mr. mueller is to conduct? >> i will agree with the deputy attorney general's comments already. >> he said that it would be part of it. so, in agreeing with him, we have established. so, we've established two things -- our government and the american people were attacked, and our democracy was attempted to undermine, and that part of that investigation should be. so, i just wanted to ask the chairman, if he would, i'd like to enter this, because, mr. rosenstein, it doesn't matter. they want you. they want to impeach you. they want to indict you. they want to get rid of you. because in getting rid of you, they want to stop the two fundamental questions that we already agreed to. >> the gentleman's time has expired. >> and that is, they want to undermine this investigation. so, mr. rosenstein, good luck. we're in the minority. >> the chair recognizes himself for purposes of asking questions. deputy attorney general rosenstein, we recently learned that your department is interpreting the judiciary committee's subp

mr. mueller could not conduct a broad investigation because he was never confirmed by the senate. sean hannity did a segment on it and others picked it up. we will take it up with jeff toobin and alan dershowitz. as to the other claim that he got the right to pardon himself, that's a stretch. a watergate memo says no, he can't do it because no one may be a judge in his own case. alexander hamilton in the federalist papers said yes.

mr. mueller have any conflicts of interest? >> mr. chairman, if there were any conflicts of interest that were brought to our attention, i would discuss it with mr. mueller, and there could be review in the department if there were credible allegation of a conflict of interest. so i'm not aware of any disqualifying conflict of interest. >> in your experience at the department, are you aware ever in your experience with the department's history of an unindicted subject of investigation being given evidence that exists in the case where that person's a subject? >> i wouldn't want to comment on what's ever happened, but generally that would not be our practice. >> and do you intend to change that with the request that rudy giuliani, the president's counsel, has made that unindicted information would be given over to the president as it relates to the russia investigation? >> i'm not aware of any request that mr. giuliani's made to me. >> mr. wray, you agree that the fbi's responsibility is to prevent attacks on america. >> that's one of

mr mueller, of course, looking into allegations that some in the trump campaign conspired with russiao get mr trump elected. these two not officially connected, but there is a suspicion that a lot of the case against mr manafort is to try to get him to give evidence perhaps against mr trump, certainly against others in the trump campaign. yes, that's right. these charges specifically don't relate to activity related to the campaign, and he was the campaign manager during the 2016 election. he was employed in the march of that year. essentially his job was to run the convention, the republican convention, that year. in fact, donald trump has been at pains in recent weeks to distance himself from paul manafort, stressing that he was only with the campaign for a short period of time and that he was not aware of the fbi investigation against him going back several years. clearly very serious charges. he is the most senior person related to the donald trump election campaign to face charges of this nature and, as we now know, there are other people as well. guatemala's deadliest volcanic e

mr. mueller. he's a defense attorney, law professor in boston. runs a website or instrumental in creating the website "fire", the foundation for individual rights of education. he had many meetings in regard to robert mueller with defendants he was representing. he was struck by somebody that mr. mueller said. he was gathering with his associates that any criticism of the fbi is a nonstarter. that is a quote from harvey silverglate. he said any criticism of the fbi is a nonstarter. mr. silverglate's mindset, it's a statement as to the nature of the upper echelons of the fbi. mr. trump is trying to penetrate that line of thinking right now and he's going to be going after mr. mueller in a big way, especially emboldened by this i.g. report that came out yesterday. as it now stands -- i forgot his name now. the man just sentenced to jail is going to be in jail as of now, today. he's not coming out of the courtroom. there is a gag order in effect right now. so his attorney won't be speaking either. but he's in jail and he won't be coming out until his

