A look at breaking news, politics and reports from around the world. Collusion, wikileaks collaboration, or any other impropriety related to the 2016 election, which i thought was the subject of this probe. I understand she appeared voluntarily. I am highly confident she will testify truthfully if called upon to do so. Davis once ran a highend Prostitution Ring and went to jail in the scandal surrounding then democratic governor eliot spitzer. The remorse i feel will always be with me. Reporter she has worked with stone over the years. And in late 2016, she joined his payroll to help him with clerical tasks. Muellers team has been looking into possible contact between stone and wikileaks founder, Julian Assange, as well as stones contact with russia during the 2016 campaign. Stone admitted to trading direct twitter messages with guccifer 2. 0, which is now known to be an online persona for russian intelligence officers. But stone says the messages were innocuous. I certainly acknowledge that i was in touch with trump
it back. Yeah, i followed assanges twitter feed very insidiously. I had a google alert and read every interview that he gave. You could foreshadow what hes doing miami not involved in any collusion, conspiracy or coordination with the russians or anyone else. And theres no evidence to the contrary. Reporter investigators have also been probing stones finances and his personal life. People familiar with the situation say at least two witnesses were asked whether stone was actually the father of davis son. Earlier this week, stone posted a photo of davis and her child to instagram, with this caption. Why do fbi agents dispatched by Robert Mueller keep asking a number of my current and former associates if i am this babys father . What does this have to do with Russian Collusion and the 2016 election . Now, andrew miller, another former associate of roger stone, has also been ordered to testify in front of muellers grand jury. Just another indication, wolf, of how prosecutors seem to be circling in around roger stone. They are really moving around that area. All right, thanks very much,
sara murray, for that report. Now to the criminal trial of President Trumps former Campaign Chairman, Paul Manafort. On the stand today, accountants who testified that manafort falsified financial documents as part of his alleged scheme to commit tax and bank fraud. Our crime and justice reporter, shimon prokupecz, is joining us. Shimon, what were the biggest developments today . Certainly, not a big day for Paul Manafort and his defense team. This accountant, shes one of the people who was given immunity by the special counsel to testify, because essentially she said she helped forge some of these documents, she put together fake documents to help manafort to try and get him some loans. She also says that during while manafort was working on the Trump Campaign in 2016, he had asked her to fake numbers and some documents in billing, saying that he had received some money from an overseas client. So all of this really coming out today, at the trial, an important witness clearly for the prosecution. She was on the stand for most of
the day. She will be back on monday. Shes expected to take the stand at 1 00. What can you tell what can we tell, shimon, where the prosecution is heading, based on what weve seen for so far the way theyre setting up evidence of double bookkeeping, for example, fudged loan applications, and hidden offshore accounts . Right, so, look, its clear they have a pretty strong case. They have emails from Paul Manafort to this accountant, to other people. There are notes, there are conversations, that they know all about. Its a tight case, it seems. It seems like they have a lot of information. And really, what theyre doing is, each witness is kind of supporting other theories, other witnesses, and in fact, i think what today shows us is this is all a buildup to next week when rick gates is expected to take the stand. Shimon, prosecutors also questioned his claims about that apartment that he had in trump tower. Whats that about . Right. So that has to do with tax issues. He claimed that this was not a
rental property or that this was a rental property and not a personal property. It really has to do with how he was paying taxes, trying not to trying to avoid, essentially, paying some taxes, or paying less taxes, and the accountant testified he basically asked her to lie about that apartment, what the purposes of that apartment at trump tower was for. Shimon prokupecz with the latest on that front. Thank you, shimon, very much. Joining us now, congressman mark beesy. Hes a democrat and serves on the Armed Services committee. Congressman, thank you so much for joining us. Hello, wolf. When you look at all of these developments with roger stone and Paul Manafort, what do you think it means for President Trump, big picture . Oh, i think that its bad news for President Trump. And with his latest lashing out on twitter, you know, asking for the Attorney General To Fire Mueller and end the investigation and put this to a close, it appears that the president is lashing out. He knows that this is serious business. He has proclaimed his innocence over and over again, but i think
that its getting ing tting toe hes getting desperate. He seems to be very angry about this. Lashing out at the media, trying to denigrate the media and say that the news that they present is not real. I think that hes in a lot of trouble. The president s perm lawyer, rudy giuliani, says the upcoming midterms in november, he says, theyre really about impeachment or no impeachment, his words. At the end of last year, you voted in favor of an effort to launch Impeachment Proceedings against the president. Right now, what evidence do you have that impeachment, high crimes and misdemeanor is warranted . Yeah, and of course, you know, when we had the vote on the house floor, voted president to representative greens amendment that he had. But i will tell you, i dont think that the midterm elections is just about impeachment or not impeachment. As a matter of fact, i think thats an issue thats not that relevant at all. I think people are concerned about what happened in helsinki. I think people are correspond about the economy and these tariffs. And just going back to helsinki very briefly, people here in texas were embarrassed by what they saw. And i thought the president had a chance to turn the page. Many people think, was he compromised . Is there something to that dossier . And when he was with putin on The World Stage with cameras in front of him, he had a chance to be tough. Instead, he let putin walk all over him. And i think it just further reinforced that theres a lot of fire to all of this smoke thats happening around this investigation. And he didnt do anything to move on from this. And with the latest revelations and everything thats going on right now with the manhattan madam, Paul Manafort and roger stone, it just appears to be getting worse and worse for him. And it also begs the question, why in the world did the republicans on the House Intelligence Committee think that now was the time to end the investigation . The American Public just, in my opinion, dont have confidence in Congressional Republicans and
