mr. manafort in court. he sat there today in court in a rum mr.ed short sleeve, dark green prison jump suit. he was not called on to say anything and he didn't, but you can imagine he can't be happy with how it is going. he continues to lose in all or in part every single substantive motion related to his case. today, for example, his lawyers tried exclude from consideration in his trial the nature of the work that manafort did in ukraine when he worked for that pro putin, pro ukrainian strong man president who was ousted in a pop hard uprising in 2014. manafort's lawyers said whoever that was, that would be prejudice information to the jury. would it turn the jury against him. it would be unnecessary to prove or disprove the charges that manafort is facing in virginia. the judge considered that argument today at length. there was a lot of back and forth about that today but the judge said no. the prosecutors said, listen, the jurors need to know where he made all that money and why he may have been in need

mr. manafort in court. he sat in court in a rumpled dark green prison jump suit and not called upon to say anything and he didn't say anything. you can't imagine he is happy with how things are going. he continues to lose either in whole or in part every single substantive motion related to his case. today, for example, his lawyers tried to exclude from consideration the nature of the work that manafort did in ukraine when he worked for the pro putin, pro russian strong man president ousted in a popular up rising. manafort's lawyers said that information about who his big client was, that would be prejudicial information and would turn the jury against him. unnecessary to prove or disprove the specific changes that manafort is facing in virginia. the judge considered that argument today at length. there was a lot of back and forth about that, but the judge said no. they said the jurors need to know where paul manafort made his money and why he suddenly might have been in need of a new source of funds after

mr. manafort. and on february 16th, a federal grand jury in the district of columbia separately approved five other charges against mr. manafort and mr. gates, including, and i quote, conspiracy against the united states, end quote. and in this indictment that is coming forward, i would like to quote from it. it says that the defendant, paul manafort, together with others, including gates, knowingly and intentionally conspired to defraud the united states by impeding, impairing, obstruction, and defeating the lawful governmental functions of government agencies, namely the department of justice and the department of treasury, and to commit offences against the united states of america, end quote. now, since this indictment, gates has pleaded guilty and he's now cooperating. and included in his statement of offense, quote, manafort engaged in a variety of criminal schemes. and gates is part of that work for manafort, knowingly and intentioned conspired to assist manafort in criminal schemes, end quo

mr. manafort and mr. gates, including and i quote, conspiracy against the united states, end quote. in this indictment that's coming forward, i would like to quote from it. it says the defendant paul manafort, together with others including gates knowingly and intentionally conspired to defraud the united states by impeding, impairing obstruction and defeating the lawful governmental functions of government agencies, namely department of justice and department of treasury and to commit offenses against the united states of america. end quote. now since this indictment, gates has pleaded guilty. and he's now cooperating. and included in his statement of offense, quote, manafort engaged in a variety of criminal schemes and gates is part of that work for manafort knowingly and intentionally conspired to assist manafort in criminal schemes, end quote. so, i would like to ask you, mr. strzok, to be clear. mr. gates is swearing under oath that in his guilty plea that he conspired with mr. manafort in criminal activity. is that correct? from what i'm reading? >> ma'am, i'm not familiar with

mr. manafort's attorneys offices. it generally takes over two hours each way by car for counsel to visit with him. this unforeseen development has severely impacted the ability of the defense to effectively prepare for the upcoming trial before this court." the detention has made meetings for his attorneys far more time consuming compared to when he remained on house arrest and subject to gps monitoring in alexandria, virginia. they conclude, because mr. manafort is no longer in ax andryia virginia where it was so easy to get to him and instead he is in this remote jail facility "the empty manafort cannot effectively prepare for trial beginning on july 25th." now, you will detect a little obnoxious snark in my tone when i address this. you are not wrong. i am being obnoxious and snarky about whether or not that was the real argument. whether or not the remoteness of paw manafort's jail cell was the real reason that he needed to delay his trial until november. the reason i am being a little snarky about that, a little

