that they lied about that fact to cover it up. >> reporter: papadopoulos joined the trump campaign's national security team in march of 2016. >> george papadopoulos -- kw. >> reporter: donald trump's now well-known words of praise. >> excellent guy. >> reporter: but three days later, papadopoulos was in london, meeting with his russian connections, including a woman he thought was vladimir putin's niece, but wasn't. according to the fbi, the russians told him on april 26th they had "dirt" on hillary clinton and "thousands of e-mails," long before they were made public. the day after that pivotal meeting, donald trump gave his first foreign policy speech, with an emphasis on russia. >> i believe an easing of tensions, and improved relations with russia from a position of strength only, is possible, absolutely possible. >> reporter: according to today's court filing, papadopoulos, as an unpaid adviser, reported to four separate senior campaign managers or policy advisers, trying to set up a meeting between trump and putin. one told him "great job" and campaign supervisor wrote an e-mail -- "i would encourage

trump campaign. but hours later, a perhaps even bigger bombshell, pointing collusion. mueller's team announcing a guilty plea from a former trump campaign advisor named george papadopoulos. papadopoulos acknowledges he spoke with a professor with close ties to the russian government, according to court documents, papadopoulos says, "the professor had told him about the russian s possessing dirt on then-candidate hillary clinton in the form of thousands of e-mails." he admits he initially lied to the fbi and misrepresented those conversations. papadopoulos was part of the campaign's foreign policy team. trump praising him at the time in an interview with "the washington post." >> george papadopoulos, he's an energy and oil consultant, excellent guy. >> reporter: you can see them all here at this meeting. he told the investigators at that very meeting, march 31st, 2016, he informed the group "he had connections that could help arrange a meeting between then-candidate trump and president putin." happened, but in his plea papadopoulos makes one thing clear -- several members of team trum

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in march, the fbi confirmed it was investigating whether team trump and the russians worked together.what we're talking about h hh is a hostile foreign power, the kremlin, trying to disrupt our democracy. the fact that we now have evidence that that influence was solisitted by a campaign is very serious. >> reporter: none of the charges against manafort or gates announced today show evidence of collusion with russia, but the plea deal with 30-year-old george papadopoulos could be the most problematic development for the president, seen here in this photo, he literally had a seat at the table during the campaign. >> there's every reason to believe that he is now cooperating with the investigators and giving them information readily, that they would not have had as easily. >> reporter: papadopoulos was arrested for lying to the fbi about his contacts with people allegedly linked to the kremli one of them saying the russians had dirt on hillary clinton in the forms of thousands of e-mails. the next day donald trump gave his first foreign policy speech with an emphasis on russia. >> i bel

the three congressional investigations into possible collusion mean team trump and russia continue asial counsel robert mueller's work, at least for now. >> there's no intention or plan to make any changes in regards to special counsel. >> i'm an average american, watching today's developments. >> yeah pch. >> why does it matter for me at all? >> because it makes the u.s. government appear like a >> it's clear that when it comes to the russia investigation, this is the beginning, not the end. ♪ ♪ >>> coming up next here on "nightline," we switch gears entirely. the always glamourous wheel of fortune hostess, vanna white, takes us inside her home and her work closets. w they weren't perfect, but, ugh. oh well, all hope is lost! oh thanks! clearly my whitening toothpaste is not cutting it. time for whitestrips. crest glamorous white whitestrips are the only ada-accepted whitening strips proven to be safe and effective. they work below the enamel surface to whiten 25x better than a leading whitening toothpaste. hey, nice smile! thanks! i crushed the tissue test! yeah you did! crest. heal

trump still have it? like we were last november -- the biggest story here is politics is no longer all about local things. it is a national team donald trump getting involved, but mike pence and vice president biden, everyone in every race from now until november 2018 will be comparing what happens to what they expect about donald trump and the stakes are huge. heather: if you look at what is happening locally in terms of what may or may not happen nationally. >> when you talk about nationalizing this you lose a lot of local flavor and end up with candidates winning when voters didn't like him because they were on team trump or against team trump or part of the resistance and the reason this becomes so critical is imagine next year republicans pick up a couple senate seats which is entirely plausible, then obamacare will be repealed because it was one vote short last time and not just votes but messages. if you go the other way and democrats do well you could see the impeachment of donald trump. the stakes are big and ultimately will be decided by people i call reluctant trump supporters, people that don't like the president,

