our coverage begins with cnn's pamela brown in washington. >> reporter: good morning.arges show the mu mueller investigation is zeroing in on the collusion as well as crimes committed before the campaign. george papadoupolos, a former foreign policy advisor to the trump campaign pleaded guilty on october 5 to making false statements to the fbi about his contacts to russian. and according to records unsealed monday the fbi alleges he falsely described his interactions with a certain foreign contact who discuss issed dirt related e-mails concerning hillary clinton. one of the court documents describes an e-mail sent to a high ranking official. and the e-mail had the subject line request from russia to meet mr. trump. it went on to say russia was eager to meet with the candidate and had been reaching out. the documents allege that that manafort forwarded them to another. we need someone to communicate, someone low level in the campaign so as not to send any signal. in another e-mail a campaign supervis supervisor i would advice you to make the trip if it is feasible. that

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i'm pamela brown in for ana coulda on this saturday.to southern california, that's where the family of a soldier killed overseas this morning laid their loved one to rest. >> that is an emotional gripping scene is hi widow,

for more, let's turn to pamela brown in washington. >>reporter: good morning. source rs tell cnn the head of cambridge analytica, a data firm working for the trump campaign reached out to julian assange asking about hillary clinton's missing e-mails. he acknowledges that did happen and reject at the request. the head of that firm sent an e-mail to several people rel relaying that he had e-mails assange but soours sources say no one from the trump campaign was on the request. not hillary clinton's e-mails. we don't know if a third party obtained them but wikileaks was directly connected to russia. so the new revelation established the closest known link between the trump campaign and wikileaks. we should note the daily beast was first to report the e-mail outrage. >> thanks. after the daily beast publish the its story, the trump campaign responded in a statement down playing the role without denying the company's outreach to wikileaks. here's what it says in part. after president trump locked up the nomination, one of the most important decisions we made was to

i'm pamela brown in for ana coulda on this saturday. we first turn to southern california, that's where the family of a soldier killed overseas this morning laid their loved one to rest. >> that is an emotional gripping scene is hi widow, johnson's widow kissing his casket. he was one of the four american troops killed in the west after nation of niger. and it's happening at the same time that new information is emerges as to what happened to him and his unit that day. michelle kosinski is following that. michelle, the flow of information from the pentagon is not pleasing a lot of people. he says it's not sufficient, it's too slow. what have we learned about the niger attack? >> i think some officials have been cnn -- or to try to show the areas that are still unclear and why t what officials are say, on this night, u.s. and a a nigerian troops were -- and at that point it's believe the u.s. troops got back intoed unarmored vehicles. even that isn't 100% established. whether they had even be able to get back into their vehicles. again,

let's get right to cnn's justice correspondent pamela brown. pamela, cnn was the first to report this. walk us through tonight's breaking news. >> well, it's a significant development that a federal grand jury in washington, d.c., today approved the first charges in this investigation led by special counsel robert mueller. this is according to sources briefed on the matter speaking to myself, evan perez, shimon prokupecz. the charges, don, are still sealed under orders from a federal judge, and we're told that plans are being prepared for anyone charged to be taken into custody possibly as soon as monday. these sources said. now, because it's still, you know, under seal, it's unclear exactly what these charges are. the spokesman for the special counsel's office declined to comment. as you know, mueller was appointed back in may to lead this investigation into russian meddling in the 2016 u.s. elections, but he was given broad authority by rod rosenstein. on friday, we had the producer at the courthouse, today the producer was there and we saw ve

let's go to our justice correspondent pamela brown. pamela, what are you learning? >> reporter: well, wolf, sources tell cnn the head of cambridge analytica, a data firm working for the trump campaign, reached out to wikileaks' founder julian assange during the campaign, asking about hillary clinton's missing e-mails. julian assange acknowledged this today on twitter that that did happen. he says he rejected the request. so the head of the firm alexander nick said in an e-mail, several people, including top republican donor rebecca mercer relaying he had reached out to assange. sources telling my dleeg -- wikileaks was responsible for releasing hacked e-mails from the dnc and clinton campaign chairman john podesta's e-mails last year, but not hillary clinton's e-mails. we don't know if those missing e-mails were ever hacked, ever obtained. and wikileaks has been called out by the u.s. intelligence community as a propaganda arm of the russians. so this new revelation, wolf, establishes the closest known link between the trump campaign and wikileaks, and it happened w

