paul manafort expected to register as foreign agent. manafort to register as foreign agent. manafort is now registering as a foreign agent. and at the time that happened in april, it made some waves, right? i mean, you know, critics of the trump administration chewed on that, right? here's another senior person registering retro actively as a agent of a foreign power. mike flynn had to register retroactively as a foreign agent after he resigned as national security adviser. and now trump campaign chairman, paul manafort had to do it too. amazing story. except here is the thing. manafort never did it. you can search yourself to see who is registered as a foreign agent. it's a good little forum. i have it bookmarked on my phone. it's mobile friendly. i do it every day. every day i type into the search box manafort, search. and there is nothing new. everybody thinks he registered as a foreign agent like mike flynn did. manafort never registering. and here's why this is important. investigations need source material, right? investigators need evidence. they need open source mate

manafort never did it. you can search yourself to see who is registered as a foreign after all it's a good little enforcement i have it book marked on my phone. it's mobile friendly. i do it every day. every day i type into the search box, manafort, search, and there's nothing new. everybody thinks he registered as a foreign agent like mike flynn did. manafort never registering. and here's why this is important. investigations need source material, right? investigators need evidence. they need open source material they dig up on their own. they need data and documents that they pry out of agencies and individuals. they may need intercepts especially if it's a cloak and dagger foreign intelligence or something. but really what they need, what they desperately want are witnesses, cooperating witnesses, people who were close enough or high ranking enough that they know what happened, and crucially, those people have to be willing to talk. they have to be willing to testify about what they witnessed. in any inv

citizens gave manafort a $2.7 million loan last year on one of manafort's condos in manhattan. real estate deals in new york state are being looked into by the new york attorney general's office and by the manhattan district attorney's office. but tonight nbc news confirms a federal investigator -- that federal investigators have issued a subpoena for records released to this loan taken out by manafort last year. right after -- immediately after he left the trump campaign under a cloud of suspicion about his ties to pro-kremlin political figures in ukraine. why did paul manafort leave the trump campaign exactly when he did? what arrangement did he make with the trump campaign about the terms of his leaving? why did he do multiple, multimillion-dollar cash-heavy real estate deals in and around new york city immediately after the time when he left the trump campaign? and if federal investigators are now onto that, when it comes to paul manafort, does that create pressure for paul manafort to talk to investigators about anything else he knows that might be helpful for their broade

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since manafort was the campaign chairman. the justice department will not say that they told us a million other things. they gave us paragraph-long stories about what recusal is, where it comes from, and this whole idea of recusal and it's a big question. and what do you really mean by that. we went back at them again and again and again. i'm considering just publishing our back and forth between me and the justice department. >> some of it involves rachel maddow. staff was making, but you got on the phone yourself to the justice department to say is jeff sessions recused from matters involving paul manafort, which could involve -- which do involve ukraine and russia and if he is -- if he is recused on russia, he must be recused on manafort and there is no answer. >> i wasn't on the phone. i was on the keyboard. but that means our whole back and forth actually we have in writing. i remain convinced that the justice department has an answer to this question. it's either yes or no. he is recuse order he is not. they won't tell

the conversations focused on paul manafort and michael flynn. the times reports russian officials became confident they could use manafort and flynn for a specific goal, that both men could be used to help shape mr. trump's opinions on russia, though ultimately is unknown whether russian officials actually tried to directly influence manafort and flynn. russia's election meddling is well-kno well-known, the hacking, the leaking, disinformation and cybercampaigns that the fbi by the way is still exploring at this hour. like reports that russian internet operations distributed millions of twitter and facebook post carrying links to stories on sites like breitbart news and kremlin wars and kremlin backed rt news and sputnik news. this new report tonight is about effort aimed at two americans, but two americans atop the trump campaign, manafort and flynn. and it's a big question about whether those efforts worked and whether they have any link to how those men advise trump who became president. now, we don't know the answer, but we do know flynn is