their integrity anymore. Well see how that plays out in november, in the midterm elections. As you know, congressman, russia has now officially publicly responded to that News Conference over at the white house yesterday, by the nations Top National Security and intelligence chiefs. Russian spokeswoman denying that russia had anything to do with cyber warfare in 2016 against the u. S. She says the twoyear hysteria her words she says, the twoyear hysteria mocks the entire political system of the United States. What do you make of that . And do you feel that the government is doing enough to counter the ongoing threat, right now, from russia . Obviously, the russians will say anything to strengthen their position. And its sad that in many cases, it seems like the president is also going along with this, trying to downplay what they did in the elections. And you know the history, wolf. Before the 2016 campaign, the russians have always tried to influence our elections to try to undermine our democracy. But theyve found, in my opinion, players within the Trump Administration that may have that like the guccifer 2. 0, that had contact with roger stone and its really unsettling that theyre not taking this more seriously. Again, when he was with putin, he had a chance to be firm, be tough, and say, no, you can you have to stop meddling with our interference. And whats scary about this is that with the Social Media Platforms that are available out there, it really gives the russians more opportunities, more tools, and a much easier way to communicate and infiltrate groups of people and organizations within america and theyre just not taking it seriously. And whats so ironic about that, wolf, and sad at the same time, the same party, the republican party, that has gone around the country, trying to implement oppressive voter i. D. Bills, everywhere, saying that theyre concerned about the sanctity of the ballot. Theyre just letting the
russians walk all over our Electoral System and the security of our election system. They voted to zero out dollars that would have gone to Voting Clerks all around the country to help protect our elections and to make sure that the russians cant hack into our systems. And they had the opportunity to vote with democrats on the house floor here recently. I spoke on the house floor about it. And they voted, again, to zero out that money that would have been helpful in these efforts. I want to switch gears for a moment, while i have you, congressman. I want to play for you a moment from the president s rally. He spoke for more than an hour in pennsylvania last night. Listen to this. You know who the new star you know who that new leader is . Maxine waters. [ audience reacting ] very low iq. Low iq. No, no, Maxine Waters is like, shes like their new star. Hes been attacking her for
weeks now. Certainly not the first time hes attacked her. But he goes after her iq. A few weeks ago, he said her iq was in the 60s. What duo you think about that . Oh, i think that its absolutely terrible. And again, President Trump has shown that he just doesnt know how to bring the country together. He continues to attack people, the same way how he did throughout the entire republican primary process, the same way how he attacked Secretary Clinton and others, even after he won the campaign, when most people historically in this country move on and turn the page. And it just shows just how childish and petulant he is. I believe that in his own words, that he says that he has the temperament of an 8yearold. And he just proved it in pennsylvania. But what he really needs to be concerned about in pennsylvania is his bad poll numbers. Of course, he narrowly won pennsylvania in 2016. But now people there are roundly rejecting him. And with the type of behavior and the way that he attacked representative waters, its not
a big surprise. So youre from texas. I want to ask you about the situation on the border with mexico. As you know, more than 500 kids, children, are still being are still waiting to be reunited with their mothers and their fathers. The Trump Administration is now arguing that the aclu and other private organizations should use their resources to help locate the parents who have already been deported. And the federal judge is calling that simply unacceptable. Whats your reaction to that, that there are still more than 500 children who have been separated from their parents . Wolf, that is absolutely insane, that they would ask on Nonprofit Organizations to try to clean up a mess that they caused. I was down there with the on the border, of course, with senator gillibrand, not too long ago. And we saw kids as young as 2 years old that were separated from their parents. What the administration did was
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of something that could happen there. Reporter while the president s legal team is keeping the door open. Im not going to give you a lot of hope its going to happen, but were still negotiating. We havent stopped negotiating. At a Campaign Rally in pennsylvania, the president hardly sounded like hes warming up to the russia probe. Now, were being hindered by the russian hoax. Its a hoax, okay . Reporter mr. Trump is still bending the truth when it comes to his relationship with the russians, telling his supporters, hes no friend of the kremlin. Ill tell you what. Russias very unhappy that trump won, that i can tell you. Reporter despite the fact that Vladimir Putin just reveal at their joint summit, he wanted a trump victory. Translator yes, i did. Yes, i did, because he talked about bringing the u. S. russia relationship back to normal. Reporter democrats accuse the president of being at odds with his own National Security team, who warned the world russia is trying stistill tryin interfere in u. S. russia elections. The president was missing. And as you said, he was not only missing from that event. The next day, he calls it a hoax. And what President Trump did in helsinki and what he did yesterday in calling the russian probe a hoax, it gives a green light to mr. Putin to continue his activities here in the United States. Reporter and as one of the president s top intelligence officials conceded, its not fully known what mr. Trump told putin behind closed doors. Im not in the position to either understand fully or talk about what happened in helsinki. Ill turn it over to the National Security director here, to address that question. Reporter the president is still nursing his grudges with the media, disputing any news reports that he kept the queen waiting during his visit to britain last month. Im waiting so, i was about 15 minutes early. And im waiting with my wife, and thats fine. Hey, its the queen, right . We can wait. But im a little early. Honestly, folks, it was such a beautiful, beautiful visit and afternoon. But they can make anything bad, because they are the fake, fake, disgusting news. Reporter mr. Trump again turned to the issue of immigration, this time trying to defend his past comment that mexican immigrants are rapists and criminals. Coming down the escalator, and you remember what i said, theyre sending do you remember that . Theyre sending. And i mentioned words i wont even mention them tonight, because theres a lot of young people here, but i mentioned words, and everybody thought it was wonderful. But then, about two days later, they said, did he say th