on page 54 of volume 1 of the mueller report, there is more from rick gates about wikileaks including a partially redacted conversation he had with candidate trump. according to gates, by the late summer of 2016, the trump at campaign was planning a press strategy, a communications campaign, a messaging based on the possible release of clinton e mails by which can wikileaks and then you see there is a redaction and the next words are "while trump and gates were drive doing laguardia airport." another redaction then "shortly after the call, candidate trump told gates that more releases of damaging information would be coming." those redactions about what was said to candidate trump about wikileaks and what candidate trump said to rick gates about wikileaks are crucial to any investigation of the presidency by congress. that is why the democrats in the house judiciary committee are demanding the unredacted mueller report. another newly unredacted portion of the court filing today shows another element of the y obstruction of justice investigation of the president and this one includes t

if this further delay is granted, this will be, i think, the sixth time that rick gates has had his sentence delayed. and once again, for a sixth time, the reason the prosecutors and his defense counsel say they're not ready to move forward with sentencing him yet is because "defendant gates continues to cooperate with the government." this is as of tonight. they're asking for yet another delay before they sentence gates. a long delay in this case before they even come back to court to give another update on his status. rick gates's lawyers and prosecutors tell the court tonight that they'll be ready for another status update in his case by august 30th, while meanwhile, he continues his cooperation with prosecutors. and tomorrow in federal court in d.c., we are going to have the first big test of this president's bluster and his insistence that subpoenas don't matter anymore, that he can block them whenever he wants to. tomorrow, we expect a judge's ruling on that in the mazars case. which again, is for ten years' worth of the president's financial documents, from his long-time accounting fi

. >> narrator: trump's campaign chairman, paul manafort, and his deputy, rick gates, were indicted onumerous charges ranging from conspiracy to money laundering. >> ...manafort and his former business associate rick gates were told to surrender to federal authorities this morning. >> narrator: michael flynn pled guilty to that charge of lying t tohe fbi. >> white house national curity adviser michael flynn has pleaded guilty to lying... >> narrator: and then the fbi dramatically escalated the showdown. >> breaking news tonight, and it's a bombshell. the fbi raids the office of president trump's personal lawyer, michael cohen. >> narrator: the president, as he watched the raid on television, was furious. >> trump erupted-- he was very upset. he was consumed by this news all day. uh, it was very troubling for him and scary for him. >> ...fbi raiding his office, his home, and a hotel room...dv >> white houseers are saying, "can we turn off the televisions?" all the president is doing, they say, is getting himself agitated. click over to fox... >> this is a foxews alert. there's some brea

rick gates, who was deputy campaign chairman stated during interviews in the office days before june trump jr. announced to campaign staff and family members that he had a lead on negative information about the clinton foundation. gates believed that trump jr. said the information was coming from a group in kyrgyzstan and that he was introduced to the group by a friend. gates recalled that the meeting was attended by trump jr., eric trump, paul manafort, hope hicks and joining late ivanka trump and jared kushner. according to gates, manafort warned the group that meeting would likely not reveal vital information and they should be careful. hicks denied any knowledge of the june meeting before 2017 and kushner did not recall the june 9th meeting came up earlier that week. michael cohen recalled being in donald j. trump's office when trump jr. told his father that a meeting to obtain adverse information about clinton was going forward. cohen did not recall trump jr. saying the meeting was connected to russia. the tenor trump jr. had previously discussed the meeting with his father alth

the years, shan, including representing a witness, a significant witness in this investigation, rick gates, former deputy campaign chairman for trump and now someone who's pled guilty to crimes. tell us what questions he needs to address. he's going to answer questions, but what questions he needs to address in this statement? >> i think if it is a farewell statement, it kind of gives him a clear shot at saying what he wants to say. i think what would be really important is for him to address the whole question of, there was not enough evidence to bring criminal charges about conspiracy or conclusion with russia. and the problem is, i just can't see mueller making some type of grand unveiling that in fact there was a lot here, it's an impeachable offense. i can't see him saying that in these circumstances. so he may just kind of amplify a little bit some summary of his findings. and i think that could be very disappointing. but that would be a really crucial piece of insight for him to give us as to what was really going on there. do you think that even though there's not enough to bring a

