andrea mitchell, bob gates, an example of a man who really has seen more, done more than most anybody else in modern american politics. he's worked for republicans and democrats alike. and robert gates i remember before the election was a man who did not support donald trump at all but mika and i remember having a private conversation with him and he said the same thing that general hayden said privately, which was we only have one president at a time. >> exactly. >> and we have to do everything we can do to make donald trump a successful president. we have no other choice. and so that's why when you see bob gates finally speaking out, it carries the tremendous impact that it does. >> it does. and just to re-enforce what that letter said, that had the signatures of bob gates and judge william webster. these are not political people. these are career people. judge webster went from the federal judiciary to the fbi and then the cia, held in such high regard a man in his 90s who has never spoken out like this, ever, and i've known him for more than three decades. these are the people so

bob gates served republicans and democrats, not a guy seen as a partisan hack. david petraeus, a guy we know, donald trump has been looking for ways, considering ways to get him involved in the administration. >> for a long time. >> the president wants petraeus on his team. he signed on to that letter and mccraven who is a guy who is seen as something separate from politics completely and revered in military and intelligence circles writes a scathing letter. these are three guys -- those guys are unique. >> and mccraven went a step further and said it would be a badge of honor if you take mine as well, not just saying i don't like you did but fine, take it, it's not so coveted that we'll cower in fear. because that is the message the president is trying to send, i could drop this on you at any moment and you should be worried. >> rudy giuliani trying to further that line to stop conversation about this being about free speech but giuliani putting out the point that if you don't need a clearance if you're advising the president, what is interesting is having thes

so now we have 15 former officials, seven former directors of central intelligence including bob gates who also served as defense secretary. he's a critical voice in all of this. he's the ultimate quiet man. he doesn't go out and talk a lot in public. when he talks, when he signs on to a letter like this, it gets noticed. let go back and take a look at what some of this letter from these 15 people says and it says, quote, we all agree that the president's action regarding john brennan and the threats of similar action against other former officials have nothing to do with who should and who should not hold security clearances and everything to do with an attempt to stifle free speech. you don't have to agree with what john brennan says and, again, not all of us do, to agree with his right to say it. we have never before seen the approval or removal of security clearances used as a political tool as was done in this case. so circling back, admiral mccraven, the former four-star navy admir ral, i know him well one of the most respected military leaders this country has had issuing his ow

. >> and what started as the letter from the 12, today one more, bob gates, the celebrated former cia and pentagon chief, pentagon chief twice. so you had really the leaders for generations in republican and democratic administrations, military and civilian, all coming out. mccraven separately. let's talk about what he wrote. he wrote, through your actions -- this was an open letter in "the washington post" to the president. "through your actions you have embarrassed us in the eyes of our children, humiliated us on the world stage and worst of all divided us as a nation. if you think for a moment that your mccarthy-era tactics will suppress the voices of criticism, you are sadly mistaken." blistering criticism. >> blistering is right. and following that with this other op-ed or letter from the other individuals. and i think one of the key points that you made is bipartisan. it's both republicans and democrats who have worked in these types of roles, cia directors and in the intelligence world, who are criticizing this, including david petraeus who by the way was somebody who president

as many people have said, including my former boss bob gates, we paid a price for that. we are still paying the price for that. we are also paying a price, this is my last historical thing but goes into present-day politics we pay a price for doing things , badly. in 2001 and 2002 when we went to afghanistan there was a clean slate. we could have helped the afghans remake their society, but we chose not to. many talk about the effort inding afghanistan. i was there. we did not do nationbuilding. president bush was against nationbuilding. we did not put the resources in. the report by president bush was we got rid of the taliban and we $1 million. had all kinds of ideas about how what was going to have in afghanistan and decided to spend $1 million to do it. it didn't work. president obama, as mentioned a decision to put additional troops into afghanistan, but made the horrible decision to set a deadline. thereby giving the taliban a deadline as to how long they had to fight before they win. so why is the united states still in afghanistan? in my view, it's because we hav