mr. mueller. he's created an unconstitutional special counsel. believe that the president challenges that one day, he will be successful. now the pardon power. this memo they keep referring to on capitol hill, mr. schumer, of all people, it's two and a half pages long. page one? page two? page three. see my exes? those are irrelevant part of the memo that have nothing to do with going on today. this article? that's it. under the appointment of that nobody may be a judge in their own case, it would seem that the question would be answered in the negative. do, pardon himself.sident can this is not a legal document. this is a joke. do you see all the footnotes here? there aren't any. do you see all the case law here? it's a novel question because no president has ever been indicted. why are we even discussing this part? "the new york times," one of the reporters in one of the highlights sections in the phony article based on the leaked letter puts in there, is the president saying he can pardon himself? of course the president can pardon himself! her

mr. mueller. we've been criticized, in fact from people on both sides of the aisle, who want to dig into that whole matter, and we've stayed clear of that, but looking at the problems cited in that report which involve questions of improper procedures followed by the fbi. and extreme bias demonstrated how the bias affected the actions, not if we can't ask one of the central witnesses about the bias based upon his involvement in the outset of that case. we need to have that resolved and we will communicate with you further beyond right here to work on that. finally, let me say. >> can i just ask -- have we opened a second round of questions? >> no, i'm not asking questions, and we thank both of you, mr. ray. i think that you have done what a lot of people said needed to be done. in terms of making the necessary personnel changes. i believe there are probably more that need to happen. i think you have -- you like what you have to say following the inspector general's report about the recommendations

but if director mueller were to rely upon a document that mr. strzok produced or a statement that he took or were to call him as a witness, obviously you need to consider that evidence that would tend to impeach his credibility. director mueller well knows that. i recognize we're out of time, but director mueller and i learned about this issue at the same time and we learned ability from the inspector general brought it to our attention soon after he discovered it, i believe it was last july. so it was our understanding that the inspector general was conducting an investigation of mr. strzok. the fact that director mueller didn't spend a lot of time questioning him, i think that was probably appropriate because that was the inspector general's job. i don't think it took director mueller very long after seeing those text messages to decide what was the right thing to do. >> thank you. i yield back. >> chair recognizes the gentleman from new york, mr. nadler for his questions. >> thank you. last month i wrote to both of you regarding the apparent o

mr. mueller took his position. he received bipartisan kudos all across the board.is an extraordinarily well respected war hero who is doing an amazing job. he needs to be allowed to continue this investigation. i do remember when watergate took place. from the date of the break-in to the day the president left office was 28 months, and that was with a democratic caucus. the american public has to be much more patient than i want that they want to be. this is a far more complicated investigation. and i believe a far more important political and criminal investigation that watergate ever was because it involved a foreign adversary. so all i can do is stress with the american public the great job mr. mueller is doing, the stresses we have face, facing hand in glove cooperation to obstruct the investigation from house republicans on the intel committee, working with the white house to make sure the truth doesn't come out. >> congressman mike quigley, the fifth district in illinois, thank you very much for your time. >> thank you. >> next a cowl duel vote against republ

if special counsel mueller was here, i know what i would ask him. he's not, but his supervisor is. so mr. deputy attorney general, what, if anything, has special counsel mueller done to determine whether the actions taken, the decisions made and the evidence collected by special agent peter strzok was impacted by his very clear hatred and bias of president trump? >> as i know you're aware, director mueller has vast experience both as a prosecutor and a supervisor of the fbi, so i can assure you that he understands the importance of considering any credibility issues in determining whether or not to rely upon a person. with regard to the -- >> let me stop you. what actions has he taken as his supervisor? >> we're not going to talk publicly about the substance of the investigation. >> i don't want you to do that. can you tell me whether you know he has taken steps to determine -- >> yes. director mueller has taken appropriate steps, and keep in mind, congressman -- >> let me stop you there. i'm thrilled to hear that he's taken steps. you and i are both former prosecutors. how does a prosec

