history buff, 500 years ago today, hbegan the protestant reformation. thanks for joining us. >> "new day" starts right now. >> we wind of have crossed a threshold. bob mueller is a tough and dedicated prosecutor. >> papadoupolos is direct evidence the campaign was in contact with russians. >> his case involved the core of what mueller is investigating, which is possible collusion. >> today's announcement has nothing to do with the president. the real collusion scandal has everything to do with the clinton campaign. >> about russia. >> it may have come up. >> the manafort and gate the indictments are significant. all of the activities long before they had any association with the campaign. >> this idea that we had nothing to do with russia is long gone.

>> this is "new day" with chris cuomo and alice son comrat ta. >> we want to welcome our viewers, this is "new day," tuesday okctober 31. we begin with special counsel robert mueller's investigation. these are now facts. they're no longer allegations. george papodopolous, former campaign adviser, has pled guilty to lying. papodopolous has been cooperating with investigators for months, maybe even wearing a wire. >> it is a fact. how do we know? investigators have e-mails between former campaign chairman

paul manaforte and rick gates. they were discussing the potential meetings. manaforte and gates are under house arrest because they pled not guilty to tax and money laundering charges, including conspiracy counts. a source tells cnn that president trump is seething because the probe is getting close, reaching former aides. while the white house is using a series of inaccuracies to distance himself from these men. jessica schneider is live in washington. probably the toughest day yet for this white house. and that's saying something. >> reporter: prosecutors indicate this is just the beginning. george papodopolous' play plooe

was kept under wraps for weeks. while this plea deal did make a big impact, prosecutors warn, ominously, it's just a small part of what might come. special counsel robert mueller's office sealing documents showing george papodopolous has been cooperating with investigators since his arrest in july, pleading guilty earlier this month to lying to the fbi about his contact with russia, including a meet with a london professor, who told him in april 2016 that the kremlin had obtained dirt on hillary clinton in the form of thousands of e-mails. clinton campaign chairman pod t podesta's e-mail was hack bid russians the month before. >> papadopolous is direct evidence that somebody with the campaign was being contacted by russians. >> papadopoulos, a road map to

an on going investigation that there's a large scale on going investigation of which this case is a small part. suggesting that for the last three months he may have been providing the fbi with information about other trump campaign associates or even wearing a wire. the plea agreement outlines papadopoulos between the trump administration and campaig, even indicating that the russians were interested in meeting with candidate trump. forwarding the letter to rick gates, let's discuss. we need someone to communicate that dt is not doing these tr trips. it should be someone low level in the campaign so as not to send any signal. a meeting has been approved from our side. days later, wikileaks began releasing the e-mails hacked from the dnc and trump made

these infamous remarks. >> russia, if you're listening, i hope you're able to find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing. >> reporter: the following month a trump campaign supervisor, identified by the washington post as former trump campaign national co-chairman sam clovis told papadopoulos i would inform you and another foreign policy adviser to make the trip if it's feasible. clovis actually was opposed to the trip and was actually being polite, he said. >> there is no evidence that the trump campaign concluded with the russian government. >> reporter: likely contributing to the charges brought against both manaforte and gates, who pled guilty on 12 counts monday, conspiracy against the united states, conspiracy to launder money and failure to file reports for foreign bank klts.

both men must check in daily with federal authorities by phone and can only leave their homes for court appearances or medical appointments. paul manaforte is being held on $10 million secured bonds and rick gates $4 million. next court date is thursday at 4:00 p.m. back to you. >> thank you for laying that all out for us. we have cnn counterterrorist phil mudd and jeffrey toobin jeffrey toobin, you've had a little less than 24 hours to marinate on all of this. >> and marinate i have. >> yes, you have. >> as big as yesterday was, perhaps the most important thing we heard all day was the prosecutor in court in the

sealed transcript from early october saying this is just a small part of what we have. and i think that has to reorder what our investigation is. certainly the manafort indictment was expected. i don't know if the gates indictment was expected but certainly the other case zplsh papadopoulos. >> was a total surprise to me and everyone else. and also the substance of that guilty plea is so closely related to the core of mueller's investigation. >> let's drill down on that. >> yes. >> first, the procedure question. why did they unseal it yesterday? you really should read these koumts if you want to know what you're talking about here. and it certainly is a cooperation agreement with papadopoulos, no question. the suggestion by releasing this yesterday is that he's somehow related to the other two gentlemen, who were indicted.