i'm pamela brown. we turn to florida, a family of a u.s. soldier killed in combat today layed to rest. sergeant la david johnson was one of four american troops killed in niger ambushed by what military analysts called a new affiliate of the terror group isis. >> a powerful emotional image of the six-month pregnant wife kissing the casket there. the his funeral happening the same time new information is emerging about what happened to him and his unit that day. we're going to have more about that in just a minute. but first cnn's rosa fluoresore hollywood florida. they buried the 25-year-old son, loved one just a short time ago. rosa, clearly a very somber day there. >>reporter: you know hearts are broken, hearts are reeling right now for u.s. army sergeant la david johnson, as you might imagine, a ve emotional and somber moment here for this family. le he was surrounded by family members, by friends, we've learned he's also a mentor to many, so hearts are very, very heavy. we know of course he is survived by his wife and childhood sweethea

let's turn to pamela brown. >>reporter: good morning. sources tell cnn the head of cambridge analytica, a data firm working for the trump campaign reached out to julian assange during the campaign asking about hillary clinton's missing e-mails. julian assange acknowledged on twitter that did happen and says he roo rejected the request. the head of the firm sent an e-mail to several people including rebecca mercer saying he had e-mailed assange but sources say no one from the trump campaign was on the e-mail chain. wikileaks was responsible for releasing hacked e-mails from the dnc last year. not hillary clinton's e-mails. we don't know if a third party ever obtained them. but wikileaks was directly connected to russia by the intelligence community. these new revelation establish the the closest known link between the trump campaign and wikileaks. we should know the daily beast was first to report the e-mail outrage. >> okay. thanks very much. >>> after the daily beast published its story, the trump campaign responded in a statement down

cnn's pamela brown joining us with the exclusive. what have you learned? >> reporter: our team, myself, evan perez, simone, have learned a grand jury -- a federal grand jury in washington d.c. today approved the first charges in the investigation led by special counsel robert mueller. this is according to sources briefed on the matter. the charges are still sealed under order from a federal judge at this hour. and plans are being prepared for anyone charged to be taken into custody, perhaps as soon as this monday, the sources told us. it's unclear what the charges are, anderson. as i said, the indictments are still under seal. a spokesman for the special counsel's office declined to comment for our story. but as you know, mueller was appointed in may to lead this investigation into russian meddling in the 2016 u.s. election. and on friday, top lawyers who are helping to lead the mueller probe, including veteran prosecutor andrew weissmann, were seen entering the courtroom at the d.c. federal court where the grand jury meets, according to our producer laura

i'm pamela brown in new york in this weekend for ana cabrera.n is embarking on a brand-new week. one might wonder why president trump is adding fuel to his feud with a florida congresswoman who accuse the president of disrespecting one of the families of the soldiers

that trip to russian never happened according to the officials. >> tnks to pamela brown. > joining us to discuss all of this cnn political analyst julien zelizer and washington examine fer white house correspondent sara westwood. good morning. >> good morning. >> now, julian let me start with you. which will be more damaging, to you thing tock president trump, the confession of george papadoupolos and the fact that he is working with the authorities, or these indictments of paul manafort and rick gates? >> in the short term, the confession is very damaging, because here, after all the discussion of no collusion, no contact, here you have a point of contact. so i think even politically, that platters in terms of how people see it. i think manafort and the financial ties are significant. this is pretty vast and the question is what motivated manafort during this period, what were some of the financial, not just political connection es between russian official the and the trump campaign. i think this is all part of the bigger story that mueller is trying to understand. in the end, i thin

let's get right to crime and justice reporter along with pamela brown and evan perez, shimon, give us the latest. >> the latest is basically we do expect some action tomorrow, law enforcement action and perhaps a court appearance sometime tomorrow from whoever it may be that was indicted. we still don't know who was indicted and who at least in the early stages is going to be charge tomorrow. my colleagues, evan perez and pamela brown have spebt spent some time making phone calls and checking with lawyers representing some of the folks whose names have come up as being under investigation by the special counsel. so far we have not been able to verify that anyone has been contacted by the fbi by the special counsel's office to surrender tomorrow. it's still up in the air as far as we're concerned as to exactly who is going to appear in court and going to surrender and be arrested. >> now, mueller we know did not start from scratch in this investigation. he inherited investigations by the fbi counterintelligence divisions, the doj, fbi, irs investigation that was ongoing on paul manafor