really under playing paul manafort's role.aul manafort was speaking to reince priebus a week before inauguration, then clearly sean spicer was incorrectly characterizing his relationship currently with the administration. >> yeah, and, in fact, one of the things we understand that the administration is nervous about is the comey memo that you mention that the senate and house demanded but the fbi is sort of dragging their feet on providing to the senate and house intel committees, that they might characterize in a way that priebus would not want his conversations with the fbi with both comey and comey's deputy director about a request that the fbi come out and sort of rebut some of the characterizations that were out there about communications between trump's team and russia including possibly manafort. >> i want both of you to stay put. we have breaking news to report. nbc news reporting jared kushner, son-in-law and senior advisor to president trump is under fbi scrutiny in the russia probe. we have a lot to cover on this st

then there's paul manafort, who is talking. now, manafort may be talking about his own financial business, which may not be nice to look at, but it's totally legal. then you have the son-in-law. what does jared kushner know about the father-in-law? i would assume everything. i would assume that jared kushner knows exactly, precisely, either through his wife or directly from his father-in-law exactly what his methods were, what his relationships were, what words were passed with the russians. and my guess is we would like to hear on the record, under oath, all three of these gentlemen. will we ever get to hear from all three of them on this matter? >> right. and chris, when you look at what's happening with the fbi investigation, well, it depends on whether the fbi can charge them abowith crimes, i would sa. because that's the classic playbook. this thing has become public, so it's very difficult for them to sur rep tissue usually -- their only hope it seems to me, if there is a conspiracy, is to flip a conspirator. >> kwesqueez

we were writing about this last summer, even before when paul manafort came on.ciation, longtime association with the pro-russian political party -- >> the manafort finances here are crucial, right? it was something you reported on, and you have experience, ken, in sort of looking at the ways in which money is moved around, particularly russian money, which flows in incredibly byzantine and dark channels. >> well, that's true and much of it flowed through paul manafort and his association with others close to putin. but just to follow up on what michael was saying, the trump campaign and trump himself knew exactly who they were hiring when they hired paul manafort. it wasn't a mistake. he was not a big player in u.s. national politics at the time. he was a big player in the ukraine, where he was a chief adviser. so trump and the trump campaign knew well that manafort would be a direct conduit to the inner circle of putin, and that was part of the resume that most attracted trump and his staff. >> does that sound right to you, michael? >> yeah, absolutely. you kno

you know, we've seen the white house say paul manafort barely worked for the campaign. we've seen the white house say carter page, the president wouldn't even know him if he bumped right into him in an elevator. and michael flynn, clearly though the president seems to be sticking by him, they have distanced themselves from michael flynn. jared kushner is in the white house still and is as close to this president as one can get. >> that's right. so it will be hard for them to distance themselves presumably from jared kushner. but i think it's important on that note to make a distinction here. the investigation into michael flynn and to paul manafort and carter page, the three individuals you mentioned, is a little different. i think evan can speak to this too, than what's going on and where they are in the investigation with jared kushner. at this point what they know and what they're seeing is he's touching multiple parts because of his role in the campaign with the data analytics operation, with his meetings, you know, of course, with michael flynn and ambassador kisly

how hard was it for the russians to get to paul manafort?ultivated by years in the making, we spent all this time talking about flynn and his russian ties. look at manafort's money, you follow the money, it's much, much deeper than anything reported thus far with michael flynn. he's supported with one of russia's richest billionaires, $12 million from the pro-russian ukrainian former president yanukovych. talk about jared kushner having ole ga oligarch. you're talking about billions of dollars among russia's top richest elite. >> rick, how dependent are democrats on these intelligence committees on their republican chairmen to really drive the investigation? >> well, the republican chairman, i mean, in the senate, at least that seems like a bipartisan effort, i think to go with what harold was saying, this is going to follow its course, but i want to mention something about the -- what the russian reporting about manafort and others. the russians try all the time to suborn people. they knock on every door. if you answer the door, they're del

