to give credence to the iraqi exiles the hawks at the pentagon create our own service the office of special plans an initiative by paul wolfowitz and douglas feith. the office of special plans this was quite a lot of us once tri-city they were set up as an alternative cia. the cia gathers information from a multitude of sources in general its analysts check them before submitting their conclusions to the politicians but the office of special plans short circuits this process a first in the history of american intelligence in the end bush cheney and rumsfeld obtain the answers they need and. george tenet director of the cia grudgingly supports the information before congress. i have one of those hearings the director of the cia george tenet brought with him three white folders where materials about the some five hundred fifty sites in iraq where allegedly there were weapons of mass destruction i asked tenet where did we get all this information and the answer is we got it from . the exiles who did we the united states of america have on the ground to see if in fact what was said in these exiles pr

to give credence to the iraqi exiles the hawks at the pentagon create our own service the office of special plans an initiative by paul wolfowitz and douglas feith. the office of special plans this was quite a lot of us once tri-city they were set up as an alternative cia. the cia gathers information from a multitude of sources in general its analysts check them before submitting their conclusions to the politicians but the office of special plans short circuits this process a first in the history of american intelligence in the end bush cheney and rumsfeld obtain the answers they need and. george tenet director of the cia grudgingly supports the information before congress. i have one of those hearings the director of the cia george tenet brought with him three white folders where materials about the some five hundred fifty sites in iraq where allegedly there were no weapons of mass destruction i asked tenet where did we get all this information and the answer is we got it for. the exiles who did we the united states of america have on the ground to see if in fact what was said in these exile pr

to give credence to the iraqi exiles the hawks at the pentagon create our own service the office of special plans an initiative by paul wolfowitz and douglas feith. the office of special plans this was quite a lot of us once tri-city they were set up as an alternative cia. the cia gathers information from a multitude of sources in general its analysts check them before submitting their conclusions to the politicians but the office of special plans short circuits this process a first in the history of american intelligence in the end bush cheney and rumsfeld obtain the answers they need and. george tenet director of the cia grudgingly supports the information before congress. i have one of those hearings the director of the cia george tenet brought with him three white folders where materials about the some five hundred fifty sites in iraq where allegedly there were weapons of mass destruction i asked tenet where did we get all this information and the answer is we got it from . the exiles who did we the united states of america have on the ground to see if in fact what was said in these exile pro

office in d.c. that may be an indication that they are expecting for the stone prosecution to endure past the existence of the special counsel's office. they will have a plan hand over the prosecution. they may see this roger stone indictment and prosecution really having a life that even outlives the mueller investigation. >> in april of 2017, then cia director mike pompeo -- now the secretary of state -- he said, it's time to call out wick i can le wikileaks for what it is. he said the gru had used wikileaks to go ahead and release data, harmful to the united states. >> when the mueller report comes out, if it comes out, that's one of the big questions that we're waiting to find out. is special prosecutor mueller treating wikileaks like some freelance agency that we haven't seen before? back to phil's point, they probably indicted roger stone on the -- what he calls process crime, this lying to congress, because they probably thought they had a better case. he is innocent until proven guilty. maybe less solid case on all these e-mails between him and corsi, between the summer and fall of 2016, which might fall into the intelligence. >> democrats, they ha

of it? >> exactly. >> interestingly, the source is also telling the "washington post" that the deputy attorney general's office called to inquire if the special counsel plannedesponse. so, what does mueller's office publicly disputing a report on an ongoing investigation and then rod rosenstein's office inquiry, what does that tell you about the severity of this report? >> it's a great question, because the point is, you heard the head of buzzfeed, alex, saying wait a minute, mr. mueller, please step forward, please clarify exactly what you're contending is wrong. that's not going to happen. >> oh, no. >> because in law enforcement, they have every right all the time to say ongoing investigation. >> right. >> et cetera. but back to your initial question. if a reporter's going to give doj a heads-up about an article, obviously, they have to indicate, you know, a little bit more specifically about what they're going to write. was the beef that mueller felt? the other point i heard made, which is interesting, is that with a new attorney general coming in, william barr, you know, he may -- mueller may have felt that the new attorney general would call him in and

