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we've got a bunch of news that has broken late today and into this evening. that includes the federal court in washington, d.c. unsealing a new batch of documents in the special counsel's criminal case against trump campaign chairman paul manafort and trump campaign official rick gates. that 12-count felony indictment against those two officials was unsealed yesterday along side a guilty plea from a junior campaign official who admits he lied to the fbi about his russia contacts during the campaign. that was all yesterday. this new filing unsealed tonight by the federal court in washington lays out the first overt russia connections tot manafort and gates indictment as well as the russia connections that were spelled out in the guilty plea for that more junior campaign official, george papadopoulos yesterday. this new document about manafort
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and gates, it's actually a new set of documents called docket that has just been posted this evening. that means it includes arrest warrants, terms for release from custody of manafort and gates. there's a lot there. and we'll have more on that new filing coming up shortly this evening, as well as the new nbc news scoop that the trump national campaign cochair, the top policy official on the trump campaign has begun speaking with the mueller inquiry and he's given testimony to the grand jury in that case. there's a bunch of developing stories that are breaking this afternoon and into this evening. we'll have more on those ahead. our top story tonight, of course, is what local officials including new york city mayor bill de blasio are now calling an act of terror in the nation's largest city. tonight, eight people are dead and 11 people have been taken to the hospital with injuries after a man driving a rental truck
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apparently deliberately drove down the bike path that's next to the west side highway in lower manhattan. he ran down and ran over pedestrians and cycleists. i live right near there. that bike path is well utilized. it's its own highway. it runs along side the hudson river and a six lane highway on the other side. police say the driver turned his truck onto the bike path at houston street. he was able to drive southbound down the bike path which is a no vehicle zone. he drove southbound 20 blocks, hitting people on bikes and pedestrians along the way. then down at chamber street he collided with the school bus that was at the first cross street that he hit near the high school. police say two adults and two children aboard the school bus
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were injured. after crashing into the school bus, the attacker got out of his truck. law enforcement says he yelled allahu akbar before firing off what appears to be a bb or pellet gun. a uniformed police officer shot the attacker in the abdomen. police say he's being treated at a nearby hospital, although we do not know exactly which one. authorities have also not released the names of the eight people who were killed today. among those injured, some of the people who are still in hospital tonight are in serious condition. as if now we don't know if any of the remaining injuries are life threatening. the suspect is a 29-year-old man, sayfullo saipov of uzbek origin. the driver's licenses he was carrying tonight was apparently
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from tampa, florida. wnbc reports saipov is believed to have been staying in new jersey and he rented the truck that was used in today's attack from home depot in passaic, new jersey. nbc news reports the suspect tlaend truck at 2:00 p.m. today and then drove straight to manhattan to carry out the attack. the attack happened just past 3:00 p.m. new jersey advanced media reports late tonight authorities surrounded a block in paterson, new jersey, in a parking lot at a home depot in passaic, new jersey. police also surrounded a mosque and nearby apartments in patterson new jersey. officials are calling this an act of terror, based on the mode of the attack and what the suspect said when he got out of the truck. in the past hour, wnbc is reporting that in addition to all of that, a note was found in the suspect's truck, and according to wnbc, that note claims that the driver, the suspect in the attack had done what he did for isis.