we know that manafort worked for -- what came first? the chicken or the egg? did those russians know they had those people working for them and how do they connect them with trump? how did they get them jobs with trump? >> i think we're not really sure yet if the russians had a role in of staing tffing the campaig. i think the facts in this story show that the russians realized that they already had these built-in relationships with people in trump's inner circle and could use them possibly to try to steer the campaign. and recall back during the campaign, we saw president trump speaking favorably about russia, favorably about putin. we saw a change in the platform at the republican national convention favoring russia in the crimea. so obviously there was some movement in the campaign toward russia, and the question we haven't answered yet is if these russian spies or agents were able to connect with their allies or friends or contacts in mr. trump's orbit and get those things to happen or not. >> what about the meetings that we've watched and tracked all alon

we've learned that mike flynn and paul manafort, mike flynn the and paul manafort are subjects of the investigation. that is a term of art which means an investigator suspects them of crimes. to be clear, paul manafort and mike flynn, and to be clear, their lawyers have denied any wrongdoing on their part. and no evidence has surfaced publicly linking them to this russian effort to interfere in the election, but there have been some -- there are financial transactions have been examined. in mike flynn's case he registered as a foreign lobbyist for turkey not having done so during the campaign. and paul manafort, there had been some questionable real estate transactions that have been the subject of grand jury subpoenas. in both cases we have grand jury subpoenas relating to records for these men. we have also been reporting on the fact this is an fbi investigation that spans multiple field offices, and we're talking to people involved in it who say that despite, you know, the recent news about donald trump's request to former fbi director comey regarding mike flynn, they have experien

he and paul manafort deny there was anything pro-putin about the work they did. oleg deripaska says that work ended in 2009 and he's upset by any indication that his payments to manafort had something to do with the trump campaign. the ap says it stands by its reporting. this russian aluminum oligarch paid millions to manafort who would later go on to chair donald trump's campaign. bank accounts that raised repeated red flags for money laundering investigations and were quickly closed when those investigators stopped making inquiries. started making inquiries. so oleg deripaska is one of the names we know. another name in the trump/russia investigation. and here is why he's really important to this story. in that ad, he took out in march, objecting to the ap reporting of his past dealings with manafort, deripaska said he was ready to take part in any hearings conducted in the u.s. congress on this subject in order to defend my reputation and name, which is pretty exciting. if russian oligarchs are going to start giving sworn public testimony to congress, pass the

did paul manafort? did others around him?nk we need to begin asking ourselves who is driving this game right now? and increasingly, i think the question with robert mueller and others is donald trump may very well be the russia obsessed person who actually had people he was running on the russia side because he wanted to play kissinger or nixon in this case. but the difference is this isn't going to mao. this is going to putin, who wanted this kind of thing to happen. so it's bizarre, and it's unusual because we don't see the other elements as ned would know of a strategic design behind this that make his russia obsession make any sense. >> ned, there is enough information out there about michael flynn that you could even imagine roughly some of the lines and some of the things that michael flynn might be talking about on the phone to the russian ambassador. but when you are talking about 18 different contact points with the campaign, that's way too many people to be able to sit here and say we have any sense of the scope, th

flynn and manafort are both subjects of criminal investigations, both in the cross hairs, but we now know it's not either of them because neither mike flynn more paul manafort is a current white house official. so the president flies off on his first foreign trip tonight in the face of confirmed reporting now that his former campaign chairman and national security adviser and somebody working for him now as a senior adviser in the white house are the subject of active law enforcement investigations specifically into whether his campaign colluded in the russian attack on the election last year. these are not normal times. "the washington post" also reports tonight that the fbi is investigating whether any financial crimes were committed by people close to the president. and they report the fbi's inquiries are getting to a point where their work may be more public, more visible in public because the fbi according to "the washington post" is getting to a point we're going to see more subpoenas and more fbi interviews. we don't always find out about those things immediately when they hap