>>> we are live at the cnn newsroom, i'm pamela brown in for ana cabrera. good have you with us on this sunday evening. president trump is publicly speaking out about the investigation into russia's election meddling in a brand new interview, president trump says, no one has asked him to sit down with special counsel robert mueller and this comes as mueller hopes to wrap up the interviews with the white house officials by the end of this month. cnn's boras san schez live right outside the white house so boras what else is the president saying about. >> reporter: he actually goes on to say there is consensus between the different investigations but there was no collusion in an interview with fox news that is yet to air. we only have the written portion of it. he said, quote, there is no collusion i can tell you that, everybody has seen that. you know, you have senate meetings, senate hearings, and nobody has asked us to do interviews anywhere. they have found no collusion, in fact, the other side even admits it, they come out of these hearings whether it's s

i'm pamela brown in new york in this weekend for ana cabrera. washington is embarking on a brand-new week. one might wonder why president trump is adding fuel to his feud with a florida congresswoman who accuse the president of disrespecting one of the families of the soldiers killed in the niger ambush. tweeting wacky congresswoman is the gift that keeps on giving for the republican party. a disaster for dems. you watch her in action and vote r. the congresswoman meanwhile firing right back. >> this is going to be this administration's benghazi. this is going to be trump's benghazi, trump's niger. >> so as the president and congresswoman continue to exchange words, barbs, one thing we still don't have answers to, the answers we want, is why these four americans were killed and why the body of one of them, sergeant la david johnson, wasn't recovered for 48 hours. of course he was found a mile away as we have reported. i want to get straight to cnn's boris sanchez live right outside the white house. boris, republicans have a lot on their plates t

i'm pamela brown. great to have you along with us and just one hour from now, we will witness a rare joint appearance by five members of the most exclusive club in the world. all of the nation's living form er presidents, barack obama, george w. bush, bill clinton, george h.w. bush and jimmy carter. they will reunite at texas a&m university for a hurricane relief convert to benefit victims in texas, florida, and the caribbean. this comes after days after obama and the younger bush blasted the current state of politics under president trump, breaking the code of silence that former presidents normally maintain. and particular, it was the comments by bush warning against bigotry that left trump's former chief strategist, steve bannon, to deliver a blistering attack on bush and call for a republican revolt. >> president trump to me embarrassed himself. speech writer wrote a high pha fluten speech. it's clear he didn't understand anything he was talking about. he has no earthly idea whether he's coming or

cnn justice correspondent pamela brown joins me now.ave interviewed more than 100 witnesses and thus far they cannot rule out collusion. >> that's right. jake. nearly ten months into their investigation, both leaders say they are still looking into possible collusion. and investigation that the senators say has expanded in scope. and while they made clear they still have work to do, they also said trump campaign officials have been cooperative. >> the committee continues to look into all evidence to see if there was any hint of collusion. >> do you have any evidence to see? >> i thought i was pretty clear. that the issue of collusion is still open. that we continue to investigate both intelligence and witnesses. and that we are not in a position where we will come to any type of temporary finding on that until we've completed the process. >> reporter: today while the republican and democratic leaders of the senate intelligence committee say they continue to investigate possible collusion between russia and the trump campaign, one part o

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i'm pamela brown. we turn to florida, a family of a u.s.combat today layed to rest. sergeant la david johnson was one of four american troops killed in niger ambushed by what military analysts called a new affiliate of the terror group

i'm pamela brown. president trump is about to make a rare trip to capitol hill this week. he is scheduled to have lunch with gop senators and things could get, well, tense. you see the president has publicly attacked a number of the lawmakers that he'll be meeting with and his former white house adviser steve bannon has declared war on their seats. in a brand-new interview he thinks all the fighting is actually helpful. >> do you worry that this bickering and feuding gets in the way of your agenda? >> no and sometimes it helps, to be honest with you, so we'll see what happened in the ends but miemz it helps. sometimes it gets people to do what they're supposed to be doing. >>> so here's the reality. republicans have control of the white house as well as congress as we know and they've yet to pass a single piece of major legislation. still the president tweeted this, i agree, cutting -- getting tax cuts approved is important. we will also get health care but perhaps no administration has done more in its first nine months than this administration. he then points to his reco

