it was because of papadopoulos. >> yeah. mean, you've done such brilliant reporting on all of this, byron. thanks for all your hard work. >> thank you, martha. >> all right. so coming up, the state department tells david bossy, don't worry, the freedom of information request that you put in, it will be ready in 45 to 65 years. seriously. plus, this evening this, sunday parkland seniors will graduate from stoneman douglas high school. meadow should be with them. her father joins us next. >> being here feels like she's here with me. so when i'm leaving-leaving, i'm going to feel there's no way i can go back to where we were together that last time. ron! something's going on at schwab. oh really? thank you clients? well jd power did just rank them highest in investor satisfaction with full service brokerage firms...again. and online equity trades are only $4.95... i mean you can't have low cost and be full service. it's impossible. it's like having your cake and eating it too. ask your broker if they offer award-winning full se

and the whole papadopoulos issue is just blown out of the water? >> yeah, the f.b.i. with the help of new york times perpetiated a myth that was papadopoulos. >> and why. >> why did they lie about papadopoulos having e-mails when all he said he had heard they had dirt on him. why the suspicious lies. >> and great news on the economy and deep state crumbling and all of the people on the left, samantha bee about ivanka trump and we have breaks out, i will braining in. i upon trace gallinger. back to sean hannity. >> sean: samantha bee launched a vile disgusting attack against ivanka trump. watch this. >> ivanka trump who workings at the white house posted the second most oblivous tweet. that is a beauty photo of you and your child. let me say one mother to another, do something about your dad's immigration practice you feckless [bleep]. he listens to you. put something on something tight and low caught and tell your [bleep] and tell him it was an obama thing. see how it goes. >> sean: samantha bee aologyized but she is facing it is back lash and they feel there is a dou

and the whole papadopoulos issue is just blown out of the water? >> yeah, the f.b.i.ith the help of new york times perpetiated a myth that was papadopoulos. >> and why. >> why did they lie about papadopoulos having e-mails when all he said he had heard they had dirt on him. why the suspicious lies. >> and great news on the economy and deep state crumbling and all of the people on the left, samantha bee about ivanka trump and we have geraldo rivera. say with us. like those from buddy. because stuffed animals are clearly no substitute for real ones. feel the clarity. and live claritin clear. i'm all-business when i, travel... even when i travel... for leisure. so i go national, where i can choose any available upgrade in the aisle - without starting any conversations- -or paying any upcharges. what can i say? control suits me. go national. go like a pro. why people everywhere are upgrading their water filter to zerowater. start with water that has a lot of dissolved solids. pour it through brita's two-stage filter. dissolved solids remain? what if we filter it over and

a papadopoulos after the alleged informant publicly contradicted the f.b.i.'s own claims that the one- time low- level trump advisor discussed the hacked democratic email and now the infamous 2016 trump tower meeting with donald trump junior and others. we have a transcript that the russian american lobbyist admitted to knowing personally hillary clinton and people in her campaign. what was someone who knew hillary clinton doing in that meeting? is the media going to report on that? we'll have more on this later in the show. and also tonight, we'll turn to the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein, you know the guy who said that comey should be fired and signed the last fisa warrant and used a foreign agent to put together and funneling money to a law firm and russian lies and russian government lines to manipulate you the american people. last night we showed you rosenstein's clear conflict of interest. specifically his key role in firing comey and he's witness a in the whole investigation and appointed mueller and timely people in dc are getting what we tol

was also -- the russians previewed for papadopoulos their plan to disseminate the e-mails. that's a further step. >> and that papadopoulos copies manafort on e-mails riltded to these exchanges. >> one of which is titled something like russia wants to meet putin. sorry, russia wants to meet trump. after that, after the being told of the e-mails and manafort sends this e-mail to rick gates that says we shouldn't let dt do this, somebody low level to do it so as to send no signal. >> okay, that's a pretty good case. that is what is hanging over paul manafort. public record langing over paul manafort and his decision making as he spends the night in d.c. jail. thanks for joining us. >> more new reporting on the scope of the trump administration's family separation policy. we have documents no one else obtained. but gadi schwartz with a tour of a new policy and beta o'rourke on the tents going up for children near el paso. and prosecutors have recovered the shredded documents and data michael cohen didn't want anyone to see. michael cohen's very bad day next. >> there is a new g