even if rick gates is right and he told other people he said that was his best recollection at the time back in and make all of this drama about it if he's just going to say, yeah, that's what i remembered at the time, senator? i told them too, so what. >> his recollection has to be tested. that's what prosecutors do and investigators do. when he says he has no recollection and there's more than 140 instances of contacts between the trump campaign and the russians during the campaign or shortly afterward, he has to be asked for the sake of our country because vladimir putin succeeded his wildest expectations in interfering with our elections. what was the polling data that was provided to him by paul manafort. why was it provided? why did you message wikileaks? >> he has knowledge about his own messaging. he may know why roger stone was directed to be in contact. he certainly knows about the meeting at trump towers that he attended. he should know about the negotiation on trump tower moscow which might have compromised the president because he denied those negotiatio negotiations. so he

trump associates like rick gates and michael cohen disputing some of trump jr.'s answers. a source close to trump jr. slamming the committee led by richard burr in a fiery statement writing, quote, it is an obvious p.r. stunt from a so-called republican senator too cowardly to stand up to his boss mark warner and the rest of the resistance democrats on the committee. this comes as a constitutional showdown between the president and the house democrats heats up >> the house of representatives find william barr, attorney general, u.s. department of justice in contempt. >> reporter: voting to hold william barr in contempt after barr's refusal to hand over the full unredacted mueller report and underlying evidence to congress. >> we have talked for a long time about approaching a constitutional crisis. we are now in it. >> reporter: the vote coming after president trump claims executive privilege for the first time blocking the release of the unredacted mueller report jerry nadler calling the move unprecedented. >> we are not overreaching. we are trying to exercise normal over

but the deputy campaign chairman, rick gates, told mueller that don junior brought it up to top campaign and family as well. if you were asking questions, how would you get to the truth? >> well, you would establish the relationship that don junior has with his father, and we know from our investigation they were extremely close and that don junior regularly would check in with his father on the most minute details of the campaign. he didn't really have decision-making authority on anything big in the campaign or the business, we learned. so it would be out of character for him to meet with one of his father's friend's associates and not tell his father. but, again, we should just expect more obstruction from them because that is their go-to move. obstruct, obstruct, obstruct. never produce. >> then your committee, the house intel committee, has asked lawyers for the trump organization, the president, ivanka trump, don junior to hand over records, submit to interviews over their role in michael cohen's false testimony to congress. chairman schiff says he wants to find out whether anyone

it says "rick gates who was a deputy campaign chairman stated during inter views that in the days beforeump jr. announced at a regular morning meeting that he had a lead on negative information about the clinton foundation." so it seems like that there are things that are ripe to be followed up on. >> yeah, absolutely. and i think, you know, as both matthew and susan indicated the great likelihood here is that the committee has found conflicts in what don jr. that has said to different audiences. i think this is about his likely perjury and i think that the fact that chairman burr, whether he's running for reelection or not, the fact that he is calling him back says a lot. i mean, the guy's a republican. he's been a loyal republican. he has not been in any way targeting the president, complicit with the democrats. i think his involvement in this speaks volumes. and by the way it would be hard for me to believe that the senate intelligence committee acted on the basis of all the democrats and chairman burr acting together. we'll see. i don't know the answer to this. but i would imagine th

now, when you look at the past prosecutions of paul manafort, rick gates, michael cohen, each and every one of them was indicted and prosecuted for both tax fraud and bank fraud in addition to other charges. my approach would be, if i was with one of these congressional investigations or in the southern district of new york, would be to open up a grand jury looking at potential criminal tax fraud but also inviting the fbi in to look at bank fraud and focus on the accountants and the preparation of the financial statements, the work papers that go in and the schedules that go in to support the -- those schedules. they have to do one of two things. you know, essentially, you know, what you want to do is box them in and force them to tell the truth because what you're looking at here is probably, once again, potential shell companies, false invoicing and maybe a double set of books. one set of books and records for the banks, one set of books and records for the irs. >> just a broader question here. >> sure. >> one thing that strikes me as strange is these numbers are bizarre. you're talki