and let me start with you, page, pamela brown reported last night that the person or persons who werece charges as early as monday have not been notified or their attorneys have not been notified according to the cnn reporting. but considering they get target letters, do you expect they know this is coming? >> absolutely. i think we've heard earlier that paul manafort's lawyer specifically have been told they should expect an indictment. now the manafort case has been going on for a long time and i think this particular indictment sh the first indictment is likely to focus on paul manafort. that investigation predates the special counsel, bob mueller took it over and incorporated it into his investigation and his lawyers have been had discussions with the special counsel office, either about cooperating, about the substance of the charges but this should not be a surprise if it is paul manafort or michael flynn. >> eugene, to the point of potentially this being paul manafort and again there is no confirmation who is facing charges, if it is one person or more than one but the presiden

pamela brown, let's bring in our legal panel, we have laura coates, justice correspondent evan perez and legal han lift jeffrey toobin. thanks one and all for being here. we've just learned that manafort and gates will remain in house arrest. what's your take on the events? do you think they are in real legal trouble? >> oh, they are in desperate legal trouble. the sentences have gotten much higher in white collar crime in recent years, and the real question is whether either of them or both of them will want to plead guilty and cooperate. the other thing that's quite clear from an indictment of this complexity, it's 31 pages, is that it will not go to trial if it goes to trial at all probably for at least six months. that's just how the -- the pace at which the criminal justice system works in federal court, so that means mueller investigation will be going on at least through the middle of 2018 and perhaps much longer since these are just the first -- the first charges that he's brought, so this is not the beginning of the end of the mueller investigation. this may only be the end

joining us now are the correspondents who have been all over this from day one, jim sciutto, pamela brown, and evan perez. jim, is any of this evidence of collusion, which as we talked about the last hour is not itself a crime according to special counsel muller's team? >> the special counsel certainly hasn't made any conclusions as to whether there is collusion or coordination, whatever you call it. and it hasn't identified in these court documents any of these conversations or e-mails, specifically, in so many words, as evidence of collusion. but keep in mind this. twice in the court documents made public today, unsealed today, there are direct references to this investigation being one that is looking into, among other things, the possibility of collusion or coordination. one of those references, references the january 27th interview of george papadopoulos. it says, in fact, specifically in the documents at the time that part of the investigation was looking into collusion, cooperation between trump associates and the russian campaign. but more recently in a court opinion unsealed toda

let's go to pamela brown.ou learned. >> we learned a federal gararan jury in washington, d.c. on friday approved an investigation led by counsel robert mueller. the charges are still sealed, under orders from a federal judge at this hour. anderson, we were told plans were prepared friday for anyone charged to be taken into custody, possibly as soon as pond, the sources said. it's unclear what these charges are, the indictment is under seal. as spokesman from the county's office declined to comment on this story. as you know, anderson, mueller was appointed in may to lead the investigation in russia meddling in the 2016 u.s. elections and he was given broad authority. so this was a significant development in the investigation. top lawyers who are helping to lead the mueller firm, the pro we should say, including veteran prosecutor, andrew wiseman was seen entering the courtroom at the dc federal court where the grand jury meets to hear testimony in the russian investigation. and there was a flurry of activity a

cnn's pamela brown joins me now to go over this story. cnn first broke the story in january, the fact that the dossier, the contents of it had been briefed by intelligence chiefs to president obama and president-elect trump at the time, we reported, quote, that the memos originted as opposition research first commissioned by anti-trump republicans and later by democrats. now we know who the democrats were, the clinton campaign significant specifically. tell us why that's significant. >> well, it's significant because it's the first time we're learning about this direct connection between the hillary clinton campaign and the dossier with the revelation now that ameri mark el yeah paid fusion gps for oppo research on donald trump last spring which later became the dossier. you already see republicans, including president trump, pouncing on this saying that the dossier is incredible. this is just another reason why. because it was funded by the hillary clinton campaign. as you noted, an anti-trump republican initially paid fusion gps, but it

cnn's pamela brown joining us with the exclusive. what have you learned?perez, simone, have learned a grand jury -- a federal grand

