Early outlook for campaign 20 82. Georgetown University Law on theor Jonathan Turley indictment of former Trump Campaign managers. Good morning. Its tuesday, october 31 3017. Special Counsel Robert Mueller revealed charges yesterday against three advisers to President Trumps campaign. For more Campaign ChairmanPaul Manafort and longterm business associate robert gates pled not guilty in federal court yesterday well documents showed that former trump foreignpolicy advisor George Papadopoulos pled guilty earlier this month to making false statements to fbi investigators. The announcements and guilty plea represents first criminal allegation and guilty plea in the growth of russian interference in u. S. Elections. He will spend our first hour on washington journal getting your reaction to this story. Phone lines are open. Epublicans 2027488000. Emocrats 2027488001 independents 2027488002. Good tuesday morning. You can start calling in now as we spend a good part of the show today discussing this story. Here are some of the headlines from the front pages of newspapers. The Washington Times today. Muellers first strike is the headline they went with for the front page of usa today. Russian inquiry takes dramatic steps forward. Former Trump Campaign chief and associates are indicted. To the front page of the New York Times today, malingering unveils charges and a russia link. In terms of those charges the Washington Post has a breakdown of the 12 counts in the indictment facing gates and manafort area they include charges of conspiracy against to United States, conspiracy launder money, failure to file reports of foreign bank and calendarsaccounts for 2011 three 2014. Seven different counts involving that. Agent of unregistered a foreign principal. False and misleading registration act statements and other full statements. When it comes to george he was arrested over the summer. He pled guilty to making false statements to fbi investigators were asked about his contacts with a foreigner who claimed to have highlevel russian connections. We will talk about all of it this morning and get your reaction. Heres the reaction at the White House Briefing room yesterday from Sarah Sanders. This announcement has nothing to do with the president. Has nothing to do with the president s campaign or campaign activity. The real collusion scandal has everything to do with the illusion gpsigns and russia. There is clear evidence of the Clinton Campaign colluding with russian intelligence to spread disinformation and smear the president to influence the election. We have been saying from day one there has been no evidence of trump russia collusion and nothing in the indictment today changes that at all. It is specifically about the campaign. Nothing to do with the activities of the campaign. It has to do with his failure to tell the truth. It is the clearest evidence yet of ties between the Trump Campaign and russian officials. There are no activities or official capacities engaged in these activities. Most of these to place will before the campaign existed. Host getting your reaction to those indictments yesterday. Paul manafort, richard gates and the guilty plea that was announced by George Papadopoulos. Phone lines are open. Jacob is the first in West Virginia. Line for republicans. Good morning. I just want to say you guys do a great job. I am 26 years old. Im a young guy. I know you are a nonprofit. I wish you could somehow target the younger audience like myself to just get the straight news im not the fake news which is pretty much what most of it is. Democrats havehe figured out how to literally circumvent the laws because if the russians call you and say weve got some information that says your opponent has committed a crime, that is apparently treason against the United States. Type spyt a james bond from britain to infiltrate the russian government and then he gets russian information back to that time. I just dont understand how it makes sense. Thats jacob in West Virginia talking about the steel dossier. Getting your reaction this morning to the story that sent shockwaves through d. C. Around the country. Thomas is in atlanta, georgia. Line for democrats. Good morning. Caller morning. I would like to say that trump he just keeps saying this story is a hoax. This is not a hoax. The is trying to shift the blame over to Hillary Clinton talking about she made a uranium deal 10 years ago and the uranium they did the deal with was some lowlevel something else. Trump keeps getting caught in all his lies. Eventually its going to catch up with him. He has been dealing with the russians way back a long time ago. And they put sanctions on the trump wont even approve the sanctions they put on the russians. Onre is something going there. Mueller is going to get to the bottom of it good if you try to fight mueller is going to end up getting impeached. If i were him i wouldnt try to do that. On there. Last the president s tweet, 20 hours ago. After the news of the gates and manafort indictments came out. Sorry, but this was years before the Trump Campaign. Why arent crooked hillary and the dems will focus . Also there is no collusion. This is the time of day he often does tweet. We will know if and when he does. Independents. R good morning. Forer its a sad day america. A