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wnbc is sourcing that report about the note tonight to law enforcement officials. now, the nypd and the fbi have opened what they're describing as a joint investigation into today's attack. we'll have more on what that means in just a moment. but there are still some basic unanswered questions. we don't yet know what brought this suspect from florida to new jersey and how long he had been in the tri-state area. we also don't know the details of how this new york city police officer came upon and stopped the perpetrator. we don't know exactly why the perpetrator got out of his rented truck in the first place, which gave that police officer a clear opportunity to shoot him. new york police commissioner james o'neill noted that in an issue of the isis magazine that came out a couple of years ago, isis not only gave detailed instructions to its followers to use trucks to kill pedestrians, they specifically suggested a gathering like, as you see on your screen here, new york's macy's thanksgiving day parade
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as a good target for terrorists to target in a vehicle-borne attack. this is not thanksgiving, but it is halloween. and as it turns out, new york city does have a big event going on tonight. the annual halloween parade which you see here. new york city did not cancel tonight's annual halloween parade after this attack in lower manhattan this afternoon. but new york city's mayor and new york's governor, andrew cuomo, announced that revellers at the halloween party tonight should expect an increased police presence, not just at the parade but around the city, as a precaution. joining me is nbc reporter kristen dahlgren, thank you very much, kristen, we appreciate your time tonight. >> reporter: thanks, rachel. yeah, you talk about halloween down here, this is supposed to be a joyous time in this neighborhood, around manhattan. throughout this night, it's been so upsetting to see all of the police activity and the flashing lights and everything, and you see a little kid walking by in
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their halloween costume, parents pushing strollers with their kids out here, others headed off to the greenwich village parade tonight. and so people are still out there on the streets. but having to walk past this crime scene, and knowing what happened here, and that eight people lost their lives here. as you can see behind me, we're still blocked off. there is an active crime scene investigation going on right now, because there are still those unanswered questions. so police combing through the scene, trying to figure out exactly the path that this suspect took coming down that bike path. we know there was like a 15-block area along the path that he came down, leaving victims all along the way, until he ultimately crashed and got out of that rented truck and began trying to run and evade police. we've talked to eyewitnesses here who say they heard the
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shots, police taking him down, and they actually had to shield the kids that they were picking up from school at that time, because this happened around 3:30 in the afternoon. so telling some really terrible stories, and then the carnage that they saw afterwards, strewn along that bike path. tonight also the investigation is going to tampa, florida, trying to figure out what happened there with this suspect, to new jersey where he rented that truck and where he was apparently staying most recently. so a lot of unanswered questions, a lot of investigation going on. and then a definite stepped-up police presence here in new york tonight, both around this area, around the halloween parade going on tonight. and then in other tourist areas, police and authorities say they're going to be very visible tonight, rachel. >> kristen, we've heard it was a uniformed new york police officer who was able to shoot the suspect which appears to
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have stopped the attack once he was out of the truck. do we know anything about what the immediate police response was in terms of how quickly the police were on the scene, where the police officer was stationed, where he or she was able to make this confrontation. do we know anything about the initial police response that stopped the attack? >> reporter: it was apparently a police officer who was on duty at the time and happened to be nearby, i'm not sure exactly how close. but the eyewitnesses we were talking to said that the police presence was almost immediate. they said as soon as they heard something going on and saw what was going on, there were police around. you spend a lot of time around here, and in new york there often is a police officer not very far away, a block or two blocks away. and the witnesses describing sort of the chaos that was going on. i imagine that they would have gotten here very quickly. >> kristen dahlgren, nbc news correspondent. kristen, thank you for helping us through this thing, much appreciated. joining us here in studio is
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bill bratton, new york city police commissioner until last year. thank you for coming in. you heard kristen saying in that part of new york you don't have to go far to find a patrol officer. what do you know today, what have you been able to learn in terms of the immediate police response, the way the police are handling this, and what it means for this to be a joint police/fbi investigation going forward? >> on any day, new york city and particularly manhattan is the most heavily policed place in america. probably more so than washington, d.c. it's something that the nypd has consciously done since 9/11 in particular. and down in the world trade center area, this awful tragedy, the idea that it occurred within sight of those horrific events of now 16 years ago, it's so ironic. >> this was like a mile from the trade center. >> if not actually planned by this individual. so the fact that police response
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was so quick is not surprising. during my time as police commissioner, we created two new units, critical response command, srg, almost 1300 officers equipped with long guns. ballistic vests and helmets. >> what does srg stand for? >> strategic response group. they deal primarily with crowds, et cetera, and the critical response command which is a counterterrorism group. the intent is, anywhere in new york city, in the event of a lone wolf gunman, we can have teams of officers there with equipment. within electrify but in new york city, you can't look around without seeing a police officer. the city has invested a lot of money in that, 36,000 police officers. as to the unfolding events down there today, the investigation is going to be multifaceted. right now it involves apparently three states, florida, new jersey, new york.