mr. manafort. that's a legitimate argument and as much as it will delay the trial a few days, this judge got to be acute will i aware of the implications that if there is a conviction that'll be appealed and his own paper will be graded so to speak by a appellate court. it is a judge by judge type of decision. it is much in the judge's discretion here. >> manafort's change ovf venue was rejected. you know there were also worried about all the publicity and the judge basically says people all over the place knows about this. give us a sense of what you expect to see whether that's this week on wednesday or delay by some days. >> we have a few close from the questionnaire that the government proposed and being submitted by the potential jurors which is not unusual by the trial of this scope. this is a little micro cause of the broader national debate that we are having here. mr. manafort is going to paint the prosecution as a witch hunt, consistent of how the president has been framing of a legitimat

mr. manafort denies the charges. his former right-hand man rick gates, who also worked for donald trump was crged on a number of counts, too, but had most of them dropped in a change for his cooperation. he is excted to testify against mr. manafort. pres. trump: paul manafort worked for e for a very short time. rajini: the president is not directly implicated in this irtrial, but these are the charges brought by special counsel robert mueller investigating whether the trump campaign colluded with the russians. in a tweet, president trump claimedolsion wasn't a crime and denied there was any in the first place. psmall group of anti-trum protesters outside the court the trump campaign did have ties to russia. paul manafort, one person who might have the answers, and as his trial gets underway, many wonder if he could cooperate with the wider investigation. rajini vaidyanathan, bbc news, washington. jane: for more on the case, i spoke to the former u.s. attorney for the middle districg of g. thanks very much for joining

mr. manafort submits a fair trial will be impossible without a change in venue. us, joyce vance, great to see you. thanks for being here. >> thanks for having me, joy. >> let's talk about this change of ven uthey'd like to have, shall we? we have a map here of roanoke, virginia. and it went clinton by roughly 70-30, where in roanoke they went for trump in therely the reverse, something like 68-32. is that common to try to move the trial to more politically favorable climate? >> i'm sure it's what every defendant who believes politics would help him or her would like to do. but typically these transfers are authorized under the federal rules only in cases where there would be such extreme prejudice to the a defendant he or she would not get a fair trial. you think of those high profile cases like the oklahoma city bombing which was moved from oklahoma city to denver because of pre-trial publicity. that's where these type of transfers usually take place. >> so in this case do you think it's likely to succeed? >> you know, i think this motion has a very slender chan

mr manafort denies the charges., who also worked for donald trump is charged on a number of counts, but had most of those dropped in exchange for his cooperation during the investigation. he is expected to testify against mr manafort. paul manafort work for me for a very short period of time. the president isn't directly implicated in this trial, but these are the first charges brought by special counsel robert mueller who is investigating if the trump campaign colluded with the russians. in a tweet, donald trump claimed collusion isn't a crime and denied there was any in the first place. a small group of anti—trump protesters who gathered outside the court believe the campaign did have ties to russia. it is believed paul manafort does have the answers and as his trial gets under way, it is believed he could co—operate with the wider investigation. also this hour, zimbabwe's opposition mdc party is claiming victory in the first elections since the removal of long—time ruler robert mugabe last year. the vote attracte

mr. manafort not only held the highest position in the campaign, but arguably has the deepest connections to russian political forces. then manafort trial commences on the same day that president trump is changing his tune on the question of russian collusion, to the message first trotted out by allies that collusion in and of itself is not a crime. and at this hour, the manafort trial, opening statements are under way days ahead of schedule. here to talk about that, ken delaney in alexandria, virginia. and chuck rosenberg, now an nbc contributor. here with us onset, white house reporter for the ap, jonathan lavere and matt miller. elise jordan also. ken, i understand you were there for the opening statements. detail how the pressure is bearing down on paul manafort to do what "the new york times" describes, maybe get squeezed and become someone who could be more useful to robert mueller. >> it really is. as i left the courtroom just now, the defense was deep into its opening statement. the prosecution had finished their opening statement. look, this is a dry case about tax evasion and ba