election so was the collusion between team trump and moscow. kenya's president who wins last week's repeat election by a landslide electoral commission says the vote was free and fair despite street violence and an opposition boycott will bring you the latest from nairobi. i'm phil gale welcome to the program as the spanish ration of catalonia begins its first week on the direct rule from madrid the country's top prosecutor has called for charges including rebellion to be brought against the latest who last week voted for independence from spain among the accused his catalonia president. whom a trade has removed from office spanish media reporting that he and other full members of his companies are now in brussels. correspondent. pants regatta joins us from brussels welcome back spanish media. in brussels what are you hearing . the manhunt for collins push him on the sect president is still on there's no official confirmation hearing process that he has arrived in this city or that he is on the road to the city the cut alon representation says

we are establishing which pro teams used to go to trump hotels, who still goes to trump hotels for a sense of how much business was lost. the 1 p7 teams that had gone the recently, at least 69 have lest. there may be a few more teams that have been recent customers are are still current customers, and we're trying to track that down. numbers in the list may grow. >> thank you, sir. appreciate it. thank you. >>> when we come back, the president is all over professional athletes for not standing in the national anthem, so why didn't he stand during yesterday's flag lowering at a military base? i am totally blind. and non-24 can make me show up too early... or too late. or make me feel like i'm not really "there." talk to your doctor, and call 844-234-2424. witness katy perry. witness katy perry become a legal witness. witness katy perry and left shark. or a card shark. grandma? witness katy perry work. witness katy perry firework. witness katy perry swish. witness katy perry... aaaaaaw look at that dog! katy perry: with music videos and behind the scenes footage, xfinity lets you witnes

you have new report ogennen on trump teams and trump hotels. >> we looked at whether trump teams beforeion or before he got into the campaign were still his clients. he used to have more than a third of the nba staying at his trump soho hotel in new york. we've found that 16 of those 17 teams have now quit, they've stopped spending money to stay at trump's places. >> interesting. >> each night they're there it's $20,000 in rooms, food, things like that, ballroom rentals for film sessions. it's not just that, not just the money the teams give directly, they tweet about it, post instagram about it. they show what cool people are there, nba players on the road. so they're walking ads for the trump hotel. so not only does he lose the money directly but also that social buzz. >> and are those properties seeing strong business since president trump took office? >> here's what's interesting, we're seeing a dynamic where the office is pulling it -- m mar-a-lago down in palm beach and the trump hotel here in decemb d.c., both those places that pruks a pruksimity to power is really there. a lot o

the trump team is ramping up its response, but you've heard it all before. trump says there was no collusion. and then attacked of course as usual suspect hillary rodham clinton. >>> and as special prosecutor robert mueller makes his first move, what happens if trump decides to fire him? tonight democrats are warning trump against doing just that. but will he be able to stop snims. >>> finally, bobby kennedy, a raging spirit. this is "hardball," where the action. ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> a programing note now about the nationwide tour for my new book, "bobby kennedy, a raging spirit" whose official publication date is tomorrow. tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern i'll be a guest on the "the rachel maddow show" and then be back up first thing tomorrow to discuss the book on "morning joe." that's the kickoff, the big day for this book. "bobby kennedy, a raging spirit" arrives in stores tomorrow, october 31st. and we'll be right back. dad: molly! trash! ( ♪ ) whoo! ( ♪ ) mom: hey, molly? it's time to go! (bell ringing) class, let's turn to page 136, recessive traits skip generations.

and jerome himself whose pa rt team trump and jerome himself whose part of it that is not yet appointed were false and got stanley fisher, the deputy head, stepping down. a potential game changer in the terms of the way things are done. it is clear that walsh is not necessarily trump's favourite because he is more likely to be hawkish, that means he would like to raise rates earlier whereas trump likes or like approach keeping the economy moving along. there's been a spike in us car sales in september, the highest for 12 years, because of hurricane damage. this is a breath of life for the car industry, it was clearly worrying because people keep cars so much longer than hitherto. a lot of people are now waiting to buy electric cars. this is obviously a significant positive thing for the car industry and the conviction industry because however damaging it is from a people point of view for the economy it will mean a lot of money. james bevan, you'll be back to discuss the papers at the end of the programme. we are receiving your tweets about yahoo, about hacking. keep them coming. what d