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the rollback investigations will attempt to recover if he has had a computer, does he have a smartphone, did he have one with him, try to get information from that. several news sources including the local news station here in network, channel 4, are reporting a note or notes were recovered at the scene, indicating some type of allegiance to isis, which would be critical in the investigation, because so many of these things are inspired by, enabled by, or directed by, those are the three terms. this one would have been at a minimum inspired by if not enabled by. the investigation will also seek to determine does anybody else know about this, was anybody else involved in the planning. and that's critical to try very early on to see are there other threats we need to be mindful of, particularly with the half million people down there watch the halloween parade,
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literally 300 yards from where this occurred. >> what do you make of the decision to go ahead with that event tonight? again, i'm somebody who lives in that part of the city, i know how big and celebratory and edgy that event can be, i mean that in a positive way. to go ahead with that, i feel like the spirit of new york is you press ahead no matter what happens, but the city did have to make a decision. >> it's the right thing to do. boston strong after the martin, new york, resilience, undaunted, all the time, after 9/11, after every one of these incidents. there's been over two dozen attempted efforts, times square attempted bombing and others. commissioner o'neill, his first day after succeeding me, he had a bombing on 23rd street. >> right, and the bomber just convicted in that case. >> that's correct. and 13 moss 13 months later. the pace of these attacks is increasing, which is of concern. >> because of nypd is so big and capable and a multifaceted
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force, it makes one ask questions about how they work. than in a smaller locality. i ask specifically about working with the fbi. when the nypd and the fbi work together, is there a force multiplier effect, those two organizations get more done together than separately? or could the nypd handle this on their own? >> one of the things i take great pride in during my time as commissioner, you won't find a law enforcement agency that says it doesn't work seamlessly with the nypd. it's critical that you have what you saw tonight at the news conference, bill sweeney from the fbi, commissioner o'neill, the joint terrorism task force. they'll quickly determine whether this is to be led by the fbi, led by the nypd. no matter who is leading, everybody is working all together. that's a force multiplier. the fbi has the capability to reach to florida, to reach to new jersey.
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nypd has the capability with 14 detectives, a program initiated by my predecessor, ray kelly, to reach out overseas, who will be notified about this incident, asking for information and giving information to our allies overseas about what we know at this time, preliminary, but trying to exchange as much information as possible. >> new york city is the kind of city that has overseas detectives. >> a special place. >> bill bratton, police commissioner in new york city until last year, now an msnbc law enforcement analyst. thank you, sir. always good to see you. we have a lot to get to tonight. stay with us. in the mirror everyday. everyday, i think how fortunate i am. i think is today going to be the day, that we find a cure? i think how much i can do to help change people's lives. i may not benefit from those breakthroughs, but i'm sure going to...
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eight people were killed, 11 more taken to the hospital today after a suspect drove a rented truck down a very well-used, very popular bike path in lower manhattan. the suspect was shot in the abdomen by police. tonight he's in a local hospital. at this hour, wnbc in new york city is citing law enforcement officials and saying that the man left a note in the rental truck that he used as a weapon tonight, claiming that he was acting on behalf of isis. now, isis a couple of years ago did explicitly call in its propaganda magazine for its followers to use trucks, specifically trucks, not cars, not light suvs, to run down pedestrians, to cause mass casualty events. officials today in new york city described an effort they've undertaken in recent years to actually work with truck rental companies, trying to help them spot suspicious customers who might have an attack like this in mind. over the past couple of years, officials said they visited nearly 150 truck locations in the new york area.
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they say they reached out again to those locations after the truck-borne attack in nice, france last summer, then again after the christmas market attack in berlin that had some of these same hallmarks. tonight, pete williams of nbc news suggests that because the suspect in today's attack had not just a regular driver's license but a truck driver's license, that suspect actually might have been more likely to get a truck rental without facing a lot of questions from these antiterror campaigns. now, despite the continued efforts to stop this kind of attack from happening, tonight those eight people have been killed, more are injured. we await claims from isis or anybody else who may try to credibly claim this attack. my guest is a foreign correspondent for "the new york times" and an msnbc contributor. thanks for being here. what do you make of the reported notes in the vehicle? >> that's really telling. if the note pledging
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allegiance to isis, it matches down to the t what the english magazine of isis called for in their issue of 2016. in that issue they said, like you said, to use a truck, not an suv, to mow down pedestrians and to keep driving over them in order to cause the most carnage until it's not possible to continue. so we know that he ran into a bus that stopped him. then you're supposed to go out on foot, use a secondary arm, whether it's a knife or some sort of other weapon or a gun, to continue hurting people. and you're supposed to leave a note behind. those were the elements that they laid out. and if indeed there is this note, that seems to, you know, very much be in line with that. >> that sounds very much like the m.o. of what happened at ohio state in 2016. >> exactly. ohio state, berlin, and nice are the main examples that we look to. >> and each of those had at least some of those elements. that were prescribed. >> exactly. nice, berlin, and now new york, is using the large truck.