course of the mueller investigation when mueller thoroughly investigated people like michael flynn, rick gates, paul manafort, george papdopoulus, carter page and many others who if there had been a collusion operation these people certainly would have been involved. nobody, not just the president, nobody was charged in taking part in any conspiracy or coordination with russia. we knew. the attorney said was there adequate predication. melissa: probable cause. >> a basis to actually do this. he will look into that. we know what they were doing with carter page. we know what they were doing, we think, with george papadopoulos. what about paul manafort, what about michael flynn? was there other surveillance going on? clearly a lot of republicans in congress are looking into the investigation from the attorney general to tell them that. melissa: we wonder if they had a good reason to open this up and if they didn't we're all at risk. >> correct. melissa: let me get your reaction to me. new york city mayor bill de blasio expected to announce a 2020 next week according to "the new york daily news."

in the mueller report, rick gates tells a different story, saying just days before the infamous get-togetherorning campaign meeting and told a group of top staff and trump families that "he had a lead on negative information about the clinton foundation." i thought it was about adoption. mueller says he considered bringing charges for the trump tower meeting. stopping only because he wasn't sure jr. knew he was breaking the law. the reason that mueller couldn't tell what he knew is was jr. never talked to the special counsel. like father like son in that regard. in fact, the report says he turned down a request for an interview. then in the report there are three lines of redacted text. another issue. his father's attempt to build the trump tower moscow at the same time he was running for president. now, jr. told the senate he was only peripherally aware the project was under way. played it down repeatedly on fox news. take a listen. >> the reality is this wasn't a deal. you know, i don't think -- we don't know the developer, we don't know the site, we don't know the -- anything about it. i

yet the mueller report puts former deputy campaign chairman rick gates saying trump junior announcedt a meeting of top campaign officials and family members he had a lead on negative information about the clinton foundation. plus, there are questions about the pursuit of the trump tower moscow project ahead of the 2016 elections. >> there does seem to me to be troubling public evidence that donald trump jr. has not been truthful about the family's business involvement in russia. >> reporter: democrats are bound to ask the same questions to mueller if he appears before the house judiciary committee. today trump said that decision is up to his attorney general who has previously testified he has no issue with mueller appearing. >> i'm going to leave that up to our very great attorney general, and he'll make a decision on that. >> reporter: some of the president's closest defenders were saying some senators were up for re-election in 2020 and who need the president's support and are siding with the president's son, including tom tillis who is a republican senator from north carolina. th

presidential pardons, whether possible or actual for paul manafort, michael flynn, michael cohen, rick gates, roger stone, individuals associated with the trump campaign or individuals involved in matters before the u.s. attorney's office for the southern district of new york. speaking of sdny, point 31, don mcgahn is also told to hand over information he's got reflecting any white house communications or discussions or documents about investigations at sdny. hmm. and specifically, the recusal of u.s. attorney jeff berman from sdny, from sdny investigations. and look at this last part. this is quite provocative. he's told to hand over any documents or communications he's got about the reassignment or potential reassignment of sdny employees from sdny investigations. oh. the white house trying to move specific prosecutors out of specific cases at sdny? and don mcgahn is supposed to know about it? so, again, there are three dozen discreet categories of information that don mcgahn is supposed to produce documents about, everything from sanctions on russia to paul manafort's cooperation with mue

what degree was your investigation able to determine whether members of the campaign other than rick gates were aware that internal campaign strategy and polling data was being shared with russian national konstantin kilimnik. good question. to what degree was your investigation able to determine whether internal clinton campaign data analytics and voter turnout models that were stolen as part of the russian hacking operation were used by russia or shared with anyone working for or with the trump campaign? to what degree did your investigation examine the role of cambridge analytica, aggregate iq or the scl group in the 2016 election? did your investigation examine the possibility that u.s. election or trump campaign information was shared with russia through these entities? to what degree was your investigation able to determine the trump campaign's and russian government's purpose in pursuing back channel communications, including jared kushner and sergey kislyak, which kushner suggested should use secure facilities at the russian embassy? also, between sergey gorkov and kirill dmitriev,