it says so in charged papadopoulos and when papadopoulos pled guilty, but the people that papadopoulosor dirt. they said information damaging to clinton. >> did you something would have gotten an a on research paper. ph.d. read it just scratching the surface now. bottom line is, when downer got this information, he didn't tell the fbi he billed the state department. that is inexcusable and bizarre. thanks so much, andy, appreciate it? >> thanks, brian. brian: still he a head. roseanne was fired over her controversial tweets is joy reid getting free press for hateful blogs in the past. we will debate that next and gradually go to break. so i'm not happy unless my hands are dirty. between running a business and four kids, we're busy. auto insurance, homeowner's insurance, life insurance policies. knowing that usaa will alws have my back... that's just one less thing you have to worry about. i couldn't imagine going anywhere else. they're like a friend of the family. we are the cochran family, and we'l usaa members for life. save by bundling usaa home and auto insurance. get a quote today

based on george papadopoulos. when they heard there were efforts perhaps by the russians to contact the trump administration, they went to one of their longtime sources, a republican political appointee .'s been identified ask his help to contact these individuals and see whether they'd heard from the russians. he did that. i know it has been called spy gate. i don't view it as contrived. i view it as what any of us would want the fbi to do if we had evidence that there was a foreign government trying to interfere with the political party. caller: i worked under the state department and i know the intelligence business well. i think robert mueller is doing a great job. your guest is a breath of fresh air. . like what you are saying allow him to go forward. who is standing up for the united states of america i swore on the bible that i would protect the united states of america. nelson, your question for our guest specifically? suggest --do you can you inform our people, the republicans and the democrats and all th

. >> laura: one issue that popped upshaw with papadopoulos. his wife said they were trying to entrap him and use him to push this investigation forward. what is your reaction to that? >> well, legally it's not entrapment. if there is any indication that the individual is willing to do whatever the conduct it. i think she is using another definition of entrapment. what we do about, george papadopoulos made some drunken comment to the australian ambassador to the u.n. and that spurred further conversations. >> laura: initially it was reported that he knew there were a lot of clinton emails. then they backed off and said they had dirt on hillary. that story shifted. that's a big different, someone has dirt on hillary and someone knew emails were hacked and would be released. >> having spent 10 years in the department of justice and having cases reported on by the news media, about 50% was right. it's not necessarily the journalist's fault. sometimes the sources are too far removed. they don't have as much as the information as you would like. let

the informant we hear about approached carter page, sam clovis, george papadopoulos, figures and theampaign. very friendly approaches, oh, we need to have coffee. i've read some of your stuff, you do a great job, let's talk. in the case of papadopoulos, reportedly, was saying, you know the russians in these emails, getting information out there. >> tucker: let me ask really quick, you are journalist. i keep hearing people say, we know that's not t true. it has other information arisen that i somehow missed that proves what you just said false? >> no. this actually happened. this is a semantic right people are happening. >> tucker: hockey is what we are lying? they are lying, mischaracterizing this on purpose to hide some things for political purposes. >> the president said they must try to knock it off. >> tucker: i thought i was going crazy. byron york, thank you. an fbi informant reporting to the obama justice department did secretly gather information on trump campaigner officials, but never told the trump campaign about that. all the usual geniuses demand that you not call this s

in this case papadopoulos and carter page.bi informant was simply trying to get, once carter page had flown to russia had bragged in emails. >> i'm aware of all of this. he was spying on the campaign. >> this was an effort to -- for the fbi to investigate whether or not based on information they had already gotten whether there is validity. >> tucker: some people have been compromised. i get it. i understand. there are two levels. let's just hit the first one. that's spying on the campaign. you are saying it was justified. i'm open-minded. >> i'm saying it's very limited to particular individuals. >> tucker: it was spying. when i see individuals on television passing off this propaganda. it was spying. b, to the question of whether or not it was justified. if they really were concerned about this, that these two people attached to the campaign were in the employee some how far the russian government. why didn't they tell the trump campaign. >> they did. >> tucker: they did? they didn't. >> went to the trump campaign in july of