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before, we've also seen with smaller cars. but in general, those are not as deadly. >> now, one of the things that i've learned from you in your coverage of isis is that isis typically does not like to claim responsibility for attacks when the attacker is still alive. particularly when the attacker is in custody. >> exactly. >> explain again why that is and how that may apply to this situation. >> the reality, rachel, is we don't know why they do this. the speculation is they don't want to do this because if they claim him now, then it complicates his case when he goes before a jury, which this young man will likely do. in the chelsea attack, over two dozen people were injured. in the diary found on his person when he was taken in, it specifically referenced ahmad ma hanny. so they had every reason to
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claim that attack, and yet they never did. >> right. he was taken into custody, just convicted. >> just convicted, exactly. >> and he claims he was acting on behalf of isis. isis does not claim him. and in this case we've had no claims of responsibility from isis or any other group. >> no, we've had no claims of responsibility. what is curious is just yesterday, isis put out a banner that they translated into four languages, french, russian, english, and german, calling for attacks on halloween. they do this quite frequently. >> attacks in the united states on halloween? >> they didn't say halloween -- they didn't say the united states. the picture showed the eiffel tower. you can read whatever you want into that. it was yesterday, and halloween is an american holiday. what's odd about that banner is number one, it was translated a number of times, that shows they were really trying to get it out there. and it had a date, usually their banners say attack london, and there's no date. this one said halloween, october 31st. so it was very specific. i don't know if there's a tie there. if this is indeed an inspired
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attack, perhaps he was responding to that. >> and the suspect they're describing as a 29-year-old uzbek-born man. >> yes. >> does his uzbek nationality say anything to you about his affiliation or anything else? >> it does, in the sense that the most recent figures we have from a report that just came out a couple of days ago regarding the number of foreign fighters, they say that around 40,000 people from all over the world joined isis. and the region that sent the most foreign fighters is the former soviet republics. uzbekistan is one of the nationalities of the istanbul airport attackers. about five or six people from america that went to join isis we know were uzbek nationals. we know this person immigrated here legally in 2010. i don't want to suggest that this person joined isis and returned, only that there's a
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preponderance of people from that part of the world that seem to have been taken in by the message of this group. >> a foreign correspondent from "the new york times" who focuses isis, al qaeda, and islamic terrorism. always seeing you under terrible circumstances, but thank you. >> thank you, rachel. much more to come tonight including the latest on a batch of documents unsealed by a federal district court tonight in the criminal case against the trump campaign manager. we were not expecting this docket to get unsealed tonight. it was unsealed tonight, it is very substantive. and that story is ahead. stay with us. when you have a cold
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so we're continuing to monitor the situation in lower manhattan tonight, where an apparent terrorist attack has claimed eight lives and a suspect is in custody. 11 people are in the hospital. we do want to let you know about some other news that broke late this evening as we were preparing to get on the air, though. somewhat unexpectedly, the federal court in washington, d.c. tonight unsealed the docket in the federal criminal case that's been launched against trump campaign chairman paul manafort and trump campaign official rick gates. the indictment against manafort and gates was filed with the court on friday last week and sealed on that day. it was unsealed yesterday morning, which is how we all learned about the government's 12 felony charges and the narrative of the special counsel's case against paul manafort and rick gates. but then tonight, without warning, they unsealed a whole bunch of other documents in relation to that case. and the unsealed docket, as of tonight you can now see the arrest warrant for paul manafort and the arrest warrant for rick gates.