i think hearing from bill webster and bob gates is a pretty strong signal that doing this would really be off-base. >>chris: the one current official, member of the justice department whose being considered is bruce - - who along with his wife had links to christopher steele. is with the president on friday said about them. >> i think he's a disgrace with his wife nelly. for him to be in the justice department and to be doing what he did, that is a disgrace. that is disqualifying for mueller. >>chris: how beautiful do you think the russia investigation place in all this and what if, because it has been speculated, what if the president were to pull the security clearances of robert mueller and the other members of his special counsel team? >> again, i think that the president has the authority to grant clearances and to pull them. i think pulling bob mueller's clearance would create a real political firestorm for him. and i would hope that the president would just let bob mueller get through that investigation. in the case of bruce, who i don't know, there is a process that the preside

so when you see mike hayden or bob gates or leon panetta, so i very much disapprove of what trump has done. politically from his point of view, there's a method to his madness, i'm afraid. if the attack on the deep state continues, what it does, what it's shown you in other historical settings in other countries, it allows a leader and that leader's cabal to say whatever they want to, because they fended off criticism of the civil service, the court, fended off criticism of the media. >> it's dangerous, and that's why i think it's gratifying to see some of the most distinguished, respected military and intelligence officers who have served this country in recent decades, come out, come out quickly and forcefully in defense the director brennan. more importantly in response to what the president has done here. this group knows -- all of us who have had security clearances, it's not a perk, not a political spoil to be given to friends of the president and taken away from those he doesn't like. it's a serious tool to be used for serious national security work. >> let's follow with your l

the extraordinary step as people did over this weekend, you have the former secretary of defense bob gates, you have admiral mcraven who took out osamaed we ssama b. they say he is acting as if he thinks he is a king and not the representative of the people who took an oath to protect and defend the constitution. >> it's interesting -- it's not the only time we have heard mccam mccarthy thrown around. the president is bringing up mccarthyism. when you see that, what's your gut on that? >> rage tweeting at 4:00 in the morning and calling bob mueller joe mccarthy, i think the president has lost his mind. >> we will have to leave it there. appreciate you coming in. good to have you here. check out tim's book "enemies, a history of the fbi." >>> the pope speaking out on the sexual abuse of children in the catholic church after the grand jury report from pennsylvania outlines decades not only of assault and abuse but of coverups. what took this pope so long to speak? will anything change? [ coughs ] ♪ ♪ [ screams ] ♪ [ laughs ] ♪ whoa, whoa, whoa. your one item would be the name your price tool

a dozen officials like bob gates, defense secretary for george w.id that he was opposed to what the president had done, pulling brennan's security clearance. that's the problem sometimes. you open that door and you don't know who will come out. maybe john brennan and a bunch of his friends. >> trace: what are the repercussions of that? you talk about a dozen people. it could be higher, 13, 14, 15 people that have joined that list now as the white house kind of moves forward with this list. bruce ohr is a new name, not new, but maybe the next person to get his security clearance revoked. what does that do to the white house going forward? >> it depends what the white house does. the president, all he's done is move against brennan. i think the controversy stays where it is. if on the other hand, he goes after other people that have not been -- the one thing about brennan, even if you think it's wrong, he's crossed a line that no other of those officials have in terms of being nakedly partisan in going after president trump. he has accused him of high

it's got bob gates, republican, and leon panetta, democrat.orter goss. former military actors who served in the central intelligence agency. this is not the deep state. these are the deep thinkers and we ought to be listening to them and should not be pulling these clearances for political purpose. >> how about the president's position saying i don't respect john brennan, i have no intention of using him or his advice. does that give him the right to revoke his clearance? >> first of all, legally, the president has the right to revoke the clearance. he also has the right, for example, to pull pensions away from retired government officials. to order tax examinations. all of these things ought to worry us when we start using them for political purpose. he has the right to do that, because of the way the law and the constitution is written, although there will be those who challenge it and i hope they do, but the thing to watch here, alex is, clearly the president doesn't respect john brennan and john brennan doesn't respect the president. got t

