thus precluding either side from making any further public comments about the maria butina case until her trial is over and done with. just as we are getting on the air tonight, we just got in the transcript of the court hearing today in the maria butina case. you will want to hear the judge's angry tirade about the lip syncing video she was forced to watch in chambers for no reason. it's really good. we've got that coming up just a little bit later on. a whole bunch of stuff going on all at once. a lot to keep an eye on in the news tonight and the next couple of days. it seems like it's going to be a busy and important news week this week, but it does seem clear from watching the president's twitter feed, if nothing else, that at the white house right now they basically consider tonight to be woodward eve. some excerpts and descriptions from bob woodward's new book leaked out in advance last week, but tomorrow is actually the publication date for this new book from bob woodward, "fear: trump in the white house." having read most of the book now myself and watching mr. woodward start

maria butina remains in jail tonight waiting trial. the judge in her case refused to allow her out on bail after prosecutors argued that she was a severe flight risk. they argued that her extensive alleged ties to the russian government would create too strong a possibility that she would take refuge in the russian embassy in washington or otherwise find a way to flee the country to avoid this prosecution. potentially with russia's help. so maria butina did not get bail. she does not even yet have a date set for her trial. it looks like she will be in jail until that trial happens. and small world, as it happens. the jail where she is being held this very night is the same jail that tonight is also holding president trump's campaign chairman, paul manafort who has been tried again, tried already once in the federal court in the eastern district of virginia. he is now about to be tried again. he is awaiting his next trial which is due to start in just a couple of weeks in federal court in washington, d.c. i said today was a busy day in

>> reporter: well, brooke, as you pointed out, maria butina will be incarcerated, awaiting trial, andre is a gag order on this case now. the judge said that her lawyer, robert driscoll, essentially overstepped in all of the tv interviews that he's been doing and the public remarks about this case. the judge pointed out that d.c. has a relatively small jury pool and she basically said, look, this is a case i want decided hear in this court. it's not a case i want to see tried through the media. but as you pointed out, the prosecutors have made their own slip-ups in this case so far, and the judge did not let that go understanoticed. prosecutors acknowledged almost at midnight on friday that the basis for this claim they made, that butina was trying to trade sex for access, didn't really hold up. in fact, it was text messages between her and her friend that appeared to be joking in nature. the judge said it took her all of five minutes of looking at those messages to tell it was a joke. she said she was concerned and dismayed that justice department officials may have used that as a ser

attorney, saying they can't keep giving interviews, and the judge denied bail for 29-year-old maria butina, meaning she will be behind bars until trial, which won't be until at least next year. but the judge also reprimanded the prosecution in this case after the government admitted in court filings late friday night that they misinterpreted a text message. the judge said that she was, quote, concerned and dismayed that prosecutors overreached and used that text message in part to claim that butina had offered sex in exchange for a position in a special interest organization. so here's the text message in question. butina sent it three years ago to a friend in russia who took her car in for an insurance inspection. so you see first there the friend identified as dk, and it said, "i don't know what you owe me for this insurance. they put me through the ringer." that's when butina responds, sex. thank you very much. i have nothing else at all. not a nickel to my name. the defense team says those texts were in jest and the prosecutors used it as their basis for arguing that she was a flight r

. >>> maria butina heading back to court after prosecutors backed away from a claim that she used sexo gain access. they misunderstood a series of text messages between butina and an unnamed man but insist she's a flight risk and should remain in jail. butina's accused of acting as an agent for russia. prosecutors still have doubts about her relationship with a conservative operative. >>> some sad news from the singer olivia newton-john this morning. the grammy winner is battling cancer for the third time. she was first diagnosed with the disease in 1992. she's received radiation therapy and using natural recommends. she remains optimistic and vows to beat the disease again. >>> the green bay packers in >> then he said relax. he left the field on a golf cart. rodgers saying he hurt his left knee and he couldn't put any weight on it. at one point, the packers were down by 20 points. >> however rodgers came back to lead an epic comeback. his first touchdown pass was a 75-yarder. packers win 24-23. rodgers said next week he'll play against the vikings, too. was he hustling? >> i think so

somehow these government prosecutors were using this as a way to make these salacious claims that maria butinaas trying to trade sex for access. she acknowledged how it must have been have been hurtful to butina, to her family to see these claims, and yet still at the end of all of that, even while acknowledging the government screwed up, even acknowledging, yes, of course her attorney wants to be out there vigorously defending her in the face of claims he believed to be wrong at the outset, still, a gag order. >> wow. a former roger stone aide may be facing jail time. that could be a pretty significant development. >> yes. this is the case of andrew miller, who is challenging robert mueller's authority, who decided to not appear before the grand jury even though he was summoned, even though he lost his first challenge. to take it to an appeals court. now the judge is saying, look, you could face 18 months in jail if you lose your appeal and you still don't cooperate with prosecutors. after that i think it is unlikely he ends up going to jail. his lawyers basically said, look, if he loses on t