sad day. I just cant understand how people get on tv. They know they are lying to the American People. The American People know they are lying. The Republican Party is sitting here letting this go. Back in the day there is nowhere in the world we should have this much influence over the United States. These people are absolutely ridiculous. It is shameful. The nine states is a disgrace to the whole world for whats going on today. We are running around trying to Police Everybody about their democracy. Look what we got here and we got a moronic in the white house. Terms of reaction on capitol hill, heres the Washington Post reppo. Republican leader strategy avoidance, noting Republican Leaders either eager to move past the news avoided further inflame tensions with trump and to use their powers to protect molars probed from interference by the president. They also avoided discussion of filedarges that mueller that were unveiled yesterday leading democrats down different notes. They said, should respond to the news by swiftly passing laws to protect mueller from any retaliation from trump. In terms of some of that reaction from Democratic Leaders appears a few tweets. , the special counsels probe is ongoing. As serious way the rule of law is paramount and the investigation must proceed unimpeded. He also tweeted that President Trump must not under any circumstances interfere with the work in any way. If he does so Congress Must respond swiftly unequivocally and in a bipartisan way. Throughbe taking you the other action on capitol hill. Nancy pelosi writes the indictment of Paul Manafort and rick gates underscored the need for an outside independent commission to follow the facts. Thats outside of the mueller special counsel probe. Shes talking about a congressional independent that President Trump could not fire or have any influence over. On on thehat going democratic side of the aisle. We want to hear your thoughts this morning. Phone lines are open. 2027488001 republican. 2027488000 democrat. 2027488002 independent. J is a republican in baltimore maryland. Go ahead. Caller good morning. I became a republican. Beingyed listening to and part of the United States that included john mccain. Watching trump is an embarrassment. As a republican. Hes is a disgrace. Surrounding himself with awful people. Done far more to show he was strongly against foreign nations in our Government Election process. He has done nothing. And he has turned the white house into the a Reality Television show. Host did you vote for him as a republican . I held my nose and voted for him. Holdingve to start other republicans accountable. This guy is out of his mind and nobody in the Republican Party first. Republicans first. Standing up and telling the sky the facts. Period. Heres one of the Democratic Senators on twitter yesterday. Chris van hollen. The news about manafort underscores the importance of as a nonpartisan independent special counsel. Every Single Member of, should support legislation as to prevet trump from firing mueller. At the White House Press briefing yesterday Sarah Sanders was asked about the possibility of the president hiring more firing Robert Mueller. The president said last week there is no intention or plan to make any changes in regards to special counsel. You throughl take some of the other parts of the other parts of that press briefing which mostly focused on this topic as we continue to hear your thoughts. Barbara in anderson island, washington. For democrats. Go ahead. Thank you for taking my call. I want to say that it is time we stop calling this collusion and start calling it a conspiracy. All of the americans that were targeted to vote for donald all played a part in this. Every republican that voted for this guy. Every independent the voted for this guy. Every democrat voted for this guy. Were part of the conspiracy. They were used and thats all i have to say. Host when you say americans that were targeted, targeted how . Caller with facebook, twitter. You name it. The russians were very effective. Vote. Pressing the against Hillary Clinton. All of her emails were released within hours. All the democratic dnc emails ofe released within hours the access hollywood tape. The fact that George Papadopoulos was actually sitting in the room with jeff sessions, donald trump, everybody else and actually answered to jeff sessions. So i dont know. Time to clean house. Thats all i have to say. Host you mentioned sitting in the room. Here is a tweet. This is a Facebook Post from the president s Facebook Page that several reporters pointed out of thisy in the wake news noting that papadopoulos was in a meeting with President Trump on march 21 less than two weeks after he met with a russian professor who was promising dirt on Hillary Clinton. Papadopoulos at the table. The president at the table as well. Saying he was meeting with his National Security team in washington 2016. Mentioned twitter and facebook. Executives from those Media Companies will be on capitol hill today and tomorrow answering questions from the congressional committees that are investigating russian interference in the election. Cspan is going to be airing those meetings. We will be talking more about them later today on washington journal. Heroes this from the Washington Post. Facebook