The days top stories from around the world, from politics and money, to sports and pop culture. The days top stories from around the world, from politics and money, to sports and pop culture. Election process a top priority. Reporter if the president has done so it has not been in public. Standing along side russian president Vladimir Putin last month mr. Trump said this. He said it is not russia. I dont see any reason why it would be. Reporter ever since that moment at the Helsinki Summit The White House has been trying to clean up his words. National security adviser job bolten trying to do so today. When the two got together President Putin said the first issue that President Trump raised was Election Meddling. Reporter the comments from all officials were a far cry from what the president has repeatedly said. Is russia still targeting the u. S. , mr. President . Lets go. We are finished here. Thank you very much. Make your way out. Reporter so the question is
will the president make this declaration in his own voice and use his bully pulpit to call out Russian Election hacking and say it is a problem . We have been to rally after rally where the president has called this a hoax. Well see if he changes his tune tonight here in pennsylvania. The great commonwealth of pennsylvania. My experts are here with me. Lets be honest here. My guess is the white house did this because they were being attacked and criticized by republican officials and not just democrats including James Langford about how the president has not focussed enough on the threat. So the messaging he has put out on it the point being that Everyone Else is paying attention to it so we should be not as concerned as people are. What do you make of this . Republicans do recognize the threat in a way President Trump has not. If you take the threat seriously you have to wonder what would happen to republicans if there was an attack to the election in the mid terms. If anything happens in the mid terms it would blow back so severely. You mean on election day itself . If there wasnt a full display of force from the administration at the Press Briefing donald trump will have to make a Statement Like that at some time. If there was a belief nobody wants the responsibility for that later. Lets talk about this because the argument is that President Trump is saying something completely different from his cabinet. Is that not important for President Trump himself to give the statement about this is serious and im taking it seriously and it is real . He thought it was serious enough to mention it to putin when they met. He instructed he had a Cabinet Meeting on this just
recently to discuss it. He has his cabinet in a show of force of what he believes. If you are looking im sure you can find it. His actions he called it a witch hunt. He is calling the investigation into collusion a witch hunt. He has called Election Interference a witch hunt. He acknowledged that absolutely not false. He acknowledged that an attack took place in march of 2017. They attempted to interfere in our election. That is a much different term than saying they interfered in our election. I think we are nuancing it so we can provide space and have commentary. His positions have been clear. I totally disagree. Can i say it is great to hear republican senators speak against this. Republicans in the house just last week stalled money that was supposed to go into states to help fight election
interference. They need to catch up with where the secretaries are today especially our Intelligence Community. With donald trump, he uses his twitter to attack Robert Mueller. What is Robert Mueller supposed to be doing as a whole . He is supposed to get to the bottom of why we were cyber attacked in 2016. How are we not . He says Jeff Sessions needs to end the investigation. How are we supposed to take that . A year and a half ago the Intelligence Community said that the russians worked to interfere with our elections and worked to interfere in the elections to help donald trump. He has not accepted that statement multiple times when given the opportunity to do so. In fact, i think the whole world, not just our country, the whole world saw him basically cower to putin instead of say to
putin dont interfere with our elections. He had a Press Conference with Vladimir Putin which was he seems subservient to him. I think all of those things are why they may be playing cleanup. At the end of the day the issue with the administration is that you have a cabinet that does one thing and a president who continually says i want to bring in the fact i want to say something. At the end of the day it has been this administration doing something how . What have they done . I want to play the sound of director of intelligence coats talking about meddling when asked if there is a particular party benefitting by the current efforts . Looking for every opportunity regardless of party and regardless of whether or not it applies to the election to continue their pervasive efforts to undermine our fundamental
values. Coats is saying what they are all saying which is that the russians in these instances are trying to sow discord. They were on the left and right and all over the place trying to get people agitated. Last week, however, President Trump tweeted i am concerned based on the fact that no president has been tougher on russia than me. They will be pushing hard for the democrats. They definitely dont want trump. That is not what coats says. Coats says they are pushing for everybody. Obviously, the president is using language that makes some people uncomfortable. He is having fun with it. You have to understand from his perspective he sees himself as one of the toughest president s on russia if you compare to President Obama. He says of course they are not going to want me to continue. Im going to have a difference of opinion on how that plays out. He feels his aggressiveness is what barack obama implemented sanctions. Donald trump ended sanctions and