mr. manafort, and then the judge intervenes, well, have you filed?et's assume for a moment you're right. what is the remedy you would seek? and then downing said, well, the question becomes how can you have a fair trial when the press and media have been so saturated with false statements about the evidence? the judge said, all right, so what's the remedy, assuming you're right? downey, well, given the pattern of conduct, one remedy is certainly dismissal. the judge, no. putting that one aside. mr. downey, i'd like to stick with that one briefly. the judge, no. go on. then mr. downing says, your honor what i'm trying to deal with is i think you kind of glossed over this issue in terms of you talking to somebody and asking them some questions, i think we can do so many is up plmtal briefing to just show how this court how satiated the populous. mr. downing, it would have to be a change of venue? the judge, ah, finally, finally. i live for the rachel reading. the judge gave the attorneys until today to file a request for a change of venue. late today,

mr. manafort's former partner rick gates will be a principle witness gaiagainst mr.anafortd the charges are very significant over $20 million in tax evasion, and money laundering, and there is going to be evidence about extraordinary purchases by mr. manafort and a lifestyle where he was buying suits costing $15,000 apiece, i am told. >> a lot of people will say, what does this have to do with the initial route of the mueller probe? >> well, of course, this is a person who became campaign manager for mr. trump's campaign and a person who is present at the significant meeting at trump tower in which the potential for damaging information against hillary clinton is the preview to the meeting. his testimony and if it were truthful about that meeting would be important. >> do you think that we will get a little bit of insight into moo mueller's broader strategy through the course of the trial? >> well, i think that the trial is will be a traditional trial. money laundering and tax evasion, and variety of false statements and failure to register as a foreign agent. we wil

mr. manafort going to trial? these charges are relatively easy to prove. every day, mr. fort, he decides what he's more afraid of the russians or of robert mueller. and so far he's been more afraid of the russians. >> why do you think the manafort trial is going forward? >> sometimes people are just stubborn. >> but i think that was an important point. we don't know if it's going forward. there's no reason to fold your cards before you have to, right? >> i've had defendants immediate guilty when they saw that the government showed up for trial and the witnesses were all sitting outside the courtroom. >> and they know that they're screwed. >> and they listen to my opening statement. >> all right. it's going to be interesting. chuck, paul, thank you for spending time with us. >>> up next, it's hard enough to sell your book when your credibility is shot. but sean spicer is giving it a try, and it's going about as well as you might expect. your paycheck. your family depends on it. but if something happened to you... you need life insurance! and chances are selectquote can get

mr manafort denies the charges. man, who also worked for donald trump is charged on a number of counts, but had most of those dropped in exchange for his cooperation during the investigation. he is expected to testify against mr manafort. the present isn't directly implicated in this trial, but these are the first charges brought by special counsel robert mueller who is investigating if the trump campaign colluded with the russians. in a tweet, donald trump claimed collusion isn't a crime and denied there was any in the first place. small group of anti—trump protesters who gathered outside the court believed the campaign did have ties to russia. it is believed paul manafort does have the answers and as the trial gets under way, it is believed he could co—operate with the wider investigation. aid agencies are accused of being "almost complict" in sexual abuse across the sector, in a damning report by mps. the international development committee says the delivery of aid has been subverted by sexual predators — and tha

mr. manafort laced his trust in the wrong person, rick gates. w rick gates of course knows pretty much everything about paul manafort, right. >> yes. >> they worked together on this campaign, worked together before in ukraine. they have a long history together. bernie sanders former campaign strategist testified manafort is hard working but also said rick orkd for paul, paul was in charge. will anybody buy that gates was the mastermind? >> i think it's tough to sell that because you are talking about more than 60 million dollars mate over five or four years. you are talking about $15 million of taxes not being made and we are supposed to believe paul manafort never noticed that sort of savings in his financial flow? we are supposed to believe this guy who ran such a big business who traveled the world, lived that large who was that much of a master of the universe was completely content to just sign papers without reading then and hand them over to rick gates. >> hard to believe that i don't think that's going to be something the jury is going to