and you're watching this while the campaign's also reaching out to you through various, george papadopoulos and other means we haven't discussed yet, i don't know, if i'm putin and i'm running this operation, i'm getting a signal trump is not unhappy with us. >> and i want to ask you about that now, because the country has really been, quite honestly, torn up -- >> right. >> -- for a while now over this, over the question of collusion. >> yeah. >> whether donald trump or his campaign associates colluded or con conspired with the russians who interfered with our 2016 election. >> right. >> so if somebody was going to make the case for collusion, what would it be based on what you found? >> well, first of all, you know, to some degree the debate has been sort of clouded by the use of the word because it's kind of elastic. one can define it the way you want to. i agree, we found no smoking -- with david -- found no smoking gun evidence of, you know, there was a explicit agreement to work together. i think the aiding and abetting pet foris a -- metaphor is a better one to use. there clearly was

that's why you are gradually getting the text. >> we heard from papadopoulos and others that the russi wereing to dirt on hillary, but not person in the trump campaign went to the u.s. authorities, not one. that's a fact. >> laura: do you think this papadopoulos -- this character accompanies trolling bars in london and going to trump tower and saying, i'm going to set up this. >> i think we have like, the deck of cards in iraq. all faces with every title. guys, fantastic as always. up next and the angle i will reveal the real reason that the democrats big midterm election dreams might be turning into kind of a nightmare. don't go away. and i can do it with what's already within me. because my body can still make its own insulin. and once-weekly trulicity activates my body to release it. trulicity is not insulin. it comes in a once-weekly, truly ea-to-use pen. it works 24/7. trulicity is an injection to improve blood sugar in adults with type 2 diabetes when used with diet and exercise. don't use it as the first medicine to treat diabet or if you have type 1 diabetes or diabetic ketoaci

he's been working with george papadopoulos, rick gates. he clearly wants manafort. >> i'll let you finish, but all papadopoulos has is the latte instructions. that's all he knows as a coffee boy. >> coffee boy george papadopoulos, exactly. what would mueller loop him into the work he's doing? yet he has. it's very likely that manafort knows something that bob mueller wants to get out of him. i find it unthinkable that manafort wouldn't have access to some information that mueller would find interesting. >> how about that point? >> i think it's entirely reasonable to think that manafort might be the top here. you know, as you're working your way up, you always keep going, but given how what we know about donald trump and how he operates and given the connections and contacts that we know manafort has and had during the campaign, given the flip in the platform as it relates to russia and ukraine at the republican national convention, which manafort was really in charge of, it very well could be that, yes, there was some degree of collusion,

anything about what papadopoulos said in terms of emails. he just said the guy had said he had some damaging information. that the russians might have damaging information on hillary clinton. that's important because the f.b.i. has said that they were alarmed that papadopoulos might have known about these emails before anyone else did. it doesn't sound like he talked about that at all. >> julie: this morning the president tweeted the a.p. report evidence the russian hoax investigation has cost our government over $17 million and going up fast. no collusion except by the democrats. your reaction? >> there has been no proof so far. we've been doing it for 18 months. numerous congressional committees. inspector generals are looking into it. probes by mr. mueller. no one yet has proud public evidence of collusion between the campaign and russia. at a certain point everyone in america is owed an end to this and some answers. >> julie: thank you very much. have a great weekend. >> after an intense three-day manhunt the accused killer of a sheriff'

we know what's happening with george papadopoulos. we can pretty much see what's happening with michael cohen. and then there's president trump's campaign chair paul manafort. we just got in the transcript all marked up and highlighted because i'm a goober. we just got in the transcript just tonight of the court hearing in the manafort case. paul manafort is in jail in virginia waiting for his trial to formally start next month. paul manafort actually had the opportunity to leave jail and travel to court today to be at today's hearing in person. but he asked permission from the judge to not attend complaining about the long two-hour trek each way between the jail and the courthouse. which is interesting. but for whatever reason paul manafort didn't want to make the trip. he stayed in jail while his lawyers fought on his behalf. there's two things you should know about what happened today at this hearing. one is that it was sort of a landmark moment. for the first time today at this paul manafort hearing we got a live witness testifyin

that's a fact. >> laura: do you think this papadopoulos -- this character accompanies trolling bars in london and going to trump tower and saying, i'm going to set up this. alexandriaed i never heardut mails i heard dirt. >> australian ambassador. the deck of car in leak. upon next the reason the ats big term election dream might be turning to kind of a night marry, don't go away. >> laura: the headless useman. that's the focus of tonight's angle. if you are wondering whether the democrats are on the verge of blowing what is traditionally a huge opportunity to pick up seats in the midterm election cycle, you might be onto something. normally the party in power loses seats in the cycle following an election. so democrats thought picking up dozens of going to be pretty easy. all they needed to do was to run against trump. nationalize the election, on the house majority would be there. but now, they must confront or try to distract from trump's stellar economic record. now they are in a difficult spot because they have to convince voterso te again the own pocket books this fall. that's a