we learn more about the trump adviser front and center in robert mueller's russia probe, team trump is kicking the man candidate trump once praised to the curb. >> i never heard of papadopoulos. he never showed up at trump tower and never had any interaction with the campaign leaders. >> george was such a low level volunteer, i don't recall having much interaction with him throughout the campaign. >> steve bannon is whispering in the president's ear about ways to set fire to mueller's investigation. one thing trump lawyers have said is off the table. >> there is no conversation regarding firing robert mueller. >> and what this interview with white house chief of staff john kelly says about his relationship with the president. >> the lack of an ability to compromise led to the civil war. and men and women of good faith on both sides made their stand where their conscious had to make their stand. >> the facade of the white house is always beautiful. rain, sleete or shine. team trump's efforts to make like all is normal inside the white house right now is just that. it is a facade. despit

it's definitely the line that's been coming from team trump for quite a while. >> the russia story is a total fabrication. >> did any adviser or anybody in the trump campaign have any contact with the russians who were trying to meddle in the election? >> of course not. >> so there has been absolutely no collusion. it's been stated that they have no collusion. >> are there any ties between mr. trump, you or your campaign and putin and his regime? >> no, there are not. it's absurd. >> there was no collusion between us and russia. >> did anyone involved in the trump campaign have any contact with russians trying to meddle with the election? >> absolutely not. >> in the meantime, no collusion, no obstruction. >> so current and former members of team trump have long agreed there's nothing to see here and to that point they may be right. it's entirely possible that none of what they or we or anyone else has learned so far will add up to the campaign and russia working together to get donald trump in the white house or to him and anyone else object strubting justice. keeping them honest, th

have cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, and of expensive stunt to basically score points for team trumps promised to, in his words, take care of iran. in a television interview, mr trump again criticised the agreement, negotiated by his predecessor, president obama, which lifted sanctions on the iran in return for restrictions on its nuclear activities. i believe they're funding north korea. i believe they're trading with north korea. i believe they're doing things with north korea that is totally inappropriate that doesn't pertain to the deal. but in my opinion it does because it's called the spirit of the deal. and you will see what i will be doing in the not too distant future. but iran is a bad player, and they will be taken care of as a bad player. the man arrested after a car crash outside london's natural history museum yesterday has been released by police, but remains under investigation. the 47—year—old was one of 11 people hurt when his toyota prius mounted the pavement and hit pedestrians. police said the incident was a traffic accident and not terrorism related. the headlin

. —— team trump. president trump has promised to, in his words, "take care" of iran. criticised the agreement, negotiated by his predecessor, president obama, which lifted sanctions on the iranians in return for the country restricting their nuclear activities. i believe they're funding north korea. trading with north korea. i believe they're doing things with north korea that is totally inappropriate that doesn't pertain to the deal. but in my opinion it does because it's called the spirit of the deal. and you will see what i will be doing in the not too distant future. but iran is a bad player, and they will be taken care of as a bad player. the snp leader nicola sturgeon says she won't think about the timescale for another scottish independence referendum until the brexit deal becomes clear. she had previously talked about holding a second vote as early next autumn. and, as the party gathers in glasgow for its annual conference, some believe its focus should shift to a second referendum on brexit. our political correspondent iain watson reports. the political weath

donald trump denies any conclusion between his campaign team and moscow took place. >> the noos everyone is tightening after five probes of alleged collusion between the trump election campaign and russia, special counsel robert muter has charged against three officials. on monday morning, president trump's former campaign manager seen here on the left surrendered to federal authorities. the indictment of monday fort and his long time business partner rick gates does not mention the election. instead it's their lobbying work for ukraine's former president viktor yanukovych that caught prosecutor's attention. it accused them of conspiracy against the u.s., money laundering and making false statements. president trump has dismissed any allegations of collusion between his campaign and russia as a political witch hunt spearheaded by the f.b.i. and democrats following news of the indictment, trump was quick to distance himself from his former campaign manager tweeting sorry, but this is years ago before manafort was part of the trump campaign, but aren't crooked hillary and the dems the focu