of time a short period to plan and transition into office. we want in a special election. in a special election to our time was shorter. the second session of the congress had begun, there was legislation on the floor that he had to very quickly get engaged in. you have to get your committees assignments. ande we were hiring staff moving into offices, trying to had places to live, we also to do the work of the senate. it is a whirlwind in which you are balancing a lot of balls at the same time. it is a short transition. not a lot of advanced time to plan. >> jen? >> this year we had election day on tuesday. the new members started a two-week orientation the next tuesday. they had a week from when they were elected to go and start the orientation process in d.c.. the process was two weeks in the house. we had a break during thanksgiving and they are expected to hire staff in that time and be ready to go when they are sworn in at the beginning of january. from our experience we were lucky in that mr. davis was a staffer who had worked on the hill. we had a lot of pride in tha

as being inaccurate and, quote, that the deputy attorney general's office called to inquire if the special counsel planned any kind of. what does mueller's office publicly disputing a report on an ongoing investigation and that rod rosenstein's inquiry, what does that tell you about the severity of this report? >> well, the buzzfeed report was obviously dynamite. it read very much like a direct accusation of the president being involved in a felony, a subornation of perjury, telling someone to lie. that is a crime that no one can defend against, unlike i fired comey because i had the authority to do so. this was indefensible. the fact that the prosecutor's comments were parsed in very careful language makes me think that it wasn't saying that the president didn't tell cohen to lie to the congress but that there may be something wrong with some of the details. on the other hand, it sort of doesn't make sense why you would correct a detailed part of the sentence instead of the whole thing. >> why you wouldn't get specific. >> exactly. >> is that just because it reflects the way that mueller and his team have gone about

you do have a short period of time to plan and think about transitioning into office but a short period of time that we did not win a special election so our time. for transition was shorter than most. we came in in the middle of a recession. congress second session of the congress had to be done and there was legislation on the floor that we had to very quickly get engaged in and had to get this committee on it so we had to while we were hiring staff moving into offices trying to find for some of our staff finding places to live and had to do the work of the senate so it's a whirlwind in which your balancing different balls at the same time and it's a short transition time with not a lot of advanced plans. >> jen. >> this year we had election day on to say and those new members started a two week orientation on the very next tuesday so a week from when they were elected to go and start their orientation process and easy. it was two weeks this year in the house and had a break during thanksgiving and then in the time expected to hire staff and be ready to go when they are sworn in and begin in general. from our experience w

of lying to special counsel. mueller in a breach of his plea deem. mueller's office says he has no plans to bring new charges against manafort. the hearing is set for next month to hear arguments on whether manafort breached the deal. >> he allegedly lied about passing polling information to russians, whom he owed money to. >>> i want to turn back now to venezuela. a major power struggle intensified friday. there two rivals defend their claim for the president. >> nicholas maduro slammed the efforts to oust him, he was signaling he is opened to die lock. in the meantime the self declared president juan guaido, told his supporters to continue the fight and urge the military to join them. tronz contract . >> translator: if they dare to assume power again the president is the only authority of the constitution. i ask you to keep us on the path peacefully and non-violent ly, but with much force in every street in venezuela demanding what belongs to us for freedom. >> the u.n. human rights agency says at least 20 people have been kill in protests just in week. the u.n. council meeting is set

directed his former personal lawyer michael cohen to lie to congress about plans to build a trump tower in moscow the office of specialcounsel robert muller who's investigating the chung campaign's alleged links to moscow has cost doubts on the report a buzz feed publication says standing by the story like hannah reports. the claims made against president trump are explosive and if true could lead directly to impeachment for suborning perjury that's the precise phrase that was used in the impeachment of president clinton the report by two u.s. journalists says trump allegedly directed his longtime attorney michael cohen to lie in testimony before congress according to the report trump wanted cohen to tell congress that negotiations over trump tower project to moscow during the twenty sixteen presidential campaign happened months earlier than they actually did look that's absolutely ridiculous i think that the president's outside counsel addressed this best and said in a statement earlier today those categorically false the report also says trump directed cohen to set up a meeting with russian president vladimir putin

