bob gates went over for barack obama several years ago. since then, the spending has increased and we're going to be showing you charts to show that actually european defense spending has increased at a faster rate than u.s. defense spending since 2011. now, back to the president. >> but right now we're getting people up to 2% and that will take place over a fairly short period of time. a short number of years. okay. yeah, go ahead. >> hi. we understand your message. >> congratulations, by the way. >> thank you. >> we understand your message, but some people asked themselves, will you be tweeting differently once you board air force one. thank you. >> no, that is other people that do that. i am very consistent. i'm a very stable genius. >> thank you, sir. >> very stable questionable. we'll just go back to the president. >> do you feel like given the threats you made about potentially leaving nato and insulting german's suggesting they are totally controlled by russia. do you feel that is an effective way to conduct diplomacy. would you be

but then i got a call for the secretary of defense bob gates asking me if i would finish his term that would've been about 19 months as the under dissected -- undersecretary for the pentagon well 19 months turned into three 1/2 a half years that i was asked to take on the job of international intelligence all to save none of this was planned at all. it just happened. it's not like i mapped this out with a career pattern it didn't happen that way. >> so now the last three pages of your book that this president is not likely to ask you to come back into service as presidents have. so maybe you have succeeded so now. >> i know what this life is like. from your spouse and family. from your spouse and family what that is like now you are around the house that has to be a new experience. how does that feel? with that jim clapper version two-point oh? >> my birthday was in march i turned 77 so clearly when i quit as director of national intelligence almost six and a half years i didn't notice how tired and stressed out i was. because the job is so consuming never actually had a whole day off

some very creative and statesmanlike change that was made under the leadership of bob gates. mike mcconnell was director of national intelligence and i was the under secretary. i have the under secretary of defense and intelligence were a hat for the director of national intelligence. it was a very important change because basically helped integrate those two staffs with the equities of the secretary of defense. as well, the dni does play a role in the hiring of firing agent directors. the secretary of defense is required to coordinate this. whenever there is a nominee, if it requires senate confirmation or appointment. those things in the practice that has evolved over time between the two organizations have done a lot to overcome the potentially ill effects of that section of the law. >> my impression on the other side of the roster was this problem you mentioned of various components drifting away and the fbi going back to a place where they were at odds with the cia, my impression was it was working well because of the personal relationship you clearly had with jim comey,

bob gates had an under stated and clinical competent way of providing advice very calm. calls him yoda. but you know, i think that there were a couple ways. yes, you try appointments. we kept in place, the fbi director appointed by george w. bush, who was bob mueller. repeated republican appointee. then james comey, who was also a republican. ray lahood was a republican that was appointed. the transportation in our administration, bob mcdonald appointed to reform that agency. we frankly tried to appoint greg, republican member of congress, to the commerce department and ultimately, he pulled out at the end because he saw the direction toward obama and the congress. a number of appointments had different levels as well. another important point, though. you have been here from massachusetts. the healthcare bill, everybody forgets that it becomes so contention. the idea of a democratic legislature having worked with the republican governor, mitt romney, to provide universal healthcare. we drew from that idea. we did not pursue a single payer, completely socialized healthcar

nato i have made the same pitch as well as virtually every other secretary of defense including bob gates i think the president was right to insist that they now measure up to what they said they would. always resisted any kind of temptation to publicly try to shame a head of another country or secretary of defense of another country or a president and i always felt that you do that and in private you sit around a table say you know madam president or the chancellor of. germany. we have a problem here you are not committing enough to the collective defense of nato membership and to go through each one of them hold a sheet and saying this is what you pledge to this is what you've done we need more and i think you can do that in part in private but i don't think you can do it and should do it in public because it will generate hostility on the part certainly of those members the heads of state of other countries but it's also going to generate hostility on the part of their citizens where you start to insult. chancellor merkel. or the british prime minister may or go down the list and most

