so there are two things that are very important about obstruction of justice. one is that obstruction of justice is a crime. and even very, very high ranking government officials can be held accountable for obstruction of justice as a criminal matter, right? famously the first article of impeachment against richard nixon was about obstruction of justice. the first article against bill clinton was obstruction of justice. so one thing that's very important about obstruction are is that it's illegal. you can get caught for it. you can get impeached for it. arguably eyou can even get indicted for it while you are serving as president of the united states. that's one thing that's very important about obstruction, but there is something else that's important about obstruction of

justice as well. which is that it might work. high ranking government officials don't obstruct justice because they misunderstand the law and nobody's ever told them that it's a crime. high ranking government officials risk that criminal liability because sometimes it's worth it to try. because sometimes you really want to obstruct justice, right? depending on what you might otherwise be on the hook for if justice proceeds unimpeded. i mean given how many famous people have been busted so badly for obstruction of justice, no one would still try it nowadays, right, unless it sometimes still worked. during the presidential campaign in 2016 the u.s. intelligence community saw something going on with regard to russia and that election of ours. and part of what they were noticing is that russia seemed to be taking more than an acute interest in our alection thelec

year. they seemed to be making moves to influence that election. and simultaneously they also saw something that concerned them that was apparently going on between russia and the trump campaign. >> did evidence exist of collusion, coordination, conspiracy between the trump campaign and russian state actors at the time you learned of 2016 efforts? >> i encountered and am aware of information intelligence that revealed contacts and interactions between russian officials and u.s. persons involved in the trump campaign. that was a sufficient basis of intelligence that required further investigation by the bureau to determine whether or not u.s. persons were actively conspiring, colluding with russian officials. i was aware of intelligence and information about contacts

between russian officials and u.s. persons that raised concerns in my mind about whether or not those individuals were cooperating with the russians either in a witting or unwitting fashion and that served as a basis for the fbi investigation to determine whether such collusion, cooperation occurred. >> that served as the basis for the fbi investigation. that is how the fbi investigation came to be. the fbi investigation not just into russian interference in our presidential election but the possibility of the trump campaign being involved in it, cooperating in that effort somehow. that is how the fbi investigation got started. u.s. intelligence obtained information, obtained intel about suspicious contacts between the trump campaign and russia while russia was trying to influence the election to trump's benefit. ex-cia director john brennen testified about this in open session back in may. his testimony remains the best

on the record information we've got from someone in a position to know because he was there, about how and why that whole investigation started. basically about why we are going through this as a country. i mean that's still the best information and the most direct information we've got about what the intelligence community saw that freaked them out about the trump campaign. >> i encountered and am aware of information and intelligence that revealed contacts and interactions between russian officials and u.s. persons involved in the trump campaign. that i was concerned about, and it raised questions in my mind about whether or not the russians were able to gain the cooperation of those individuals. >> that's what it boils down to.

that was the seed, right? that was what grew this tree. given the contacts and interactions between russian officials and u.s. persons involved in the trump campaign, u.s. intelligence was concerned about whether or not they were able to gain access to those people. and that question, while russia were attacking our election, did they have help from the campaign? and that is still an open question and remains under investigation. now, though, increasingly and particularly on insane news days like today, that central question is being almost eclipse bide the separate but related matter of what happened when the trump campaign became the trump

presidency? did other officials move to obstruct justice? what afghanistan has the president and his administration done to try and block that investigation that started with intelligence agencies being worried with what they were seeing between the trump campaign and russia? if they have moved to block that investigation, did they do so by means that are illegal? if they did act illegally to block that investigation, what's the remedy to that? well, i mean let's look at what's happened to everybody, everybody who has had a senior role or a supervisory role in that investigation since trump was sworn in. when the president took office the acting attorney general was sally yates. the first week they were in office sally yates as head of the justice department acting attorney general, and head of the national security division at the justice department, those two personally went up to the