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the two of them were taken into custody yesterday morning. but then they were not put in jail. they were released. and it turns out they were released on very different terms. you can see here on this document, this is the one that relates to gates. this is defendant richard gates here. he was released on his own personal recognizance. richard gates was allowed to go home. the terms of release are that he is not allowed to apply for a passport. he is required to stay at home. that's the phrase there, permanent home confinement you see handwritten there. he is allowed to leave home to meet with his lawyers or attend religious services or medical emergencies. he needs to check in daily by phone with the court in the eastern district of virginia. so those are the terms of rick gates' release. after he was taken into custody. he's released on his own personal recognizance, has to stay home, has to check in by phone once a day. those appear not to be the terms
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on which his co-defendant, paul manafort, has been released. as you can see, paul manafort's release form looks quite different. paul manafort is not released on his own personal recognizance. his form says he was released into a high intensity supervision program of the pretrial service agency at the district court in d.c. now, the handwritten instructions on his release form for manafort are similar to those on gates' form. he's instructed to remain on permanent home confinement, allowed to leave home only for visits to attorneys or visits to court, medical emergencies, religious services. like rick gates, he's instructed to report daily by telephone. but for manafort, this high intensity supervision program appears to be the kind of program that includes people wearing an electronic monitoring device, which presumably means an ankle bracelet or something. it's not explicitly clear from this form that manafort has been assigned an ankle bracelet or
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some other kind of electronic monitor. but that is definitely the kind of program that he has been signed up for. now, in addition to getting the arrest warrants for manafort and gates and the terms on which they were released, the court also made public a new 17-page document we've never seen before. in this document the government notifies them about the terms of the speediness of their trial. it tells them that foreign bank records are going to be used in making the case against them. then it also makes the case at length for why these release terms should be this strict. why these guys might represent a flight risk and need this kind of supervision. and the document is kind of a doozy. here's how the special counsel's office opens up this case. here's how they explain why they think manafort and gates are flight risks. quote, the defendants pose a risk of flight based on the serious nature of the charges, their history of deceptive and
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misleading conduct, the potentially significant sentences the defendants face, the strong evidence of guilt, their significant financial resources, and their foreign connections. okay. financial resources and foreign connections. the special counsel's office then lays out a whole bunch of new information that was not in the indictment against manafort and gates about their foreign ties, about them having the financial means to flee the country, to evade this prosecution if they wanted to. a lot was made in the press yesterday, a lot was made by the white house yesterday about the fact there was no mention of russia in the indictment of paul manafort and rick gates. but here in this indictment unsealed tonight, there is definitely mention of russia. you'll call in the indictment yesterday, the special counsel's office laid out a big long list of foreign bank accounts. those foreign bank accounts are a key player in all the criminal charges that paul manafort and rick gates are facing. everything from not reporting their foreign bank accounts to
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the irs, to using those accounts to shield their foreign income from taxes, those foreign bank accounts are also key to the allegations of money laundering, using expensive pieces of real estate and money moving in and out of those foreign accounts. well, what mueller's office has unsealed tonight with this federal court in d.c. is a new allegation that it was not just paul manafort and rick gates who controlled those foreign bank accounts, it was also, quote, a russian national, i'll quote to you from what the court unsealed tonight, quote, the indictment sets forth and charges the defendants with engaging in a long running and complex scheme to funnel millions of dollars into the united states through various entities and accounts in cyprus, the grenadine, seychelles, and england, passed through a series of foreign accounts. manafort, gates, and a russian national who was a longstanding employee of manafort partners
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served as the signatories on these accounts. russian national. i think we can surmise from news reports that the russian national in question here may be konstantin kilimnick from the gru, meaning he used to work for the russian military intelligence service. he used to widely brag about his background in russian military intelligence. before he went to work for paul manafort. the the government's unsealed documents that have just been released tonight allege that this russian national was also an owner and signatory on their foreign bank accounts that are detailed in the criminal indictment against these two officials. two pages later in the section
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of these documents tonight, the section that's marked ties abroad and frequent travel, special counsel's office tonight makes another brand-new and sort of eye popping allegation against paul manafort and rick gates. quote, both defendants have substantial ties abroad including ukraine where both have served as agents of its government. davis manafort international had staff in kiev, in ukraine, and in moscow, and both manafort and gates have connections to ukrainian and russian oligarchs who have provided millions of dollars to manafort and gates. the foreign connections of this kind indicate that the defendants would have access to funds and an ability to live comfortably abroad, a consideration that strongly suggests risk of flight. so this is the special counsel going on record in court filings saying paul manafort and rick gates were paid millions of dollars by russian oligarchs.