nato i have made the same pitch as well as virtually every other secretary of defense including bob gates i think the president was right to insist that they now measure up to what they said they would. always resisted any kind of temptation to publicly try to shame a head of another country or sect or a defense of another country or a president and i always felt that you do that and in private you sit around a table say you know madam president or the chancellor. of germany. we have a problem here you are not committing enough to the collective defense of nato membership and to go through each one of them hold a sheet and saying this is what you pledge to this is what you've done we need more and i think you can do that in part in private but i don't. think you can do it and should do it in public because it will generate hostility on the part certainly of those members the heads of state of other countries but it's also going to generate hostility on the part of their citizens where you start to insult. chancellor merkel. or the british prime minister may or go down the list and most of

bob gates had the understated political way of providing advice. very calm. obama did call him yoda. and i think to the callers point, there are a couple of ways. one is yes, by appointments. we kept the fbi director appointed by george w. bush, bob mueller, a repeated republican appointee. and then we appointed james comey who was also a republican. ray lahood was appointed. to thewas appointed veterans affairs. gregy to appoint judge through the commerce department but ultimately he did pullout at the end because he saw the direction it was going. another important point, the health care bill, everybody forgets that it has become so contentious. on as actually paste republican idea passed by mitt romney. provided universal health care. single-payerrsue a system.ed we had a republican thinking when you had a system in place -- mitt romney promoted that plan and he had to tie whyelf in knots to explain the same plan he was for as governor was terrible now that obama did it as president. in this opportunity. trying to find the common ground , we see that happe

bush said i looked into his eyes and i could see the soul of a man i could get along with, and bob gates said i looked into his eyes and saw a cold blooded killer. as a general proposition, president trump named all of the problems of the future and didn't talk anything about the issues that brought us to this impasse. why this relationship is deteriorated. the relations, the ukraine, crimea, there is a whole thing that he swept away. it reminds me -- you just can't simply walk away. you have to deal with the past to go into the future. >> this is an easy conversation based on what he justo outlined. he will talk to you about how he will make you the gatest deal to get out of there. >> did he mention syria? >> he did, but we'll see what that means after the meeting, but you want to talk about strategic arms, putin would love to know more about the u.s. munitions and what kind of capabilities we have. >> one thing they i was struck by is only one of the two leaders had a note pad next to him and that was vladimir putin. i didn't see that the president has one. that is what many advisors a

secretary of defense bob gates very famously went to europe to tell the europeans that they have to do more. that is completely called for. what is uncalled for is to the question the very foundation of this alliance that has been a cherished asset since the second world war. >> and one of the things going into the summit with russia, what he will say about russia's annexation of crimea. what message would that send to the world, to nato, to that region which obviously is very nervous about russian aggression? >> you know, the united states has stood for a few simple propositions in our time. one of them is that no country can invade another country and seize their territory by force. we fought a war in the gulf in 1991 to stop iraq from taking kuwait. and we have stood up to this kind of aggression in other places, as well. if trump goes to moscow and basically kisses the ring, and says, you know what, it's fine. you guys can invade your neighbor, take their territory, call it your own and we don't care, boy, that will send a message around the world to other dictators that they can d

. >> it is ridiculous, and true that bob gates and barack obama and others have talked about the increase of nato spending, and it is true. germany is adding $5 billion a year increasing, and sarah huckabee sanders is wrong that it is responsible and reckless not to jump up to 2% of their the gdp, and the president should be asked, how much is russia contributing to nato and how much is russia causing the nations of nato that he is about to have a summit with and sitting as a primary risk to the transatlantic alliance, and so while he has been urging the nato allies to do things of various sorts and come with us in some ways and not others, and i would remind him that they were with us after 9/11 and contribute ed d in the final da and trump is throwing it into real doubt. >> and we are hearing from the republicans who are sticking with the administration on some fronts that there are a lot of things that donald trump has done unare precedented that any republican who won in 2016 would have tone, but michael steele, when it comes to the nato and traditional ally relationships, this is an

because the nato countries have been doing more much as bob gates and others before bob gates including more in their defense spending they are now doing more. they're spending a great deal more and it's not only how much they spend. it's how they spend it you might have smaller input, but greater output but nonetheless, what has happened here is on the one hand, we have a very good relationship with our nato allies and frankly, we cannot defend the united states without allies so to take a public posture of insulting and humiliating leaders of other countries or allies, it will undermine their ability to go to their constituents who will feel very alienated from the united states saying they can't count upon the united states. if you pay up, you get our help. if you don't pay up, you're out. well, we've had the most successful military alliance in the history of this world. and it seems to me the president's going out of his way to publicly undermine that and i can't help forget it's such a short time ago he insulted the prime minister of canada, then flew off and basically hugged kim