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first let's go to pamela brown. with these new charges we got a lot of critical new information about the russia investigation. >> that's right. we learned that charges showed the mueller investigation is focussing on possible collusion as well as crimes committed even before the campaign as the special prosecutor probe enters this new phase it could be just the beginning of charges against manafort and gates and a third associate charged with lying to the fbi now cooperating with authorities. >> it's a first sign robert mueller is sezeroing in occlusi with russia and the trump campaign. george papadopoulos seen meeting here last year pleaded guilty on october 5th to making false statements to the fbi about his contacts with russia. according to records unsealed today it said papadopoulos falsely lied about conversations. one of the documents describes an e-mail sent to a high ranking official. the e-mail had the if subject line, request from russia to meet with mr. trump. it went on to say russia was eager to meet

our justice correspondent pamela brown helped break the story.he has more. >> reporter: it is unclear what the charges are because as i pointed out, the indictment is still under seal and it is not clear whether those under indictment have been notified. a spokesperson for the special counsel office declined to comment for this. but as we've been reporting, mueller was appointed in may to lead this investigation into russian meddling in the 2016 u.s. election, and under the regulations governing special counsel investigations, rod rosin stein would be made aware of any charges before they were taken before the grand jury. on friday we had a producer there who saw a flurry of activity, including the veteran prosecutor andrew wiseman entering the courtroom where the grand jury meets to hear testimony in the investigation. and so now we're learning that the first charges were filed, so this is certainly a big moment in this investigation that began more than a year ago and then robert mueller took over in may and now we're seeing the first charges.

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pamela brown has the latest. what's the situation?e head of came breakage an lit darks data firm working for the trump campaign reached out to julian assange during the campaign asking about hillary clinton's missing e-mails. assange noonld this on twitter confirming that he

shimon prokupecz broke the story with evan perez and pamela brown. what are you learning? >> we believe the meeting, we're told the meeting took place over the summer. bob mueller's team traveled overseas and met with the former british spy who as you say put together this somewhat controversial dossier which talked about russian possible russian collusion and basically what we've been told is that during the overseas trip, mueller's team met with him. we don't know what was discussed in the meeting, what was learned in that -- in those meetings, but previously steele, the man who put this together, has met with the fbi and has provided them some information on the sources he used to put the do's s dossier together to compile the memos. now it's all about whether or not steele is going to meet with congressional investigators. they had earlier in the week expressed interest in meeting with him. he has not ruled that out. >> as far as the intel community, how do they view this dossier and its validity? >> that's right. so last year, you know, during the while they were inve

pamela brown has the latest. she joins us now. what's the situation? what are you learning?: we've learned the head of cambridge analytica, a data firm working for the trump campaign, reached out to julian assange

pamela brown has the latest. what's the situation? >> we've learned the head of came breakage an lit darks data firm working for the trump campaign reached out to julian assange during the campaign asking about hillary clinton's missing e-mails. assange noonld this on twitter confirming that he rejected the request. the head of this firm, alexander knicks sent an e-mail to several people relaying he reached out to assange, but no one from the tump campaign was on the e-mail chain. wikileaks which is responsible for releasing hacked e-mails from the dnc and john podesta's e-mails last year, but not hillary clinton's e-mails, and we don't know if a third party ever obtained them. this establishes the closest known link between the trump campaign and wikileaks. we should also note "the daily beast" was first to report the leak. >> that was right around the republican convention? >> that's right. it was shortly after donald trump became the official republican nominee. and so the e-mail reachout happened around that time and then-candidat

. >> pamela brown, the white house argues, and you heard it today, that the charges against paul manafortgates have absolutely nothing to do with president trump or the 2016 presidential campaign. you' your reporting suggests otherwise. >> it is true that the charges don't relate to the campaign but according to the court documents time frame in which the crimes are being committed, where both were alledgedly taking millions of dollars from ukraine and putting the money into offshore accounts, wiring the money and not reporting it and giving false and misleading statements, that ran all the way up through 2017, so during the time that paul manafort was the campaign chairman, during the time rick gates was his deputy on the campaign, they were allegedly engaging in this type of behavior which is notable because then candidate trump sort of ran on this idea that he surrounds himself with the best people and now we have an example of two of the people on his campaign, while it may not have been the whole time, now being indicted, wolf. >> yeah, very serious indeed. what do we know, everyone,