manafort oversaw the trump campaign for five months last summer. we are learning more about a missile test in north korea over the weekend. the country now claims the missile it tested... is capable of carrying a nuclear warhead. the missile flew about 500 miles before crashing in the sea of japan near the russian coast. while the missile may be capable of carrying a warhead... it's unclear if north korea can make a weapon small enough to fit on the missile. the trump administration-- denounced the test. this marks the seventh missile test since trump took the u-s is calling on the international community for tougher sanctions on north korea. new developments in a virginia protest. city leaders in charlottesville are condemning saturday night's torch-lit protest next to a controversial statue of robert e-lee. the group chanted phrases like "no more brother war" and "russia is our friend"... the protesters oppose the planned removal of the confederate monument. city leaders say the park event "hearkens back to the days of the kkk". white nationalist

i think that you can see visits you know, to moscow were made during the campaign by manafort

paul manafort acting as a foreign agent. we know that, hadn't filed, hadn't declared it. the other question is whether russian meddling despite the fact they were aggressively meddling, all the workman, a fort and flynn were doing for them, it also constitutes a contribution to the trump campaign. so there are campaign finance laws involved as well. >> so a lot to be said. iant to let viewers know, this

from manafort, from flynn, from carter page. from these guys running all this documentation through their countries. so the committees are going to have an awful lot of paperwork to go through. now, if flynn refuses to comply, they're going to have to see what they can do. nothing gets congress more upset on a bipartisan basis and eager to seek documents than someone telling them no. >> and mieke, are we correct in assuming that everything gathered by all these other investigations somehow get carted across town to the temporary office space that mr. mueller has collected for his staff? >> certainly if they're available to congress, they're available to the special prosecutor. >> all right. that's been a question we wanted to ask. hey, glen, what are you hearing from the white house and your traveling correspondents covering it? any indication when they get back they're going to want to roll their agenda back to launch pad 39 a or is this going to still bow the consumption of the trump white house? >> the thing we've been hearin

paul manafort, roger stone, they say they are willing to turn over documents, already have turned over documents to the senate intelligence committee. michael flynn's lawyers say he will refuse. just listen to what they say in a letter to the committee, and let me put it up on the screen. the context in which the committee has called for general testimonial production of documents makes clear that he has more than a reasonable apprehension that any testimony he provides could be used against him. multiple members of congress have demand that had he be investigated and even prosecuted. he is the target on nearly a daily basis of outrageous allegations, often attributed to anonymous shoreses in congress or elsewhere in the united states government which, however, fanciful on their face and you be substantiated by evidence, feed the escalating public frenzy against him. the letter adds, additionally, in the intervening time since the committee issued its subpoena the department of justice has appointed a special counsel to investigate these and other matters this. environment creates a re

as it relates to manafort, i believe him.nk he did anything wrong in his lobbying practice. it has been tainted through the prism of the mainstream media. as it relates to general flynn, i've never met a more patriotic or more honorable person paired what i love about president trump, he say "no soldier left behind" kind of commander-in-chief. >> lawrence: it is distracting from the american agenda. >> kat: what benefit does trump have from not letting flynn go? >> anthony: the exposure of the investigation complex. talked about lois lerner and eric holder. now we have flynn and manafort. there will be another president someday, guess what will happen? you think the investigation of the campaign. donald trump continues to say, he will defend those guys. >> anthony: the best thing washington, d.c., does is investigations. >> lawrence: i am saying if the president wants to separate himself and focus on his agenda, he needs to let them go. let them fight their own case. >> anthony: if i was the president's strategist, i would of