that began soon after bob gates began pressuring nato to do just that.till, diplomats will be diplomats and they are doing their best to try to deal with american president who appears to be doing his best to do the bidding of vladimir putin. >> and stoltenberg has come here, met with the president in the oval office, has tried so hard to warm trump up and persuade him of nato's inherent advantage for the united states and of what they are doing. the irony is that the president trump could have come here and took a victory lap and take credit for what started under bob gates and barack obama and some of their predecessors getting the nato members to stand up and meet these goals for 2024 as germany and others have. he could have come in and said that they are doing this because of my pressure. and instead, he came in his ha ranging form and tried to blow the whole thing up. and you have to admire stoltenberg for trying to put the best face on it, but he has the most difficult job right now. you can only imagine what angela merkel is thinking. you think b

i think bob gates comes next. and in a summit in 1972, nixon signed three treaties. the first was the start treaty, which basically froze some numbers but didn't make real reductions and was not verifiable beyond the national technical means. means no on-site inspections. and the second treaty was the anti-ballistic missile treaty, which i already then opposed very strongly on moral grounds, because it was wedded to the doctrine of mutually assured destruction. i personally as a staff member and as some of you experienced war firsthand, first as a child and then in second world war europe. the first americans i met were bombing the hell out of my neighborhood because i was a british child hostage in germany. and it seemed to me that the next americans i met who included my own father who had escaped and come back as an american soldier killing and liberating his former countrymen, that one had to be very much aware of preventing totalitarians from using this as a bargain chip as military superiority and they are cheating. and the russians cheated on almost everything

been with them at the time i don't believe i would have been able to work for condoleezza rice or bob gates or general mattis. i think i have had nine full field and fat and background investigations by the fbi the first question they ask me is this person someone who discriminates against anyone on the basis of race or sexual orientation or creed. they just finished an investigation going back to my h birthday so i will stand on the record. >> thank you for that reassurance mr. chairman. >> mr. chairman and mr. wilkie thank you for volunteering to serve again that was a very powerful opening statement one of the best i have ever heard of any cabinet nominee and i want to thank you for that. i fully intend to support your nomination and hopefully most of my colleagues for all my colleagues will as well. i appreciate you and the chairman already talked about world issues as i have said before there is rural america there is extreme role america then there is alaska. it isn't just the size i don't like doing this to the ranking member but he mentioned montana i think we are five times the siz

we don't get a lot of bob mueller pictures or videos. this is at gate5 x there at reagan national. donald trump jr. and bob mueller just a few feet away. it would not appear as if the two of them had some sort of conversation at the gate. caption that danny cevallos. >> we learned that bob mueller, he may be looking at the president's tweets. this is something that came down yesterday. you just wrote a story for nbc news.com on whether a person's twitter feed can be used as evidence against him, can it? >> yes. >> i noticed this several years ago in court when police and agents started bringing in print outs of twitter feeds and social media, and what defense attorneys will tell you everywhere is that we all had a client that shot themselves in the foot figuratively by posting some evidence of their crime online. law enforcement have gotten smart to this. they go right to social media to look for evidence against clients. here is the kicker. where i saw this the most, juveni juvenile delinquency court. the more people put their lives on social media or

had been with the inside, i don't believe i would have been able to work with condoleezza rice or bob gates were jim mattis. and i think i've had mine fulfilled background investigations by the fbi and i will tell you the first question they ask anyone they talk to is this person someone who discriminates against anyone on the basis of race, sexual orientation or creed and they just finished investigation going all the way back to my 18th year, so i will stand on my record. >> thank you for the reassurance. thank you mr. chairman. >> senator sullivan. >> thank you mr. chairman. thank you for volunteering to serve again. i think that was a powerful opening statement, one of the best that i'v i've heard on anyt nominee and i want to thank you for that. i fully intend to support your nomination and hopefully most of my colleagues or all of my colleagues will as well. i appreciate you and the chairman already talking about rural issues as i've said before there's a rural america, extreme, and then alaska. it's not just the size. i don't like doing this to the ranking member, but you mentioned m