bob gates and panetta. names you hear and can't believe.to offer people who are currently serving in intentilligence in o country. we have to know where we've been to know where we are going. and by revoking the clearances, of all these people who could guide current officials, this is no good for america. so the base at some point for being the patriots that they are and sort of thumping that book of we need to be safe. we need to be secure and defense comes first, what are they going to make of this as it continues on trump slowly but surely makes it clear he doesn't like these people because they criticize him. this is no good. i think we're in a moment where we don't know how this is going to fully play out. it's just a sad -- it's a very sad day in america when we see the mccarthy era tactics come to the surface. i never thought i'd see the day in 2018. >> you're echoing the thoughts of the former commander of nato. he said while he was in that position, he would frequently reach out to his predecessors because you need the institution

it has bob gates, republican, and leon panetta, democrat. it has former congressmen, former military actors who served in the central intelligence agency. this is not the deep state, these are the deep thinkers and we should not be pulling these clearances for political purpose. >> what we're seeing is a very clear abuse of basic administrative functions. next anybody you know, he could say i want a review of john brennan's taxes, a review of whether john brennan is working for the russians so let's put him under surveillance. all of these things are invested within the white house and they are not abused and have never really been abused before in this way. this is not a slippery slope. we're down the slope now. >> joining me now, former fbi director for counterintelligence and national security analyst. frank, a welcome to you. i want to ask you, do you still have a security clearance? >> mine has lapsed, but i did carry my clearance well into and after retirement. both to assist the fbi and the intelligence community if they had questions

some very specifically who spent their life in government and i think hearing from bill webster and bob gatess a pretty strong signal that doing this would really be off-base. >> chris: the one current official, member of the justice department who security clearance is being considered is bruce ohr, who along with his wife had links to chris steele, the man who wrote the russia dossier. here's what the president said on friday about them. >> i think that bruce ohr is a disgrace with his wife nellie. for him to be in the justice department and to be doing what he did, that is a disgrace. that is disqualifying for mueller. >> chris: how big a role doin af this and what if -- because it has been speculated -- what if the president were to pull the security clearances of robert mueller and the other membe? >> admiral mullen: again, i think that the president has the authority to grant clearances and to pull them. i think pulling bob mueller's clearance would create a real political firestorm for him and i would hope that the president would just let bob mueller get through that investigation. in

bob gates is adding his name to that list of former intelligence officials who are criticizes the president ill advised. those leaders saying that in a letter, that those decisions should be made based on national security, and not on political views. >> and the timing, quickly, on that, before we move on. talk about that knowing that the president was just really considering this during the summer months? is it because we're hearing more from brennan after helsinki, because we heard him speaking out about omarosa. >> the funny thing, the president isn't doing it to silence brennan, as the director suggested in his "new york times" op-ed yesterday. bloomberg points out that the president is actually trying to elevate brennan. that had president love as foil. the president loves to have an enemy and he loves making brennan the face of the deep state as the president would call it. so the president likes having someone who can -- he can be out there to talk about, just like he used to talk about a political opponent during mid-terms. when he doesn't have a direct opponent he'll talk about mue

of members of the intelligence community, former members, former senior leaders and now including bob gates, cia director during h.w. bush's reign, gates, unusual for this. >> it's very unusual. frankly. i think the president has admitted that this is reprisal and this is unprecedented. we haven't seen this before. i think by revoking brennan's or trying to revoke brennan's clearance he's sending a message to the others. you better not criticize me. it contributes to a more toxic environment. having said alm of that, there's one case, the case of bruce ohr where this is a suspicious person. if he was having a communication with christopher steele and steele was giving him information and he was relaying it to the fbi, i don't know that's the type of person to have clearance at this point. >> a senior justice department official. >> they should have clearance. but what i'm saying is that some of his behavior is suspicious. i think it merits some sort of internal investigation. >> why is that suspicious? i don't understand. why would it be suspicious? >> this is christopher steele. he's doing