why do you think the papadopoulos indictment ordeal was unsealed yesterday? >> that's a great question. i don't have a clear answer to that, because i don't know the inner workings of the mueller investigation. i do think that part of his cooperation, if you look at who the e-mails to or from -- >> right. >> were -- >> manafort and gates, who were part of -- >> but the indictment doesn't have anything to do with what papadopoulos was talking about. >> it doesn't but, remember, they were investigating the charges against any individual. you ask what was the biggest news of yesterday. >> yeah. >> also the possibility that papadopoulos was wearing a wire. >> let me read that to you, the clue where you gleaned that from. defendant has indicated he's willing to cooperate with the government in its ongo iing

investigation into russian efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. public disclosure of the defendant's initial appearance, however, would significantly undermine his ability to serve as a proactive cooperator. >> meaning making phone calls, having conversations with people while wearing a wire during this period during his arrest in july and his guilty plea in october. think about it, he could have been taping phone calls. >> nine weeks. >> just a couple of weeks ago. >> up until -- >> not ancient history. >> yeah. >> what's your take on that proactive cooperator? does that sound like somebody who is going to wear a wire or someone they want in the mix that they can go to whenever they want? >> i agree with that, there's a prospect that he's wearing a wire. you have two elements you want to look at. first is technical element. i've got your e-mails, your phone. that gives me pieces of a story, bits and pieces. a human being who can actively reach out to somebody, have a

conversation, what did you mean by that? who is interested in this? who is talking about this inner? you cannot replicate how a human being can fill out all the data without -- what's his intent? what do people talk about in terms of who might be implicated? filling in the dots when you have a ton of data behind it is really important. >> shimon, obviously, you and the team have been leading the charge in terms of reporting all of this. let's talk more about papadopoulos. sarah sanders in the white house is trying to downplay the fact that he was part of the campaign and foreign policy adviser, though he e-mailed the campaign something like 11 times. here is a significant e-mail. this comes from the statement of the offense filed yesterday -- sorry, earlier this month. the government notes that the official forwarded the defendant papadopoulos' e-mail to another campaign official without including defendant papadopoulos

and said let's discuss. we need someone to communicate to dt is not doing these trips. it should be someone low level in the campaign as sew as to not send a signal. we believe that was between manafort and gates. what do we know? >> some of the documents released yesterday relating to papapodopoulos was something that the fbi and the special counsel's office has been reviewing for some time. in the plea hearing where papadopoulos took the plea deal they talked about information that they've been able to obtain, which they have used, they say, quote, to build a road map into the investigation. papadopoulos has been sitting with the fbi for hours, days perhaps, months perhaps, going over pieces of e-mails, communications, skype -- he apparently was skyping with people in russia, talking about

coming there. this is all of the information the fbi now has and all of that, which i think is so important, is helping them to take a look, sort of be inside the trump campaign national security team. that is a huge, huge advantage for the fbi to be able to have all of that information, to have eyes into the campaign, into the marble security team. and who was surrounding papadopoulos, advising papadopoulos. there was one e-mail that told him great work on all these communications this is giving the fbi and special counsel eyes into this investigation. they know where they're going now and who they're targeting. >> shimon, thank you for that. >> this universe of fact separates papadopoulos from the carter page defense. i can't believe anybody who was

advising him thought it was a good idea for him to go on television last night. he's just a volunteer. so was bannon. so was manafort. that's a red herring, something to chase away the reality here. the interesting aspect is what it does to the timeline. maybe someone reached out to him and it's a nothing burger, as they're trying to say. in march, phil, that's when the hacking supposedly happened of the e-mails. put it up there, okay? in april is when papadopoulos starts talking about how he has been informed that they have e-mails, the russians. it didn't come out until after that. they weren't dump until after that. so either somebody was really a great liar and guesser or it proves that whoever papadopoulos was talking about may have known something that the rest of this country may not have known. >> this guy, papadopoulos is

