raised so high on the evidence thats going to come out in the mueller report, that if it doesnt -- if theres no smoking gun, trump will say its a big witch-hunt. even though all of these people have been indicted, charged in conviction of felonies, serious crimes that led to other investigations in the sdny, different house committees. theres obviously a lot of wrongdoi...

Campaign and has not been accused of wrongdoing. i think shes a lot more than a pants ironer. >> i dont -- i feel that because she is turning over these documents, they mustnt be very interesting, because one of the things that the house democrats havent done, and we dont usually talk about like where the democrats are on this, but one of the things they havent done, they havent issued subpoenas yet. right now the democrats are still in this fantasy world where theyre playing nice and theyre lik...

Expected -- at least in washington, i think most people expect that mueller wont find any real wrongdoing. and certainly isnt going to try and end at the present level and recommend he be impeached. if mueller virtually clears the president in this report, of course the personable want that out there. but then which of the democrats year after that? they dont have a message beyond attacking the president and pointing to the miller report. if it ends up vindicating the president, i think thats a ...

Another twitter user says how was she on the board of a pack she supported, that supported her as a candidate. another twitter user says and so it begins, people are seeing her for what she is. heather: the argument is she wasnt aware, shes new to politics, that doesnt hold water because she was with her boyfriends, somebody -- >> campaign donations and she said previously she didnt do anything wrong, she denied wrongdoing. we have to wait and see. heather: speaking of controversy politics is ev...

A conditional deal that would drop charges against them, according to a letter from prosecutors in palm beach county obtained by nbc news, the pretrial deal the a part of a program sometimes offered to first time offenders who can see they would be found guilty otherwise. kraft and the others charged in the investigation would have to complete 100 hours of community service per charge, take an educational charge on prosecution and undergo a screening for sexual disease and pay $5,000 per charge....