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and i may be wrong about this, but i think this is also the first official representation by the government that manafort's business was staffed up in moscow. manafort himself has always described his business as operating in ukraine. he's always described himself as having no russian business ties. but the special counsel is now saying in this court filing that manafort was paid millions of dollars by russian oligarchs and that his business had staff in moscow. now, again, the purpose of this document is pretty specific. this is listing the special counsel's evidence that paul manafort and rick gates should be strictly supervised, that they should be on permanent home confinement, as it says in the terms of their release. part of the way the government argues for that is by describing the financial resources that manafort and gates have at their disposal if either of them ever did decide to flee. what's interesting about this declaration from the special counsel is it sounds like they have tracked down every last
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iota of financial information about manafort and gates. and part of what they have turned up thus far is that manafort and gates have each made wildly different public representations as to how much they're worth, as to how much money they have. start with gates here, and then we'll do manafort after. here's what this document unsealed by the court tonight says about gates. quote, recently in a february 2016 application for a line of credit, gates listed his and his wife's net worth as $30 million. he listed his own liquid net worth as $25 million. that said, other documents provide conflicting information. one month after that credit line application in march 2016, gates made a residential loan application in which he listed his total assets and that of his wife as 90% less than that, listed his total assets and that of his wife as approximately $2.6 million, one tenth of what he had said just the previous month.
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in connection with the loan in 2011, gates estimated his total assets to be approximately $2.2 million. so wildly different representations by rick gates as to how much money he had, whatever that means. but check out what they say about manafort. quote, manafort's financial holdings are substantial if difficult to quantify precisely because of his varying representations. manafort has represented the value of his assets on loan applications and other financial documents in divergent amounts. for example, in november 2016 and january 2017, he said his net assets were approximately $25 million. but before that, in august 2016, he listed the value of his assets as $63 million. and in a different application, also that same month, in august 2016, he listed his assets as $28 million. three months before that, he represented his assets to be $42 million. the month before that, he
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represented his assets to be -- excuse me -- his assets to be $48 million. the previous year in april 2015, he said he was worth $35 million. and maybe all of this is true, maybe between march 2016 when he joined the trump campaign and two months later, paul manafort did triple his net worth and then somehow three months later, by the time he was getting kicked off the trump campaign, he lost $100 million. maybe it's true and it's been a mad roller coaster of paul manafort in terms of his net assets. but these new filings unsealed by the special counsel's office and the court tonight show you at the very least, the special counsel has got valuations of the assets and holdings of paul manafort and rick gates from multiple different sources going back years and years and years. they've got their loan applications. they've got other kinds of loan applications. they've got credit line applications. they've got it all.
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the government in this document unsealed by the court tonight, they argue that the case should be treated as a complex case. it shouldn't be rushed to a conclusion under the constitutional requirements that you get a speedy trial. it doesn't seem like they had a hard fight on that, they note in one footnote that manafort's counsel has agreed that the case should be treated as a complex case. but in making their argument to the court for why that should happen, the special counsel explains that this is a criminal case in which the government will be relying on, and i quote, hundreds of thousands of documents, quote, both from the united states and abroad. and an assertion that is probably blowing like a cold wind through the white house tonight, the special counsel's office asserts their case against manafort and gates will include not only bank records but also tax filings. so we don't know exactly if the president's campaign chairman is wearing an ankle bracelet tonight. we think he might be. he's released under a high
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intensity supervision program the special counsel's office has declared manafort has a history of receiving millions of dollars from russian oligarchs. and the special counsel has put gates and manafort and by extension anybody else involved in this case, put them all on notice now that the special counsel's efforts to track this stuff down includes them going through both foreign and domestic bank records and also tax filings. they've got their taxes. so these documents just unsealed by the court tonight, we'll get a little bit of help later this hour as to whether this is a normal looking declaration from prosecutors, but from a layman's perspective, a, this is a lot of new information, and b, this seems brutal.