papadopoulos proceedings and flynn and all the rest. the president's campaign manager is going on trial now. proceedings in this case are moving fast and at least thus far. they are proceeding in front of a testy judge who gets hungry around noon and started to get testimonies from the first live witness from the prosecution. will the president be picking a new supreme court justice in this context? hold that thought. this is impr people with asthma. yes. it's a targeted medicine proven to help prevent severe asthma attacks, and lower oral steroid use. about 50% of people with severe asthma have too many cells called eosinophils in their lungs. fasenra™ is designed to work with the body to target and remove eosinophils. fasenra™ is an add-on injection for people 12 and up with severe eosinophilic asthma. don't use fasenra™ for sudden breathing problems or other problems caused by eosinophils. fasenra™ may cause headache, sore throat, and allergic reactions. get help right away if you have swelling of your face, mouth, and tongue, or tro

the wife of george papadopoulos went on fox news last night to directly address the commander in chief. >> i honestly know how much dedicated and committed he was in the trump campaign. i know he did an excellent job. i know he's -- because of this incident, his freedom is challenged. so i trust and hope and ask to president trump to pardon him. i hope he will. >> george papadopoulos is currently cooperating with federal investigators in the russia probe. canceled. the president saying in a late night tweet, only a small number of players decided to come, and we canceled the event. staying in the locker room for the playing of our national anthem is as disrespectful to our country as kneeling. while several eagles players have staged protests during the anthem, the team didn't kneel nor stay in the locker room last season according to cnn. the decision sparked harsh criticism out of philadelphia. mayor jim kenny called trump a fragile ego maniac obsessed with crowd size. and this splashed on today's front cover of the philly daily ne the eagles didn't acknowledge the cancellation in a

it was fed to papadopoulos by a maltese professor. he's disappeared.interviewed by the fbi in february. if is a russian collusion case, has the rosetta stone, the keys to the kingdom, knows the dirt, and fed it to a low-level guy like papadopoulos, then how come the fbi let him disappear after interviewing him in february? >> so, i mean, that's the key to the whole story. i mean, that's the genesis story of this investigation, of the mueller investigation, of all this russia stuff, which has gummed up the gears of government, all goes back to the maltese professor, i hate to say that, but it's true, and we don't know where he is, but why don't we know where he is? do you think it's possible this was a su setup from day one? >> i don't think it's possible anymore. if i was a betting man, i would bet my right thumb this was an entrapment operation. who set it up and why it's still an open question, it would be irresponsible for me to say, but there's a lot of evidence leading to suspicious characters. you just asked, you posed to your audience, the criti

manafort. >> i'll let you finish, but all papadopoulos has is the latte instructions. that's all he knows as a coffee boy. >> exactly. why would mueller loop him in? yes, he has. manafort knows something bob mueller wants to get out of him. i find it unbelievable that manafort wouldn't have access to some information bob mueller wants. >> i think it's completely entirely reasonable to think that manafort might be the top here. as you're working your way up, you always keep going, but given what we know about donald trump and how he operates and given the connections and contacts that we know manafort has and had during the campaign, given the flip in the platform as it relates to russia and ukraine at the convention that manafort was in charge of, it could be there was collusion, but it's isolated with manafort or stopped with manafort. that's consistent with what we know so far. at least not inconsistent. and it's conceivable that he is the end game here. >> not inconsistent. dan with the big double negative. jennifer, close us out. >> it actually is inconsistent, bec

along with halper and the papadopoulos situation, i think it was a sting.esse: at the same time we have susan rice's cyber chief, and he testifies that susan rice, obama national security advisor told him to stand down in 2016 on russia interference in our election. listen to this. >> but as far as your cyber response, you were told to stand down, is that correct? >> those actions were put on the back burner, yes. jesse: that is huge news and the media did not report that. all they wanted to talk about was melania's jacket. >> there is russian collusion in the 2016 election. the $145 million russia pays to the clinton foundation. john and tony podesta are making millions from the oligarchs in russia in banking and gas. there is your collusion. instead we are running fbi stings on trump operatives. jesse: donald trump never took half a million to speak in russia, and his foundation did not take half a million in russia-connected money. there is a complete double standard how the media treats this president and i don't think that's ever going to change. i thi