white house and warned the white house about trump's national security advisor mike flynn having serptitious conversations with russia that he was lying about. both officials at the white house are now gone. mary mccord, sally yates, of course is out as well. she did not leave of her own accord. the president fired her. jeff sessions was then confirmed as attorney general. there were intelligence intercepts, it turns out that he also had conversations with russia that he didn't hadn't disclosed. the president reportedly told his white house chief of staff to tell jeff sessions -- excuse me, told his white house council to tell jeff sessions he shouldn't recuse. when sessions recused anyway "the washington post" reports that the president then sent the white house chief of staff, reince priebus, to then secure

jeff sessions' resignation. within the justice department at the fbi the fbi's director, of course, was fired. after he says the president told him to layoff the investigation. that director says he conveyed the content of those directives from the president to a number of other fbi officials at the time, so they could effectively corroborate what james comey said, about how the president had pressured him to layoff the russia investigation when he recused and then he was then fired. the fbi chief of staff last week, that official was let go from the fbi. he says he also conveyed that information to fbi general council who was recently mysteriously reassigned to what appears to be a no show job around christmastime with no explanation. and james comey said he reported

the action tuesday the fbi deputy director today who was aapparently forced out of his job as well. the new trump director, christopher ray had threatened to resign in order to protect andrew mccabe against this white house effort to push mccabe out of his job. christopher re christopher ray does not seem to have resigned. he was going resign rather than see these other fbi officials pushed out of their job -- if you were thinking christopher ray was going tory zine rather than let that happen, andrew mccabe is out today. rod rosenstein overseas robert mueller's special counsel

investigation into the russia matter since jeff sessions recused himself. the reason i go through that list is just -- i mean to be blunt about it, the president has fired or tried to fire everybody in an oversight role in the russia investigation up to and including the special counsel himself. rod rosenstein is really the only one left he hasn't fired or tried to fire yet. but rod rosenstein we are now told today is increasingly the focus of the president's intentions and not in a good way. he really has tried to fire everybody else in the russia investigation except rod rosenstein. three years ago this week in 2015 justice department, the u.s. attorney's office in the southern district of new york, they made a dramatic announcement. they had arrested a guy who appeared to be a random bank employee. he was picked up by fbi agents

at a shopping center in river dale, new york. no one really knew what he was getting arrested for at the time. but it turned out that that random bank employee who they arrested at a shopping center in 2015, he turned out to be a key figure in an active russian spy ring. this was the headline from the press release they put out. attorney general, manhattan u.s. attorney and fbi announce charges in russian spy ring. spy ring attempted to recruit new york city residents as intelligence sources. attorney general eric holder said at the time, those charges demonstrate our firm commitment to combating attempts to illegally gather intel and recruit spies within the united states. we'll use every tool at our disposal to identify and hold accountable foreign agents operating inside this country no matter how deep their cover. so three people were charged in

this indictment. the cover for two of them was that they worked for the russian government. one of them worked for the u.n. in new york. one of them worked as a trade representative for the russian government. but the third guy in this spy ring, the one they actually picked up at that shopping center despite his deep cover, his cover was he worked at a russian bank at their branch office in new york city. the two guys running their spy ring here in new york while reportedly having normal government jobs, those guys escaped to moskow. the third guy was arrested, put on trial, got convicted and ended up serving a pretty good chunk of time in prison in ohio. they only sent him back to moskow this past spring. and one of the details is they fed them documents that had bugs in them, that had listening

devices. so the spy ring's operating in new york city, these russian guys are trying to cultivate american assets who will give them sensitive or secret or stolen information that they will then convey home to moskow. this is pure spying stuff. well, the fbi caught them in what they were doing and tracked them basically. they arranged to give these guys documents that seemed awesome, that seemed like juicy stuff. but the fbi gave them these documents in binders and the fbi had put little microphones inside the binders. so these russian guys from the spy ring, they brought this booty, this loot, this info they thought they had extracted from their american assets. they didn't know it had come from the fbi and had listening devices into it, they brought it into the russian government's facilities in new york so they could convey at home through secure channels to moskow. but even though they were in a

secure facility inside the russian government building, the fbi was listening the whole time to everything they were saying because they had bugs in the binders. these guys were unaware that they were being bugged. they had no idea they had been found out. they thought they were in a secure facility speaking to each other, and so they spoke totally freely about how they were running their spy ring, about the assets they were recruiting. including someone they described as quote, a male working as a consultant in new york city. quote, male one first met the russian spy defendant in january 2013 at an energy symposium in new york city. during this initial meeting the defendant gave him his e-mail and addresses. and male one exchanged e-mails and met in person. with male one providing the defendant with male one's outlook on the current and