mr. mueller, his investigation is filled with professionals who are doing their job. we ought to let them do it. people ought to stop trying to stop the investigation and -- >> harris: you accuse the white house being focused on the investigation. i would say everybody is focused -- >> he tweeted about it -- >> harris: you can multitask and still get infrastructure done and still be part of the north korea and the healthcare discussion. >> the president's not. but the president's not, harris. that is the point. the president is so distracted with the chaos -- >> harris: that is not top. he had top north korean officials at the white house friday. >> look at the president's twitter. all he is talking about is russia. >> harris: you are telling me you want to hold the entire white house and the administration according to a couple of hundred characters on twitter. >> you know what my constituents are concerned about how are we raising income? >> harris: good questions. where are you at the table with healthcare? or illegal immigration? >> we have a bold economic agenda

mr. mueller and rosenstine. it's been going on a long time. some of the things mr. mueller indicted people for has nothing to do with collusion between the trump campaign and russia. they could easily be referred to the united states attorney in the jurisdiction where the crime took place. because this casts a shadow over the presidency. he should move towards conclusion of his investigation. >> are you expecting to question rosenstine? >> yes. >> we'll take a break and we'll come back and talk about this letter. you had such a week. we need to understand your vision for the next steps on immigration reform. your bill defeated for now. we'll have that when we come right back. president trump urged people to stop wasting time on the issue until after the midterm elections. follow me on twitter. we'll have more with bobk goodlatte after the break. didn. wish we got money back on gym memberships. get money back hilarious. with claim-free rewards. switching to allstate is worth it. i can do more to lower my a1c. and i can do it with what's already within me. because my b

mr. mueller be interested in the former associates of mine who were not working for me during the 2016 election? it is a possibility to frame me? i will respond accordingly. >> often do you talk to the president? >> it has been a while now. i believe his lawyers have advised him it is best if we did not talk until the matter is clarified that i remain his strongest supporter it was a new york times report the president fears me that makes no sense i am one of his strongest importers and i have no intention to testify against him if that is what the special counsel has in mind. >> going to sandusky ohio democratic line good morning b14. >> caller: they should impeach and he is a womanizer he has raped all of these people they don't do one thing about it he does not show his taxes he just thinks about the big people and to hack the little people especially seniors. it is a dirty shame if that were the criteria they would have impeach kennedy and clinton it is interestingly still try to clarify clinton's activity as infidelities or indiscretions when he had sexual assault and rape the charges agai

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mr bob mueller is looking at allegations of collusion between the trump campaign and russia. bbying case against mr manafort. mr manafort has been on release up until now before his trial. that's it for now, thank you for watching. good morning. the best of the sunshine on monday was out to the west, particular south—west wales. for most of us it was a pretty grey, cloudy start to our new working week, wasn't it? in fact, this weather watcher's picture sums it up quite nicely, the cloud thick enough for the odd spot or two of drizzle. we start like that for many today, but fingers crossed conditions will improve later on. now, it's a very quiet weather story right throughout the week across the uk, with high—pressure sitting up into the north, and this north—easterly flow. now, that's responsible for driving in this cloud through the night, and it makes for a pretty grey, murky start. but, as we go through the day, it does look as though the cloud will start to thin and break and push its way down into south wales and south—west england. here, it could stay little disappointin

mr. mueller. i can't. i understand you are the father of three girls.irls do rule, by the way. >> in my house they do. thank you. eric: 20 people have been wound in a shooting at an arts festival in new jersey earlier this morning. one suspect police say is dead. two others are in custody. here is the mayor of trenton, eric jackson. >> this is a tragedy for trenton. i want to assure our residents and the many guests that come into our city that the law enforcement agencies are taking this shooting extremely seriously. reporter: you are looking right now at an active investigation scene. this is where the shooting happened at 2:50 in the morning. an all-night festival in the historic portion of trenton, new jersey. that's the entrance to the warehouse where 250 pieces of artwork were inside. then all hell broke loose, according to witnesses at about 2:50 in the morning shots were fired. investigators believe this was a fight between individual that happened to break out into this venue with this art all night festival. this ways we know about the injured

