a month after manafort reportedly met with chim, we no know from the indictment of lawyer alex van der zwann that rick gates referred alex van der zwann to the same guy meeting with manafort to bring him the messages from oleg. one of the things he lied about is communication with rick gates. rick gates in september 2016 sent van der zwann documents with an encrypted app and he put him in touch with consta teen kiliminic. rick gates was connected to the mad and illegal scramble for cash right before manafort and gates joined the trump campaign. he was part of the initial deals that insured that debt. he was in communication with kilimnic managing communications between manafort while running trump's campaign happening during the trump campaign while they were the top two officials running it. manafort seems to have been trying to trade on his influence in the trump campaign to get whole with oleg back in russia. there have been a lot of forgive me, a lot of dumb hot takes on the rick gates guilty plea today about how that's oh, too bad for rick gates or too bad for paul man thmanafort, nothi

alex van der zwann didn't interview. he was represented by counsel. he was warned that intentionally false statements could subject him to criminal charges. he inkaltdicated he understood. van der zwann made the comments during the interview. three days later this is. and then in the statement of the offense, the special counsel's office lists three things they say van der zwann falsely stated his last communication with rick gates had been in mid august and it was -- mid august 2016 and it had been a text message. they say he falsely stated that his last communication with a long-time business associate of manafort and gates of ukraine was way back in 2014 when he talked with that person about that person's family. according to the special counsel's office, he falsely stated that he had no idea why skadden hadn't gave an e-mail that dated from september 2016 between him and person a, him and this person he said he actually hadn't talked to since 2014. statement of the offense lays all that out and lays out in detail why all of those things were false

alex van der zwann who today pled guilty to lying to robert mueller's investigators.ew charges are interesting for a lot of reasons but what happens when you're a multibillionaire oligarch putin ally and the young man who just married your daughter gets arraigned and possibly jailed in the united states by robert mueller? if you're german kahn in this circumstance, what do you say to your friend vladimir putin about this? if you're robert mueller, did you just indict someone knowing full well that that's really going to bug vladimir putin for personal reasons? hold that thought. ♪ ♪ (vo) you can pass down a subaru forester. but you get to keep the memories. love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru. (avo) get 0% apr financing on all new 2018 subaru forester models. now through february 28th. ai'm begging you... take gas-x. beneath the duvet, your tossing and turning isn't restlessness , it's gas. gas-x relieves pressure,bloating and discomfort in minutes !! so we can all sleep easier tonight. than♪ you. imagine if the things you bought every day... earned you miles to

get these messages from deripaska, we now know from the indictment that rick gates referred alex van der zwann to that guy. and we know one of the things he lied about was his communication with rick gates. rick gates in 2016 sent van der zwann documents with an encrypted app and he put him in contact. and they had a conversation in russia about payments that were just the tip of the iceberg and about potential legal liability for paul manafort. rick gates was connect today the mad and illegal scramble for cash right before manafort and gates joined the trump campaign. he was part of the initial deals that incurred that debt from deripaska. he was in communication with constantine who was managing communications while manafort was running trump's campaign. that was all happening during the trump campaign while they were the top two officials running it. manafort seems to have been trying to trade on his influence in the trump campaign to get hold of oleg deripaska back in russia. there have been a lot of, forgive me, a lot of dumb hot takes on the rick gates guilty plea today about oh, too bad

alex van der zwann pled guilty to making false statements to rick gates. gates was indicted along with paul manafort tied to their lobbying. at his former law firm, van der zwann helped write a report to justify ukraine's prosecution of their former prime minister. van der zwann told prosecutors that he provided gates an early draft of what was meant to be an independent report, all know van der zwann's plea agreement does not mention cooperation, he could be used to apply pressure to the former high level trump aide who have pleaded not guilty. van der van is the son-in-law of german khan who filed a liable suit for mentioning him in the dossi dossier. incredible how it connects together. >>> yesterday president trump claimed he has been, quote, much tougher on russia than obama. just look at the facts he said. but he didn't elaborate leavinging the explanation up to sarah huckabee sanders at yesterday's briefing. watch this. >> he hasn't even called out putin. he criticized obama, the fbi. he didn't even criticize vladimir putin. >> he has been tougher o

friday, you have unsealed 89 new felony criminal charges against 17 different people from ricky alex van der zwannwo days of legal cannon blasts concerning trump campaign chair paul manafort and trump deputy campaign chair rick gates. i don't know what robert mueller has been doing for the past week