and by the way, i don't think that the trump team has earned the benefit of the doubt when it comes to these matters because their stories have changed repeatedly. so i think there is sort of warranted suspicion whenel sessions takes a tack like that. >> all right. ken, i call on you again as an splarn, don't make me take this to the lawyers in the next segment. what is the difference between or the concert between a hearing like the one we saw today, the concurrent hearings going on on the house side, and something like the mueller, which seems to be the overarching mueller investigation? >> well, the hearing today was technically an oversight hearing. the senate judiciary committee has oversight of the justice department with jeff session as attorney general is the head of. so conceivablyel they could be asking about anything. they can be asking -- they did ask about other subjects, including the enforcement of -- or the protection -- democrats asked about protection for the lgbt community and whether sessions was doing anything to sort of dial back the protections and the drug enfor

now russian lawyer course the frenzy early this year when it was revealed that she met team trump during the u.s. election campaign tell us from the skies meeting with donald trump jr was seen by some as clear proof of russian meddling and collusion donald trump think he was about to get help from a russian lawyer with ties to the kremlin we all know her name now on television. natalia vessel needs sky this is looking more and more like treason all these strange behavior from the president it's all explained well she is now back in the media or i after her memo with talking points for that meeting was released and it turns out it wasn't about giving trump on his rival hillary clinton has previously claimed according to her notes entirely it was getting ready to discuss the sanctions that were imposed by the u.s. on a number of russian officials they were being punished for the death of. he was in order to at a moscow north investigating corruption she says she want to prove that those sanctions were politically motivated. the thing is to pull up with something just to make it clear i was

we know at least in a conversation i overheard, there's some disagreement in the trump legal team about what extent they should be relying on executive privilege. but certainly jeff sessions in his testimony today did nothing to disabuse us of the perception this would be potentially an important part of the trump team's defense. >> all those matters mr. vogel just mentioned is precisely why we have a water crack lawyer in our next segment. michael, i don't mean this to sound sarcastic, but it's been 47 days. think of what we have been through. 47 days since the last trump tweet on comey. why now? why today i wonder. >> well, because comey's firing is front and center again with jeff sessions testifying. and the key -- one of the key issues that these senators were asking the attorney general about was the circumstances around comey's firing. and so, you know, trump as we know is watching television, and comey is back again. and he's on the president's mind. and so now now trump is reverting -- i mean trump as well is reverting to this hillary clinton context for the comey firing. it wo

russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and possible collusion by members of the trump team. today, two senior members of the trump campaign including former campaign chair paul manafort surrendered themselves to federal authorities while we also learned of a third member of the campaign team who pleaded guilty. very legal steps and a grave law enforcement investigation despite cries, including from the president himself, that there is nothing to investigate, that that's a witch hunt, that it's fake news, that we should be paying attention to this or that. a chorus of empty and desperate cries it turns out. in terms of collusion let us look into the case of the united states of america versus george papadopoulos. he is one of five campaign foreign policy advisers that then candidate trump named to "the washington post" in 2016, pictured here with president trump in a photo from the president's twitter feed that money where he's meeting with foreign policy advisers. at that meeting mentioned in the affidavit the defendant said that he had connections that could help arrange a

i talked earlier in the show how i got a text from the trump team talking about this and saying that e dnc worked on this file trying to take down president trump. they refer to him as if it's in the now, as opposed to that this was op o research done on a candidate who was a reality star businessman at the time. i want you to take a look at hillary clinton's reaction. >> i would say it's the same ball loan any they've been peddling for years and there's been no credible evidence by anyone. in fact, it's been debunked repeatedly and will continue to be debunked. >> do you think that that is the position of power, simon, she should be operating from, that that is where she needs to stay? >> i think the republican effort to deflect from what we now know -- we know why they kicked up so much dirt in the last few weeks, i don't think this stuff is going to be lasting. it's not insignificant. we learned through the benghazi experience that if they decide to start subpoenaing people, this thing could become very significant. i think at the end of the day it is going to be a sideshow to what

this is what they said about paul manafort who spent five months on team trump, including three as campaign chairman. >> obviously, there's this discussion of paul manafort who played an i have limited role for a limited amount of time. john, hold on. can you stop interrupting other people? jonathan, somebody's asking a question. it's not your press briefing. >> reporter: the president himself is making the case that the real subject of investigation should be hillary clinton. the president tweeting sunday there is so much guilt by democrats, clinton, and now the facts are pouring out. do something! and what will the president do if mueller continues to next on his associates and not clinton's? is he going to rule out once and for all firing robert mueller? >> the president said last week, i believe it was last week, and i've said several times before, there's no intention or plan to make any changes in regards to the special counsel. >> reporter: the white house was also asked whether or not the president would consider issuing pardons for paul manafort or rick gates. the answer was intere