mr. mueller is not talking about it. neither was sarah sanders in her on role in misleading the public >> entirely defereifferent how e to know what to believe. >> once again i can't comment on a letter from the president's outside counsel and i direct you to them to answer them. >> you said he did not dictate. and then you said he did, what is it? >> i can't respond to a letter. i would refer you to them for comment. >> she also had to answer, or tried to, with two other later tweets. here is the first tweet as has been stated as numerous legal dolla scholars, i have the right to pardon myself. then about an hour later, he tweeted quote, the appointment of the special counsel is totally unconstitutional. this was also sarah sanders here talking about it today. ews on the point clear.ad his i don't have anything to add. >> her answer was in response to hypocrisy. >> if i win, i am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation. there has never been so many lies, so much dece

mr. mueller does things by the book.s a republican, he's worked in two administrations and i think he's going to continue to act in that fashion. >> the president, do you believe, is sending clear messages and clear signals with this option of holding out pardonso individuals as we've seen in recent days? >> there is no question about it. and not only is he holding out the prospect of a pardon, but they have made -- the president and his allies, a number of false statements with respect to president's power to block prosecutions. president said he could power him -- pardon himself and mr. giuliani said the president could in effect shoot comey and they made preposterous statements but it is again a part of a strategy where they stonewall and stonewall and stonewall and then they try to see if they could find some kind of contradiction and by the end they see if could get away making a small cob concession. >> and w have i have. a question on a different subject and very sensitive issue, the secretary of education, betsy

mr. mueller is concerned, he arrested the three wrong people in the anthrax matter. the individual he finally arrested died mysteriously in custody. to investigate the sara societya florida based light school where five of nine hie jackers were to investigate he let four men rot in a boston jail to cover up for f.b.i. informents involved in the whitey bullinger matter. samples le the uranium to raugs during the acquisition of uranium one. this is hardly an unblemished us hardly an unblemished record. therefore that he wou now sit in judgment of this president in what is clearly an effort to undo what they could not do at the ballot box i think is really questionable. you justed on what said it sounds like those will be some of the talking points when the mueller reports comes -- discreditit both him and his work. we don't know what his report will say. that -- any evidence of collusion in the trump campaign manager even the indictment of the 13 russians evidently active online still doesn't show a clear connection or consistency. some points appear to be pro-hillary,

mr. mueller. people en criticized by from both sides of the aisle and that but ed clear of looking at the problems cited in which involve questions of improper procedures -- by the f.b.i. and the he bias affected actions but not if we can't ask one of the central witnesses bias, based upon his so we need to have hat resolved and we will communicate with you further beyond right here to work on that finally, let me say -- mr. chairman, have we opened a second round of questions? any questions.ng of you, mr.ank both wray, i think you have done what people said needed to be done. necessaryf making the personnel changes, i believe here are probably some more that need to happen. i like what you had to say following the inspector eneral's report following the recommendations in the report, and mr. rosenstein, i absolutely you're th you, that making an effort, a very serious effort, to change what was on a very slow process in terms of production of documents. much een much, much, better, i completely a

mr. mueller is not talking about it. neither was sarah sanders in her on role in misleading the public >> are you saying, his lawyers are saying something entirely different. how are we supposed to know what believe? >> once again, i can't comment on a letter from the president's outside counsel. i direct you to them to answer them. >> literally, you said he did not dictate. the lawyer said he did. what is it? >>ya respond the a letter from the outside counsel. >> so she was busy. she tried to answer regarding two other tweets from her boss. just because he tweeted doesn't make it so. here's the first one. i would be absolute right to pardon myself. why i would do that when i have done nothing wrong? in the meantime, the never ending witch hunt led by democrats and others continues into the mid terms. then about an hour later he tweeted, the appointment of the special counsel is entirely unconstitutional. we play the game because i have done nothing wrong. >> the president has made his views clear. i don't have anything