alleged russian agent maria butina have blasted the u.s. in a late-night courts filing.said prosecutors included false statements to keep their client in jail prior to the trial. there is a pretrial hearing in court today. spent twoe jack ma's decades turning alibaba into the largest e-commerce company. the executive chairman plans to to the seohat title year from now. he has presided over the company's ambitious expansion. moss plans to focus on philanthropy and education. global news 24 hours a day on air and at tictoc on twitter powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. i'm courtney donohoe. this is bloomberg. havee: coming up, we battle of the charts. today we are focusing on faang. can the momentum continue? we will get a check on that next. this is bloomberg. ♪ vonnie: time for our global battle of the charts. you can see these charts on bloomberg. kicking things off today, he's doing double duty as my coanchor. taylor riggs. taylor: we thought the faang selloff was bad. nothing relative to the chinese tech selloff we have had recent

lawyers for maria butina have blasted the u.s. in a late-night court filing.say prosecutors overstated a case by including false statements and earlier motions to give their client in jail before trial. to is accused of trying establish back channel connections between russia and conservative groups. there is a pretrial hearing in court today. billionaire jack ma's spent two decades turning alibaba into china's largest e-commerce company. now he is ready for the next phase of his life. alibaba's executive chairman will hand over that title to daniel jang a year from now. focus onplans to philanthropy. global news 24 hours a day on air and on tictoc on twitter powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. i'm kailey leinz. this is bloomberg. vonnie: thank you. sweden may face months of political gridlock after an inconclusive election result as in none of the parties actually won enough support to form a majority.a nationalist group won just less than a fifth of the votes. we are joined by the director general of the confederation of

new developments in the maria butina case., the government said they misunderstood text messages it used as the basis of that claim. butina is charged with failing to act and register as a representative of on a foreign government and she pleaded not guilty. joey jackson is with us now. this was a late night court filing on friday. what does this walk-back do to the government's case? >> reporter: good morning, christi. it's problematic. when the government charges you, particularly the fbi, it's a very credible entity. the fbi works in conjunction with the department of justice and they present allegations and those allegations are used not only to draft a criminal complainant but for your detention status. remember that she is detained without bail. and the judge relies in large measure when making decisions about the case on the factual allegations that are contained. and so now to have a walkback of she wasn't trading sex for any type of influence and we misunderstood a text message, what else did you misunderstand about t

and maria butina. those prosecutors investigating the trump's organization finances.vent of rosenstein's dismissal, they would report to matt whitaker. he wrote an op-ed late last year where he says mueller's investigation of trump's finances is quote "going too far." he says mueller has come up to a red line of the 2016 investigation that he's dangerously close to crossing. if he's willing to investigate the election-meddling -- this would brought a concern that the special counsel investigation is a mere witch hunt. now we know the person who wrote those words could my minute now depending on what happens to rosenstein, he could over authorities overall of those in the justice department which we believe it is an active justice of new york's office into the president's finances. that's promised over immunity and the chief finance from his business and the president's senior president, at his business, michael cohen. the person who all those investigations are going to report to says that part of the investigation is a witch hunt. our top democratic and intelligence

in the maria butina documents in her documents that she has been charged as acting for the russian government to try to influence the 2016 election. in 2015, early 2015 we have her as an alleged agent of the russian government casting around for what republican might have the best shot at beating you to try to figure out how to get russia -- allegedly, to figure out how to get russian government help to whoever it was going to be, whether it was going to be scott walker or trump or anybody else. somebody who could beat you. some way the russian government could get money to that effort. >> uh-huh. >> it seems like you're the center of the story when it comes to russian interests in 2016, as much as trump may have been a point of focus as well. i wonder if this is old news to you, if this is the way you've seen it? >> i knew that putin was very unhappy with me for, again, behaving like a secretary of state and raising concerns about the unfairness of the elections that were held for their parliament in the fall of 2011. he made that very clear. i know that he is paranoid about any kind of mass