was overwhelmed by congress. When did President Obama step in to do something . On his way out the door. Exactly. There was an election happening at the time. It would have been nice for both sides to come out. Leadership would have gone forward with this. One point Vladimir Putin himself said in helsinki lets listen in. Vladimir putin himself said in helsinki he wanted donald trump to win. Its not that we dont know what happened. He himself said he wanted donald trump to win and we have the Intelligence Communitys findings. I am glad the intelligence communities are addressing it. But we do know what happened in 2016 despite Donald Trumps statements to the contrary. That is that Vladimir Putin and the russian government were to elect him using counter intelligence. One part that is confusing about the Trump Administrations argument that he is tough on russia is that they take credit for sanctions who the president never signaled support for. The State Department opposed the sanctions. So d i coats you are saying that the president has directed you to make the issue of Election Meddling a priority. How do you explain the disconnect between what you are saying and what the president has said about the issue . Im not in a position to either understand fully or talk about what happened in helsinki. Im not in a position to
understand fully what happened in helsinki or talk about it. I understand talking about it, but understand fully. A stunning but honest reaction i would say. We should be deeply disturbed as a country that the director of National Security does not know what transpired. Would you admit it is odd. Transparency is important in this process. We need all the agencies working together. The president is going to he makes the decision for himself. He was elected to do these diplomatic conversations. It is his discretion. Two hours everyone stick around. Why Robert Mueller wants to talk to a russian pop star . And then ivanka trump saying the news of Family Separations at the border was one of her worst moments during her time in the white house. Did she mention this to her father . vo when bandits stole the lockbox from the wells fargo stagecoach,
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before the president ial campaign at least to the 2013 Beauty Pageant and then performed. They have a long time relationship. Reportedly eric trump was texting with the pop star. After the election they were good friends. This is what provided the enroad to the meeting. When the pop stars producer says do you want to set up a meeting, the words i love it, that is how this all happened. He is a very important player. I would love for him to talk to Robert Mueller. I doubt it is in his interest. I guess he doesnt really have to. If you are not an american you dont have to talk to the Special Counsel. I think the odd thing about all of this is how few people are talking to the Special Counsel when people claim to be innocent. The Big Question Today is why the president of the United States hasnt talked to Robert Mueller. This has been a big back and forth dance for a long time. Here is do the American People deserve an answer to the prosecutors questions here . If the president is innocent give your answer. If he is not innocent give your answer. This isnt about the president s ability to survive or getting through. This is the American People deserve to know whether the president committed a crime. We would demand this of any common criminal. The president needs to answer the questions. One other thing that is most interesting about this debate that is emerging is how prosecutors examine the president s twitter statements particularly when it comes to obstruction of justice. It seems to me people are trying to draw a line between opinion and official statements. I dont know that criminals are allowed to draw any distinction like that when they go to court. The president this week said that Attorney GeneralJeff Sessions should stop the Mueller Investigation. Some people say that is clear obstruction of justice. Rudy giuliani says that is just
his opinion. There is a little bit of wiggle room. He said he should stop. They say it is not a directive. It sounds pretty direct to me. To answer your question, tweets equal ad missable evidence. The federal rules of evidence say a statement of a party or opponent are admissible and they are admissible without regard to the form they take. And the other problematic thing for the president is walkbacks are not admissible not from Sarah Huckabee sanders, not from rudy giuliani. Those tweets are valuable evidence. We have a lot more to talk about. Paul manafort decided not to sing to the Special Counsel. Now we know about his 10,000 karaoke machine. New details coming out about his lifestyle. So you have, your headphones, chair,
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a real affinity for karaoke. Reporter a 10,000 dluz finityfi affinity. Prosecutors are going to Great Lengths to prove Paul Manafort lived a life of extravagant luxury. They submitted receipts documenting the hundreds of thousands of dollars he spent on high end suits and clothing. Manafort paid 18,500 for a python jacket. Just a few months earlier it was 9,500 on an ostrich vest to apparently complicate the Ostrich Jacket he later paid 15,000. There are photos of the jackets and suits he paid a pretty penny for including from bijon. One jacket rang in at 32,800. Prosecutors have been parading vendors to testify for Paul Manaforts pension for posh living to show how he spent the millions of dollars hidden in offshore counts. He kept his seven homes in pristine condition. His landscaper testified that manafort spent about 450,000 over five years for his hamptons home commissioning him to care for the hundreds of flowers plus one of the biggest ponds two hours east of new york city. He kept his hamptons home high tech. Manafort paid more than 2. 2 million over the course of several years to install apple tvs, Wireless Networks and other electronics. Manafort paid via wire transfer, even splurging 10,000 on a Karaoke System in 2010. And Paul Manaforts personal
book keeper has been on the stand all afternoon. She says despite the fact that manafort once made millions she said by 2016 he was flat out broke and had maxed out all of his credit lines. She said on the stand that that led Paul Manafort and his Business Associate at the time, rick gates, to send fake inflated invoices and Business Statements to banks in order to get loans. That goes to the heart of prosecutors argument here for bank fraud. Lets bring in evan perez. Prosecutors honed in on how manafort allegedly moved money around. Tell us about that. Reporter once Paul Manafort was broke prosecutors say one thing he was starting to do was move money from some offshore Bank Accounts back to the United States evading any