mr manafort denies the charges.s cooperation during the investigation. he is expected to testify against mr manafort. paul manafort work for me for a very short period of time. the present isn‘t directly implicated in this trial, but these are the first charges brought by special counsel robert mueller who is investigating if the trump campaign colluded with the russians. in a tweet, donald trump claimed collusion isn‘t a crime and denied there was any in the first place. a small group of anti—trump protesters who gathered outside the court believe the campaign did have ties to russia. it is believed paul manafort does have the answers and as his trial gets under way, it is believed he could co—operate with the wider investigation. earlier i spoke to our correspondent in washington, gary 0‘donoghue, and asked him first about president trump‘s tweet today, saying that "collusion" wasn‘t a crime. 0ver over the last few days there has been a to and fro. and a bit of an onslaught around this issue of collusion. his lawy

mr. manafort to get a jury pulled more to his liking, i don't think he'll be successful. >> one of the others brought up by manafort's torn is the publicity in the case. there's been a lot to say on twitter about paul manafort. here's one sample tweet, wow, what a tough sentence for paul manafort who has representation ronald reagan. didn't know manafort was ahead of the mob. the idea that the president's tweets and that kind of publicity to adversely affect the trial, didn't we have the supreme court litigate a case where they said nothing donald trump tweets matters? >> they said it legally. i think what comes into play here is manafort's motion is very cavalier in terms of its willingness to believe that juries can follow the instructions they're given by judges and set aside their personal beliefs. i'll tell you after 25 years of trying cases in federal court that juries do that remarkably well. in fact in the eastern district of virginia, one of the judges was able to try one of the 9-11 cays without needing to move that heavily publicized case to another district. manafort makes this s

mr. manafort, haven't spoken to him in a long time. i know him. >> i feel badly about it. they went back 12 years to get things that he did things 12 years ago. he worked for me for a short period of time, what, 49 days? >> it was five months by the way. five months, that is five times four, 20 months during a pivotal period. and then was promoted to campaign chairman shortly there after. trump praised him on the campaign trail, let's watch that. >> i have fantastic people, paul manafort just came on, he is great. and paul manafort has done an amazing job. he is here someplace. where is paul? good. you made it. that is mr. manafort, who by the way is an amazing man. >> curious about gymnastics that he is trying to distance himself. we reported that he lobbiesed for a host of dictators, problematic third world bully types. you didn't have to be in the cia to understand that this could be someone who had skeletons in his closet. but they didn't do that. they brought him out and treated him like a prince. >> here is a guy who is on russian control. the fact that he and trump

mr. manafort. and on february 16th, a federal grand jury in the district of columbia separately approved five other charges against mr. manafort and mr. gates, including, and i quote, conspiracy against the united states, end quote. and in this indictment that is coming forward, id'd like to quote from it. it says the defendant paul manafort, together with others, including gates, knowingly and intentionally conspired to defraud the united states by impeding, impairing, obstruction and defeating the lawful governmental functions of government agencies, namely, the department of justice and the department of the treasury. and to commit offenses against the united states of america, end quote. now since this indictment, gates has pleaded guilty and he's now cooperating. and included in his statement of offense, quote, manafort engaged in a variety of criminal schemes. and gates is part of that work for manafort knowingly and intentionally conspired to assist manafort in criminal schemes, end quote. s

mr. manafort. and on february 16th, a federal grand jury in the district of columbia separately approved five other charges against mr. manafort and mr. gates, including, and i quote, conspiracy against the united states, end quote. and in this indictment that is coming forward, id'd like to quote from it. it says the defendant paul manafort, together with others, including gates, knowingly and intentionally conspired to defraud the united states by impeding, impairing, obstruction and defeating the lawful governmental functions of government agencies, namely, the department of justice and the department of the treasury. and to commit offenses against the united states of america, end quote. now since this indictment, gates has pleaded guilty and he's now cooperating. and included in his statement of offense, quote, manafort engaged in a variety of criminal schemes. and gates is part of that work for manafort knowingly and intentionally conspired to assist manafort in criminal schemes, end quote. s