washington post" implied, i don't believe i would have been able to work for condeleezza rice or bob gates or jim mattis. and i think i've had 11 -- nine, full field background investigations by the fbi and i will tell you the first question to ask anyone to talk to is this person someone who discriminates against anyone on the basis of race, sexual orientation or creed? and they just finished an investigation? all the way back to my 18th year, so i'm very, i will stand on my record. >> thank you for that reassurance. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you, senator hirono. senator sullivan. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. wilkie, thank you for volunteering to serve again. i think that was a very powerful opening statement, one of the best opening statements i've heard of any cabinet nominee, and i want to thank you for that. i fully intend to support your nomination, and hopefully most of my colleagues were all my colleagues will as well. i appreciate you and the children already talking about rural issues. as i said before the ours rule america, extreme rural america and then there is alas

bob gates had the understated political way of providing advice. very calm.ma did call him yoda. and i think to the callers point, there are a couple of ways. one is yes, by appointments. we kept the fbi director appointed by george w. bush, bob mueller, a repeated republican appointee. and then we appointed james comey who was also a republican. ray lahood was appointed. to thewas appointed veterans affairs. gregy to appoint judge through the commerce department but ultimately he did pullout at the end because he saw the direction it was going. another important point, the health care bill, everybody forgets that it has become so contentious. on as actually paste republican idea passed by mitt romney. provided universal health care. single-payerrsue a system.ed we had a republican thinking when you had a system in place -- mitt romney promoted that plan and he had to tie whyelf in knots to explain the same plan he was for as governor was terrible now that obama did it as president. in this opportunity. trying to find the common ground , we see that happening

bob gates when he was secretary of defense in the obama administration made a speech that was extremelyh noting, by the way, trump lied in his tweets. >> yeah. >> european members of nato have been boosting their expenditures since russia went into ukraine, which happened under president obama, which trump is fond of pointing out. it also points out that the increase of contributions from members began under obama. >> european powers spend more on defense when they're afraid for that positions and it is deteriorating. it is not something we want. >> right. one of the secrets about u.s., you know, defense spending as opposed to europe is one of the benefits of u.s. defense of germany is that countries in europe are not supposed to spend as much. when germany spends more on defense, shockingly their neighbors get twitchy about it. remember the whole point about -- remember the whole purpose -- you know, it was said about nato that the purpose is to keep the russias out, the americans in and the germans down. you know, donald trump doesn't understand any of those three principles. so as a

the plane and then i'm like, the one time as a reporter i'd actually want to be at that gate, you know, you've got bober, don jr., what are the chances? like what are the actual chances? only in d.c., a very d.c. moment really, not even house of cards. >> and ken, i mevin, is it poss they didn't see each other? could they possibly have really missed each other? >> i -- i wasn't there, but you know, it's a very small gate. >> and julia, your thoughts on that? >> so there's the gates of hell and then there's 35x. >> am i allowed to say that on television? >> you just did. >> it wasn't me. >> so very small, very crowded. i mean, d.c.a. in general, it is probably -- it's the airport out of the three surrounding airports in the metropolitan washington area that's closest to the city so i mean, it's true you have to say what are the chances but at the same time quite a bit of high profile people, senators, lawmakers fly out of there on a daily basis so i mean i feel like something like this was bound to happen but i have to say donald trump jr. doing a good job with the baseball hat. >> we've got to wrap he