future of the energy industry. male one provided documents to the defendant about the energy business. so these russian guys, right, two of them working as russian government employees and one of them working as a russian bank employee, so a spy ring, and they're trying to recruit american assets. and they got them. they got this american consultant guy who was hopefully shoveling them information, giving them documents, communicating with them regularly, in the course of the fbi's investigation the fbi even paid a visit to male one, to this american guy who was successfully being recruited by russian spies. and we later found out his name. his name was carter page. the same carter page who later turned up as one of the five named foreign policy advisers to the donald trump campaign. "the washington post" reported

in april that the justice department had obtained a fisa warrant to conduct surveillance on carter page as early as the summer of 2016. presidential candidate has an announced foreign policy advisor, someone who the justice department has under surveillance on the basis of the fact the justice department was able to convince a judge that there was reason to believe that guy was a foreign agent. right, from that initial "the washington post" reporting on them getting a fisa warrant on carter page, quote, the government's application for the surveillance order included a lengthy declaration that laid out the basis for believing he was an agent of the russian government and knowingly engaged in clandestine activities on behalf of moskow. so the justice department laid out that case about carter page in the summer of 2016 to get a warrant to surveil him. those warrants were granted initially and apparently renewed every 90 days thereafter.

you have to keep bringing it back before a judge, and keep renewing it 90 days and 90 days and eventually the obama administration turns into the trump administration. and even though this warrant was renewed many times, eventually the person who had to sign-off on the next application to renew that warrant was a trump appointee. it was deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. and that is reportedly the basis on which republicans in congress and the trump white house are now going to go after deputy attorney general rod rosenstein who oversees the mueller investigation at the justice department and the one figure overseeing the russia investigation the president hasn't fired or tried to fire. they released a memo -- the

surveillance warrant against carter page which emerged from the fact that he really was recruited by an actual russian spy ring in new york city. one which ended up with two of the spies fleeing the mus cow and one of the spies going to prison. and the fbi broke that spy ring apart. the fbi knew about that for years. they had carter page in their sights for years because he had been recruited by russian intelligence. all right, at its heart this whole thing, our lives now, right, this whole scandal, the biggest national security scandal to ever afflict an american presidency, at its heart this whole thing remains a scandal about a russian government trying to tip a their way, and all of the signs that

many of the people associated with the trump campaign appear to have something to hide with their contacts with the russian government and with russian intelligence during the time of that attack. all right, that's what this is all about. that's the reason for the initial investigation. that's why robert mueller ended up getting appointed special counsel. carter page and his russia ties, they were not a figment of christopher steele's imagination. and it is remarkable to think that the republican party and the trump white house are going to try to make it a scandal, that carter page of all people was being surveilled as a potential foreign agent, given his background of being recruited as a russian foreign agent. right, if that's the scandal that carter page was being surveilled as a foreign agent, you should google carter page. even just read about him in the fbi indictment about the russian spy rings where he surfaces. but republicans in congress have

voted to release this memo that they wrote tonight, and cnn is reporting that president trump has said about rod rosenstein, quote, let's fire him, let's get rid of him. "the washington post" reporting that the president thinks this nunes memo they're going to release will give him a pretext so he can go ahead and fire rod rosenstein. obstruction of justice is a crime, it is a crime of which even presidents can get in a whole lot of trouble. and it is fascinating to game out which of the president's actions might be legally actionable if he ends up getting impeached or indicted for some action of obstruction of just. i get it. but i also get that people try obstruct just for a reason. it is to stop an investigation, stop proceedings of justice that could reveal something that they really don't want revealed. and tonight that initial investigation, the big investigation, the russia