i mean -- >> do you think manafort is a credible witness? >> i'm absolutely not the one to judge, but john's point -- i mean, you need to answer his question. you made these claims of collusion. where's the evidence? >> so, roger stone. roger stone intimates to the world that john podesta is about to spend his time in the barrel. that is weeks before john podesta's e-mails are put out by guccifer 2.0, and then we see conversations that roger stone was having with guccifer 2.0. so, you know, these are not just mere coincidences. this is a convergence. and then there is a whole classified side of information that i hope the world sees very soon. i hope the fbi -- and i have every reason to believe -- we'll continue to develop this. but this is not donald trump being the unluckiest man in the world to have all of these coincidences converge at the same time that russia's interference was taking place. >> and just so we know, again, there is the public information that we've discussed. you assert that it points to collusion. we were questioning

manafort and stone today said they have compliedh congressional requests for documents. flynn is the only one so far to say that he will take the fifth. attacked since the president once denounced on the campaign trail. >> if you're innocent, why are you taking the fifth amendment in. >> reporter: tomorrow former cia director john brennan testifies. james comey will appear before the senate intelligence committee sometime after memorial day, but today, he declined an invitation from house oversight chairman jason chaffetz. >> jeff pegues, thank you. and with the president overseas, the vice president is running point for him on a big domestic issue, the budget. here's nancy cordes. >> reporter: vice president pence and republican leaders met this afternoon to go over the administration's first major budget proposal due out tomorrow of the white house wants to balance the budget in ten years, partly throughee social programs. for starters, the proposal embraces the $800 billion in medicaid cuts outlined in the house obamacare replacement bill, despite candidate trump's pr

manafort denied helping russia in the election. one democratic senator said in the report is true, that could be problematic for president trump. >> obviously these press reports indicate there a lot of shoes may be dropping. as i understand it, the president may have hired counsel. if these press reports are right, those lawyers may have a full closet to deal with. >> one republican senator said the focus should be less on what the russians tried to do and more on how the americans responded. >> the elections tried to influence our election. nobody is shocked. yet what they have done is to show that any american was trying to reach out to the russians to say yes, we want to help. that's very different than the russians trying to reach towards us. >> shepard: we don't know which it was, not yet. that's what the investigation is partly about. president trump said his campaign did nothing to help russian influence on the election in his favor. peter doocy has more. you spoke with the top democratic about this new york times report. >

manafort. so now we're investigating the o mortgages of president trump's former advisers, i don't know what is going here, what the fbi of doing or justice department was doing. you needed an independent council to make a lot of noise about something that was not worthy of federal investigation. and now they are looking at individual relationships that general flynn may have it or manafort or thor others with the russians. there is a focus on republican relationships not democrat operative relationships, i don't believe that mueller is the type of guy -- >> in your judgment, tom? >> i don't think we will go after anybody, i don't think you will see much in the way of justice. it may be a little bit political plus that someone like mueller is there. but those who want to see justice and things done, appropriately in nonwashington approach, i don't believe it will be done with this special council. lou: this special count is based -- decision, my decision, he makes it clear. deputy attorney gene

there are interesting loose threads to watch with paul manafort. the former campaign chairman for the trump campaign. i want to give you one heads-up about him now, there is a new very large very interesting question mark about paul manafort and his potential involvement with the justice department. this is sothing that we've got a bead on, we are actively reporting tonight literally while i'm on the air, trying to continue to report this out, i swear we will have news on that, we'll have an answer on that for you by tomorrow at this time at the latest. the way things have been going today we might have it before the end of this hour. stick a pin in that. busy night. lots more to come. ♪ nobody does underwater stunts, sylvia. except me, of course. this is my stop. adios! ♪ if you're a stuntman, you cheat death. it's what you do. if you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. it's what you do. número uno! can lead to sleepless nights making you feel helpless. take control of your sleep with unisom® sleeptabs. you

manafort and flynn have denied anything of that sort. but my question to you is you just used the word "impeachment." there aren't that many democrat who's are using that word. it's about, i think, about a dozen, dozen and a half. what do you make of that? >> well, here's what i make of it. i think to many people, impeachment is a huge thing. it is an extraordinary thing. and i think there are many people and politicians in particular who are cautious or who tend to want to protect themselves from making mistakes. so it has not been easy, despite the fact that they have seen enough that should make them at least curious enough to get to the bottom of this. you know, any politician, democrat or republican, seeing this president fire comey, seeing him fire sally yates, seeing him fire preet bharara up in new york should wonder why is he firing all of these people who appear to have some role in these investigations that may implicate me. they should also be concerned about this president who just shared with russians, the russian ambassado