mr. mueller in his team. no matter what meetings have behind closed doors you have that on the front page of the new york times, it is, talk about a message! >> right. a much more blatant way of communicating, for sure.>> meanwhile, democrats had to be facing an internal conflict over the way to address the rush investigation on the campaign trail with midterms coming up. let me play a soundbite of the committee chair pieces the democrats need to run on something other than the trump/rush investigation. >> the notion for those who may be partisan, if democratic control they will be able to wrap these up and i think the american public will be tired of it if this is not coming down the calendar year. >> you think has a point? simply want to try to get the president out almost no matter what the cost? >> i think democrats are the most that agree they need to articulate strong economic message into november. this is something that plagued them in 2060. they underestimated the efficacy of donald trump in his mess

mr. mueller, clearly the tussle that was going on there politically, republicans now willing more than ever questioning mueller's russia investigation in a way they haven't been able to before and democrats trying to defend it. >> that was a bad e-mail, like marquee bad. >> you're talking about the text message. >> the text message from agent strzok. i agree with clint that this is a large organization. it is an organization populated by terrific, honest, ethical, patriotic people. but one or two bad apples can really undermine the credibility of an entire institution. i think it's unfair but i think it's also a reality. when agent strzok said a text message that said, we will stop trumpl from. here's what i'll say. i think we have reason to be heartened. >> we could use a little bit of it. >> we're swimming in the sea of pessimism, understandably, because of some of what the ig's report found. the job of the ig could investigate the fbi which falls under the doj and issue a report that really could have been more critical of, for example, what director comey chose to do, sort of contrary t

>> if mueller's team is interested in bringing mr. manafort on as a cooperating witness, i think now is the time. the leverage is high. and i think we all know that by virtue of mr. manafort being president trump's campaign manager for more than just a minute, as we say, he undoubtedly can bring important information to the table. >> you say if, though, glenn. and you use words carefully. do you get a sense that he may not want to for reasons that you just mentioned? >> i'll tell you, as a career prosecutor until two weeks ago, i'm always pretty careful about the cooperating witnesses i do business with because if i -- if i were to bring him on board and put mr. manafort on the stand, he would be cross-examined with, well, sir, you were tampering with witnesses so you're willing to do anything to get a deal for yourself or to get yourself out from under the hammer that is now hanging over your head. so it would be difficult, i think, to build up his credibility. it can be done. mueller's team will do it, but it will be a challenge. >>

mr. mueller. i'm following hillary's lead. >> please, he's making people nervous. >> boom, crack it up and ansay here, mr. mueller. courtesy of hillary. >> it's just a joke that you say over and over about destroying evidence that you just talk about destroying evidence. for the latest on the efforts to derail the trump probe, matt miller, spokesperson during the obama administration and retired federal judge nancy get yourner, senior lecturer at harvard law school. matt, the conspiracy theories have gotten increasingly baroque and sort of hard to even track or follow, and increasingly discredititied. there's like a full-court press over there right now that only intensifies day by day. >> you even have this weird thing where the president twice in the last couple days has pulled conspiracy theories almost too crazy for fox news, things that show up on right wing websites they start on the depths of reddit and has tweeted them out. some of the craziest conspiracy theories. you see the president an

mr. mueller should consider whether perjury charges are warranted in light of the additional evidence iniff told msnbc news he thinks donald trump jr., roger stone and erik prince are among those who should be investigated for perjury. according to schiff the committee was supposed to publically release the transcripts after chairman nunes ended the investigation in march but the republicans on the committee went back on the promise. here's the explanation that congressman schiff gave on this program last night. >> i think they did for a couple reasons. for one thing the transcripts showed how often the republican majority act as defense lawyers for the president rather than true investigators. how often the witnesses were evasive with us, as well as some of the evidence we found occlusion and obstruction of justice. >> barbara mcquade and matt miller are back with us. matt is this something that could potentially happen? >> it ought to happen. i know schiff has said he's exploring ways the committee doesn't vote to release the transcripts to mueller, whether he can do it on his own, whi