change. robert mueller didn't up for this job to take down some peripheral. that's what we would call an access agent. is he at the beginning of rolling up -- not rolling down, rolling up access to bigger targets. we've not heard a single name beyond paul manafort. we haven't heard real allegations that the campaign received information related to e-mails. if you look at robert mueller's background, 12 years ago as fbi director, he rolled out the first card in this game. if we think this is the bombshell, we ain't seen nothing yet. >> hold on, cowboy. >> cowboy? >> you know, you're sort of assuming that all these other people committed crimes. maybe they didn't. this was in the 1,001 case, discreet lie to an fbi agent,

very traditional crime to be prosecuted. you're talking about rolling up these people, which they may yet do. i don't know. i just think we need to be careful about assuming that, you know, all these high-level people committed crimes. >> laying down a bet in vegas, is a bigger fish going to go down or not after an investigation that goes back now nearly two years? i'm going to say yes. >> i'm going to say i don't know. >> there's an odd intersection of politics and law going on with this first charge. here is why. if papadopoulos had these meetings and gotten the information, is it a crime? i say no. it's not aiding and abetting. >> because there's no collusion lie? >> it's an operative concept. there would be a conspiracy charge, which is what we see with manafort and gates. >> it has to be a conspiracy toy violate a law. not just conspiracy. >> if you were to meet with a

head guy, russian, hostile foreign nation, you still have to aid -- to get somebody on a crime you don't just have to show i met, i knew, i wanted, i took. they have to do something to show they helped the russian agent to break the law. that's a very high bar. >> i agree with that. >> it is a high bar. >> where we're at right now -- >> if the trump campaign, whoever it is, is actively working with the russians to get the access to these stolen e-mails, i'm not sure that isn't a crime. that may well be a crime. >> access to the stolen e-mails as opposed to helping them steal the e-mails. >> those are material differences, but i would not want to be one of the trump people involved in that. >> me either. >> even today there was evidence they were open and willing to -- >> that's not a crime, though.

>> all that might be an impeachable offense. >> it ain't a hoax and it ain't a witch hunt. this was real. he owned it. he has the proof and it could be, as we heard yesterday, just the end of the beginning. gentlemen, thank you very much. cowboy, good mask. president trump, seething over these criminal charges even though the president said he wouldn't fire the special prosecutor. that was on october 16th. we're in a different world today. is there an effort under way to undermine or remove mueller? we discuss the proof next. (honking) (beeping) we're on to you, diabetes. time's up, insufficient prenatal care. and administrative paperwork, your days of drowning people

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a source close to the white house tells cnn that president trump was seething over the indictment of three former trump campaign aides. cnn's joe johns is live at the white house with the latest. hi, joe. >> reporter: good morning, alisyn. for the last 24 hours for the white house, we really have had something old and something new. the guilty plea by papadopoulos was certainly something new. here was a former campaign

adviser. they didn't really know what he did, at least that's what the white house said. they were scrambling to explain, even minimize his link to the campaign. >> the president expected the indictments of former campaign chairman paul manafort and aide rick gates but was surprised by the revelation that another aide, george papadopoulos pled guilty to lying to the fbi and is cooperating with authorities. mr. trump spent much of the day hunkered down with his legal team in the white house private residence, growing increasingly frustrated after seeing video of manafort arriving at the fbi field office to turn himself in. publicly, the administration attempted to downplay the charges. >> i think the reaction of the administration is let the legal justice system work. everyone is in innocent, presumed innocent and we'll see

where it goes. >> reporter: ty cobbtelling cnn that he hasn't responded because he doesn't know him. >> george papadopoulos is an oil and energy consultant. excellent guy. >> this photo from march 2016 shows papadopoulos sitting at the same table as then candidate trump at a national security meeting, the press secretary attempting to distance the president from his former adviser. >> it was extremely limited, a volunteer position. again, no activity was ever done in an official capacity on behalf of the campaign. >> reporter: sanders falsely claiming that mueller's charges are unrelated to mr. trump. >> today's announcement has nothing to do with the president, has nothing to do with the president's campaign or campaign activity. >> reporter: a source familiar with former chief strategist steve bannon tells cnn he is