specifically about the timing of plans for a trump tower project in moscow.but friday evening, a spokesman for the special counsel's office released the following statement, quote:"buzzfeed's description of specific statements to the special counsel's office, and characterization of documents and testimony obtained by this office, regarding michael cohen's congressional testimony are not accurate."it is extremely rare for a special counsel's office to comment on stories published in the press.buzzfeed responded to the report in a statement that reads, quote: "we are continuing to report and determine what the special counsel is disputing. we remain confident in the accuracy of our report". tesla's stock price dropped 13-percent today ... on news that the carmaker is fighting for survival. in an email to employees, the company's c-e-o elon musk says, in order to be successful, tesla must reduce the size of the workforce for the second time in less than 12- months. kron4's dan kerman has more from tesla's fremont factory. troubled times for fremont based tesla... while the company has started making a slight profit... it's

in the advance stage of these talks, deputy attorney general's office called to inquire if the special counsel planse. is it proper for the justice department to interact in that way, are you going to put a statement in this? >> i imagine so. this is a major article because in its basis. >> they had to do it for two reasons, one is this triggers impeachment immediately and the second part is the lead everies. as soon as i read this story, i want to know who are the two law enforcement officials because we heard nothing from the mueller's team at all. >> could it be members of the fbi? >> i doubt it. as soon as i read it, i had skepticism about it. the entire congress is going to intern say we need to see everything you got because we have to pursue impeachment. that had to come out. >> that statement was designed to protect the investigatimpeac banned. >> it would stop everything. the mueller's investigation, spent most of the day trying to refute stories. >> i want to make one point, i can't speak to the under lining facts, we don't know who buzzfeed's sources are. the journal practice that they f

of the war. u.s. president donald trump has denied reports that he directed his former personal lawyer michael cohen to lie to congress about plans to build a trump tower in moscow the office of special counsel robert muller who's investigating the trunk campaigns allegedly to moscow has cast doubt on the report by bus feed the publication says it standing by the story mike hanna reports. the claims made against president trump are explosive and if true could lead directly to impeachment for suborning perjury that's the precise phrase that was used in the impeachment of president bill clinton the report by two u.s. journalists says trump allegedly directed his longtime attorney michael cohen to lie in testimony before congress according to the report trump wanted cohen to tell congress that negotiations over trump tower project to moscow during the twenty sixteen presidential campaign happened months earlier than they actually did look that's absolutely ridiculous i think that the president's outside counsel addressed this best and said in a statement earlier today this categorically false the report also says trump directed cohen to set up a meeting with russian president vladimir p

often with respect to these articles, you would have said to the special counsel's office, in advance of the publication of the article, we plan to report the following, that the president of the united states directed michael cohen to lie to congress, what do you think about that. some offices will waive you off beforehand or you work it out in a way that's appropriate for both the media institution and the special counsel's office. or maybe 20 hours after you issue the story, they put out this statement. do you have any complaint with respect to how this came out in that respect? >> i think it probably wouldn't be appropriate for me to say whether one office or another has a habit of waiving people on or off. i think what they did is confusing. >> in what way? >> a day after a story is published they come out with a redetailed and very opaque statement disputing it. >> are you concerned -- i'm concerned, frankly, that when you -- over the next few months, whenever there's a hot story, a big scoop that comes out, you are going to hear from the president and his supporters, it's another buzzfeed story, it's another story like

special counsel robert miller's office rejected it as inaccurate. time for plan b. the u.k.'s embattled prime minister prepares to return to of parliament with a revised the e.u. divorce deal as a top cabinet minister warns the whole break that process is now at risk of being do rail. and a federal judge in new york blocks an attempt by the trumpet ministration to add a question about citizenship to the twenty twenty.