he knew that don jr and the rest of the crew met with the russians in trump tower he knew the papadopoulos had met with you know had bragged to the australian a baster about the dope the dirt on on hillary he knew about felix ater trying to get a trump tower moscow bill and he knew that there was fake there with lies put out about about the trump tower meeting and yet he did nothing to disclose to the public that this counterintelligence investigation was going on before donald trump got elected and at the same time he encouraged komi to put out that letter that was so damaging ten days before the. campaign was over that was struck still and so to me this notion that one of the poisonous tree is twisted it is prevert and as i said i think kind of duran to it speaks to how people want to kind of see ghosts you know donald trump refers to this as a witch on the phrase witch hunt became because there were no which is. gotten five plea agreements he's gotten another dozen or more people indicted these are not witches these are real humans who have pled guilty to crimes so sorry if somehow or o

we'd seen a guilty plea from this papadopoulos guy who had also worked on the campaign. and from mike flynn, who had worked on the campaign and been knowable if not googleable people involved directly in the trump campaign. but then after mueller got this letter from trump's lawyers in january, what's the nex thing mueller did? he indicted mikhail bistrov, mikhail ber chic, alexandra viloffa, sergei polizov, maria bofda, robert bofda, jake lynn vodi. vadim pod koppaev. gleb vassal chechko. irina kavezina. vladimir venkoff. evgeny prigozhin. the internet research agency. concord management. concord catering. who the heck are those people? 13 individual and three corporate defendants all in russia. all indicted by robert mueller. and it was a surprise at the time, in february. in some ways it still feels surprising. two big reactions, right? were one is wow, this is a sweeping indictment. it's what they call a speaking indictment. look at how this lays out what russia did in terms of interfering with our election. indictment was this great piece of storytelling in terms of

just 9 days before he had opened up on papadopoulos and the russia investigation. and only 9 days the fbi was able to fully resolve the facts of the case just six days after peter stzrok said we have an insurance policy against the trump presidency, a day after he opened that he said this one really matters. these were people who judged hillary clinton innocent before interviewing her and judged donald trump guilty before starting the investigation. it is ludicrous, the american people see it is ludicrous and i'm grateful that through the oversight work of congress we have been able to get the documents that show how biased people were that began this investigation. if there ever were an impeachment proceeding or criminal proceeding we would have to ask peter stzrok as a star witness and that would never hold water. i think we should vote against the amendment because the russia investigation is politics, not law. in this policies we investigate crimes, we don't investigate people, there is no evidence of a crime here, these are just people who hated donald trump,

george papadopoulos's wife has been on a media tour.s been talking to as many as she can, talking to rt roers trying to make the case for a pardon for her husband. >> let's listen to that. >> we're here in the middle of pardon season. i appreciate you coming on, people who watch the show know we have people on who have been involved in the mueller probe because you ing a very particular experience. having gone to the interviews, is the potential pardon something you've discussed with george or anyone affiliated with the trump team? >> no, absolutely n. actually his lawyers who are not happy at all me mentioning on tv the pardon, but i'm my o persons expectation. i really hope. mostly in light of the circumstances that came out recently and became public recently. i think they were completely unjustified and make a pardon appropriate in this case and deserved. >> one really amazing revelation that she made in that interview is that this effor that she is currently undergoing to try to get her husband pardoned is in defiance of her husban

. ♪ >>> george papadopoulos is known as the match of the russia probe. in the campaign helped spark the fbi probe into whether trump aides were colluding with russia. he was the first person to plead guilty and his wife, simona mangiante is here live tonight to discuss the road ahead and what convicts like her husband do think of trump's rising talk of pardons. we first spoke after her interview with mueller's investigators where she said they were professional and she was happy her husband was cooperating after pleading guilty to lying to the feds. lately, she's struck a bit of different tone online, retweeting trump's reference to lives destroyed by mueller. i'm joined now by simona mangiante, wife of george thanksor being here. >> hi, ari, thanks for inviting me. >> absolutely. en you re-tweeted donald trump and seemed to be discussing the idea that there are problems with mueller's approach, have you changed your mind? do you think he has ruined lives? >> no. actually, i would make to make a little specification before i start talking. i declined to