mr. manafort's tenure at the trump campaign. it's a lot harder of a relationship than we had known previously. >> the headline is you have paul manafort working a russian to push a pro-russian agenda for money, right? he's getting paid to do it. >> well, yeah. but i think one of the concerns from prosecutors and what the mueller team has raised in a number of filings is that paul manafort continued to be in touch with kilimnik, who like you point out, prosecutors say has ties to russian intelligence. during a presidential campaign. so one of the big knocks for paul manafort and for his team has been to say, look, why is mueller going after us? none of the charges you're bringing against us had anything to do with collusion, anything to do with what paul manafort was up to during the presidential campaign. mueller's team has said wait and see. give us some time. we're still exploring these various ties. we're still exploring whether there's a potential that paul manafort could have been involved in some kind of collusion and wheth

mr. manafort, you really care about what information mr. manafort can give you to lead you to mr. ump and an impeachment or whatever." the trial proceed in any way. today white house officials indicated they are not involved. >> the judge has very strictly instructed, no mention of paul manafort's role in the trunk and pain, no rush, no collusion. this trial obviously centers on matters that have nothing to do with the campaign. >> in 2016, manafort initially joined the trump campaign to help navigate a possible contested convention. >> there's not going to be a second ballot. it's not an issue. >> manafort later rose to champion german and sat in on the infamous trump tower meeting with russia allegedly offering dirt on the clinton campaign. last month the president said manafort's a short stint with the trump team should have made him an oversight to robert mueller. >> i think a lot of it's very unfair. i look at some of them where they go back 12 years. manafort has nothing to do with her campaign. but i tell you, i feel a little badly about it. >> now manafort's legal team need

mr. manafort in criminal activity. in a few weeks, his trial date is set to begin and end of the team of prosecutors will present their evidence and i cannot imagine how anyone in this body or this country, with the exception of mr. manafort and his coconspirators, whatever want in any way, shape, or form, to halt this trial from going forward. can you think of any reason why anyone would want to halt this trial from going forward? >> i am not aware of any. >> thank you, and i yelled back. >> i yield to the gentleman, mr. meadows. >> i think the gentleman and the gentle lady. in the spirit of transparency, i think we all want transparency here. i would offer for the chairman's consideration and this body's consideration, releasing the full transcripts we had in the 11th hour, breaking with two different conditions. we had the opportunity to interview lisa page first since those text messages were back and forth between two witnesses. the second if we can scrub that transcribed interview of any person all relevant infor

mr. manafort? >> reporter: manafort allegedly committed his crimes well before he joined the trump campaign. the case does not involve any allegations of colluding with russia to meddle in the election. but the case seems to have shaken president trump, especially after fbi agents raided manafort's home just before dawn last summer. >> i thought that was a very -- that's pretty tough stuff. to wake him up, perhaps his family was there, i think that's pretty tough stuff. >> reporter: the president now distancing himself from the man who once ran his campaign. >> paul manafort was replaced long before the election took place. he was only there for a short period of time. >> reporter: now, trump's own legal team is shifting strategy, moving from this simple declaration -- >> there was no collusion. at all. everybody knows it. >> reporter: -- to this from the president's lawyer. >> i've been sitting here looking in the federal code trying to find collusion as a crime. >> it's not. >> collusion is not a

mr. manafort allegedly concealed his effort to affect us foreign policy including was serving as campaign chairman for the republican candidate for president. in fact the special counsel's office has now charged mr. manafort with obstruction obstructing justice by trying to conceal the true nature of his work for the ukrainian government. to avoid conviction mr. manafort has allegedly urged past associates to lie about his lobbying for ukrainian government interest. this is yet another example of how there are laws to address laws with collusion. i hope the witnesses today can tell us how to make these laws better. in particular i am looking forward to hearing from the witnesses today about the scope of the problem, the steps that are currently being undertaken by the government to malicious actors accountable and third, ways we can act prevent future attacks. mr. chairman, thank you for holding this important hearing and i know that several members of the committee have requested a hearing like this and introduced legislation to deal with foreign interference in our elections and i know