nbc news confirms that bob gates, who served as defense secretary under presidents george w bush and barack obama had add eed his name to the lis. the letter signed by 13 former intelligence officials, including fbi directors, wrote, quote, this action is clearly a signal to other former and current officials, as individuals who cherished and helped preserve the right of americans to free speech, even when that right has been used to criticize us. that signal is inappropriate and deeply regrettable. decisions on clearance should be based on national security concerns and not political views. counselor to the president kellyanne conway answered questions about john brennan this morning at the white house. take a look. >> former eer cia director. he has shown no interest in helping the administration. further, the national security interests of the country, he paid for his opinion now, and it is against the interests of this administration. >> joining me now is malcolm nance, msnbc terrorism analyst, and sean henry, cybersecurity and national security analyst and former executive direc

over 100 former intelligence and defense officials, including george bush's secretary of defense, bob gates and say this kind of action of creating an enemies list, not just john brennan but the other individuals named and the idea that this president or this white house was going to roll out taking away other people's security clearance on a bad news day is frankly reprehensible and should not stand in our american system. >> senator warner, thank you for coming on "prime time." >> thank you, chris. >> not even get a vote on something like protecting security clearances. what does that tell you about where we are? >>> michael cohen's lawyer is going to be with us when we come back. all those questions that you heard from avenatti and you heard from senator warner about what else cohen knows, this is the man who knows the answers. he helped with today's plea deal. at the lowest price... is as easy as dates, deals, done! simply enter your destination and dates... and see all the hotels for your stay! tripadvisor searches over 200 booking sites... to show you the lowest prices... so you can g

. >> with bob gates adding his name this morning, that makes nearly every former cia director and deputy director now signing on to what really amounts to this blistering rebuke of the president's decision. they write among other things, you don't have to agree with what brennan says. not all of us do agree with his right to say it. to be clear, the white house has shown no evidence that brennan, the strong critic of the president is a threat to national security, fueling the complaint in the letter, that it's an act of political vengeance. the white house today, however, did pick up on richard burr's argument thursday, that if brennan believes the president's no collusion claim is, quote, hogwash, he should have told the intelligence committee what he knew when he testified under oath. the president leaving for new york later today. we hope to pose some of these questions to him on the south lawn this morning, kristin. >> and peter, very quickly, i've been talking to my sources, trying to get a sense if we're going to actually hear from the president today. he hasn't been answering a wh

cia directors bob gates, george tenant, michael hayden, all of whom served under republican presidents expressing outrage. they called it an inappropriate attempt to stifle free speech based on political views, writing that this action is quite clearly a signal to other former and current officials. are those concerns valid? >> well look, as i said a moment ago, i've been through this myself and had the senior state department official whose name i'll let go for now persisted and tried to get my clearance pulled because i had been critical of his performance and others, yes, i would have objected to it. i don't think political disagreement alone is sufficient, but i think in the case especially of a senior intelligence community official who violates the separation between intelligence and policy, i think those would constitute grounds. >> but john brennan can look at television, he can look at open source and he certainly has testified in front of congress. >> those are all things that a lot of people who have security clearances outside of administrations do. for me the issue is whet

as many people have said, including my former boss bob gates, we paid a price for that. and we are still paying the price for that. we are also paying a price, this is my last historical thing, we pay a price for doing things badly. in 2001 and 2002 when we went to afghanistan there was a clean slate, we could've helped the afghans remit their society but we chose not to. many talk about the nationbuilding effort in afghanistan, i was there. we did not do nationbuilding, president bush was against nationbuilding. we did not put the resources and, -- the resources in, the was $1by president bush we got rid of the taliban and we had all kinds of ideas about how to spend $1 million to do it. president bush did not work. president obama, as mentioned earlier, made a decision to the troops into afghanistan but made the horrible decision to set a deadline, giving the taliban a deadline as to how long we had to fight. that continued in 2014. so wise united states still in afghanistan? in my view, it's because we have done it wrong so much. why do we need to stay? because it's d