investigation is hanging by a thread. the fbi under pressure how now rolled over and given up all of its senior leadership including most of the senior officials who could corroborate testimony by former fbi director james comey about the president's behavior. you would expect, right, in the fbi once their individual officials were getting called out by name and attacked and impugned by the president, you might think that the way the fbi would react to that is by saying, hey, next person who gets personally attacked by the president gets promoted. are we all in agreement on that? right, you would expect the fbi to stand up for its independence. instead, what we've seen is the president and republican supporters in congress single out individual fbi officials, those with decades of experience, with no blemishes on their record whatsoever, you've seen them single out these fbi officials by name, and the fbi

has now rolled over and got rid of them. one after the other. so the fbi is expelling its top officials as they get attacked by republicans and by the trump white house. that's what's happening at the fbi. mueller investigation still exists. but if this stunt by house republicans tonight is designed to give the president an excuse to fire rod rosenstein, well, rod rosenstein oversees the mueller investigation. mueller has to clear every step with rod rosenstein. if the president fires rod rosenstein, the has his choisz of who he would like to put in that job instead. and that person would have to authority to stop the russia investigation. obstruction of justice is a serious crime, but,a reason people risk committing that

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scheduled to deliver his state of the union address to a join session in congress, and at least part of it is expected to be on theitate state of richarn as well. >> mr. nixon's goal is to convince people despite watergate he's in command of his office and can govern this nation effectively. >> mr. speaker, mr. president, my distinguished colleagues and our guests, i would like to add a personal note to an issue that has been of great concern to americans over the past year. i refer, of course, to the investigations of the so-called watergate affair. as you know, i have provided to the special prosecutor voluntarily a great deal of material. i believe that i have provided all thamaterial that he needs to

conclude his investigations and proceed to prosecute the guilty and to clear the innocent. i believe the time has come to bring that investigation and the other investigations of this matter to an end. one year of watergate is enough. [ applause ] >> one year of watergate is enough. proclaimed richard nixon to sustained applause. that was january 30, 1974. by august of that year, seven months later, he resigned from office. turns out one year of watergate wasn't nearly enough. tomorrow will be 44 years exactly from that speech and president trump will be giving his first state of the union. tonight on the eve of that speech democrats in the house fired off a signal flare that the investigation into this president has just crossed the rubicon. >> that is the classified

information. if it's good for the president fine regardless of the impact on the bureau, the department or the department of justice. >> it was also disclosed to the minority for the first time that the majority has effectually opened an investigation of the fbi and an investigation of the department of justice. under our committee rules, of course, that has to be a product of the consultation with minority. sadly, we can fully expect hat the president of the united states will not put the national interest over his own personal interest. but it is a sad day indeed when that is also true of our own committee. because today this committee voted to put the president's personal interest, perhaps their own political interests, above the national interests in denying themselves even the ability to hear from the department and the fbi. and that is, i think, a deeply regrettable state of affairs. but it does show how in my view

when you have a deeply flawed person in the oval office, that flaw can affect the government and today tragically it infected our committee. >> joining us now is adam schiff. that committee just voted to make public a classified republican memo authored by committee chairman congressman devin nunes. congressman schiff, thanks very much for joining us tonight. >> thank you. >> to clarify some of what happened tonight, the committee voted along party lines to not release a memo prepare bide you and your democratic colleagues. they agreed on party lines that they would release their own memo, which is based on classified information. what are we going to see? is there going to be a public release of this?

who gets to make decisions at this point in terms of the timing and redactions and things like that? >> well, that's exactly what happened tonight. peter king made a motion to make public the republican memo in what he said was a full interest of transparency. and we said, okay, in the full interest of transparency let's release that if it has to be released alongside the democratic memo. but apparently full transparency doesn't extend that far. they voted that down the party line basis. and the chairman committee who's pushing this memo out even hasn't read the material himself. so he can't judge the accuracy or inaccuracy as the case might be of his own work product. and we also voted to the let the doj and the fbi read that memo, and brief us so we can understand the sources and memo,

and they voted that down as well. now, what this means is that the spin memo will go out to the public within five days unless the president says otherwise. of course the president who thinks this is beneficial to him isn't going to say otherwise. it won't necessarily take five days if before that time he says go ahead and publish that memo. this is an act which the department of justice called extraordinary reckless. and this is done quite by design. there's no circumstance or error or mistake here. this is very deliberate. and as the department says, extraordinarily reckless. >> now, when the department describes this as extraordinary reckless, they're talking about the process by which the house republicans have decided to go ahead and move this forward. as far as i understand, the fbi hasn't been allowed to review --

