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this is the "cbs evening news." >> mason: and this is our western edition. good evening. i'm anthony mason. the criminal investigation of russian interference in the u.s. election moved into a new phase today. the special counsel announced a plea deal with a former trump campaign adviser who has agreed to cooperate and a former campaign chairman and his deputy were indicted on charges that include money laundering. they are under house arrest. the white house tried to distance the president today from all of this. we have extensive coverage tonight. jeff pegues has the plea deal with george papadopolous. julianna goldman, the very serious charges against paul manafort and rick gates, major garrett, reaction from the president, jan crawford on where robert mueller's investigation is headed. nancy cordes will update the congressional investigations, and we'll get analysis on all this from john dickerson. first, jeff pegues on the guilty

plea by george papadopolous to charges he lied to the f.b.i. about his contacts with russian operatives. >> reporter: president trump showcased his foreign policy team for "washington post" editors on march 21, 2016. among them, a political unknown in his late 20s. >> george papadopolous. he's an oil and energy consultant, excellent guy. a reporter: court papers say papadopolous now admits he went to work right away, setting up meetings with russian operatives who told him in april 2016 they had dirt on then-candidate hillary clinton, including thousands of e-mails. two months passed before the democratic national committee publicly blamed russians for hacking their computers and cealing data, including emails. according to the court papers, papadopolous had been emailing and meeting russian contacts regularly. ron hosko was a former assistant director of the f.b.i. what does it suggest that the russians were trying to do by

reaching through him to the y ump campaign? >> they were dangling some bait to someone who appeared to be very willing to grab that bait and pull the two orbits closer. i reporter: he met his main contact, nicknamed "the alofessor" in london. he also met with female russian national he initially believed believed was a relative of russian president vladimir putin. investigators allege that papadopolous cultivated the relationships thinking that it could increase his importance to sie campaign. on may 13th, the russians proposed a high-level meeting of mr. trump with the russian federation. court papers say the trump campaign rebuffed requests, but on july 14th, papadopolous told the russians a meeting has been nproved from our side. that meeting never happened, but others did, including on june 9th in trump tower when donald edump, jr., trump's son-in-law jared kushner, and bul manafort met a russian lawyer and others, believing they had dirt on hillary

clinton. papadopolous had been ducking reporters but surfaced on social media three weeks ago asking want a publisher. a st week he wanted recommendations for a speaker's bureau. he won't be sentenced until the mueller investigation is over, f t it seems he's already contemplating a future of books and speeches. anthony? yo mason: jeff pegues. thank you, jeff. the special counsel has been inllowing the money trail, and it led to the criminal indictment today. julianna goldman has that. >> reporter: paul manafort, president trump's former campaign chairman and his former business partner rick gates g eaded not guilty to 12 counts, including conspiring against the united states. the 31-page indictment charges emat over at least ten years the two men set up a scheme to hide tens of millions of dollars in income they received from a pro-russian ukrainian political alrty. prosecutors allege the scheme involved hiding that foreign work, funneling more than

$75 million through unreported foreign bank accounts, laundering tens of millions of dollars, and lying to the i.r.s. and the justice department. the indictment says manafort used his hidden overseas wealth to enjoy a lavish lifestyle, spending at least $6.4 million on homes in new york and virginia, more than $5 million on home improvements in the hamptons, and more than ev million at men's clothing stores in new york and beverly sills. >> he's the campaign chairman. there's no one higher than him except for one person. >> reporter: former federal prosecutor peter zeidenberg says the indictment could be used to iny and flip manafort and gates in the russia investigation. >> extremely strong, very serious charges that put a tremendous amount of pressure on manafort and gates to plead and cooperate. >> reporter: kevin downing is manafort's attorney. >> there is no evidence that mr. manafort or the trump

campaign colluded with the usssian government. >> reporter: manafort was fired in august 2016 after it became public that he lobbied on behalf of pro-russian interests, but manafort was allegedly laundering money while he was norking on the campaign, and the charges include actions taken this year according to the indictment in november 2016 and february 2017, the two men gave false statements to the justice department. >> this investigation has got a head of steam, and there will be a lot more shoes to drop. >> reporter: gates, who was also onafort's campaign deputy, was released on $5 million bail and faces up to 12.5 years if convicted. his spokesperson said he welcomes his day in court. manafort was released on $10 million bail and faces up to 15 years in prison. anthony? >> mason: julianna goldman. thanks, julianna. now, the reaction at the white house. major garrett is there. >> today's announcement has

nothing to do with the president, has nothing to do with the president's campaign, or campaign activity. io reporter: the white house strategy to downplay connections to the three men ran into s mediate factual problems. press secretary sarah huckabee sanders insisted george papadopolous had little impact on candidate trump's campaign. >> he was a volunteer on, again, a council that met once. >> reporter: so his activities were entirely of his invention. no one asked him to do any of isese things. is that what you're telling the american public? >> he asked to do things. he was pushed back or not responded to in any way, so any actions he took would have been on his own. >> reporter: but the bupadopolous plea agreement states he was not rebuffed by the campaign, quite the opposite. a trump campaign supervisor told papadopolous, "i would encourage wu to pursue contact with russians," and that he had done "great work." papadopolous also attended this foreign policy meeting with candidate trump in march of 2016.