mr. mueller says, but i do know this. imary investigator when it comes to the russian-trump connection early on was mr. strzok, who was clearly in the tank for clinton and hated trump. i understand why mueller fired him. i understand why he would fire other people given their behavior regarding the trump campaign. so we will see what mr. mueller does but i'm shocked that nobody in your business really outside of fox news seems to give a damn that the head investigator for the fbi wanted to stop trump and basically faster diced an investigation of clinton, had a bias that was beyond belief. >> martha: if there was any attempt to influence the presidential campaign on the part of these individuals, every american should be very, very concerned about thbity and if that's not what happened we should know that too. senator lindsey graham, always good to see you, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> martha: coming up next, remember this moment? that was a high point, remember that? former congressman michael graham is now in a

mr. comey was fired and rosenstein appointed robert mueller as special counsel. in that stretch, rosenstein went from a supporting actor in the dismissal of mr. comey to the official overseeing the investigation in which the firing was the focus. you guys also write that rosenstein is both the ultimate supervisor of that case and will determine what information is eventually provided to congress and a key participant in the matter being investigated. mr. trump's lawyers also regard him as one of the essential witnesses for the president's defense because mr. rosenstein, they say, wanted to get rid of comey. you touched on this, but just detail how complicated it is to be rod rosenstein. we're going to get to yesterday's fiery testimony. i talked to senior justice department officials today who said they welcome the opportunity to show how even keeled the deputy attorney general is. but your reporting certainly doesn't describe that side of him and his role is treemly fraught with peril from all political directions. >> well, it's so conflicted. and as he is the ch

mr. mueller is highly respected. trey gowdy i never thought i'd quote, david, in praise after what he did on benghazi. trey gowdy has told president trump the following -- "if you are not guilty, then act like it." so let's let mr. mueller do his job. >> let me correct you on one thing. that is that this investigation will have been going on for two years this august. two years. the house and the senate started their investigations in august of '16. let's not forget that. yes, mueller has been in office just over a year. but this investigation has been going on for two years. >> one year. >> it'seen going on for two years and there has been no evidence whatsoever of any collusion. that is what this investigation was about. this wasn't about, you know, paul manafort and what he did ten years ago. even though he is going to be convicted it looks like on other issues. it has nothing to do with the president and the campaign's collusion. that is the president's point. he didn't do anything wrong. >> martha: also just to

well, this is a sign the special counsel, mr mueller, is determined to exert maximum legal pressure onr manafort. two new charges, obstruction of justice mr manafort. two new charges, obstruction ofjustice and conspiracy to obstruct justice obstruction ofjustice and conspiracy to obstructjustice and they stem from allegations we heard about earlier in the week that he had attempted allegedly to tamper with witnesses, contacting them using mobile phones and encrypted messaging services. the allegation being that he was attempting to influence their testimony at any future trial. a second person, konstantin kilimnik, is facing the same obstruction charges. he is said to bea same obstruction charges. he is said to be a long—time associate of mr manafort, described by some as a right—hand man in ukraine, and perhaps, according to prosecutors, with connections with russian intelligence. as far as mr manafort is concerned, he's facing a string of crime charges to do with financial affairs and he is likely to be in court again at the end of next week, not to face trial, but for a judge to loo

mr. horowitz: i'm not going to make a decision on mueller's investigation. i'm going -- senator durbin: i want to stay within the four corners of your report. do you discredit the credibility of the investigation? mr. horowitz: we did not address it. we laid out what occurred and we laid out what individuals did in october where it touches the russia investigation. senator durbin: last thursday, senator majority leader mitch mcconnell said in an knew, he wanted the investigation to include. he said if the i.g. is through, why can't it ramp up? was there any relationship between what you were tasked in doing and what robert mueller is tasked in doing? mr. horowitz: other than the issues we talked about where we talked about text messages and brought them to his attention, we do not have any connections in that regard. senator durbin: my colleagues have raised the question about the new york field office and leaks in that field office and there are quotes in the report relative to mr. comey's concern that new york field office would leak information and that's