bob gates adding his name to that letter overnight. former cia director and deputy director signing on to what amounts to a blistering rebuke of 2 president's decision to yank john brennan's security clearance. they write among other things "you don't have to agree with what brennan says and not all of us do to agree with his right to say it." the white house has not shown evidence that brennan is a threat to national security fuelling their fierce complaint that it's an act of political vengeance. overnight, 12 former senior intelligence officials releasing a joint statement blasting president trump for revoking former cia director john brennan's security clearance calling it ill-considered and unprecedented. former officials telling the president his actions against brennan have nothing to do with who should and should not hold security clearances and everything to do with an attempt to stifle free speech. it comes after brennan fired back in the names accusing the president of trying to silence others who might challenge him arguing

rick gates is cooperating with bob mueller. ly spends behind bars himself will be directly contingent on how helpful he is to prosecutors both in the manafort case and other matters. we don't know how long gates will ultimately spend behind bars. we don't know when rick gates will be sentenced. he doesn't have a date yet. it is not the case for george a papadopoulos. he is due to be sentenced on september 7th, which is the friday after labor day. the special counsel's office has until this week to file with the court their recommendation for punishment. basically to tell the judge in papadopoulos' case how long george should spend behind bars. but a funny thing happened today. robert mueller requested and was granted a protective order, quote, restricting the use, dissemination of discovery materials which the defendant has requested in advance of his sentencing. protective order today? why five days before mueller's prosecutors make their recommendation for punishment for george papadopoulos, why today was a giant legal cone of

hey, listen, i want bob gates, he served a bunch of presidents, 11 different presidents, what it is.m informed whatever is he doing over at william and mary. i like what condoleezza rice is doing at the hoover institute. i want her informed. you should be making that choice as a president. i want them up to date so they can call and say listen, i'm seeing some of this intelligence. i know the guy over in turkey let me make the call. i think going through that list of sally yates and others right now would diminish the president going at john brennan who is way over here. michael hayden and others come out. their criticism seems measured and thoughtful where john brennan is off the hook and uses terms like i once in a while get my irish up. that's not a good excuse on behalf of the irish and i'm half of an irish person. steve: when you look at that lineup right there, peter strzok, why did he still have it. brian: i don't know he had it. steve: bruce ohr why does he still have it? he will be testifying before congress. you would imagine. ainsley: there is the list. john brennan said h

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as we talked about with barbara and chuck, gates is a cooperating witness that anything that bob muellers not just what gates says during the manafort trial that he's going to be annoyed by. trump's bad behavior is afternoon animated by fear. what's the central fear? >> that's the great question. and people that are close to him say they don't know what they don't know, what we don't know. part of it is the president has made a decision. he truly believes and i'm not saying this is correct, but he truly believes that he did nothing wrong. this is getting reinforced now by rudy giuliani. other lawyers around him previously were giving him a different set of advice. that's not what giuliani is telling hip. trump believes his biggest risk is not necessarily from mueller, but may come from possible impeachment, in democrats take the house. there is an element where he believes this is a public relations battle and he needs to discredit mueller in case the investigation finds anything. and sort of lay the groundwork that as he likes to say, this is a witch hunt, collusion is not a crime, and

bob mueller's star witness rick gates, trump's former

bob mueller's star witness, rick gates, is now under cross-examination. this is big.

. >> dagen: you interviewed congressman gates about this. bober strozk off the team. when he found text messages were revealed by the inspector general, robert mueller never asked strozk about the bias. he never asked what do the text messages mean? i don't want to speculate too much but he didn't want to know if it's obtainable -- >> harris: plausible deniability. >> do they ask everyone else if they are biased? >> melissa: what was the insurance policy? >> dagen: we'll stop it? the american people? that was a great answer. >> kennedy: stinking ones at walmart? >> dagen: hogwash. new questions over the direction of the democratic party after former president obama puts out an initial list of endorsements and leaves off a rising left wing star. more on that ahead. if you feel like you spend too much time in the bathroom with recurring constipation and belly pain talk to your doctor and say yesss! to linzess. ♪ yesss! linzess treats adults with ibs with constipation or chronic constipation. linzess can help relieve your belly pain, and lets you h