before the senate judiciary committee and sworn accounts of others, particularly michael cohen and rick gates, as explained in the mueller report. both on the trump tower moscow project and trump tower meeting in new york. the trump tower moscow issue is he told the committee he was peripherally aware -- i will read it exactly. question, did you have any involvement in this potential deal in n moscow? like i said, i was per riffably aware of it but most of my knowledge has been gained since hearding abo hearing about it the last couple of weeks. and he said he briefed his father ten times. this wasn't enough for robert mueller to charge him with perjury but something senators want to ask him about. secondly, there's also a contradiction about who he informed about the trump tower moscow meeting, the offer of dirt from the russians. he said he didn't really tell jared kushner or paul manafort what the meeting was about and didn't tell his father at all. michael cohen swore under oath he represented donald trump jr. telling his father about that meeting. big contradiction there. senators want t

even if rick gates is right and he told other people he said that was his best recollection at the timek in and make all of this drama about it if he's just going to say, yeah, that's what i remembered at the time, senator? now i remember, i told them too, so what. >> his recollection has to be tested. that's what prosecutors do and investigators do. when he says he has no recollection and there's more than 140 instances of contacts between the trump campaign and the russians during the campaign or shortly afterward, he has to be asked for the sake of our country because vladimir putin succeeded his wildest expectations in interfering with our elections. what was the polling data that was provided to him by paul manafort. to konstantin kilimnick. why was it provided? why did you message wikileaks? about the clinton -- >> he has knowledge about his own messaging. he may know why roger stone was directed to be in contact. with julian asang. he certainly knows about the meeting at trump towers that he attended. he should know about the negotiation on trump tower moscow which might have com

the mueller report suggests rick gates and michael cohen told a different story saying they remember him brigg up that he has a line on negative information on hillary clinton. obviously, none of this was enough of robert mueller to bring perjury charges against donald trump, jr. the idea he would have to go up again when is contradicts this dramatically, i don't think any good lawyer would stand for that. >> why do you think mueller brought charges against junior? >> let's remember he referred out 14 investigation and cases for further investigation and we don't yet know who the subjects or targets of those 14 matters are. you know, i assume, because when you read the mandate in his appointment letter, he didn't feel like he needed to bring charges against junior in order to further the trump campaign-russia investigation, which really was the mandate. his mandate was never bring charges for everybody for whom you find enough evidence to charge. it was bring charges strategically to further your mandate of investigating the trump campaign-russia connection. so i don't know that don,

let's remember, rick gates, he's basically the only cooperator in this whole case who is not going off rails. he was the deputy chair of the campaign and he will do, i believe, he is in position to do what the best cooperators do, which is to give prosecutors a guided tour of the inside of that operation. i think what are they looking at? the most interesting thing is potentially contributions by foreign nationals to the inaugural, which that would be a federal crime. >> all right. trials we know about of trump associates like roger stone. >> let's not forget about roger stone. he loves the limelight. he'll be back. that trial is going to happen. we're going to learn a little bit more about roger stone's efforts to connect with wikileaks, did he ever succeed in that effort to coordinate. it appears he probably did not, because i think there would have been different charges if he had. but what's going to be really interesting is this, in the roger stone indictment, he said he was directed by senior trump campaign officials, senior, meaning important people, officials, plural, to get in

when asked about that same thing rick gates who testified or was brought in to talk to the mueller investigation said that gates recalled the meeting was attended or at least a meeting where trump jr. announced these issues, announced he might have had dirt was attended by eric trump, jared kushner, ivanka trump, hope hicks. >> and he was asked do you have any potential involvement in this deal in moscow? >> like i said, i was peripherally aware of it. michael cohen testified he had discussed the moscow project with ivanka trump as design architects and also donald trump jr. and that's not it. there's a third issue that could be looked into, prior offers of foreign assistance. the question was -- did he ever tell anybody the trump campaign who is receptive to offers of assistance from foreign governments? he was pretty blunt on this and he said no. we've seen for a long time the e-mails related to this issue where it was made very clear that they were being offered dirt from russian government-connected officials. if it's what you say, i love it. there appear to be legitimate reasons to look bac