urging the president to fight back aggressively against mueller by getting republicans to cut funding or deliberately slowing down the investigation. the aides insisting mr. trump has no plans to take action against the special counsel. >> the president is not interfering with the special counsel mueller's position, not firing the special counsel. he said that before. >> now there is no reason to believe steve bannon or anyone else who advises the president has recommended that he engage in obstructing the work of the special counsel. his lawyers have said as much, saying again and again that, as far as their concerned, the president is fully cooperating. chris and alisyn, back to you. >> joe, appreciate it. cnn political analyst john avalon and david gregory. david gregory, what is the headline? >> i think it is the expanding nature of the investigation and the fact that it does have to do

with the trump campaign, a campaign that was open for business with the russians. after knowing what russia tried to do to our election. and the fact is that the president, regardless of what the impact or the end point of this investigation is, still has not stood up and said this was horrible what happened and what russia did to try to undermine our election and we are going to fight back. we're going to take action to make sure it doesn't happen again. we have to start with that original point. he seems to be totally unconcerned about what happened here. and on top of that, we learn a little bit more about potentially why. >> so the white house is actually saying the opposite of that. sarah sanders, the white house press secretary, is saying these were volunteers. we don't really -- barely know these people. >> yes. manafort who? >> this individual was a member of a volunteer advisory council that met one time over the course of a year. it was a volunteer position.

again, somebody on a volunteer committee. again, he was a volunteer. he was not paid by the campaign. he was a volunteer on, again, a council that met once. he was a volunteer on the campaign, volunteer member of advisory council. i'm telling you that he was volunteer member of an advisory council that literally met one time. >> we have a picture of the advisory council. it's interesting. here is the one she's talking about. this is a national security meeting. there is papadopoulos. there's president trump, jeff sessions. i don't know if this was a volunteer meeting they were having here, but this was called a national security meeting. he was a foreign policy adviser. >> he was a foreign policy adviser and, look, sarah huckabee sanders, volunteer was in the talking points. thank god that wasn't a drinking game. that messaging doesn't work. they think someone in the mail room. volunteers on policy advisers in

campaigns can play a pretty senior role. the details of that particular indictment are really troubling for the campaign. the white house -- trump may be seething and the third floor of the white house was probably especially in a we heard place yesterday but this is serious and they can't spin their way out of t they're going to try their best. also it's an indication that mueller is taking a pretty broad view here. that should make everybody associated with the campaign very nervous. >> one, volunteer, if they want to use that word. so was bannon, kushner and manafort. dismiss the term as having any kind of weight here. second of all, they paid a lot of attention to this guy. they had an e-mail where manafort and gates were talking about incessant suggestions that they meet with russian/putin. third of all, the president knew his name and described him as a good guy. that matters. sanders' desire to dismiss what the president of the united states president says about

somebody is silly. and thirdly, mueller want this had guy and he was working with them at least nine weeks. jeffrey toobin believes that the language in the cooperation agreement is suggestive of perhaps having put a wire on him. why would they go to that effort to get a cooperation agreement with somebody who was so meaningless? >> right. exactly. and, you know, history is so instructive here, right? go back to the early days of the watergate investigation when at that same podium the white house spokesman called the watergate break-in a third-rate burglary. history tells us how administrations respond to this. let's use the hillary clinton test. what would republicans be saying if president hillary clinton were facing this fact set? i think we know. they would be calling for her impeachment. >> they would be saying what they're saying right now, she should be the target of the investigation and she colluded

with russia. >> we don't have to go beyond the facts we know about right now. we don't have to do that. what we know is that there is evidence that the trump team at various levels, including his son -- they were open for business to work with the russians, to interfere in the election. that's what we know. we don't know if somebody actually committed a crime yet. we just know about that willingness. >> right. >> we know there was a candidate saying, hey, russia, hope you can find the e-mails. >> evidence of intention to collude. put up the time line for a second. it's been filled out in a way that's important, that should dismiss any ideas about whether or not papadopoulos matters. in march, trump puts papadopoulos on the advisory panel. remember what else happened in march. that's when the hacking took place. in april, papadopoulos starts getting these suggestions from the russian professor and