>> for starters, manafort who is advising a putin puppet in ukraine.though not anyone who currently is involved in the white house. you can't make that claim, or you won't -- >> there's been quite a great deal of scandal, and i think you can't distance the advisers who he chose from who he is. krauthammer was saying that the gop has thrown away this opportunity, but democrats trying to get rid of the president would be setting a precedent for an executive branch coup, and that's a bigger mistake than a flawed candidate. charles: adriana, what are your thoughts? >> yeah. i have to say i believe a lot of these crises that gillian pointed out are manufactured. we could spend an hour talking about the fake news stories that the media is pushing so that they can get control of the house and the senate in the midterms and win the next 2020 election. this is a partisan politicians, you know, and so many liberals in the media who are pushing false -- charles: adriana -- >> that's really what this is all about. charles: do you like the idea that president trump

you've got manafort's money trafficked through. now we've got four people. >> the numbers keep expanding here. i try to imagine an fbi agent or group looking at a ring somewhere in michigan or new jersey or florida or anywhere else. if you start looking at the connections, that nexus point, that place where they all come together. again, it is kislyak and russians. it's also lie after lie after lie after lie. if you you a one lie, you'd say, well, it's going to happen. it's not just one but two, three, four, five from each of these individuals. as time goes on, it expands. it gets worse and worse. you drop a stone in the ocean and it starts to ripple out. this the ripple effect we're watching. it's getting bigger and bigger. >> everybody stay here. we have to pay for this whole thing. we're taking a commercial break. coming up donald trump's world tour is about to end. many in the world are so happy to hear that. that's next. personal space to run some things by you. it's going to look like i'm listening but i'm actually just payin

there are interesting loose threads to watch with paul manafort. the former campaign chairman for the trump campaign. i want to give you one heads-up about him now, there is a new very large very interesting question mark about paul manafort and his potential involvement with the justice department. this is something that we've got a bead on, we are actively reporting tonight literally while i'm on the air, trying to continue to report this out, i swear we will have news on that, we'll have an answer on that for you by tomorrow at this time at the latest. the way things have been going today we might have it before the end of this hour. stick a pin in that. busy night. lots more to come. k you! imagine if the things you bought every day earned you miles to get to the places you really want to go. with the united mileageplus explorer card, you'll get a free checked bag, 2 united club passes... priority boarding... and 50,000 bonus miles. everything you need for an unforgettable vacation. the united mileageplus explorer card. imagine where it will ta

it is not known whether russian officials ever actually tried to influence manafort or flynn or, if so, whether they were successfsful. meanwhile, the "washington post" is reporting former fbi didirecr jamemes comey y may have been inflfluenced by a fake r russian intelligence document when he decided to publicly denounce hillary clinton's handling of emails as extremely careless in july. officials say the secret russian intelligence document claimed then-attorney general loretta lynch had assured the clinton campaign the fbi would not probe too deeply into clinton's use of a private email server while she was secretary of state. "the post" reports comey relied on that document when he took the extraordinary step of announcing -- without justice department involvement -- that, although the fbi investigation was over, he found clinton's conduct to be "extremely careless." officials now say the fbi itself had suspected the document was was bad intelligence or even fafake. cnn is reporting jeff sessioions did not reveal hisis two meetits lastst with rurussian ambassador sergey kislyak whe