. >> the wife of george papadopoulos asking the pres.et out of jail free card. >> i hope he will. it is very fascinating to see my house in the center of this investigation. heather: papadopoulos pled guilty to lying to the fbi. and alleged russian contacts to undeover dir hillary clinton in the 2016 election and no evidence of any collusion with the kremlin. illegal border crossers facing justice in the united states, a new study showing prosecution surging, andromisingo punish anyone who crossed the southern border illegally. federal prosecutors accepted more than 8000 unlawful entry cases from customers and border protection in april, 30% more than the month before. 60% more than in january. all these thrill seekers was a big weight. the ride at 6 flags, suddenly stalling more than 100 feet in the air. imagine that. a passenger stuck for 15 minutes suddenly stopped after safety sensors detected an error. it will be thoroughly inspected before reopening. this is why i do the job. cuddling this baby girl just moments after she was invol

george papadopoulos's wife is selling fox the opposite. she says it is time her husband get some help from the president. he is raising the stakes in this investigation by declaring the special counsel probe unconstitutional and has the power to pardon himself if he wants suggesting there may be major clashes at budgets with robert mueller but congress and the supreme court, the pres. on himself because he expect to doesn't believe he did anything wrong. trumrs report part of this is what rudy giuliani was doing when he discussed this on the talkshow circuit with the pres.'s blessing, signaling there's a chance of a 1-on-1 interview but will only of the questions are severely limited and the warning shot bit of special counsel wants to issue a subpoena to compel the testimony of the president get ready for battle in court. the pres. offered a combative tone, telephone call with the minnesota republican party celebrating what he called the accomplishments of his first 500 days in office and so the russia probe is a witchhunt and mueller at

days after australian diplomat alexander downer met in london at a bar with george papadopoulos who revealed that russia had dirt on hillary clinton. and then trump campaign advisor carter page was contacted by an associate of an apparent informant in june. but not until july 31st did the f.b.i. launch its counter intel investigation. john solomon discovered that the f.b.i. violated its own rule by using informants before the investigation was ever launched. so why were f.b.i. informants contacting trump continues about russia long before the russia probe was open? something else that doesn't add up. whether a key player was an f.b.i. informant or somewhere closer to a russian spy. reporter lee smith who wrote a important piece on that entitled the maltese phantom of borussia gate. and lee is here to describe how russia gate began. we are joined by kevin brock who super vised the rewroting of bureau rules gocherning sources that was a decade ago under the director bob mueller. it is great to see both of you. to listen to all. key figure and intel chiefs, this was all done by the book. these

mr papadopoulos? >> good afternoon, commissioners.i am with the mission economic development agency. so we have a couple questions about this, to be honest we took a quick look at it as it popped up. he came on our radar. for example,, in adding the best accessory, adding catering use to mission street, which we are doing right now, that was prescribed process as part of a larger plan, search of some evaluation of what we thought the impacts where and how it would work. is the core door correctly that is a question it raises for us and the rest of the city. whether everyone in all of those core doors are the right place to move one overriding. i think that, you know, we often compare and we had a lot of discussions. the differences between areas and how they maybe don't need the same sense of guidelines. in fact, they are sent out -- set of prescriptions on each of those streets is evolving with a fair amount of difference to them. so i think that that is the biggest overall issue that we had at this point. we think it is worth discus

the case against george papadopoulos, guess what? that was likely tainted by political bias. and according to a report, robert mueller is now focusing on his witch hunt on russia collusion. wasn't that supposed to be the point the entire time? this is a running way fishing expedition. get ready, a lot to cover into nights jam-packed, breaking news, opening monologue. ♪ those on the left call president trump, let's see. racist, xenophobic, islamophobic, every name in the book. but tonight the supreme court upheld his executive order temporarily restricting travel from seven countries with high security risks. and here is how the president reacted earlier today. take a look. >> president trump: today's supreme court ruling just coming out a tremendous success and tremendous victory for the american people, and for our constitution. this is a great victory for our constitution. we have to be tough and we have to be safe and we have to be secure. at a minimum, we have to make sure that we vet people coming into the country. we know who is coming in. we know where they are coming