and federal prosecutors have admitted they wrongly accused russian gun rights activist maria butina of trading sex-for-influence with high-level republicans. the justice department has charged butina with acting as an unregistered agent of the russian government and accused her of trying to infiltrate the nra and other right-wing groups. but the prosecutors now admit they mistakenly interpreted a joking text exchange between her and her longtime friend who took butina's car for an inspection, and then texted her -- "i don't know what you owe me for insurance. butina jokingly answered: "sex. thank you so much." prosecutors now admit this exchange does not prove she was trading sex as part of a secret russian government effort to infiltrate high-level republican circles. on monday, federal judge ruled butina must stay in jail after her trial because she is a flight risk. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we begin today's show with hurricane florence. more than 1.5 million people haveve been ordered d

cyberattack , attempts to interfere with the intellectual infrastructure, we have seen a woman, maria butina, who was by the justiceed department for trying to cultivate ties with certain other kindsious and of political consultants in the united states in order to peddle influence through financial and other means. tactics that are used in a pretty sophisticated and widespread effort to interfere in our democracy. host: this question is for both of you. whose responsibility is it to stop this? isn't the tech compan -- is it that had company -- the tech companies' responsibility or the federal government? guest: all of the above. it is the government, the private sector, and it is civil society. at the end of the day, we are not going to completely and wete this problem, will not stop our adversaries -- as jamie said, this has been going on for quite some time. in order to be less susceptible to this kind of manipulation. guest: part of the problem, too, is even within our government, this challenge falls between different so-called themes between different agencies. and that is part of what

and their prosecution of alleged russian spy maria butina, or the southern district of new york and theiron of michael cohen. also, the reported ongoing investigation by those same southern district of new york prosecutors into the finances of the president's business, the trump organization. those prosecutors investigating the trump organization's finances in the event of rod rosenstein's dismissal, they would now report to matt whitaker. and that's interesting because he has overt past comments on that very subject that will raise your eyebrows. he wrote an op-ed late last year in which he said that mueller's investigation of trump and in particular the investigation of trump's finances was, quote, going too far. he said, quote, mueller has come up to red line in the russia 2016 meddling investigation that he is dangerously close to crossing. if he were to continue to investigate the financial relationships without a broadened scope in his appointment, this would raise serious concerns that the special counsel's investigation, say it with me now, was a mere witch-hunt. mueller, it's a w

when you read the indictment against maria butina, you're going see the trial reports and other reports, sh seeing she was trying to infill ratrate the nr. and she was at other functions as well and she's only one person. i tell you when my conservative friends when they ask me to write articles they complain about people like patrick buchanan thinking he's a great supporter of christian values. he isn't. believe me. russia is not a particularly christian country. what's more, the spectacle of how should i say it, repentant kgb operatives becoming fervent christians is more than amusing. furthermore, the orthodox church is, itself, a kgp front. it has been for years. as anybody who studies this knows. . moreover, if you look at the figures of church attendance in russia, they're not very impressive. i think thit was 3% to 4% was t last one. all this stuff about russia being a christian religious country, it's nice propaganda but the reality is rather different. however, here, we've seen all these probes mainly at the right. they were to the left like jill stein. remember the photograph

butina told me his family has known erickson since 2014. >> good morning all. >> reporter: he sent us these videos of himself, maria's mother and grandmother wishing erickson a happy birthday last year. butina says his daughter's relationship with erickson is genuine and that fate brought them together. butina faces up to 15 years in prison. last week, she was denied a request to be released into house arrest. in that same hearing, prosecutors backed off their earlier claims that butina traded sex for access. no date for her trial has been set. her father over the past month or so, and he called her an extraordinary girl who was raised in a very ordinary town and ordinary family. >> very different picture than what the authorities here are portraying. >> could it be something, bianna, that the dad doesn't know about his daughter? >> they are very close. they speak on a daily bas. as says this is the drth he knows, been accused of. >>> the nfl's cleveland browns have something to celebrate after a dry spell that lasted 21 months. >> handoff. high, touchdown. >> cleveland beat the new york jets last night to end a 19-g

the new dark money rule was announced on a monday night, the same day it was revealed that maria butina had been indicted for using the national rifle association as a conduit to influence our democracy with personal and financial ties. another administration, seeing that kind of news come down, might have said hey, we ought to hold off making drastic changes. it might have said let's put a little more space between the indictment of an alleged russian spy and the rollout of our dark money rule that would make the spy's job even easier. not this trump administration. they were undeterred. they decided they couldn't wait to get this new rule on the books, making it easier for foreign actors and special interests to hide in the shadows while their doctors influence our elections. the fax rules and election laws in america with respect to who has to disclose political spending, mr. president, they are already badly broken, especially after citizens united. now the administration is taking an enormous problem and making it much worse. the trump dark money rule is only going to mean that ind