jr. was told in those e-mails and papadopoulos, though he lied about it to the fbi then came here to the fbi that s a very good point. it s very clear that they were responding to signals from russian operatives saying we ve got some stuff, do you want to talk to us. yes, we doment your stuff. now, what we still don t know and it s a big don t know is whether thiesz conversations led anywhere and did it actually led to cooperation with the russians. that still is unclear. but we know that s where mueller is hoping to go or are least he s going to investigate that to find out just what happened. one last thing, anderson, what we ve also been told tonight by the washington post is that facebook is going to testify tomorrow that the russian-based, russian sourced materials put out in the campaign to meddle in the campaign may have reached as many as 126 million americans.
we were talking on friday about the issue of who was going to be the big fish. we had a national security adviser. we had michael flynn. we had manafort the campaign chair. we had other people, the son-in-law, the son of the president as well. but the other than was who was going to be the biggest of those fish. but the reality of today show us it was the smallest of those fish, papadopoulos where we were that there was a bridge that was being built and constructed from the fbi counterintelligence probe to now to fill in the gaps that you didn t have. and that s why papadopoulos is so important and how you know that context is going to be everything for mueller s team. we ve got a lot more ahead including the stuping none reaction today, house speaker paul ryan. hey hun, huh! we gotta go. come on.
now. okay, rick gates, and pamela brown. what are the obligations against these two? trump indictment between the two men wasn t sealed today. the counts include a conspiracy against united states, conspiracy to launder money and seven counts of failure to file reports, a foreign bank and financial account. these two mens is alleged to have been taking tens of millions of dollars from the ukraine while acting as agents for the country and hiding that money in offshore accounts to wash it. and they lied about it. they used this money from the accounts to pay for money, mortgaging, clothes, homes, decorating, their children ea east s tuition. the fbi says they were engaged in these activities from 2008 to
especially after that early-morning fbi raid on his home this past july. now we do have a much clearer picture of the extent of his alleged crimes. cnn s drew griffin has more. reporter: the government s case that paul manafort and his partner, rick gates, pushed $75 million through offshore accounts and manafort laundered $18 million of it, both have pleaded not guilty. most of the money came from the former government of ukraine. manafort allegedly hid the money in overseas bank accounts and offshore corporations, then tried to sneak the money back into the u.s. he bought three homes in new york and virginia, for $6.4 million, then took out loans on those properties to launder the cash. and according to the court filing, never paid taxes on any of it. federal prosecutors detail a lavish lifestyle that went beyond properties, including more than $5 million paid to a home improvement company in the hamptons. 1.3 million to a home entertainment system company and hundreds of thousands
tweets and the white house press secretary s insistence there s nothing to see here there is plenty to see. the man the president once called a foreign policy adviser pleads guilty to lying about his contact with russia. now one of the many questions of course is will the president try to impede the investigation going forward, an vegs he s repeatedly called a witch-hunt. new reporting tonight says there s an internal fight over how aggressively he should try to go after mueller. according to the reporting other advisers dlug his former chief stat gist steve bannon are saying he should push back aggressively. as i said plenty to see. what jumps out at you at this point in all that we learned today? what jumps out at me is i spent five years with director mueller. what jumps out at me is what we re not going to see here. we re going to violate the laws of nature because this maneuver is going to roll uphill. he did not after 12 years as an fbi dreng tore to get into the