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right? but it's remarkable in a smaller way because gates and manafort have worked together for years and years and years. they've just been indicted together in a 12-count felony indictment. but they're not necessarily handling their legal jeopardy in the same way. here's something to know about these guys. at his indictment yesterday morning, rick gates does not appear to have had a lawyer. he was not represented by counsel. just in case you were wondering if this indictment had come as a surprise. we expect rick gates will be represented by a lawyer when he turns up to court on thursday. but when he was indicted, he was alone. something else we've learned tonight as well, the president did his best today to downplay the role and importance of the campaign official whose guilty plea was unsealed yesterday. today the president derided papadopoulos as a, quote, young
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low level volunteer who few people knew. that distancing strategy is something we've seen repeatedly from the president. it's about to be tested in this case. whether or not george papadopoulos was himself an important figure on the campaign, the documents unsealed by the court appear to show him reporting to senior campaign officials frequently about his ongoing interactions with russians during the campaign. the documents that mueller's team have appear to show trump campaign officials encouraging george papadopoulos to keep up those contacts with russians. well, tonight nbc news reports that the person who is described as george papadopoulos' campaign supervisor, a man named sam clovis, who was national co-chair of the trump campaign, chief policy adviser to the trump campaign, sam clovis last week met with robert mueller's investigators. and nbc news reports tonight that sam clovis has also testified to the grand jury in this investigation. so if the trump white house decides they want to keep
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distancing themselves from people who have turned up in the russia investigation, distancing themselves from sam clovis is going to be particularly difficult, given not only that he was a national co-chair of the campaign but also that they have nominated him to a senior position at the u.s. department of agriculture for which sam clovis is supposed to face senate confirmation next week, which is probably going to be very, very awkward now. joining us is joyce vance, former state attorney for the state of alabama, thanks for being here. >> thanks for having me, rachel. >> so reading this document tonight that was unsealed by the court, this is a representation -- first there's the warrant, then there's the terms of confinement under which gates and manafort were released. then there's this 17-page document from the special counsel's office in which they make the case that they believe that these terms of release are warranted, that gates and manafort both represent a flight risk. is it surprising that the
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special counsel makes a whole bunch of you new allegations and representations of fact in that filing. >> at this stage in the case the government can ask the court to contain defendants pending trial. we didn't do that system, and t
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some different technology involved, but typically it sends a signal so the probation officer knows. and apparently they felt like they had the capability to monitor that system and assure he didn't leave his home. >> remarkable we're talking in these terms about the sitting president's campaign chairman. joyce vance, u.s. attorney from alabama. appreciate it. >> thanks. we'll be right back. stay with us. to keep their global campus connected. and why a pro football team chose us to deliver fiber-enabled broadband to more than 65,000 fans. and why a leading car brand counts on us to keep their dealer network streamlined and nimble.
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we do not yet have the names of the eight people who were killed and the 11 more who were seriously injured in the apparent terror attack today in new york city. well don't have a timeline for getting those names either. but we are beginning to get some general information about the victims. because of the location of this attack and how that bike path is typically used, there were worries early on that some of the people killed and hurt would end up being tourists or visitors from abroad. those worries are bearing out. the foreign minister of belgium tonight is saddened to announce that one belgian was among the eight people killed. he says another three people from belgium were among the injured. we're also now seeing unconfirmed media reports from argentina that four people from argentina were killed in today's attack. again, that's unconfirmed reports from the argentinean media. because this is new york,
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though, part of the citizen response has been to get out there and carry on. there is extra police and security in place. but the annual huge hundreds of thousands strong halloween parade in lower manhattan is out in full force tonight. as you'd expect in this city. we'll be right back. ray's always been different. last year, he said he was going to dig a hole to china. at&t is working with farmers to improve irrigation techniques.
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different stuff. they tried over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again to get rid of the affordable care act, and they failed every time. this week was supposed to be their next big push, the most important push of all, tax reform. that was supposed to be this week. tax reform week. msnbc. so far this week has been about the trump campaign manager and getted indicted and arrested and special investigation along with a guilty plea from a trump foreign policy adviser for lying to the fbi but the whois soldiered on been insisting on a on getting the tax bill out there. coming out wednesday. it's no longer out on wednesday. they now say ner pushing the deadline back until thursday we don't know exactly it's their own deadline we do know they're going to miss it. we know they're trying it does it for us time for last word with good evening >> good evening, rachel. when those deadlines move, that means they don't have a bill. it's as simple as that. >> the report from axios tonight