somebody else that they should meet because they have dirt on hillary clinton. that's before the e-mails came out. okay? so, these are key facts of this timeline that really tell the story of what was going on here. >> that point you're making is so important. it's before -- the e-mails have been stolen by, you know, who knows, they magically end up on wikileaks. third party intermediary offering them up to the trump campaign before that information is public. that's a key fact pattern that i think goes to solving a lot of the mysteries in addition to showing a troubling outreach by the campaign, this back and forth. >> and it makes that e-mail relevant. manafort saying we don't want to take these trips. but it is also suggestive of what did they know about potentially stolen e-mails and interest in them? >> if you believe the e-mails -- >> they didn't want to take the trips either.

>> sam clovis being the man of reason, i love that. >> we'll get to that. the other thing we know, david, is that republicans didn't want to talk about this yesterday. the reason we know that, there's an interesting clip that we're going to, in a minute, play for everybody. senator grassley attempting to go out a side exit. >> show it to them. >> you're going to see a desperate head looking for a side door, getting caught up in flag. >> just like the muppet show. >> and that really isn't our job. that's not our wheelhouse. that's the special -- if you'll -- if you would -- >> reporters were trying to ask him questions. he didn't seem in the mood to answer them. >> isn't that the muppet show, when they're trying to find their way out? >> you got an administration

that is actively going to start disparaging mueller, his team being far afield. i suspect some republicans will do the same and who will think that they ought to be focusing their efforts on hillary clinton, wall street journal editorial page saying there ought to be as much enthusiasm in that direction as well. i think this is the beginning of that. >> sneaking out under the cover of the american flag is such a beautiful visual metaphor that chuck grassley has given us that i think he owns that now. >> one more time. >> keep showing it. remember this, though, in this context of what is -- this is funny. what is not funny is speaker ryan says, i don't know. i haven't read the indictments yet. mitch mcconnell, nothing. these are the leaders of that party. how can they believe this is just a distraction from taxes? >> just an ostrich-like impulse. they don't want to deal with the fact pattern because they

desperately want to focus on tax reform. >> i think it was probably a mistake for trump to be holed up with his lawyers yesterday. he should have had a big tax event or something. there's nothing he can do about it just yet. >> john avlon, david gregory, thank you very much. nearly four weeks after that deadly ambush in niger, still so many questions. cnn takes you to the site of the attack next. this is electricity. ♪ this is a power plant. this is tim barckholtz. that's me! this is something he is researching at exxonmobil: using fuel cells to capture carbon emissions at power plants.

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cover for an ambush so they advance on foot. remote border region was thrown into a global spotlight. october 4th may have been america's first casualties in these lands but not niger's. their patrols regularly come under attack. the ground outside tongo tongo is littered with heavy machine gun casings and we ask the soldiers we're with if they know they're fired by u.s. or others. they can't tell. we tracked down the village chief's uncle and older brother and insist had the t the attackers came from elsewhere. initial reports were that the attack occurred some 10 kilometers outside of tongo tongo after the convoy stopped and villagers stalled them.

they're both saying that the american convoy and nigerien convoy never stopped here. they drove through the village and when they hit the outskirts that's when they heard the first gunshots. >> signs of the attack everywhere. that's the school we're being told was burnt down in the attack. it's a single classroom. we have to wrap it up right now. our escorts are understandably quite anxious about spending too much time on scene. you can see how close it was to the village. they hadn't even made it out. weeks after the attack, many questions remain. and so, too, does the threat. alisyn, as we were leaving, a short distance away, we drove over along one of the tracks that exists even more. bullet casings, perhaps, an illustration of just how wide the actual ambush battle zone was on that particular day.