of course, be subject to u.s. law, u.s. jurisdictions there and the special counsel's office won't talk to him. >> he's not coming. >> he's not coming now. >> though he had a concert planned. sara, stand by. pamela brown, senior white house correspondent, is doing a lot of reporting on all of this as with el. you got a chance to speak to rudy giuliani today. he tried to clean up all the confusion. >> that's right because what he said during his media tour yesterday has major implications for the president. so let's go through why that is, wolf. first of all, a timeline that was previously known, michael cohen, the president's former attorney, had said those discussions about trump tower moscow ended in june 2016. then you heard rudy giuliani say they probably could have gone on through october, november, and then he is quoting his client, donald trump, in this "new york times" article saying that trump told him the discussion happened from the day he launched his campaign until the day he won. so what's interesting is he is quoting donald trump and then he goes on to say, actually, it was just a hypothetical. that doesn't really square. but this timeline that rudy giulian

special counsel robert mueller his office rejected it it's. the same source that we use now sort of standing behind the. times a plan b. the u.k. is a prime minister prepares to return to parliament with a revised the e.u. divorce deal as a top cabinet minister warns the whole break state process is now at risk of being too rail. and a federal judge in new york blocks an attempt by the trumpet ministration to cut a question about citizenship to the twenty twenty census describing it. we got reaction to the ruling.

with these articles, you would have said to the special counsel's office in advance to the article, we plan to report the following, the president of the united states directed michael cohen to lie to congress, what do you think about that? some offices wave you off if it's outrageous and mischaracterizes the facts. or maybe the type that never respond to any inquiry, ever, then 20 hours after you issue the story, they put out a statement. do you have anything in that respect? >> i don't think it would be appropriate for me to say whether they have a habit of waving people off and on. what they did here is extremely confusing. >> confusing in what way? >> to all of us. you know, the day after a story is published, they come out with a very detailed and opaque statement. >> are you concerned -- frankly, i'm concerned, over the next few months, when ever there's a hot story, a big scoop that comes out, you are going to hear from the president and his supporters, oh, another buzzfeed story, another story like buzzfeed where, even robert mueller said it was false. do you worry that's going to damage all of us? >> i mean, you know, we a

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the special agent in charge of the fbi's las vegas office says michael paddock acted alone when he planneded out the attack. he was 64 years old, and fatally shot himself after opening fire from hotel suite. the reason for his rampage is still a mystery after months of study by agents and behavioral specialists. las vegas police closed their investigation in august, also without a motive. >>> congress is beginning a series of hearingsing at the ri ascription drugs. one of the first items on the agenda? the cost of insulin. in his opening remarks, senate finance committee chairman charles grassley said he has heard stories of people reducing their insulin doses in order to save money. he says that is unacceptable. he vowed to get to the bottom of the problem. >>> in sacramento, the family of stephon clark, an unarmed african-american man killed last year by sacramento police, is now suing the city and the two police officers who fired the shot, suing them for $22 million. it is a federal lawsuit claiming police officers used excessive force, and that stephon clark was a victim of racial pro

of us planning to cover that development in the manafort case. but we think that's kind of it. we think that's the universe. of the number of times the special counsel's office has made an on the record comment to a reporter. but now tonight they've really put out a big one. they've said this, pushing back on buzz feed's big scoop today. i should say the buzz feed editor in speechief is going to here tonight. but this is what we got from the special counsel's office. quote, buzz feed's description of specific statements to the special counsel's office and characterization of documents and testimony obtained by this office regarding cohen's congressional testimony are not accurate. that's what we got from the special counsel's office. we are going to hear from buzz feed's editor tonight who has put out his own statement, quote, we stand by our reporting and the sources who informed it and we urge the special counsel, the special counsel to make clear what he's disputing. that's where we are tonight. you know, happy two years of the trump administration, right? this somehow we're celebrating the two-year jubilee in our country, with this week-long celebration