mr. manafort trump jr. and not listing the sanctions of the minesky act. legislation has played of the putin regime and it is indicative of what types of tools can be used and expanded moving forward. >> when the panama paper came out in 2016, putin looks at the panama paper. it is in the panama paper that we can read this $800,000 $800,000 -- this is when putin decided and of the embankment last week, they were prepared but this is when they really decided to go naufoff in a big for it. it was too daring and it would backfire of russia. he had lost relations to -- it is much more heavy of what happened. >> so going back to money laundering, taken into consideration of the recent 12 indictments that we just had as well as maybe in the past 48 hours, russia has up their regulations for crypto currency minors. the u.s. is so far behind on crypto currency policy and we are just catching up. how should the u.s. be approaching right now in encould wa currency. >> delaware recently -- he supported this legislation that have not been adopted. if the legislation g

mr. manafort goes to trial in alexandria. he is withdrawing his challenge to mr.prosecute him. he could go to jail for 30 years. alix: how long could this go on? david: three weeks is the trial, but the question is really whether they will get mr. manafort to testify against president trump. alix: and? when will we know that? david: so far, not. jones,oming up, kathy charles schwab fixed income to strategist. this is bloomberg. ♪ jonathan: from new york city, i am jonathan ferro. 30 minute until the start of trading. this is the countdown to the open. ♪ coming up, the bank of japan avoiding major changes. the nasdaq stabilizing after a three-day rush to exit tech stocks. earnings and focus to stop the bleeding. apple focused on sales and services growth. 30 minutes away from the opening bell. futures positive up by six points on the s&p 500. euro-dollar up to 1.1728. the bank of japan keeping interest rates steady and maintaining its target on the 10 year yield but indicating it would lead the yield -- let the yield fluctuate by 10 basis points. >> the bank of jap

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mr. manafort. and there is a thundering silence. lou: except for the squeals of delight. tony podesta given immunity. >> if there was equal justice under the law there would be adjoining cells. lou: why in your judgment is there no reaction seemingly from the republican party about what is happening here with the democrats? you have got bernie sanders' former campaign advisor helping the special counsel go after manafort and this guy and his candidate were absolutely cheated out of a fair contest for the nomination by hillary clinton and her campaign. >> it's the very definition of political opportunism. this is looking down the road to the next campaign and the next committee chairmanship. lou: i am asking for their integrity. >> if you are looking for integrity in washington, d.c., it will be a long search. this is the daily fare in this city. lou: i know i may appear otherwise, but i am not a babe in the woods. i have seen a thing or two. there has to be some repository of integrity and the national and public interest in washington, d.c., because it doesn't exist with

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mr. manafort's taxes and 2012. eral stories related to the fact that there are delays in the start of the case for paul manafort. this was decided by the judge ts ellis and out's. pushed back to next tuesday and caller campaign chairman of president trump. anthony in connecticut, your first up on this open phones. caller: good morning. thank you for all you do. i'm a little disappointed i did not get a chance to reach the representative when he was there a few moments ago because i was pleased to hear from him that he thought it important for elected officials to be responsive to the electorate. i wanted to ask him what his position is on current representative joe crowley out of new york continuing to run as an independent against corttez.a ocasio i wanted to ask if you would reach out to representative joe him to get back to me on that same question. i participated in a town hall with him last week. we were assured that our questions would be answered and i asked him that same question. although the host insisted

lessen his sentence. >> listen to what donald trump during the campaign about paul manafort. >> are there any ties between mr you or your campaign and putin and his regime? >> no, there is not. it is absurd. you know, there is no basis to it. >> paul manafort has done a fantastic job. and all of paul's people. paul brought on the staff. and we really do. we have a great staff of talented people. >> donald trump also said that paul manafort, to the best of his knowledge, had nothing to do with russia. and he said i have nothing to do with russia. and then donald trump said about paul manafort, i think he represented ukraine or people having to do with ukraine or people that whoever. and harry, it turns out that paul manafort, who donald trump has known for a very long time in ways that we do not yet know, had obviously a criminal relationship going on in the ukraine. >> yeah, that's right. so your first point is, sally and lawrence, they were sort of priva privateers together in 2005 through 2016 out there. we should distinguish what manafort knows and what the case is about. the case doesn't concern the russ