it does accuse him and rick gates of misleading the government, a felony, even after they joined team trump in spring 2016. >> paul manafort has done an amazing job. >> reporter: as for george papadopoulos, his plea agreement directly relates to his work for the campaign, a role the white house today tried to downplay as limited. papadopoulos was never paid but he was named a campaign foreign policy adviser last march. >> george papadopoulos, he's an oil and energy consultant. excellent guy. >> reporter: ten days after that comment, this meeting. papadopoulos face-to-face with jeff sessions who led that national security advisory board at the time and then-candidate donald trump. >> did he remember anything about the meeting the reaction from papadopoulos given that he's talked about his great memory? >> i don't believe that he went into detail about the meeting itself. he remembers it taking place. but we didn't go into anything beyond that. or any specifics. >> reporter: the papadopoulos plea the clearest link yet between the special counsel investigation and the trump campaign. >> these

mueller is moving into the next phase of his investigation into possible collusion between the trump team and russia. the most significant development, george papadopoulos has pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi about his russia

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communications with russians, even tried to set up meetings with russian officials and members of the trump team. when you put all of those

but i can see why team trump was happy with this morning's news.# them colluding with russia. then this happened. >> this is cnn breaking news. >> his former foreign policy advise tore the trump campaign has pleaded guilty to lying to fbi officials. the complaint says georgeÑi papadopoulos lied about his contacts with foreign nationals who had close connections to the russian government. >> trevor: it is still hall wean, bitches. (applause) just two hours, two hours after the manafort story broke we find out that one of trump'sl advises george papadopoulos was trying to connect the trump cam pain with russian government officials who had dirt on hillary. so now the story is back to trump-russia collusion, yeah. you know what would be hilarious is if this news broke as trump was popping the champagne about the manafort thing. he was like yeah, the mueller indictment has nothing to do with me. whooo! mike pence, come over here, let's get them titties wet. whooo. yeah, yeah. whooo. wait, wait, wait, another indictment? wait, wait, stop, stop, no, champagne, no, stop, this is not

in that indictment, there's no mention of trump, team trump, candidate trump, president trump. none of that. which may serve robert mueller in that he will say or now allow the white house to say this is a political witch hunt, which the president has said from the beginning. >> yeah, you may say to yourself, there's not a lot of donald trump there. papadopoulos doing some collusion freelancing on his own. yeah, maybe he communicated back and forth. but indeed, it may go that far. or you can say this is a deliberate guy, mueller and the charges are deliberate. they're pretty compelling at this stage of the game and papadopoulos has signed off on the charges. he agreed to them. maybe this is a sign of a mueller that has a lot more in store. >> shepard: john bussey, thank you. our next guest says robert mueller appears to go for the low-hanging fruit with the charges against paul manafort and other former campaign staffers. she says special prosecutor mueller could try to build his case by forcing these defendants to actually cooperate. more to come in that conversation is next.

and if he finds something, frankly, about money laundering by the trump team, put aside manafort, thehas been money laundering, there have been a lot of rumors among people in new york and the investment community that at the end of the day, that's what this is going to come down is much more about money laundering. those two things should put a scare into the white house. because that means he's building a case that could be very much land on their doorstep and indeed come inside the doors of the white house. i think in that situation, i would assume they will try to discredit mueller in a variety of ways, they'll find friends to do that. i would assume they have had some kind of game plan to do that, if something serious comes down. but they're going to treat it a different way. it will require a much more inclusive plan. >> if you are robert mueller, and you are aware of that, you know, there's the legal case you want to make, and then there's obviously the politicized environment. how much do you -- how much does that seep into things? how much do you take that into account? >> i

administration has to thirty five that iran is in compliance with the agreement every ninety days team trump has already done it twice but now a third time in doubt any of the trying to take take a look at what trends and reasons to break the deal could be so donald trump's got a problem with what's known as iran's nuclear deal ok his not a fan of iran in the first place he's confident it's still a nest for terrorists but is that a good enough reason to basically throw the compromise agreement that required so much diplomatic effort to the floor i mean when it comes to sticking to the deal terms the world agrees to iran is behaving so why the assumption the deals in jeopardy because of washington the house foreign affairs committee chairman explains the tehran regime clearly sees itself as a movement one that uses ideology and violence to destabilize its neighbors. to threaten others just for the record that was an american official talking about someone else promoting ideology and views using violence in other countries to get what they want isn't that a us thing like the golden rule of the