he was involved representing one of the witnesses in this, rick gates, for some time.ing the first public comments from the special counsel? >> well, it's like hearing the sphinx finally say something. so i think we're very anxious about it. it is unusual circumstances. he's making a statement from the department of justice, so i don't know how much we should expect from it. he might simply be confirming he's going to testify. he might just make an affirmative statement with regard to his findings. i -- this is total speculation, but i would doubt he's going to say something very controversial, given what the circumstance is here. so it might be that the purpose of having him talk right now is to eliminate some of that space that people may perceive as building up between him and the attorney general. so my guess is we may see a statement that tries to reconcile some of these issues and calm things down some. >> let me ask you this. so, by the structure, the chain of command, the special counsel is under the authority of the attorney general here. >> right. >> can we a

senate judiciary committee and the sworn accounts of other people, particularly michael cohen and rick gates, about donald trump jr.'s account of the trump tower moscow project that michael cohen was working on during the campaign, and also what the president's son told people about that trump tower meeting in new york and whether he explained it was about the russians offering dirt. not enough to charge donald trump jr. with perjury, but certainly senators want to ask him about. >> our team just caught up with senator richard blumenthal in the capital. peter, stick around for this. he said if don junior does not comply, he ought to be put in jail. how does that work? how would that be a possibility? what would have to happen? >> well, the full senate would have to vote him in contempt, which is a big question because, again, the senate is run by the republicans. if that happens, that would be referred to the u.s. attorney. now, in the case of william barr, the u.s. attorney will not prosecute a contempt citation against his boss, the attorney general. in the case of a private citizen like d

in deliberations with the office , former deputy campaign chairman, rick gates, said that -- redacted -- gates recalled candidate trump being germly frustrated that the clinton emails had not been found. gates recalled candidate trump being generally frustrated, again it says that clinton emails had not been found, unquote. that's volume 1, pages 51 and 52. i'm hoping some more members come down. if not, i will read a couple more things. many i.r.a. operations use facebook accounts created and operated by it's special lift -- redacted. i.r.a. fact book groups, active during the 2016 campaign covered a range of political issues and ncluded purported conservative and included purported conservative groups with names such as being patriotic, stop all imgrants, secure borders and y party news, purported lack social justice groups, black and don't shoot us. btq united and religious groups, united muslims of america. throughout 2016, i.r.a. account published an incredible number of materials supporting the trump campaign and opposing the clinton campaign. for example, on may 3, 2016, the ma

and debriefing with the office, former deputy campaign chairman rick gates said redacted, harm to ongoing matters. gates recalled candidate trump being generally frustrated that the clinton emails had not been found. paul manafort, who would later become campaign chairman, harm to ongoing matter, redacted. michael cohen, former executive vice president of the trump organization and special counsel to donald j. trump told the office that he recalled an incident in which he was in candidate trump's office in the trump tower, redacted. harm to ongoing matter. cohen further told the office that after wikileaks' subsequent release of stolen dncemails in 2016, president trump said something like harm to ongoing. redacted, harm to ongoing maerlts. he also spoke with canned trump. redacted. harm to ongoing matter. man fort, also redacted, harm to ongoing matter. wanted to keep apprised of any continuously redacted harm to ongoing matter throughout the footnote. developments for wikileaks and separately told gates to keep in touch, redacted. harm to ongoing matters about future wikileaks releases.

bring up rick gates and paul manafort, people involved in this.t trump deal for a project in moscow. start telling the story over and over again so the americans who haven't read the report see what's in it and don't get caught up in the spin out there. >> and the congressman mentioning that he read the entire report and thinks that many members of congress in fact did not read it. our thanks to david, kayleigh and katie. >> thank you. >>> the fight for abortion rights. there are protests across the country right now and in alabama today. we'll go there for an update next. so chantix can help you quit slow turkey. along with support, chantix is proven to help you quit. with chantix you can keep smoking at first and ease into quitting so when the day arrives, you'll be more ready to kiss cigarettes goodbye. when you try to quit smoking, with or without chantix, you may have nicotine withdrawal symptoms. stop chantix and get help right away if you have changes in behavior or thinking, aggression, hostility, depressed mood, suicidal thoughts or actio