. >> i have to say, matt gates and i have to give credit to bob goodlatte making a real difference. >> the opening segment, i would love to take that tape and run all over the country. this is what you want, go elect democrats. i don't think that will work out go them. >> i don't think anything will work out go them. >> ed rollings. >> thank you, sir. >> thank you, sir. >> disgraced fbi agent peter strzok treated like a hero on capitol hill today despite the charges of corruption and his obvious and energetic anti-trump bias. and the proposition that that is going on, that it might occur in the fbi deeply crode -- corrodes. >> the democrats applauding. he joins us next with his new ad we'll talk about what developed in the committee. right after this break. stay with us. we're coming right back. >> so get an allstate agent, and be better protected from mayhem. like me. can a ring bearer get a snack around here? a hotel can make or break a trip. and at expedia, we don't think you should be rushed into booking one. louisiana -- ron desantis is pressing anti-trump peter strzok over the s

nato i have made the same pitch as well as virtually every other secretary of defense including bob gates i think the president was right to insist that they now measure up to what they said they would. always resisted any kind of temptation to publicly try to shame a head of another country your secretary of defense of another country or a president and i always felt that you do that and in private you sit around a table say you know madam president or the chancellor. of germany. we have a problem here you are not committing enough to the collective defense of nato membership and to go through each one of them hold a sheet and saying this is what you pledge to this is what you've done we need more and i think you can do that in part in private but i don't think you can do it and should do it in public because it will generate hostile. he on the part certainly of those members the heads of state of other countries but it's also going to generate hostility on the part of their citizens where you start to insult. chancellor merkel. or the british prime minister may or go down the list and m

lou: jim jordan, and ron desantos, matt gates, and credit to trey gowdy and bob goodlot making a difference with those hearings today, just one day after i said there is no way anything would be produced, badge, dobbs wrong. >> opening segment used, i would love to take it, put below it, none of the above. i don't think that will work out for them. lou: yeah. i don't think anything will work out for them. starting to look like a red wave, edrollins. >> thank you, sir. lou: disgraced fbi agent peter strzok treated like a hero by the dems on capitol hill, despite charges of corruption and his obvious and internettic anti-trump bias. >> proposition that is going on, it might occur anywhere in fbi, deeply corrodes what the fbi is and american society. it destructive. >> the -- the. lou: democrats applauding. congressman ron da santos is joining us next with his view, we'll talk about what developed in that committee, right after this break. stay with us, we're coming right back. you don't want to miss it. lou: today's hearing on capitol hill, congress an desantos. the r.j origin of phony russia

the book we're all waiting for, bob woodward, my colleague at "the washington post." legend of water gatehe's written lots and lots of books on presidents, eight at last count. "fear: trump in the white house." bob has not offered thoughts on the upcoming book but he did offer a thought on bob in 2013. only on twitter, only the obama white house can get away with attacking bob woodward. they weren't really attacking bob woodward. it was sort of a misunderstanding, but that's here nor there. fear, let's see, is it pro? it is donald trump like it, positive or negative review? i'm going on the negative review side is my guess, but we'll see. we have another month or so, wolf. back to you. >> september 11th. we'll all have a chance. chris solizza, good review. >>> more on the breaking news. facebook discovering dozens of new fake accounts ahead of the midterm elections here in the united states which may be linked to the russians. we have new details, standby. does your business internet provider promise a lot? let's see who delivers more. comcast business gives you gig-speed in more places.

to know the answer and there was bias and that your perception of bob mueller's perception of you is totally unreliable. >> meat gates from florida questioning peter strzok about his dismissal from the mueller probe. day one, impeachment. and the title captures it all. the russia hoax, the scheme to frame hillary clinton all on display. and gregg jarrett on set with us in london. and we have fox news contributor, sarah carter. everything we had talked about, you reported all the people we bring on are absolutely right. how do we get justice? >> i think first in an effort to get justice, documents need to be released to the public. the public needs to be able to see what the house intelligence committee has seen recently. there are 19 pages of the foreign intelligence surveillance act the very last fisa warrant. >> the one that rosenstein signed? >> correct. and that's why this is so important. >> why these 19 pages of that application so important? >> the 19 pages are so important because they basically will reveal exactly what happened. it will answer the questions as to how was peter strzok involved in the fisa war

. >> bob mueller is not making deals left and right. rick gatesorge papadopoulous and michael flynn all traded some pieces of information for their respective plea deals. that is presumably incredible information. >> reporter: and what has mueller found out about the june 2016 trump tower meeting between donald trump jr., paul manafort, jared kushner and russians who promised to share dirt on hillary clinton? trump jr. has said that he never told his father about the meeting. >> there was nothing to tell. >> it was just a waste of 20 minutes which was a shachme. >> reporter: but sources say michael cohen is now claiming trump knew of the meeting in advance and that cohen is prepared to tell mueller. cohen himself may not be on mueller's to-do list though having referred his case to federal investigators in new york. >> so it brings the issue of collusion or conspiracy right to the president's feet. >> reporter: mueller's latest indictment of the russian hackers hinted that he may still be looking at the role of other u.s. persons. >> conspirators