mr. manafort, it is a bracing mug shot taken when he was transferred to the alexandria lock up. i am quite sure it is bracing for him to be in the circumstance. where do you think this muller effort is and what are you waiting for to see next? >> it is really hard to predict when people follow the rules and don't leak anything. so we don't know what indictments may be coming or when the report will be. obviously, rumors would be he'll issue a report sometimes before september so it does not interfere with the election because he'll be careful about that. i think seeing manafort going to a real jail will possibly have a bigger effect on him than he thinks. i have seen it happen in watergate when people came from where they were in what are called the country club of federal prisons and put into the d.c. jail so they can cooperate for the trial. it makes a big difference in how they behave, i think it is going to be interesting to see what happens. the difference between how the republicans today treated this witness verses how they treated bannon and why they won't subpoena him a

mr. manafort or the colluded. >> reporter: rick gates has already pleaded guilty and will testify againstafort. among the others indicted, michael flynn, trump's former national security adviser and george papadopoulous, former campaign aid. both pleaded guilty to lying to prosecutors and both are cooperating with the investigation. an associate of manafort's described in court documents as a suspected russian intelligence operative also indicted, 13 russian nationals and three russian entities. charged with interfering in the 2016 election. and most recently, another group of 12 russian nationals, charged with hacking the democratic national committee and the clinton campaign. his team has interviewed at least two dozen members of the trump administration and other trump associates. >> bob mueller is not making deals left and right. rick gates, george papadopoulous and michael flynn all traded some pieces of information for their respective plea deals. that is presumably incredible information. >> reporter: and what has mueller found out about the june 2016 trump tower meeting between do

mr. manafort as i read it requested there be in mention of his brief tenure at the trump campaign several years ago. this has nothing to do with collusion, russia, nothing to do with the campaign. >> paul manafort does not know anything, nor could it be possible that he did. he was with him for four months. >> this morning, no comment from the president on paul manafort. he has got the russia investigation on his brain. well, with a tweet. collusion is not a crime, but that doesn't matter because there was no collusion. let's not get ahead of ourselves. the president's campaign chairman is in court right now. joe johns is outside the courthouse in virginia with that. what's happening inside? >> reporter: you were talking about tests up at the top. i can tell you there's one other test right now for the courts, that is to find a fair and impartial jury. 65 perspective jurors were ushered into the court on the ninth floor of the courthouse in virginia. the judge first describing the charges against paul manafort to them, including bank fraud, conspiracy and failure to report offshore bank a

mr. manafort in running the campaign. i mean this is a bunch of grifters who have taken over the united states government and the standard that has been established over many generations ever administrations has been violated time and time again. there are no ethics in this strairks a administration and that is what the american people have to come to terms with. >> thank you so much for your perspective. >>> in the united kingdom, british police are ramping up their search for the source of the second contamination of the nerve agent novichok this time after a couple was poisoned in southern england last week. the victims are in critical condition. erin mclaughlin reports from amesbury. >> reporter: this is the last time we see dawn sturgess and charlie rowley before they fell ill, exposed to a deadly nerve agent. cnn obtained this footage of the couple arriving at a corner shop. it is time stamped friday, june 29, 9:54 p.m. you see sturgess walking in, her boyfriend rowley waiting outside drinking from a bottle. she pic

mr. manafort. this is "bloomberg surveillance." i am tom keene. headquarters in zurich, francine lacqua. there with a different bank, a smaller credit suisse than what we saw 12 years ago. added to go with their leader? francine: yeah. it is a smaller bank here in it is in -- bank. it is in better shape than it was three years ago. they basically go through the trials and tribulations of credit suisse. they were at pains to explain is that one of the that thes they get is global markets lag peers because it is a different business model than others are trying to do. they are using it as a unit of wealth management and not on its own. tom: we go to italian gdp, a smaller number. european gdp coming in a little light. topline inflation is the worst since 2012. core inflation contained in europe. here is taylor riggs. taylor: north korea reportedly 's justding new icbm weeks after the summit with president trump according to the washington post, which sites u.s. spy agencies. the trump administration reportedly may bypass congress to give a $100 bill