>> we were told, evan perez and pamela brown and i were told that the charges were filed on friday. >> but that's not a public -- >> that just means they were returned. >> that the chief judge of the district of column pea gentleman got it. but the whole point of a sealed indictment is the person who is charged doesn't know he's been charged so he can't flee. that's an aggressive step. a sealed indictment suggests that the person who has been indicted can't be trusted to show up. >> it is just as likely in this case that it is is sealed from us but the person who may be the target of it may well know about it and are negotiating the terms around it. >> perhaps. >> usually they are for -- >> i got you. this is different. jeffrey was at the u. s. attorneys' office many years. he knows how to do these much better than i. simone, final word. >> they were expecting some surrenders, working stuff out. that's the other part of why we think this was happening today. it is worth cautioning everyone, we just don't know. everything is is being so tightly kept. it is is all a secret is by now. no

so much more straight ahead in the newsroom with pamela brown. >> top of the hour in new york and this it is the start of a new week in washington and you would think perhaps the white house would be eager to move on. today president trump is only fuelling his feud with a florida congress woman who accused the president of disrespecting the family and one of the soldiers killed. the president tweet iing this morning whacky congress woman is the gift that keeps giving. the congress woman firing back. >> this

clearly wherever he went, our own producer pamela brown saw him in aspen this summer, the media was in became sort of a regular source for the media. there is a picture of him when he was in aspen. he is essentially a smear merchant. he has done it to people like thor halverson from venezuela. he did it with sergey magnitsky after he was killed in a russian prison, he tried to smear this guy even when he was dead. so the press knew where this guy was coming from. >> well, glen simpson obviously has a lot of contacts in the media, he is a former "wall street journal" reporter. i will say opposition research isn't pretty. a lost campaigns do it. that is why he got paid a lot of money to have that firm. fusion gps has not answer ad lot of questions about this. david: the media, howie, the media never answered the key question who paid for this dossier? by the way looking at donald trump. live pictures. he just arrived in dallas. he will survey some of damage in hurricanes this summer. he will make a speech we'll cover later. kimberly strassel of "the wall street journal," howie, saw this

. >> okay, rick gates, and pamela brown. what are the obligations against these two? >> trump indictment between the two men wasn't sealed today. the counts include a conspiracy against united states, conspiracy to launder money and seven counts of failure to file reports, a foreign bank and financial account. these two mens is alleged to have been taking tens of millions of dollars from the ukraine while acting as agents for the country and hiding that money in offshore accounts to wash it. and they lied about it. they used this money from the accounts to pay for money, mortgaging, clothes, homes, decorating, their children ea east's tuition. the fbi says they were engaged in these activities from 2008 to 2017. so while they were involved in the captain, anderson. >> has manafort says anything? >> didn't say anything but his attorney spoke outside the building to reporters and said these charges are baseless. take a listen. >> president donald trump was correct, there is no evidence. mr. manafort on the trump campaign colluded with the russian government. >> again, i

our justice correspondent pamela brown on the guilty plea. start from the beginning when did george papadopoulos reach out to the russians? >> well, according to these documents, these court documents, brooke, there are e-mails going back to march 2016 when he was foreign policy adviser where he discussed having a, quote, very productive lunch where he was introduced to putin's niece and russian ambassador in london. this apparently was a lunch with a professor who he believed had ties to senior russian government officials and then you fast forward to may, brooke, and there is an e-mail that he sends, that papadopoulos sends that russia has been eager to meet mr. trump for, quote, some time. he sends that e-mail to a campaign official, a senior campaign official. that campaign official affords it to another official saying d.t. is not doing these trips. should be someone low level so as not to send any signal. so clearly, the campaign at this point in may was aware of this effort to connect the trump campaign with the russians and basically