michael cohen to lie to congress about plans to build a trump tower in moscow democrats say they'll verify the allegations published by buzz feed's the office of special counsel robert muller who's investigating the trunk campaigns links to moscow has cost us on the report in a statement his spokesman said buzz feed's description of specific statements to the special counsel's office and characterization of documents and testimony obtained by this office regarding michael cohen's congressional testimony on not accurate more on that report now from our white house correspondent. it's an explosive report based on allegations by investigators if true the claims against u.s. president donald trump are the most direct proof that he broke the law and could potentially end his presidency the damning report by two u.s. journalists says trump allegedly directed his longtime attorney michael cohen to lie in testimony before congress hording to the report trump wanted cohen to tell congress that negotiations over a trump tower project to moscow during the twenty sixteen presidential campaign happened months earlier than they actually did look that's absolutely r

officer pulled out his gun and he bit down tree. welcome to the alex salmond sure until another special and a week of high drama westminster the prime minister's plan went down to a devastating defeat but still she's hanging on in there for dear life today our panel of m.p.'s and commentators marvel about her instinct for political survival in circumstances which should have been the end of any previous prime minister she's managed to stick around as she said it was the ability whether or not it's about you know about that a decent nurse will what will last i don't know if she saw me worry goes into the night we ask the people with positive ideas what that is for breaks it and what knife for the country today we also question whether bedsit really is the ill wind blows nobody any good or bad backs it actually be good news for scotland fairies but first your teeth your messages and your e-mails i will hear from calum fairweather he says really love this interview on alex salmond show tonight help us of course referring to the interview with chris may claim me i managed to find this very useful and informative keep up the good work david still on the

special counsel robert miller's office rejected it as in i'm sure it's. the same source that we use now sort of standing behind it as our. time for plan b. the u.k. is a prime minister prepares to return to parliament with a revised the e.u. divorce deal as a top cabinet minister warns the whole break state process is now at risk of being to rail. and a federal judge in new york blocks an attempt by the trumpet ministration to cut a question about citizenship to the twenty twenty census describing it as unlawful we got reaction to the ruling. so this isn't about expanding voting this is about the republic and these it is majority white freedom browning country this is all about should people here really really feel what the sense is to say yes i mean you're a legally no i'm not a citizen of course they should it's common sense. very good morning to you you're watching r.t. international with me the carin top story this hour the news time buzz feed is standing by an incendiary report it recently published which claims that donald trump instructed his former lawyer to lie to congress about a proposed business deal in russia buzz feed insists that i

plan. well, that happens to be the title of a book i wrote on my experiences in the watergate special prosecutor's officehard nixon and the godfather, i think stone really does bring us all together down memory lane. >> just to kind of wrap this up, a lot of people have been speculating that mueller may be getting close to the end, for example, with this most recent indictment, it's the first time special counsel robert mueller's team has been working with another jurisdiction in bringing this indictment. do you get a sense that he's near the end? >> well, he's certainly worked closely with the u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york. he's also worked with the u.s. attorney for the eastern district of virginia. but i do think that there's a logical point at which he has to say he's made whatever effort to get whatever information he can from those who may be cooperators, and i think he may be reaching the end of a long road. but i think he's done it in a very professional way. i'm not a fan of the early-morning arrests with dozens of law enforcement people for someone who is not a flight risk

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office address. we are all over it here on foxbusiness. coming up, you'll cavuto's leading special coverage as we await the president right now, democrats trying to get ahead of the story. planningse to the president's comments on border security and the government shutdown. we already have speaker and senate minority leader planning their own statement that will be aired on a major network and now we have word that independent and former democratic candidate for president bernie sanders will also be planning a response. sure everyone is joining in right now. joining me his wisconsin congressman it would be nice - by the way, it's a shutdown beard or something? >> is a little grayer than it used to be, trish. [laughter] trish: it will grow until the shutdown is over? i'm just getting. >> that could be the case. trish: i hope it doesn't. no one wants this to go on for a while but means that people have to come together and you got nancy pelosi and chuck schumer digging in their heels because they don't want to give a single dime to the small. they don't want it because then in their eyes president trump succeeds on another promise delivering on another promise. where does that le