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. >>> look who ended up at a gate together at reagan national. that's bob mueller over there on the left reading notes about something. >> hi, bob. >> and that's donald trump jr., casual friday, i guess, if that was today, standing in line on his phone, maybe talking to his lawyer about what mueller wants to know about him. just funny things happen in d.c. what do you think? >> that town is just too small. >> too small for the special counsel and the president's son under investigation? >> is that security right behind him? >> i think so. >> that's a picture of irony, if there was one. i'm sure that maybe donald junior was jogoing to join his father on the golf course after the first big security meeting after a year and a half. >> who's the enterprising person who took that photo? >> i'm glad to have it. bob mueller doesn't get spotted very much in public. hiel m you're reading your twitter mentions. >> thank god it's friday. >> that does it for our hour. i'm nicolle wallace. "mtp daily" starts right now. hi, chuck. >> and they were in the dreaded 35x gate

. >> and rick gates, not a household name the way some of these other characters are. but he's now working for bob mueller, on team america telling bob mueller and investigators everything they want to know about the trump campaign. any concern about the amount of time rick gates lasted after manafort was off the scene? he was in and out of this white house long after donald trump was inaugurated. he was in and around some key people in places who were also of interest to robert mueller. is there anything about those intersections between gates and folks in the white house and the folks that you write about today that creates more anxiety for people now that he's a cooperating witness in the mueller probe? >> yeah, absolutely. and you raise a valid point. manafort was pushed out. despite the fact that what he was pushed out over, which was his work in ukraine for pro russian oligarchs and officials there, was something that rick gates was his right hand man on that work for more than a decade before the presidential campaign started. so you would think that if there was concern about what manafort

gates. es: you said you were not biased, but bob mueller kick you off of his team because of bias. mr. strzok: there were no words spoken about this, but it was the appearance he wanted to avoid. rep. gates: did bob mueller say, i'm not firing you because of your bias? what is your basis for your belief? mr. strzok: because i think his experience with me, my work, and the reputation of others is that i am an individual who follows the facts. rep. gates: so your testimony today that you were removed not for bias but for the appearance of bias is based on your perception of robert mueller's perception of you. mr. strzok: i'm saying what i would think. gaetz: did robert mueller ever ask you if you were biased against donald trump? he didn't ask when he hired you? that is not a question that gets asked during hiring meetings. rep. gaetz: one would think you might ask. certainly when you were removed, was it clear to you that mr. mueller was aware of these text messages? mr. strzok: yes. rep. gaetz: so he knew of the text messages but never asked you whether you were biased or not. mr. strzo

gate, sitting next. this is a -- wow. >> interesting, having worked for bob mueller, i know that he has two ties. a red one and a blue one. >> are we reading into the ties? >> it looks as though, i would be curious to see where he's headed. is he taking a little vacation which is much deserved or going to hunt for more clues? very interesting. >> my guess is he's keeping his head down. blinders on. no contact there. >> don jr., i see you but i don't want to see you. thank you for all that. despite only a week since the back lash of helsinki, we'll talk to fareed. and the president says a 4% growth is not a one-time shot. it is sustainable. so hear what's behind that. and new fallout from sasha baring cohen's tv stunt. this was showing folks who live there who are racist. you can watch the video. the mayor says, he got it all wrong. liberty mutual saved us almost $800 when we switched our auto and home insurance. with liberty, we could afford a real babysitter instead of your brother. hey! oh, that's my robe. is it? when you switch to liberty mutual, you could save $782 on auto and home insurance.

