. >> he was in the white housen tooe early days of the administration. he does matters but like jim said, we don't know what he knows. these indictments are not about what happened on the campaign. the guilty plea is not about what happened onhe campaign. we haven't gotten to that stage of the investigation. ha don't know state's evidence he can turn. >> the one thing i think everybody is watching is when you're talkith about relationships with the ukraine and the representation they were doing there, that' leadi you back to the discussions that had to do with russia w andt their financial interests were. what was the incentiveor manafort to want to be ebb gauging with russian? contac what was the insent active? was it personal for him or a broader situation? we might not know that, as youay, for months. >> what amazing me for white house officials is how much today doeseel like yesterday. robert: every day is yesterday. t ll have to leave i there, jim. today is friday. thanks, everybody. our conversatn with continue online on the "washington week" extra

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past the housen last night and the run funding will last through march 23 while details on longer-termnding -- senator chuck schumer said the first spout of bipartisanship. bloomberg will have more this afternoon. the senate homeland security committee is raising questions about fbi impartiality dating back to the obama administration. messages between former bureau officials in 2015 reference a directive from "knowent obama to everything we are doing with regards to the clinton email investigation." center clinton what avoid prosecution even being -- before being interviewed by the fbi. armsdmark cold war era accord -- with the insistence that moscow was on it of the 1987 nuclear forces treaty, rejecting u.s. kinds that russia has violated it. was said that they don't want an escalation of confrontation. the way has been cleared for chancellor angela markers fourth term and has reached a deal with social democrats to form a coalition government. people familiar with the matter say social democrats will run the labor ministries, and merkel will get the fence and economy. the deal ends

what does that say about the value system of this white housen an of these officials?nd that would be terrible and then you add even if you didn't have to add on to it as we must the fact that you then have someone who is eminently blackmailable seeing our nation's top secrets and then as you point out, you may be breaking the law in the process because remember, the fbi would be have asked him about these allegations and i'd like to know what he rob porter said to the fbi and that's why we need to see the investigative report. >> sean patrick maloney represents the state of new york, served as staff secretary under president bill clinton. invaluable perspective given your experience here. >> my pleasure. >> much more ahead tonight including yeah, another government shutdown before you go to bed. sorry. stay with us. hi, i'm the internet! you know what's difficult? armless bowling. you got this, jimmy! you know what's easy? building your website with godaddy. pick a domain name. choose a design. you can build a website in under an hour. now that's a strike! get your do

and yet, is the white housen payingugh attention to the facts on the ground about russian interference esnreks. >> well, these indictments may not ove collusion but they're also not evidence against collusion. they're just about a different aspect of these russian operations. one theme that we have not seen from president trump is any degree of urgency or concern expressed about these russian efforts. he seems to regard all of the talk of that as an attempt to delegitimize his election and reject all of it as a result. >> woodruff: and that's understandable, isn't it? >>drell, no. >> wf: for the sake of argument. >> his number one job is to protect e country, that's wha he is as commander-in-chief. this week the intelligencefs chppeared before congress and said yet again that the russian effort which was to help him succeeded in 2016 and they expect the russians to do it again in the midterm elections. so thiis a essing national security threat that donald trump, as ramesh says, doesn't seem to even acknowledge let alone do anything about it. >> woodruff: le's turn to the other huge st