>> paul manafort has done an plazing job. he's here someplace. where's paul? >> reporter: the white house began trying to distance itself from paul manafort in march. >> there has been discussion of paul manafort, who played a very limited role for a very limited amount of time. >> reporter: but while manafort only served as campaign chairman for three months, russia's connection to the campaign was an issue during his tenure. tiis is what he told "cbs this morning" in july 2016. >> we have no relationship. >> reporter: after resigning as chairman, manafort remained close to the trump campaign through election day and was a significant adviser during the transition. on twitter, the president tried at deflect criticism on to democrats writing, "why aren't crooked hillary and the dems the focus?" mr. trump has raised questions about the democrats' funding of a dossier filled with salacious allegations about him. the democratic national ommmittee admitting to paying for the research. the dossier later ended up in f.b.i. hands.

the white house says it expect mueller's investigation to end "soon," but only half of the interviews with top white house wd justice officials have occurred. there are no requests pending to t.terview the president or vice president. >> mason: major garrett at the white house. thanks, major. now to our chief legal correspondent. attorney general jan crawford. jan, where does the mueller investigation go from here? >> well, anthony, the charges today really signal an aggressive investigation. this is a double-barreled punch that veteran prosecutors say is just the beginning. and taken together, the lawyers say the indictment of manafort and gates and the plea deal with papadopolous have a common purpose beyond the underlying atimes, and that's to shake some trees and get witnesses to cooperate with the broader investigation. now, papadopolous met with arvernment lawyers, and he started cooperating after his harest in july. manafort and gates so far have not, but now the threat of prosecution and even jail time av additional charges against edem, that could cause them to

flip if they have information that mueller would be interested a. and that's a common approach in these wide-ranging investigations. stu know, they're not just one big case that's filed at the very end, but a series of little interim cases throughout. we talked to one veteran prosecutor who said we should definitely expect more charges s ainst others as this investigation moves forward and what today makes clear is that when robert mueller has cases that are ready to go, he's going to charge them. anthony. >> mason: jan crawford. thank you, jan. chief congressional correspondent nancy cordes has the reaction on capitol hill where the house and senate intelligence committees and the senate judiciary committee are conducting parallel t vestigations. >> this is what bob mueller was tasked to do. >> reporter: republicans gave the special counsel a wide berth today. >> no reason not to trust him. as reporter: as democrats argued the indictments and guilty plea are proof of a pattern. >> people affiliated with the utump campaign lying about their connections with the russians.

>> reporter: adam schiff is the cep democrat on the house intelligence committee. he told cbs news today that manafort's shady financial dealings did not end when he went to work for candidate trump. >> during the campaign, while he's campaign manager, he's trying to obtain more money for his work for these pro-russian interests in ukraine, money like that which he has now been indicted for laundering. >> reporter: republican richard burr is running the senate's russia investigation. he says papadopolous was a person of interest in his probe, as well. >> these are some serious charges. >> reporter: democrats argue it's time to pass a bill protecting special counsel mueller from a presidential firing. >> the investigation must be allowed to proceed unimpeded. >> reporter: republicans say the president knows better than to try that. >> the president should let the special counsel do his job. al reporter: but they would still rather talk about almost haything else. >> that really isn't our job.

>> reporter: texas republican dohn cornyn. do you think this impedes the president's ability to do his job? >> i don't see how the indictment changes the president's ability to do his job. there is a process for this to go forward, and i trust that it will happen. >> reporter: the white house said today the president has no otention of firing mueller and republicans here on capitol hill say that's a good thing. in fact, the president's recent golf partner, lindsey graham, y id a short time ago there will be "holy hell to pay" if mueller is released without any reason. >> mason: nancy cordes on capitol hill. naanks. facebook told congressional investigators today russian operatives published about 80,000 posts over a two-year period to try to influence u.s. politics. and 126 million americans may have seen them. twitter said it found more than 2,700 accounts linked to russian operatives. ck turn now to john dickerson,

our chief washington correspondent and anchor of "face the nation." john, the president tweeted in pmpital letters today that there was no collusion, but the developments suggest that may not be the case. >> reporter: the president tweeted "no collusion," but then he was scooped when it was panounced shortly thereafter that campaign adviser papadopolous had, in fact, had contact with the russian government source. it's a reminder they're the special counsel operates at a different pace than the world of twitter. the papadopolous source was cefering negative material on hillary clinton, which matches that different meeting that took place with a person claiming to represent the russian government who met with the president's son, son-in-law, and campaign chairman manafort. it's important to remember there was a time when the president's team said there had been no contact with the russians at all by the campaign. af mason: john, the white house is trying to distance the president from manafort, but he was the campaign chairman. >> reporter: he was the campaign thairman. that's exactly right. and the president promised that

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other words. and now the two navy seals are under investigation by n.c.i.s., the naval criminal investigative service. melgar and the two seals shared a house in the embassy compound in bamako, the capital of mali. the cause of the argument between them is not clear, but a fight broke out, and when it was over, melgar could not be revived. according to the u.s. africa command, melgar, a veteran of two tours in afghanistan, was in mali at the request of the local aevernment, helping them in the fight against al qaeda. he was a member of the same special forces group as the four americans who were killed earlier this month while on patrol in the neighboring country of niger. both countries are plagued by bands of islamic fighters, some pledging allegiance to al qaeda, others to isis, who move back and forth across the border conducting attacks against government outposts. the pentagon did not announce melgar's death when it happened,

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