planning to tell lawmakers that 126 million of its users may have seen content produced by russian operatives. Many times more than the company had previously disclosed about the reach of the online influence campaign targeting american voters. It had previously reported an sawmated 10 million users the pages. Internet Research Suggesting it andseen by far more users ads were seen as well. Thats a the front page of todays Washington Post. We will hear more about it today and we will hear more from you. In this first hour of the washington journal today we are focusing on this story that is the lead story in almost every major newspaper today. Three charged in the mueller russia probe. Want to share your thoughts. In paterson, new jersey. For democrats. Caller i would say leave hillary alone. President no longer or anything like that and she tried to save us from ourselves but we wouldnt listen. We listened to all the lies that donald trump said what he was going to do. He is not going to do nothing but make his family more richer. Seesepublicans, the world what you are and its a shame. I am so sorry for the United States. Thank you. Host you dont feel the need for an investigation into the socalled steel dossier . The revelations we heard last week about the Hillary Campaign funding the attorney that ended up hiring the Research Firm for that . Thats not something you think needs to be explored . Caller they can explore that. They are only putting that out to take the heat off donald trump. Explored the. They already know what its about. Explored the. They already know what its about. This is just another scam to keep everybodys mind off of donald trump and its only the republicans. The democrats know and the independent nose and world knows. The world is looking at us and laughing. This is the United States . Give me a break. You have a good day, sweetheart. Board at thetorial Washington Post noting that the democrat fusion russia story requires as full investigation is the question of trump russia collusion. All the more so given the fbi may have used the steel dossier to begin investigate and Trump Campaign and seek a warrant from the foreign Intelligence Surveillance court. The one problem with the special tosecutor is that they exist prosecute someone somewhere for something more than they shed light. The latter should be congresss job and the members should keep pressing to tilt the complete story. Thats the Editorial Board today from todays wall street journal. On the line for independence, go ahead. Caller good morning. Both sides do with the russians. What we have seen is mueller coming in and his friend was the gentleman who got pushed out, comey. A bunch of convoluted its just a mess. Worked with both these people as a lobbyist. Heres the thing. Hillary lost. And she just went right for what she knew. And then with the dossier, she knows what she did. She helped fund that. They need to look at her, but they will never lock her up. They will never lock that woman of it shes bad for politics. Trump for all its worth, i am an african american. He is a political outsider. This is what Everybody Needs to Pay Attention to. When youre a political outsider , i dont care what party. You are not welcome. Have a nice day. Savannah, tennessee. Line for republicans. Go ahead. For taking my call. I think i need to either get rid of mueller or have mueller investigate the democrats because hillary, the clintons and her whole rodeo you to be roped up and thrown in jail. The rest of the democrats is crying, you need to give them some pacifiers to shut their mouths up because they dont know what theyre talking about. Just jealous because they lost the election. They need to get over it because its done. Its finished. Trumps the president. They need to get over it and do what is right the better of the country. Host gruver in virginia. For democrats. Go ahead. Need to wakereally up and start smelling the roses. If we keep on listening to putin and trump, thats putin jr. In lake forest, illinois. I would like to know how he was able to do that. In shawnee, oklahoma. Independent. Go ahead. Caller i am a Senior Citizen and i have been watching the stuff go on and on. I wonder how many people just cant have in his pocket. He has done some awful things and every time he does something he switches it over to obama. To draw the attention off of him. I have never seen them allow a man of his status to go this far as he heads and all the lies they have caught him him. What is this world coming to . He has nothing to say about what hes doing for Senior Citizens. And it has only just begun. Tonorth korea, he needs leave them alone because he thinks this is a videogame. He thinks those bombs is something he is playing a game with. Trump needs to leave that young man alone and focus on what he has done and what hes doing here in america. Thats all i have to say about that. Heres a focus on some of the conversation happening on twitter at cspan wj. Writes this morning that theres probably more coming. Liberty predicts that President Trump panics and fire small and fires mueller or pardons all of them. Have would charge against Hillary Clinton clear him . Said i thought they were investigating russia commander fearing with the election. Not something done before the ele