Core Collusion News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

So one aspect might be the prosecutor wants a plea to avoid having to try this case. but i don't think manafort or gates really face a prosecutor who is afraid to try this case. it seems therefore that a prosecutor here who wants to hear from gates and manafort about the core collusion and also the interference with the election counterintelligence aspects of the mandate that he has, and he needs their testimony. and i think he's pressuring them in a way to try to get that testimony to determine really what happened in the 2016 election because that's his corpsman date. >> okay, gentlemen, tha...

Because we believe it exceeds mueller's mandate. that's, you know, for the president, he might say, i've had it. we see this as a fishing expedition. i order you, rod rosenstein, to fire mueller. and that sets off another whole line of actions that could portend terrible things for the president legally, along the obstruction of justice, abuse of office continuum. >> gentlemen, thank you all for being here. please stand by. obviously this breaking story continues with developments. but we want to bring in republican congressman shaun duffy of wisconsin. he's been a supporter of president trump...

Great scoop for the network. but as a lawmaker, i sit and go, why are we leaking information from the, special counsel to a news network? good for you, but i think bad for america. >> but, listen -- >> as we've seen all of these -- let me make the point. we've seen all these leaks take place. i'm sure that if there was evidence of collusion between donald trump and campaign with russia, this would would have been leaked out. you had the meeting between comey and donald trump on the dossier. you had this information, which is a crime to leak this information to you about an indictment. i believ...

Collusion conspiracy thing, i think is an important thing for all the players the who are in the orbit of this investigation. >> right. well, that's also something that the talking point neglects. the idea of saying, this went back a long way, renato, so obviously it has nothing to do with the campaign. that is a naive assumption. because the theory of the case is, well, they made relationships during that time. how did those relationships come to bear? and that's why i go back to rick gates. because the trump team kept him around after manafort left, which, you know, politically, is now going...

Mind is wishing doesn't make it so. he may wish this to be the case, but until we see what the indictment charges, it doesn't make it so. and the fact that it is disconnected, if it is, from the core collusion conspiracy charge does not mean that it doesn't open the door further to either charges directly in that case, with respect to manafort and the activities that he he is alleged to have undertaken with respect to the june 9th meeting and the promise of access to the president, if he's paid moneys owed from uranium, if he's not done other things that are communicative in the collusion cont...