paul manafort is still kicking in the business world and he's under investigation.u can survive in washington. i think you have to wonder for both of them, they both have very successful careers in business to come join this washington, d.c. it was sort of an alien place for them. i wonder at what point they decide it is not worth it. i suspect it would be a high bar for them. they're deeply intertwined with this administration. in a sense, its success is their success and its failure is their failure. >> as we wait for the start of this white house press briefing, we're hearing now that president trump is having conversations about dramatically changing the way that information is shared coming out of this white house. what do we know about that? we know that the coms director is out. any word on mr. spicer'sle >> well, first of all, this is striking that the communications director has offered a letter of resignation after just three months on the job, and it really underscores the internal turmoil that this administration is dealing with, craig, clarl particularl

the records of both manafort and flynn have been demanded by grand jury subpoenas at this point. we do not have any information that indicates that any records have been asked for or provided by jared kushner in this investigation. what's also unclear is precisely what about kushner's activities, his relationship, interactions with russian officials may be that he is the individual that has in the past been reported as being under scrutiny. it now goes -- the bottom line is this now goes not just to the trump campaign, but it goes to the trump white house itself and ultimately to the trump family circle. chris? >> thank you, peter. i'm joined by ned price, matt miller, former chief spokesperson for the justice department, and naveed jamali, a former fbi double agent, author of "how to catch a russian spy." matt, maybe i'll start with you. i mean one thing that's striking here, and just, you know, to be fair, right, one of the complaints you had and a lot of people had during the investigation of hillary clinton during the campaign were leaks coming from the fbi. is this essential

you have michael flynn and was fired over contact with russian officials, jeff sessions, manafort droppedut of the campaign for contact with russian officials. trump fires james comey in an investigation over russia. all those things could be coincidences that add up to absolutely nothing or could be something very sinister. i think what the congressional investigators are looking for, you can see the fbi is on the same page, is the distinction there. does it add up to something bad or add up to nothing? >> we're really on the front edge of this. this is the latest huge thread of connection that's come forward. but this is greg miller from "the washington post" last night telling my colleague how they first learned about this meeting. take a listen. >> quite some time ago we got this letter in the mail, my colleague ellen in that case shima got it. it came in her mailbox. it was type it had no siature. it gave no means of tracing thi back to the source, but it had a lot of information in it about things that had been happening in trul tower. it appeared to be from somebody inside the tran

. >> reporter: flynn along with former campaign chairman paul manafort, foreign policy advisor carter paige and trump friend roger stone are all under scrutiny by the fbi and congress for their ties to russia. manafort and stone said today that they have complied with congressional requests for flynn is the only one so far to say that he will take the fifth, a tactic the president once denounced on the campaign trail. >> you see the mob takes the fifth. if you are innocent, why are you taking the fifth amendment. >> reporter: tomorrow former cia director john brennan testifies before the house intelligence committee. scott, former fbi director james comey will appear before the senate intelligence committee sometime after memorial day. but today he declined an invitation from house oversite chairman jason chaffetz. >> pelley: jeff pegues for us in the washington newsroom, jeff, thank you. and with the president overseas, the vice president is running point for him on a big domestic issue, the budget. here's our chief congressional correspondent nancy cordes. >> reporter: vice presiden

manafort and stone said today that they have complied with congressional requests for documents. flynn is the only one so far to say that he will take the fifth, a tactic the president once denounced on the campaign trail. >> you see the mob takes the fifth. if you are innocent, why are you taking the fifth amendment. >> reporter: cbs news confirms robert mueller met with f.b.i. agents in the russia probe. tomorrow former crib director john brennan will testify and former f.b.i. director james comey is expected to testify some time after memorial day. r pelley: jeff pegues with us. and with the president overseas, the vice president is running point for him on a big domestic issue, the budget. here's our chief congressional terrespondent nancy cordes. >> reporter: vice president pence and republican leaders met this afternoon to go over the administration's first major budget proposal. due out tomorrow. the white house wants to balance the budget in ten years, partly through deep cuts to social programs. for starters, the proposal embraces the $800 billion in medicaid cuts outlin