mr. mueller, the president's attorneys argued, needs to prove that the president is the only person who cane him the information he seeks and that he has exhausted all other avenues for getting it. would this type of argument hold up in court? >> you know, i don't think it would. i mean, clearly, the president's duties are waity and all-consuming. that's the argument made time and again by the office of legal counsel in the opinion memos that olc put out in both 1973 and in 2000. now, it's important to remember that the office of legal counsel is an organization within the department of justice. so the president is ultimately the head of and in charge of olc. that's not to suggest that the olc opinion is in any way unfair or improper. but, you know, institutional pressures often come into play when an agency is making a decision about whether its own leader can be subjected to sort of a criminal proceeding. but balance against the olc opinion that a sitting president, for example, can't be indicted, are the supreme court cases that are very closely related. and that is u.s. versus nixon and

mr. mueller. >> oimizinghe use of professionals by state policy, federal policy. >> maybe i just need to wear my glasses, mr. pink. the suggestion made by dr. mueller i would endorse. the issue with rules that prevent the true integration of the health care provird. >> i think that so important. the co-chairs of this with our colleagues and our camp talk to me about this constantly. hardly a week goes by when she dot bring it up. this whole question of the comingling rules that miss martin is talking about. this just looks like a bureaucratic la la land to me. trying to sort this stuff out. so i'm going to talk with chairman roberts ab it. yes, ma'am. >> strengthening the support to these advanced registered nurse prak tigs nctitioners and pas w working in very isolated areas to give them the support, the education, the retrain and the access to consultations. >> i got to tell you, we had it in our healthy americans act with eight democrats and eight republicans. you ought to be able to practice up to the top of your license and partilarly in these rural areas. thagsst that the another on

china with russian company as well as a bank in cyprus that happens to be under investigation by mr mueller so you can see whoa whoa he's things are not really above board now he pledged that he got rid of all these assets and he actually did but after the fact after promising that he didn't that he ready divested this was all after the fact and it sent seems to me that his family silk continues to do business with these foreign entities down spokes person for mr wilbur says the secretary did not lie well if a lie is not telling lies telling something different a little bit later changing things around later after you told a lie and now it's not a lot i'm confusing myself even here because i think everybody will confuse when it comes down to this this is just a mess a lie is a lie is a lie and that's what happened in this case as well you know there's also alternate facts right that they got clear that they got the patent on alternate facts are key correspondent alex my hile a bit tough news but we thank you for bringing it to us thank you. and in the u.k. the number of debit card payments

mr mueller is looking into allegations that some in mr trump's presidential campaign colluded with russia accusation relates to a tax and lobbying case against paul manafort. let's speak to our correspondent peter bowes, who has more detail on this story for us. peter, you've been following this closely, explain specifically what robert mueller‘s issues are with paul manafort at this point? right now he is accused of attempting to tamper with witnesses, people who are likely to give evidence at his upcoming trials, specifically to people who were linked with a pro— ukraine group that mr manafort was involved with in terms of his lobbying activity. one of those witnesses, according to an fbi agent quoted in court papers, coming forward saying he'd been approached by mr manafort and that it was an attempt to influence their testimony at the upcoming trial. of course, that would be a violation of his current status, he's been released, he's been under house arrest since his initial court appearance last october and there is now a possibility that robert mueller will go to the judge, as he is

mr. mueller and of course, mr.was lobbying at the time for victor yanakovich who had close buys ties to mr. putin, before he was thrown out by his own people and so the picture though it's not necessarily fact but the picture here is that perhaps ties to putin was also tied to this yana kovich, and you can see where mueller is trying to get the pressure on manafort to talk. neil: understood adam thank you very very much, i have judge and andrew napolitano on the phone with me now. what do you think? >> well this is a significant blow to manafort because his lawyers have to go to jail and bring hundreds even thousands of documents this is a very very very document-intense case talking about close to a million pages of documents, the government supplied the defense and they have to review every one and they can't do it in their offices they have to do it in a jail so it's a significant significant setback for him. basically, what the judge did this morning was to find it is probably true, not guilty beyond a reasonab