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he broke the story along with pamela brown. so what's the teal on this? what have you learned. >> weave learned that investigators working with special counsel robert mueller met this summer with christopher steele. steele as you remember is a former m iowa 6 officer who put together the dossier. steele was hired by a washington firm, paid first by panty trump republicans and then democrats. the special counsel, of course, is now trying to determine whether any of the series of contacts between trump campaign associates and suspected operatives broke u.s. law. we don't know what information he may have pride to the team, but we know he has previously provided the fbi with information to try to verify some of the sources that he used to put together this dossier. some of more salacious alleges haven't been verified. but it's wide assertion by the u.s. intelligence community. >> there's certainly some questions about how -- what are you hearing about how it was viewed in the stelgs community. >> that's right. late last year we're told that top officials at

we've made our round of calls this morning, both my colleague, evan perez and pamela brown have been on the phone with attorneys who are representing some of the folks that are being investigated by the special counsel, and so far we are not any closer to knowing, to verifying who is going to be charged, who may surrender, who's going to be arrested. there's all this talk of surrenders but usually when someone surrenders attorneys are notified ahead of time. basically prosecutors and investigators say bring your clients to us let's say monday morning, he's going to or she's going to be placed under arrest. that, as far as we know, based on the people that we have so far talked to, has not occurred. it could be that it is someone that is completely off the radar and that is why we don't know. so yeah, brian, it's still all quite a mystery to most of us. >> your story was citing people briefed on the matter but i wonder how important it was that cnn happened to have a reporter at the courthouse on friday. there was a lot of activity at the courthouse on friday. is that the kind of thin

also cnn's justice correspondent pamela brown joins us. good evening to both of you. gloria, cnn is learning the president is unhappy with the jfk document dump. why is that? >> well, i think he wanted more documents to be released and that didn't occur. and so we're told that he was given a choice. either release all of the documents without any redactions, even though there had been these problems that were raised by intelligence and law enforcement officials or release a smaller amount with the redactions. and he decided to do that. but also, he directed the agencies to come back to him in 180 days and with some fuller documents, if they could. imagine his consternation that in the 11th hour after 25 years there were these kinds of problems. >> gloria, can we turn to russia now and the president. you have some breaking news on president trump personally intervening in the justice department to give the okay for a former fbi informant to testify before congress. why did the president get involved with doj's decisions? >> well, i think that the president decided that

over to pamela brown. she has more reporting here. looking through, looking more into papadopolous and communications and facebook, what are you picking up? >> right. what's so interesting with this is, unlike the gates and the manafort indictment when you look at the criminal complaint for george papadopolous, foreign policy adviser who now president trump, then candidate trump, recognized to the "washington post" editorial board in march of 2016, this did affect the campaign and this is something that the white house frankly is going to have to address. you know, they can distance themselves from the indictments relating to manafort and gates, but clearly in this complaint, it alleges the fbi says that papadopolous was in touch with foreign nationals who he understood to have close relationships with senior russian officials. this was during his time on the campaign. what struck me is that the complaint says and not only did he lie to the fbi about the nature of the extent of his relationships with these foreign nationals but says h

we're going to try to did he tangle them starting with a beat by beat -- our justice correspondent pamela brown reports. >> reporter: 11 days after trump's gop nomination on july 18th, 2016. >> for the presidency of the united states. >> reporter: and two days after this now infamous moment. >> russia, if you're listening, i hope you're able to find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing. >> reporter: donald trump's campaign made his first payment to controversial data firm cambridge analytica on july 29th. we're now learning that same month, according "the wall street journal" another infamous moment occurred. cambridge analytica's ceo reached out to wikileaks founder julian assange seeking access to hillary clinton related e-mails. also that same month, wikileaks began releasing hacked e-mails from the dnc. >> we have more material related to the hillary clinton campaign. >> came bij analytica was founded by wealthy republican donors mercer in 2014. they began backing trump after the gop primaries in june of 2016. that same month jared kushner took overall data operations for the trump campaign.

. >> evan perez, pamela brown reporting our breaking news tonight, a federal grand jury approving the first charges in the investigation led by special counsel robert mueller. they're going to continue on with our panel. so stay with us. i want to bring in now michael i say acough. also cnn national security analyst juliette kie yes, ma'am. juliette, when last i saw you you were saying that there were going to be some breaks in this investigation. you were expecting them soon. you said before thanksgiving. it is. but i think you were thinking it was going to be closer. is this what you were expecting to start this? >> yes. only because the pace had changed so dramaticly in just the last month. a number of people being called in as witnesses a number of people admitting they were witnesses. the number of people that the senate and house were no longer interrogating in public session. plus let's just remember the counter attack by the trump campaign and his sur -- excuse me, the trump white house and his surrogates to undermine mueller. i do not know who is in this indictment and i don'