anthony. >> mason: jan crawford. thank you, jan. chief congressional correspondent nancy cordes has reaction on capitol hill where the house and senate intelligence committees and the senate judiciary committee are conducting parallel investigations. >> this is what robert mueller was tasked to do. >> reporter: republicans gave the special council a wide berth today. >> no reason not to trust him. >> reporter: as democrats argued the indictment and guilty plea are proof of a pattern. >> people affiliated with the trump campaign lying about their connections with the russians. >> reporter: adam schiff is the top democrat on the house intelligence committee. rt's shady financialdealings die >> during campaign, while he's campar, he'sn more money fr his work for these pro-russian interests in ukraine, money like that which he has now been ican senate's russia investigation. he says papadopolous was a person of interest in his probe, as well.ese are some serious charges. >> reporter: democrats argue it's time to pass bill protecting spe

jan crawford has been poring through the files. >> it will be only a matter of minutes before he arrives. >> reporter: the horror of that november day in dallas still seems to defy understanding. president kennedy killed. ro president kennedy died at 1:00 p.m. central standard time. >> reporter: his accused assassin, lee harvey oswald, shot and killed two days later. from the beginning, there were doubters oswald had acted alone, cud the new documents are unlikely to silence suspicions of a broader conspiracy. larry sabato, is a j.f.k. scholar. >> even if we had the full veory, there's an army of conspiracy theorists that seems to grow by the year. they're never going to be satisfied. >> reporter: totaling thousands of pages, the documents offer a glimpse into the investigation. they show the f.b.i. knew of a threat against the president's assassin. f.b.i. director j. edgar hoover heote in a memo the night before oswald was shot, "a man called saying he was a member of a committee organized to kill him." dallas police assured the f.b.i. "adequate protection could be given. however this w

our chief legal correspondent jan crawford is in washington. july pro-russian interests by as much as $17 million. we see paul manafort with his attorney walking into fbi headquarters, surrendering himself, if you will, to the fbi. what do you know about the heart of some of the allegations against him? >> well, i mean that is a hugely important point and following up on paula's excellent reporting where she kind of outlined some of the things they've been looking at with manafort, the wing one thing that jumps out, you didn't hear about collusion. this could be something tip of the iceberg, something unrelated to collusion or russia or the campaign at this point. the question is though now obviously manafort hasn't been cooperating up to this point. prosecutors typically don't in diet people who are cooperating. what if he changes his mind, pro e provides more information that could put pressure on other open this investigation into other areas. >> jan, we saw him just arri arriving. what happens now? >> you see him turning himself in. this is

jan crawford is also in washington. jan, going further than what paula was reporting, the new york times reported in july 2017 that manafort had pro- russian interest as much as $17 million. we see manafort with his attorney walking into the ei headquarters. surrendering himself, if you will to the fbi . what do you know about the heart of the allegations against him? >> that is a huge important point. that is excellent reporting where she outlines the things they are looking at with manafort. you did not hear anything about collusion and the truck campaign. remember. robert mueller has wide ranging authority to investigate different things. this could be the tip of the iceberg and something on related to collusion or russia or the campaign. the question is, manafort has been cooperating and prosecutors do not indict people who are in. -- cooperating. perhaps he provides more information which could put pressure on other witnesses as it springs open the investigation. >> can you walk us through the process. what happens

our chief legal correspondent, attorney, jan crawford.stigation go from here? >> well, anthony, the charges today signal an aggressive investigation. this is a double barrelled punch. veteran prosecutors say is just the beginning. take in together lawyers say indictment of paul manafort and gates and the plea del with that is to shake trees and get witnesses to cooperate with the broader investigation. now, papadopolous met with government lawyers and started cooperating after his arrest in july. paul manafort and gates so far have not. now the threat of prosecution and even jail time or additional charges against them, that could cause them to flip. if they have information that mueller would be interested in. and, that's a common approach in these wide ranging investigations. you know they're not just one big case, that is filed at the end. a series of little interim cases throughout. we tal >> announcer: this is the cbs "overnight news." >>> now the react, at the white house. major garrett is there. >> today's announcement has nothing

jan crawford has his story. ♪ ♪ >> at the grand ole opry, country music's biggest stage he is one of of country music hasn't been easy. or straightforward. >> first of all you had the pop guy come out of country. we see people try to do all the time. it never works. coming over is the african-american kid. i figured that was another strike that was going to be hard to get by. ♪ you and me if rucker seems like an unlikely country star that is okay with the guy whfi an unlikely pop star. ♪ ♪ lead singer of hootie and the blowfish. back in the late 80s. rucker and three friend from the university of south carolina were playing frat houses and beach bars. >> this is where we had a lot of fun. >> like the windjammer in hometown charlestown. >> some nights, 200 people. some nights, 40 people. >> in other places, the issues were bigger than the size of the crowd. >> when you are with hootie and you are playing, frat houses. >> yeah. >> what was that like? >> that was, that was probably the hardest days of all of them. you know, you play these frat parties. you know the things you hear. >> w

our chief legal correspond dent jan crawford is in washington. jan, let's go through many so of these 12 counts, the first, conspiracy against the united states. tell us what that means. >> well, first of all at the outset let me follow up on what paula was saying when you look at all these counts it shows kind of and reflects on the team robert mueller has assembled. former prosecutors to kind of look at some of these alleged crimes. they are seasoned veterans, they're well experienced in dealing with financial crimes and that's what we're looking at. when you start ticking through these allegations, these are related to failure to disclose. laundering money. they're finding, you know, tens of millions of dollars that they are saying that he hid or laundered through different countries and companies. these are straightforward financial crimes and failure to disclose. what's notable is that there's no mention at least in kind of flipping through, you know, the tens of pages of this indictment so far there is no outright direct tie to the trump cam