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of the buzzfeed story and the mueller pushback, which seemed remarkable. >> on the day that buzzfeed was planning to report this story, this sent an e-mail to the spokesman for the special counsel's officeo comment, the mueller team doesn't leak, they don't give you background. they dash off a message saying we're going to say the -- he doesn't tell him that michael cohen told the special counsel eaves office that trump directed him to lie. the e-mail doesn't address the other aspect of the buzzfeed story, which is the special counsel's office has gathered evidence to support this. he respond with a no comment and sends a transcript of michael cohen's plea hearing, where it does not say trum and then buzzfeed feels they're off to the races. this blsh bob mueller couldn't ignore it. this is causing calls for investigation, the central pieces are wholly wrong. >> go ahead. go ahead, john. >> sorry, mika. it's john heilemann here. i wanted to be sure about a couple things in your reporting which is illuminating of all the questions related here. this is something people talked about a lot when the special counsel first issued this extraordinary rebuke to buzzfeed. do you have any doubt in

plans for a trump tower in moscow, special c mnsel robeller issued a rare statement on friday night refuting the story. quote, buzzfeed's description of sp tific statements to special counsel's office and charactentzation of docu and testimony obtained by this office regarding michael cohen's congressional testimony are not accurate. the statement appeared to put the brakes on the grong number democrats in congress who said that the allegations, if true, would be grounds for beginning impeachment proceedings immediately. >> if the president directed michael cohen to lie to congress, then that's a clear case of participating in perjury and obstruction of justice. >> it's a total phony story, and i appreciate the special counsel coming out with a statement last night. >> and joining me now is president trump's personal attorney, rudy giuliani. mr. giuliani, welcome back to "meet the press," sir.d >> grning, chuck. how are you? >> i'm okay. let's start with the big kerfuffle over the last 48 hours with buzzfeed. there were a lot of questions n about what happened betw michael cohen and donald trump, the special ounsel's office viously pushed back on the buzzfeed story. so let's clear

part of what we learned today in this manafort court filing is that the president's complain chair, paul manafort, he has told prosecutors from the special counsel's office that he did work on that planrussian sanctions. or at least he worked on something that was called a ukraine peace plan. the felix sater/michael cohen plan apparently was this plan that took shape after trump was elected. if that's the same plan manafort has toerld prosecutors he was involved with, the timing of this thing is unusual, right? manafort got fired from the campaign months before the election. did they bring back the fired campaign chairman with links to russia to do work on this effort to drop russian sanctions along with the guys from trump's business who were trying to get the trump tower moscow built? we don't know the details of it, but that revelation that manafort was involved and that he has told prosecutors about this, that is new today. we also learned from that same document today from the bad redactions in that document, that prosecutors believe manafort shared polling data from the campaign with a business associate of his, a business associate of his who incidentally has been also indicte

office of u.s. special counsel robert mamma which has been investigating whether the trump campaign colluded with russia in the election. stone was arrested by f.b.i. agents in a pre-dawn raid u.s. senators have rejected two spending plans to reopen the federal government including one backed by president. the votes by the republican majority chamber mean that the partial government shutdown is now entering its thirty fifth day an unwelcome record still it's not stop trump and his advisors from telling unpaid federal employees to simply buy food on credit that vice the employees say is out of touch with their struggles. fernando garcia is a tree down a list for the u.s. government in washington d.c. and he usually good money but for the last thirty four days the twenty nine year old hasn't seen a paycheck he's staying with his parents in virginia where he can get something to eat and some emotional support. because. you know growing up people always talk. government but you know you have to think about like what. if things continue his parents' import coffee that they roast and then sail on fifth avenue sun a few shifts allowing him to earn a modest i really reads for fernando every extra dollar kinds. this is can becom