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special counsel robert mueller's indictments are threatening to overshadow president trump's very big week. some republicans are trying to shift the focus back to tax reform. house republicans will unveil their tax plan tomorrow. david gregory and john avlon are back to talk with us about that. the fed's chief pick and the president is going to leave for a big asia trip friday. is it possible for the white house to sort of harness the plan again for this week and redirect away from these indictments? >> i think without a doubt, because these are all very big issues that have to do with the future of the economy, the future of any potential

legislative achievement for this administration and a crisis in korea that is frightening to the entire world. so, this is very important business at hand. the news psycycle is big enough accommodate all of these at the same time. and i think the president wants to keep the focus on some of these other matters. he has limited options when it comes to how the investigation on russia is playing out. he can respond to it. he can try to deflect from it. but these are other issues that he's going to drive. he needs to drive and, you know, the prospect of all of them, they're very important. >> and the spin right now from the white house is that the russia investigation is actually jeopardizing the president's ability to go apraud, negotiate and make deals. the fed chair is probably the biggest decision that he's going to make economically. the tax plan is political, if he gets it through, that shows that he delivered. but that fed chair position does a lot with this economy. and that's going to be a crucial

pick for him. >> it's one of the appointments that the president is defined by. and janet yellin has done a good job. not only experience as a businessman but the economy has done well, particularly the market. janet yellin and trump seem to have been working well together. a republican, sort of out of central casting, which seems to be criteria for trump but seen as a safe pick in terms of continuity, without having this indignity of reappointing obama's fed chair. that seems to be where the momentum is going in terms of a pick. that's a big deal under the basis of the economy. tax plan, as you say, massive if they want a legislative achievement. in terms of the overall economy, you can make the argument that the fed chair pick is even bigger. >> let's talk about chief of staff john kelly who made an appearance on fox news.

he has no intent to apologize to congresswoman wilson. he was asked about the confederate monuments and his take on them. listen to what he said about the civil war. >> history is history. and there are certain things in history that were not so good and other things that were very, very good. i will tell you that robert e. lee was an honorable man. he was a man that gave up his country to fight for his state, which in 150 years ago was more important than country. it was always loyalty to state first back in those days. now it's different today. but the lack of an ability to compromise let to the civil war and men and women of good faith on both sides made their stand where their conscience had them

make their stand. >> what do you think of those, david? >> pick me, please. pick me. >> it's all you. >> i think that's very troubling. first of all, there were major figures at the time who actually believed in the union and the country over the state. oh, that would include andrew jackson, abraham lincoln. winfield scott, the most important general at the time in america told robert e. lee he was making the worst decision of his life. this was not a close call. america mattered then and it matters now. history is not history when it comes to the civil war. these monuments were put up during reconstruction. >> jim crow. >> to stick it to freed black people and let them know that the civil war was fought for not. ulysses s. grant is pained by the fact that it was his believe that the civil war didn't matter because things were not actually going to change. history is not history, general

kelly. and i think that has been born out. >> also, this is the big word. slavery. it was about slavery not a crisis of conscience. what does this show us? kelly is a respected guy. how he leads men and women, how he has organized his attention to duty. that's all true. i've checked it ten ways from sunday. it's true. giving him credit for a political modulating ethos is false. it's always been false. the idea that he would control the president's political instincts to play toward division was always an empty promise. this is the proof. listen to what he's saying and listen to where we heard it before, out of the president's mouth. kelly -- >> good people on both sides, crisis of conscience. think about the monuments in a different way maybe, and these people want to take them down. it's bigotry being ignored and rationalized and kelly is not going to make it better. he's making it the same or

worse. >> and the language kelly used is straight out of sort of mid 20th century textbooks, the myth of the lost cause, confederacy is noble leaders like robert e. lee being motivated not over slavery but love of state first. that's fundamentally part of the problem. civil war didn't just come because good people couldn't compromise on both sides. it came about because of slavery. >> that not apologizing thing, one thing that we were hoping he would do is hey you have to be the biggest man in the room. i lead menace a general and i get t he just said the opposite. i'll never apologize. i'll never apologize. that's what he has around him, the president. how can you expect anything different out of him? >> he said two things. oh, no. no, never. well, i'll apologize if i need to but not for something like that. absolutely not. i stand by my comment. >> he said an apology is

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