gates testimony. gaigs is a cooperating witness for anything that bob mueller is investigating. t just what gates says in the manafort trial that he'll see him annoyed by. trump's bad behavior is often animated by fear. what is the central issue? >> that's a great question and some of the people close to him say they don't know what they don't know, what we don't know. >> the president truly believes that he did nothing wrong. this is getting reinforced by rudolph giuliani. there were other lawyers previously who were giving him a different set of advice. on the one hand trump believes his biggest risk is not necessarily from mueller but may come from possible impeachment if democrats take the house. so there is an elementary school where he believes this is a public relations battle. that he needs to discredit mueller in case the investigation finds anything but even if it doesn't and lay the ground work. as he likes to say, this is a witch hundred. collusion is not a crime and he did nothing wrong. we don't know. now that michael cohen has flipped, that's a risk. >> there was a

and remember, we don't know what rick gates has told bob mueller about any russia collusion. and he was there for a lot of it. and he was very close with manafort and anything manafort told gates can be -- gates can testify about most likely. and so there's a lot that we don't know. >> let me play that and get -- this is rudy seeming to rack his brain or hit his brain or do something to his head trying to remember who was in that meeting. let me play that for you guys. >> lanny davis was there, there was a meeting two days before the meeting took place with donald junior, jared, manafort and two others. gates, one more person. >> that's a real meeting. you're saying that that -- >> that's a real meeting on another provable subject in which he did not participate. >> that was him trying to -- >> that was so great. >> a real meeting that i'm trying to say never took place. >> is that what you're talking about? >> that's exactly what i'm talking about -- >> do you think he knew that rick gates had testified to something that perhaps jeopardized donald trump? >> so, we don't know

bob mueller's star witness, rick gates, is now under cross-examination. this is big. it means that manafort's lawyers get their turn to undercut him any way they can. it also means we are learning some brand new bombshells about the mueller probe itself like how mueller's investigators build their cases against former trump aides. tonight, i can report to you for the very first time how that process works. it is exhaustive. gates saying here under oath that in the time since he famously flipped in february, he met with mueller's team 20 times. gates also making new accusations that move from manafort's financial activities to the heart of the trump campaign itself. and potential corruption. he is saying on the stand, and this is new, as an allegation under oath, that paul manafort abused his role as campaign manager to promise perks and a job to a banker that manafort also directed him to help hide millions in 15 different offshore bank accounts. that's a story prosecutors have been telling throughout the case. meanwhile, manafort -- extramarital affair and he paid hi

bob mueller's star witness rick gates, trump's former deputy campaign chairman, taking the stand in the government's case against paul manafort. this is manafort's protege, his right-hand man, his consignificant layer and today he was the special counsel's star witness spilling the beans. the most important question came from the prosecutor, who asked very simply, did you commit crimes with mr. manafort. gates replied, yes. from there, gates went into remarkable detail about the alleged crimes and the people involved and a key road leads back to moscow. according to gates, manafort knowingly failed to report 15 foreign bank accounts and one of those was tied to a man named konstantin kilimnik, a man prosecutors say has direct ties to russian intelligence. he was the middle man between manafort himself and russian billionaire oleg deripaska. offered private briefings to trump to during the campaign. a putin insider so in the center of this he's now sanctioned by the u.s. treasury department. gates told the jury that manafort directed him to lie. and money wired to his bank account as loa

bob mueller already had rig gates.t seems like a lot of the information that paul manafort could provide is duplicative of what rick gates has already provided. why would you want to do business with somebody like manafort, who is also charged with tampering with witnesses when, instead, you can do business with gates? >> good point. glen kirschner, julia ainsley, thank you very much. >>> it has been a full week since the court ordered deadline to reunite migrant families. nearly 600 children are still in the custody of hhs. the majority were accept rat-- separated from parents already departed. advocacy groups like the aclu, they say, should find the parents. attorneys for the aclu responded to the administration saying it was attempting to avoid its ponce blts by passing its work off to private groups. let's bring in jacob soboroff, who has been following this story. what's going on? the government wants the aclu to do the dirty work? >> think about what you said. the government is asking can -- the trump administrat