get the bob wood board treatment, and what we know is as you said, bob spent the last eight months and he went back to his water gatele's doors, and went in and interviewed them. he has dozens of white house officials and firsthand sources who have been in these meetings with donald trump. they all spoke to him. they were all recorded. every interview was recorded, but don't make a mistake by that. they're not on the record. these are deep background. this is not a back of one deep throat. this is a book of dozens of deep throats, and they discussed everything from sort of explosive debates in the white house to really it's described as harrowing. >> is it a fear he found in the white house? i mean, i guess we don't know the answer. >> we will hear, but what we're -- it was not just interviews. these sources gave him documents. he got memos. notes. files. diaries. notes i'm told in donald trump's own hand. so i'm told it's very authoritative and very well documented. >> are some of the notes classified? do you know? >> we don't know yet, but this is what i would say. in the past people have given bob woodward classi

. >> bob you're jogging my nerm m of me and you chasing down rick gates. >> that should be on an msnbc commercial. >> some things are better off camera. while we don't expect witnesses to say the word russia or say the world donald trump because this is for things unrelated that happened before manafort's work at the campaign, there could be some serious implications like if he's found guilty. it could embolden the special counsel investigation. it could let mueller squeeze manafort. allow him to gain cooperation for other defendants. not guilty could undermine the credibility the special counsel investigation. i might give president trump some anti-talking points and open the door to let gop supporters soften support of the investigation. >> the president is looking at mv manafort's trial and looking to see how far this goes. if he's found guilty, he's facing hundreds of years in prison. >> you have what the president's attorneys have said this morning and over the last 18, 24 hours on this. >> i've never been one to give dates on when this thing wraps up but i'll say it needs to wrap

gate it is important. it is not directly implicating the pressoent, but it is thing that will prove the breadth and depth of investigative prowess of bob mueller and his team. jane: but it has nothing to do with russia interference. doesn't this lend weight when president trump does call it tch hunt? michael: i've talked for a long time about how this is going ton be a case at the end of the day -- that is, the case involving trump. this is the start of that monelo story, moneyng to people and associates of the president, people connected wittihis administ. while it is true that in this particular indictment, the president is not implicated, i think you are starting to see the le beginning to be told of how money from foreign governments and oligarchs load -- flowed in tolose associates of trump. trump has tried to distance himself from manafort -- that is expected. remember that manafort w brought in as the campaign manager at a critical time. he had trump's trust. trump had his trust. we already know some o things manafort reported have not been true, like contacts with russia -- we know there was a meeting with trump tower. ja: on t

gates for five minutes. >> you've said repeatedly today that you were not biassed but bob mueller kicked you off his team as a consequence of your bias. >> i wouldn't agree with that characterization. my understanding was that it was the potential appearance that he wanted to avoid. >> did bob mueller say i'm not firing you from this team from your bias? >> he did not. >> what is your basis that it's the appearance of your bias rather than your actual bias? >> i think his experience both with me, my work and the reputation of others about me and my work that he knows that i am an individual who follows the facts where they lay. >> so your testimony today that you were removed not for bias but for the appearance of bias is based on your perception of robert mueller's perception of you? >> no, sir. i'm saying what i would think the logical case -- >> let's ask it simply. did robert mueller ever ask you if you were biassed against trump? >> he did not. >> so he didn't ask you when he hired you? >> no. that question is not typically a question that gets asked during hiring meetings in the u.s. government. >> on

gate ever. >> kevin, the worst ever, but there is this amazing photograph politico obtained. bob mueller there on the left, hidden, right there to the right of the board, donald trump jr., then the statement here, nbc news got the statement for the spokesperson for the special counsel. that is him, bob mueller, waiting to board a flight. if that's accurate that's donald trump jr., they had no interaction there. what's this photo say to you about bob mueller's role or presence in washington today? he has sort of a sphinx-like feel. this is a rather astonishing photograph, natasha. >> yeah, it's absolutely incredible. bob mueller kind of reading the newspaper, oblivious to what's going on around him, or maybe not, but donald trump jr. doesn't seem fazed by it either. just an evidence of how small d.c. is, as well. >> yes, at that terrible gate, as kevin said. my thanks to all of you. kent, you're going to stay with me here. >>> after nearly two years of calling it a witch hunt and hoax, friday a meeting was held on election meddling. afterward the white house said this, "the presid