the intelligence itself hasn't been able to review so they know exactly what the memo makes of the intelligence. do you think it will be damaging to national security if this is publicly released? >> i don't know, but i would like to find out from the department of justice and the fbi. what we made clear at the hearing today is if the majority voted to release our memo, we fully intend to have that vetted by the department, vetted by the fbi, so they can redact anything they think would be harmful. and that will be our process if the republicans allow this to see the light of day. they tried to portray this after the hearing of seeking the input of the fbi by saying, well, we let the fbi director view it briefly yesterday along with an intelligence analyst. but that's not the same thing as letting the intelligence agency or even the fbi vet it and point out the flaws in it.

and the director told me that he had deep concerns about the memo that he wished the bureau could express to the committee before it was made public. i conveyed that to the committee, and they voted down any opportunity to hear from the bureau and the department. >> given what they're doing against the express wishes of the fbi and the justice department, do you feel you understand why they're doing this? i mean is this borne of des appreciation, because they're very worried about what's going on with the russia investigation right now, and so they need a big, desperate distraction in order to sort of change the narrative? do you think this is about trying to create a pretense for the president to fire rod rosenstein and thereby start the process of trying to end this investigation? we're all exspeculating as to wt they be trying to do here.

what do you think? >> i think it's a disgraceful effort to distract public attention from the russia probe and provide some cover to the president if he takes the step of firing people associated with the investigation. it is, i think, deeply disgraceful act to politicize the process of declassifying intelligence in such a transparent way. we crossed the line today. i've been on the committee now, i think, about a decade. i've never seen anything like it. but it's a continuation of what the chairman did from the beginning. when he went to the white house and we would only learn shortly thereafter at the very information he was presenting to white house he'd gotten from the white house. it was the same kind of charade we saw exhibited today. but even more serious because this involves the publication of classified information without

no vetting whatsoever, no vetting for acerousry, and what the might dee to the investigation and no consideration what it might mean to other sources of the fbi who see the congress behave this way and wonder whether what they share with the fbi will be controversial. and the transcript of this is going to be released publicly. it should be released tomorrow, and you'll get to see this in all its ugliness and the all had she she sheepisness. >> thank you very much for your time tonight, sir. i know this is dramatic and busy time. i appreciate you being here. >> thanks, rachel. again, the house intelligence committee did just vote to release this republican memo to publish this classified information even though the fbi and justice department have not been able to review it in terms

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this is one of the great remaining mysteries. paul manafort was broke. he was even more broke than we might have realized before now. by the time he took over the trump campaign as its chairman in 2016 paul manafort had spent decades working for the least saver saver savory autocrats of the world.

later oleg dare pacificy then pursued him in court for $20 million he claimed manafort disappeared with. he was kind of of a pinch. he was buying tons of u.s. property, taking out tens of millions in loans against those properties. and then that ukrainian ruler was swept from power and suddenly manafort found himself out of a job. thanks to some in-depth reporting we learned that paul manafort's pns situation when he joined the trump campaign as its chairman was way more fraught than we previously understood. coat, money which floated freely and spent more freely soon became a problem. he complained about unpaid bills and at age 66 started scouring the world.

hungary, uganda, kenya. his daughter noted his quote, tight cash flow state and saying, quote, he is suddenly extremely cheap. franklin fort reports in the context of that investigation manafort seemed unwilling or perhaps unable to access his offshore accounts. to finance his expensive life he began taking out loans against his real estate. some $15 million over two years according to his indictment. all these loans would need to be paid back, of course, and one way other he'd still need to settle his giant bill with oleg da deripaska. in 2015 he reportedly told that friend, tom barrack, quote, i really need to get to trump. at that time, whatever was motivating him, we know that

paul manafort was pretty much broke, desperate for cash, already under fbi investigation, and he had a powerful russian l ololigarch after him for millions and millions of dollars. joining up with the trump campaign, they all warn said him not to do it. because they knew his reputation, what he had been involved with. they knew his past would never survive the spotlight of a presidential campaign. but for whatever reason, he really, really wanted that job. he wanted it so much that he offered to do it for free when he was totally broke and desperate for cash. why is that? franklin ford joins us next.