would have cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, an expensive stunt to basically score points for team trumped to a tropical depression after bringing strong winds, heavy rain and some flooding to the south—eastern united states. it made landfall as a hurricane twice, in louisiana and mississippi. the storm system killed at least 25 people in nicaragua, costa rica and honduras. turkey says it will stop issuing all non—immigrant visas to us citizens. the announcement came after the us embassy in turkey imposed a similar measure. last week a worker at the us consulate in istanbul was detained on suspicion of links to people involved in last year's failed coup. authorities in china say they've punished more than 1.3 million low—level communist party bureaucrats over the last five years as part of the country's crackdown on corruption. prominent party officials such as top politician bo xilai are among those to have been convicted as part of the campaign. reports from bangladesh say a boat packed with rohingya refugees, predominantly children, fleeing violence in myanmar, has capsized in a river

the investigation into alleged looking bad links in the us election so was that collusion between team trump and moscow. and kenya's president two who are kenyatta i wince last week said a repeat of action by a landslide the electoral commission says the vote was free and fair as despite street violence on the opposition boycott we'll bring you the latest from my home. i'm phil gayle welcome to the program the spanish region of catalonia begins its first week on to direct rule from spain central government the country's top prosecutor house calls the charges including rebellion to be brought against cats and i'm leaders who voted for independence last week amongst those facing charges that the baby regions for the president colors pushed a male who's been removed from office spanish media reporting that he and other former members of his cabinet said in brussels. d.w. correspondents. bad regatta joins us from brussels welcome bet so spanish media cyclists push them all into brussels what are you hearing of the manhunt for carlos push him on the sec president is still on there's no official c

we learn more about the trump adviser front and center in robert mueller's russia probe, team trump is candidate trump once praised to the curb. >> i never heard of papadopoulos. he never showed up at trump tower and never had any interaction with the campaign leaders. >> george was such a low level volunteer, i don't recall having much interaction with him throughout the

but here's the worry i think team trump should have is why. it could be uneven handling of the storms, he did great in houston, but not puerto rico. it could be hurting the feelings of a gold star will ddow. but it could be the republicans every time they don't pass health care. i think going after that, i don't think the tax bill is going to help him. they think it is. trump is going to go hard at social issues. i think the nfl fight helped him, screaming about confederate statues helped him. >> we're talking about september and october. if that nfl issue was going to work it would work now. the opioid crisis address maybe it changes it. i was here a year ago, in this studio and across new york. i think i sat with some of you all and the they said trump is going to lose trump's going to get killed. the polls were wrong. i think there's still some of that in this polling. but i agree with this, if this is a tax plan that is typical for d.c., trump will lose more. because my wife said is he going to allow the >>> high approval among 83% of repu

on the trump campaign even after manafort was fired over the summer and also was with the trump transition team and the trump inauguration team so this cuts very close, although the charges themselves may be reeled to manafort's business dealings and not anything to do with the campaign. very close to the president. >> no question about that. remember, if we go back to the timing last year during the campaign manafort left the campaign just days after several of these business dealings were revealed including payments that he may have gotten from the ukraine. >> reporter: yes, and at the time, i was told by senior officials on the campaign that was very much part of the reason that manafort was fired, not the only reason but a big part of why manafort was fired because of that cloud. but, george, this is a bigs is s it would not necessarily have anything to do or wouldn't in their view have anything to do with the trump campaign or with the president himself. >> that's clearly what they would say but, you know, one of the things we've learned with all of these investigation, all these special c

maybe the obama cia to target team trump.hether obama the politician knew as a result of his running the dnc and political organization and these payments and, of course, what obama the president knew. either way, the questions need to be answered. steve: you want to know what did now former president barack obama know about the dossier and all this stuff, right? >> yes. i think it's a question we need answered because if the dossier, which is a political document created to destroy president trump or the candidate trump was used by his fbi and -- fbi and cia, did they know that this was nothing but a political attack on trump? and they shouldn't really have anything to do with it? steve: yeah, tom, it sounds like the dossier was used to justify unmasking a number of names. >> well, we don't know what it was justified to do. it might have been justified -- it might have been justified to use the cia, the fbi, nsa to spy on team trump. that's the most disconcerning thing. did they use this to go after team trump and spy and, o