you've got rick gates. this is what the democrats have not done yet.e become the big story? they could start telling the obstruction story and the russian story this way. they need to make it a narrative. >> we're going to come back here in just a moment. up next on "up," the 2020 candidate would says the race could come down to climate change and sit with jay incidencely on the all-important stay of the iowa race. politicians and the pastry play, just after the break. d the past, just after the break woman: (on phone) discover. hi. do you have a travel card? yep. our miles card. earn unlimited 1.5 miles and we'll match it at the end of your first year. nice! i'm thinking about a scuba diving trip. woman: ooh! (gasp) or not. you okay? yeah, no, i'm good. earn miles. we'll match 'em at the end of your first year. i have heart disease, watch what i eat, take statins, but still struggle to lower my ldl bad cholesterol. which means a heart attack or stroke. could strike without warning, pulling me away from everything that matters most. (siren) because wit

deputy campaign manager rick gates said that manafort was getting pressure about redacted. information and that at the same time gates was with trump on a trip to an airport redaction shortly after the call ended trump told gates that more releases of damaging information would be coming. redaction were discussed within the campaign and summer of 2016 the campaign was planning a communication strategy based on the possible release of clinton's emails by wikileaks. in the days that followed july 27 july 22 2016 release of hacked dnc emails, the trump campaign publicly rejected suggestions that russian, russia was seeking to aid kennedy trump. on july 26, 2016 he tweeted that it was crazy to suggest that russia was dealing with trump and that for the record, he has zero investments in russia. in a press release the next day, july 27, 2016 trump characterized the whole thing with russia" as a quote total deflection" and stated that it was far-fetched and ridiculous . trump said the assertion that russia had hacked the emails was unproven but stated that it would give him no pa

bigger than water gate that's how donald trump is describing a meeting between papadopoulos and woman undercover agent taking center stage again at the white house. good evening i'm rickhal in for jon scott this is the "fox report." ♪ >> a "new york times" report say fbi sent undercover investigate to meet during the 2016 presidential campaign. just yesterday the president spoke by phone with russian president vladimir putin for more than an hour discussing wide range of topic including mol or report potential interference in 2020 race. >> the president has made clear to everybody -- every person that is not a

rick scott, doing a fantastic job. doing a fantastic job. we have a lot of members of congress, mat gates, dldunn, thank you.governor. janette nunez. janette, thank you janette, great job. florida attorney general, ashley moody. thanks ashley. and by the way, i just made your great us attorney, where is he? where is he? thank you very much. you are doing a fantastic job. you are doing a fantastic job. florida cfo, jimmy patrons, thank you jimmy. florida gop chair, and state senator joe graduate gruters. r and c chairwoman, she won a state, the great state of michigan. i said who was that, now nobody 's won mish for decades as a republican. and we won so when it came choosing to head of the r and c, i said who was that woman so great in the state of michigan, because we won that state, we weren't expected to. but you know we left that was the last speech we made. we had 32,000 people show up at 1:00 in the morning. it was now election day. and i left, think of it. election day. and i left, and i said you know, i don't know why we're going to lose. we had 32,000, our opponent, we want to be nice. our opponent

bigger than water gate that's how donald trump is describing a meeting between papadopoulos and woman undercover agent taking center stage again at the white house. good evening i'm rick leventhal in for jon scott this is the "fox report." ♪ >> a "new york times" report say fbi sent undercover investigate to meet during the 2016 presidential campaign. just yesterday the president spoke by phone with russian president vladimir putin for more than an hour discussing wide range of topic including mol or report potential interference in 2020 race. >> the president has made clear to everybody -- every person that is not an american voter has no business in our elections we've said it a lot and we're actually doing things to prevent everybody from meddling in our election. something that other administration failed to do. live at the white house with more on this good evening. >> a rare compliment from president trump, as it revealing in a report this week a that fbi sent undercover informant to london to meet with trump campaign aid to discover figure out if there was coordination between campaign and the russian government. this there several republican pushing an a inves

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bigger than water gate that's how donald trump is describing a meeting between papadopoulos and woman undercover agent taking center stage again at the white house. good evening i'm rickay fbi sent undercover investigate to meet during the 2016 presidential campaign. just yesterday the president spoke by phone with russian president vladimir putin for more than an hour discussing wide range of topic including mol or report potential interference in 2020 race. >> the president has made clear to everybody --