Ukrainian government which have links to Russian Politicians and operatives. The memo says the link compels investigators to examine russian efforts of interference in the 2016 election. The payments from ukraine to manafort is the basis for financial crimes charges he faces. Manafort wants the charges dismissed claiming beyond muellers scope because ukraine is unrelated to the campaign. The Declassified Memo was written in august by Deputy Attorney general rod rosenstein. It shows rosensteins strong backing for the special counsel despite attacks from the president. Lets discuss this with julian selzer. Good morning. Good morning. The constant attacks against the word collusion. The word he said the most in the first 14 or 15 months. How significant is this development . It doesnt seem there are any new findings here, but it shows
there is legitimacy to looking at the financial ties with officials in the trump orbit and russia. This just provides credibility for mueller looking into the area. There are reports that the white house is considering potentially meeting with putin at the white house with the president. What are your thoughts of that and how significant would that be . This is an initiative with any other president that would maybe be seen in a positive light and attempting to create a connection regardless of what putin has done. President trump doesnt have much credibility. This is the area he has undercut himself in diplomacy. There is very little trust. He takes the bad side of what russia has done very seriously. Given all that has gone on, the president s focus on dacaCoal Industry and now pick losers like amazon. We will check in with you in 25 minutes. Thank you. Perfect. Coming up, President Trump is also targeting his own Justice Department claiming its dragging its feet handing over documents related to republicanled congressional investigations. He tweeted so sad the department of justice, end quotes, and the fbi are slow walking or not giving the unredacted documents requested by congress. Embarrassment to our country. The timing of the tweet is a little odd considering fbi director chris wray promised around the clock shifts to speed up document production. The congressional requests seek documents related to the fbi probe of Hillary Clintons private email server and possible fbi abuses of surve Surveillance Warrants targeting
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president s former Campaign ChairmanPaul Manafort. The documents highlights payments to manafort from the Ukrainian Government which have links to Russian Politicians and operatives. The memo says the link compels them to examine russian efforts of interference in 2016. The payments from ukraine to manafort is the basis for financial crimes charges he faces. Manafort wants the charges dismissed claiming beyond muellers scope because ukraine is unrelated to the campaign. The Declassified Memo was written in august by Deputy Attorney general rod rosenstein. It shows rosensteins strong backing for the special counsel despite attacks from the president. President trump on the attack as the white house pushing for an immigration bill. White house officials called Immigration Laws Loopholes to allow immigrants to cross the border illegally. Loopholes they said must be closed. The officials admitted these were largely the same proposals they had been pushing since last fall. The White House Easter Egg Roll where the president blamed the failure of daca protections and dreamers on democrats. The democrats have let them down. Really let them down. They had the great opportunity. The democrats have really let them down. Its a shame. Now people are taking advantage of daca. Thats a shame. It should have never happened. Didnt you kill daca, sir . No response from the president there. Lets bring in julian zelitzer. Julian, good morning. Good morning. We are seeing the president return to the hard liner on immigration. Similar to candidate trump. Usually the candidate slightly different than president. Were seeing the reverse here. He is reverting back to what we saw on the campaign trail. What do you make of that . He has never let go of the issue. Attacks on immigration and demands of tighter Immigration Policies and his warnings that there is all kinds of chaos resulting from unauthorized immigrants in the country is a consistent thing he talked about. I think in his heart of hearts, he believes this and he likes to talk