this just out, the cover story called the plot against america. quoting here directly. "last year a group of pall

manafort's long time friends tried to organize a cadre of defendants. manafort's old lobbying partner charlie black even showed up for a meeting though the two of them had largely fallen out of touch. a few wheelman of the old firm had come out, too, but there wasn't a lot to work with, one person contacted by this group told reporters. and nobody could be sure that paul didn't actually do it. in fact, everything about the man and the life he chose suggests that he did do it. joining us now is franklin fort. congratulations on this writing on paul manafort. when you say everything about paul manafort's track record,

his history, his career suggests that he did do it, he did do the rest worst thing of which he's suspected, what in his track record suggests to you that he did? >> so paul manafort was a political consultant and lobbyist in washington. it's always been a corrupt place, but there are different scales and magnitudes of corruption. and over the course of his career paul manafort kept pushing the limits of what was acceptable paver in washington. and one of those limits he started working in the 1980s and '90s for a bunch of foreign dictators and goons who wanted to get money from washington and wanted to improve their reputations back home. so he was a full-service manager for them. he would help them work on elections back in their own country. he would lobby to get them arms in d.c. and over the course of the last ten years of his career, he

ended up migrating to cukraine where he spent pretty much of all his time before the revolution swept victor from power. if you look at his career the way you leverage political connections, cash, reputation, there was a lot in his career that suggested he'd do whatever it would take. he didn't really have any sort of moral baseline. there wasn't any sort of threshold he would cross. >> you wrote convincingly about his career hitting the skids after ukraine. he gets ousted in crew yukraine. and i didn't understand before reading your reporting how much that hurt his financial every day life. given the financial straights he

was in, why did he offer to work for the trump campaign for free? how could he be offering to do anything for free at that point? >> right. it's totally out of character when identify look at the rest of his career, when he was famously slapping these enormous price tags on his service. one was he understand that trump is cheap, because he believed in trump tower. his firm had lobbied on behalf of trump. he had bved this guy up gose over the years. and so volunteering his services and presenting himself as a guy who wouldn't be a parasite, he thought it would be the best way to get treated in the campaign. he understood if he made the short-term sacrifice to join up with the trump campaign, there were other opportunities down the road for him. there were other opportunities during the campaign. and if trump happened to win, he would be the big shot in trump's

washington. it was a chance to revive his career. >> and being a big shot in washington translated into immediate cash flow solutions is the part of it, well, now he's under indictment. a remarkable new piece on paul manafort. congratulations. thank you. we'll be right back. stay with us. with one a day men's. ♪ get ready for the wild life a complete multivitamin with key nutrients, plus b vitamins for heart health. your one a day is showing. when it comes to travel, i sweat the details. late checkout... ...down-alternative pillows... ...and of course, price. tripadvisor helps you book a... ...hotel without breaking a sweat. because we now instantly... ...search over 200 booking sites ...to find you the lowest price... ...on the hotel you want. don't sweat your booking. tripadvisor. the latest reviews. the lowest prices.

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today rodney announced he is out. he is not seeking re-election this november. he has held that seat for 20 years. he just took over as chairman of the appropriations committee. which is really good gig, and could have kept for six years if he wanted. but after a full year of this outside his window every friday, rodney today became the 33rd member of congress to announce he's leaving congress this year. already 33 republicans are quitting including rodney. new jersey 11th for change got themselves some serious change. with the most lobster dishes of the year. new dueling lobster tails has two tails that'll fight to be your favorite. one topped with creamy shrimp and scallops, the other... steamed with lemon and herbs. and no, you're not dreaming, classics like lobster lover's dream are back too, along with decadent new lobster truffle mac & cheese.

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tomorrow. i thought it was amazing when they couldn't spell norway. uniom. our coverage >> good evening, rachel. the trump administration has more spelling mistakes in its first year than i think any other administration's total run of spelling mistakes. >> my favorite one was the first written statement put out when he got his first russia lawyers and the first statement me put