along with senators john boseman, richard blumenthal, bob casey, chris murphy, pat toomey, and representative matt gatesk you all for being here very much. thank you all very much. appreciate it. we're gathered together this afternoon to pay tribute to a fallen warrior, a great warrior, technical sergeant john chapman, and to award him our nation's highest, most revered military honor. would you all please join me in welcoming a wonderful family that i just met in the oval office, the chapman family. thank you. please stand up. [ applause ] and to his beautiful wife, valerie, who agrees that he was a very brave man right from the beginning, right? you knew that. i know this day has truly brought special meaning. exactly 26 years ago you married john. today is our great honor to share his incredible story with the world, so thank you very much, valerie. appreciate it. and to your daughters, madison and brianna, we award your dad the congressional medal of honor, and i know he is looking down on you right now from heaven, proud of this day, but even more proud of the incredible young women you have both b

it could be that bob mueller has never extended a plea offer to manafort. why? the prosecutors already have rick gates business with rick gates who is a smaller fish than do business with paul manafort, especially because paul manafort also reached out and tampered with witnesses. and i have to tell you as a career prosecutor for 30 years, don, i didn't relish the thought of bringing on a cooperator who was just that cruddy, just that damaged that they would try to tamper with witnesses. if you put a person like that on the stand as a cooperator, that cooperator stink can rub off on the prosecutors and the jury starts looking at you like why would you sponsor somebody who is urging witnesses to lie on his behalf and how can we be confident that he's telling the truth? it may be bob mueller has not even extended paul manafort a plea offer. >> you don't want to do a deal with someone like that? >> exactly. and it could be he's afraid of the russians. because quite aspiring cooperator i sat down with ar tickulated one of their concerns is i'm afraid if i flip on my associates they might come after me or

along with senators john bozeman, richard blumenthal, bob casey, chris murphy, and toomey and representative john gates being here, thank you all very much, appreciate it. we're gathered together this afternoon to pay tribute to a fallen warrior, a great warrior, technical sergeant john chapman, and to award him our nation's highest and most revered military honor. would you all please join me in welcoming a wonderful family that i just met in the oval office, the chapman family, thank you, please stand up. [applause] >> president trump: and to his beautiful wife, valerie, who agrees he was a brave man, right from the beginning. you knew. that i know this day is truly brought special meaning. exactly 26 years ago you married john. today is our great honor to share his incredible story with the world. so thank you very much, valerie, we appreciate it. and your daughters mad i sonl and brianna -- madison and brianne, a we award your dad the congressional medal of honor. and i know he's looking down on you, right now, from heaven, proud of this day. but even more proud of the incredible young women that y

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. >> bob mueller is not making deals left and right. rick gates papadopoulos, and michael flynn all traded some pieces of information for their respective plea deals. that's presumably incredibly important information. >> reporter: one crucial remaining question, what has mueller found out about that june 2016 trump tower meeting between donald trump jr., paul manafort, jared kushner, and russians who promised to share dirt on hillary clinton? trump junior has said that he never told his father about the meeting. >> there was nothing to tell. it was literally just a wasted 20 minutes, which was a shame. >> reporter: but sources tell cnn that trump's former personal attorney michael cohen is now claiming that 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 effectively brings the issue of collusion or conspiracy right to the president's feet. >> reporter: mueller's latest indictment of the

talk about what bob mueller could get from paul manafort. he already has his deputy, rick gates, he already has mike flynn. what would mueller want with manafort? what would mueller demand for any sort of leniency or any sort of deal for paul manafort? >> i have maybe a slightly less sensational, less interesting view of what the topic of these negotiations might have been. manafort doesn't really look like someone who has the ability to go in and engage in sort of the full cooperation that prosecutors would demand to complete a cooperation agreement. so what would manafort have that he could offer? prosecutors who just finished trying a case in the eastern district of virginia now have to gear up and go to trial again in washington. that's a considerable expenditure of time and resources, especially if they have the intention to work on additional cases. so if manafort were to offer to plead guilty, it would, for prosecutors, be an efficiency gain. he could probably seek from them a leniency for the amount on his property that might be seized, leaving him with resources that mi