gates of bitcoin hefen? breaking above 7,000 for the best day in three months let's get to bob pisani at the new york stock exchange for more on what was behind this move hi, bob. >> a little bit of good news finally, melissa and bitcoin which was struggling at the $6800 level popped over $7,000 in just seconds in the middle of the day. here's the news. mastercard has published a document outlining how they may try to speed up cryptocurrency transactions by linking accounts holding both the currency and cryptocurrency this document which is by the trademark office notes that it often takes a significant amount of time and ten minutes is typical for a block chain based transaction to be processed and they can be done in nano seconds. we all know that this difference puts payments using cryptocurrencies at a big disadvantage and merchants are wary about accepting block chain currencies and individuals may have trouble proving their identity and ownership of a wallet >> what is mastercard proposing? >> they want to offer a new type of user account that would allow a user to do transactions using cryptocurrency, and th

gates, for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. you said repeatedly today you were not biased, but bob mueller kicked you off his team as a consequence of your bias, didn't he? >> i wouldn't agree with that characterization. i think i answered earlier my understanding was that, and again, there were no words spoken about this, but it was the potential appearance he wanted to avoid. >> did bob mueller say i am not firing you for your bias. >> he did not. >> what is your basis that it is the appearance of your bias rather than actual bias that resulted in mueller removing you? >> i think his experience both with me, my work and reputation of others about me and my work, he knows i am an individual that follows facts where they lay. >> your testimony that you were removed not for bias but the appearance of bias is based on your perception of robert mueller's perception of you? >> no, sir. i am saying what i think the logical case. >> let me ask it simply. did robert mueller ask you if you were biased against donald trump? >> he did not. >> so he didn't ask you when he hired you? >> no. no

gates for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. you've said repeatedly today that you are not biassed by bob mueller kicked you off of his team as a consequence of the bias didn't he? >> i wouldn't agree with that. my understanding is that -- again there were no words spoken about this but it was an appearance that he wanted to avoid. >> so did bob mueller say i'm not firing you from your bias. >> he did not. >> so what is your basis for the belief that it's the appearance from your bias rather than your actual bias in mueller removing you? >> it's me and my work that he knows that i am an individual that follows the facts where ney lay. >> so your testimony that you were removed for bias but the appearance of bias is based on your perception of robert mueller's perception of you? >> no. what i'm saying i think if logical case -- >> let me ask it simple, mr. strzok. did robert mueller ask you if you were biassed against donald trump? >> he did not. >> so he didn't ask you when he hired you? >> no. that's not a question that gets asked -- >> one would think if you're hire someone to investigate something you would ask. when you wer

gate 35x. you can see the welcome to dca sign there. on your left is special counsel bob mueller.appears to be minding his own business and reading the paper. but that's not all. over there on the right is donald trump jr., plus the secret service agent who looks kind of annoyed, i think, that someone was attempting to capture this particular moment. you are looking at a prosecutor and a witness passing each other at random. today mueller's office which is notoriously tight lipped, they rarely respond to any question on the record. they put out this statement confirming that yes, that is him, waiting to board a flight. if it is accurate that the other person in the photo was donald trump jr., mr. mueller was not aware of him and had no interaction with him. which is a bit like when a reporter asked mariah carey asked her about j.lo and she said, i don't know her. he is very aware right now of trump jr.'s role in this trump tower meeting we've been covering. which michael cohen is now ready to say is a thing that trump jr. lied about how his dad approved it. now that story first br

bob mueller is beginning to answer that tonight, and he's pointing out this operation was certainly bigger than weather gate, certainly lasted longer. now, whether it involves top american political officials remains an open question. so, consider all that and then add this. tonight is the first time the united states has charged russians for stealing information on american voters. that's a whole other piece of this indictment, alleging they, the russians, were hacking a website of a state board of elections and stealing information not about 100 or 1,000 voters but half a million of them. names, addresses, parts of their social security number, dates of birth, i.d. numbers. what state did that happen in? what happened to that information? this indictment doesn't tell us that tonight, but half a million voters is a lot. it could have an impact on a state like, say, michigan, ch was decided by just 10,704 votes. indictment also raises new questions about this moment in the 2016 campaign. >> russia, if you're listening, i hope you're able to find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing. >> well, bob mueller puts