mr. manafort filed a whole lot of motions. so far i don't think he's prevailed on any of them.d of issue he would be raising pretrial. if he had a good argument on this, i would expect he's made it and that the court has rejected it. >> sally yates, the former acting attorney general of the united states. 27 years at the justice department before relieved of her job there by president trump. not two weeks into the trump administration. i imagine that i'm not going to get to talk to you all that often in the future, but any time you want to come back and talk about things going on in the law and in policy and in matters of the day, let us know. i'd love to talk to you more than you'd want to. >> thank you. >> we'll be right back. stay with us. there's so many opinions out there, it's hard to make sense of it all. well, victor, do you have something for him? >>check this out. td ameritrade aggregates thousands of earnings estimates into a single data point. that way you can keep your eyes on the big picture. >>huh. feel better? >>much better. yeah, me too. wow, you really did a n

mr. manafort is the biggest fish. he was with the trump campaign for three or four months. something like that. we'll see. mueller has been given a lot of latitude. they're trying to equate what happened in russia with mr. putin and this. theres no evidence of any collusion. i want to talk about some of the -- something else, something that was in a little bit more fall-out from the helsinki summit. former intelligence chiefs are now politicizing their role in going after trump. here's what former acting -- a former acting cia director said. >> at what point will there be critical mass of objection to some of the lunacy going on under this president? to state it boldly, the president sided with the enemy. >> an ousted fbi director james comey had to throw in his two cents saying all that believe in this country's values must vote nor democrats this fall. policy differences don't matter right now. history has its eyes on us. gentlemen, is this an appropriate thing for a former intel chief to jump in here and do this? i want to start with scott. because i think these things a

mr. manafort is found guilty, that makes it a real problem for the president of the united states to continue to call this a witch hunt. now, what about this case? we have 18 charges in the indictment, something like three dozen witnesses. the former partner of paul manafort, rick gates, could testify. the trial could last up to three weeks. at the end of the day, though, a big deal for paul manafort himself, who was a huge power broker in washington, d.c. he has another trial scheduled later this year, wolf. >> and they're accusing him of taking about $60 million from pro-russian politicians in ukraine. a significant sum of money. some of that money laundered through cyprus and elsewhere. joe johns, we'll get back to you. i know any moment they should have that jury in place. we're also learning new information about right about the white house chief of staff john kelly, questions about whether he'll stay or go. they've been swirling now for months. today kelly gave his staff an answer. let's go to our white house correspondent kaitlan collins. what is general kelly saying? >> reporter: wolf

mr. manafort that might cause an appellate court down the road to reverse a conviction if the government obtained one. no one wants that to be the result. and the fact that this prosecution team is pushing so hard to go ahead and begin the trial on wednesday tells you that they don't believe that there is any prejudice. i wouldn't expect the defense to agree with them, but the reality is these documents originated with manafort's accountants. he's had access to them. and there's a presumption that his original lawyers would have turned them over to this defense team. so we'll have to see. but at the end of the day, the judge would have to decide if there will be any more prejudice if they began on wednesday. >> joyce, let me ask you a follow-up here because it occurs to me, i'm not a lawyer, but is there some pressure coming from the prosecution side? we know that nonlawyers like myself are speculating that the mueller team are going to want to have something to report by early september, let's say, because of the risk of prejudicing the election and all the criticism that might ensue. s

mr. manafort. >> if it were a case about president trump, you have the defense team now saying, hey, we don'tanybody to mention manafort's work for the campaign, when he was campaign chair. >> right. >> no connection of that should come up during jury selection, et cetera. is that a fair request? >> of course it is. absolutely. >> is it reasonable? is it likely to be -- >> i think the judge will find it -- take it seriously. look, this is more about his next trial in the district of columbia. virginia is a divided state. obviously, many republicans, many democrats, pro-trump people, anti-trump people. the next case in the district of columbia, which voted 99 something in favor of hillary clinton and against trump. surely, in the district of columbia, he doesn't want any jurors to know he has anything to do with donald trump. unless they can demonstrate that the relevance of the trump association outweighs the prejudicial impact, that motion should be granted. >> let me ask about something else in the president's universe that is happening. the issue with this former personal attorney, michael