so for the first time julian assange confirming that donald trump's team approaching him and he rejected it. the report that the trump campaign was going to these lengths for clinton's 30,000 e-mails puts this claim from donald trump in a new light. >> russia, if you're listening, i hope you're able to find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing. >> remember, when donald trump made that bizarre statement in july 2016, it caused shock waves that were even too much for trump. a candidate who never retracts anything. he came out and he then personally insisted that what you just saw wasn't him asking russia to find the e-mails. and while his words literally said that, they were sarcastic. >> when i'm being sarcastic. of course i'll being sarcastic. but you have 33,000 e-mails deleted. >> sarcastic. >> today is one of those days that sheds a lot of light. the public defense at the time there, donald trump in that fox news interview, is that he wasn't really asking for help on the e-mails. today we learned privately, his digital team was really asking for help on the e-mails. and in such a serio

if i could get him to stop tweeting -- i'm not team trump tweet. he faces is not fair either. so while i don't like the tweets, i don't like the mainstream media's reaction to said tweets. >> i would grade the president very, very high. i think he's doing a tremendous job and all fronts. i think he's been successful in insuring we crush all the anti-american forces out there rooting for his failure, seeking to diminish america to the fullest extent that they can. i'm pleased we have america' first on outsidebar time in the culture war president. that's what donald trump is doing. lou: these players who are so misguidedly, they are saying outright they are taking on president trump rather than raising their fists in a black panther salute or refusing to stand up during anthem. this is extraordinary. the nfl is paying a big, big price. >> i think what the nfl players don't realize is whatever message they were trying to convey has been lost. now it's been turned into a muddied concept of we don't like the military and we don't like america. it's beco

trump went into "the washington post" ed board right after this team of advisers. >> the transcript that will be etched in my brain. >> he knew papadopoulos' name and said he's doing a great job. trump says that about everybody that he's not mad at the the time. he knew who this guy was. perhaps he knew what he was engaged in as well. >> glen thrush and ashley parker, thank you. >>> it was a blip on the radar in 2016. now with the indictment of paul manafort, a closer look at what could be a pivotal moment in the trump/russia saga. i don't want to sound paranoid, but d'ya think our recent online sales success seems a little... strange? na. ever since we switched to fedex ground business has been great. they're affordable and fast... maybe "too affordable and fast." what if... "people" aren't buying these books online, but "they" are buying them to protect their secrets?!?! hi bill. if that is your real name. it's william actually. hmph! affordable, fast fedex ground. you know what's difficult? adulting... hi, guys. i'm back. time to slay! no,i have a long time girlfriend. you know what's

more truth in those pages. >> when we think about the authority that the mueller team has to probe members of the trump team and the president himself, how important do you think the access to irs records has been? >> well, my guess is that mueller's team is looking very closely at irs records. we have to remember that there are really three mandates when it comes to mueller's investigation that was handed down by the deputy attorney general. one is obstruction of justice. two is collusion with the russians. and then three is this much broader prong, any matters that arose, any crimes that arose or may arise from the investigation. so i think that is where you are going to see on this broader prong, things like tax evasion, things like lying to federal investigators. where you're going to see mueller's team sifting through any and all financial records they can acquire. not only on president trump, there may be that, but certainly people like mike flynn and paul manafort. two of the prime suspects that a lot of people are eyeing as the targets of this as of yet sealed indictment. >> sarah, i want to as

for them the trump team is a target and determining what the vulnerability is.e it's easy. as dana was saying, the vulnerability is dirt on hillary clinton, whether it's approach to donald jr. or another advisor. they're going to say why don't you meet with, as we know, an attorney who spoke with don junior and then at the back end of this, there's a simple end of the story going to the departure of mike flynn to the administration. there's a cost to that kind of cooperation with the russians. we'll give you stuff but we want the relief of sanctions we know mike flynn left because of a a conversation with the russian ambassador potentially about relief of sanctions. so this is intelligence 101. >> papadopoulos is pleading guilty to making a false statement to the fbi. we saw these documents, read them all today. he's cooperating after pleading guilty and he's being described as a proactive cooperator. you're a former u.s. attorney explain what that means, a proactive cooperator. >> the only thing it can mean to me, especially given the timing here, he was arrest