papadopoulos has not been credibly accused of betraying this country. where is the crime, where is the real crime? that's a fair question. >> we have russia attacking the united states. >> tucker: that's not the crime the people who are spied upon committed. >> it's additional charges again because he immediately was using unencrypted messaging system we have to assume it's something like what's app, and immediately trying to get people to lie to the investigation. >> tucker: i'm not defending obstruction of justice at all. that is a crime subsequent to the original charge. what you still lack in this whole thing and it should start to bother all of us on principle is any evidence that the underlying charge was true. nobody has been charged for collaborating with russia for hacking our democracy. all of that stuff turns out to be crap. >> there's a difference between provable in a court of law on suspicion that something is going on. there's a sufficient because of his bragging about his time in moscow, i think there's a lot of their it maybe it hasn't

. >> and simultaneously we had the george papadopoulos situation. >> tucker: they haven't charged himither. they charged him for lying. >> that's the easy way out. >> tucker: i'm bothered by it. >> prosecutors take the easy way out it's easier to prove that. >> tucker: it would be very easy for me to say he should go to prison for lying and maybe he should do. but i'm bothered as an american by the fact that all of these people going back as i always say back to martha stewart are charged not with the crime that undergirded the investigation but on the basis of some conversation they had with federal agents. that's not fair play in the end. >> because the federal agents often of the answer. >> tucker: george papadopoulos has not been credibly accused of betraying this country. where is the crime, where's the real crime, that's a fair question. >> the crime here is we have russia attacking united states. >> tucker: that's not a crime the people who are spied upon committed. >> its potential. >> tucker: manifold has been charged yet either. >> he was using an encrypted messaging system

trump spare george papadopoulos after he ered with robert mueller. a new green light for a lawsuit against the president by a former apprentice contestant. the president may now be forced to answer questions under oath. we want to welcome our viewers in the united statnd around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you are in "the situation room." >> this is cnn breaking news. >> we're following breaking news on the president. picking new fights with some of his favorite targets.s accusing eagles of a political stunt. this as mr. trump goes even further in blaming the attorney general jeff sessions for the russia investigation. i will talk with the top democrat in the house intelligence committee, adam schiff. our correspondents and analysts are standing by. first, loets et's go to jim aco. the president put on a show this afternoon. >> reporter: he certainly did. president trump staged his celebration of america event here at the white house after dis-inviting the eagles from their own event dedicated to the super bowl championship sthey won. this is a conti

one of them is george papadopoulos. former campaign energy advisor pleaded guilty in october to lying to the fbi. one always wonders why you have reason to l to the fbi if you have nothing to hide and republican aduthore memo confirmed that george papadopoulos triggered the counter intelligence invs. ga investigation into the campaign. the other guy pleaded guilty to selling bank account numbers, stolen american identities to russians during the 2016 campaign. the other two guilty pleas. michael flynn. remember him. president trump's first national security advisor. he pleaded guilty in december to lying to the fbi. he remains the highest profile cooperating witness and rick grea gates, former campaign aide and frequent white house visitor. he pleaded guilty to conspiracy and lying to investigators. four guilty pleas. there are more cooperating witnesses. george nader. he facilitated a meeting between eric prince and russian contacts. sam nunberg initially said he's not going to work with the special counsel but ended u

i mean, whether it's george p papadopoulos or others. all these players, michael flynn. they all are in trouble with the feds for essentially trying to cover up their crimes. for essentially trying to basically lying to the fbi for paul manafort, it was about witness tampering. it was about writing an op ed when he first got arrested to kind of shore up his image even though it was a court gag order. this is strike two for him. it's a signal to anyone else who chooses or who may choose to lie to the government that they should think twice about this because they could end up going to jail like paul manafort or this witness. >> danny, we like to give credit where it's due. and you called it. i think you predicted here on air maybe two days ago that this was likely going to happen. at this point, why wouldn't paul manafort cooperate with the special counsel's office? what reason or reasons would he have not to start situationingia bird? >> he may just want to go to trial. maybe one of the clients that thinks i can beat this. i know how to get myself out of this problem. my

people we did not know about, george papadopoulos were indicted and other lower level players. he is working his way up. whatever happened, clear something happened, if we will put our heads in the sand, it will happen again and this nation will be lost. we will assist in the destruction of our own constitutional republic, our own democracy. host: malcolm nats. -- nance, thank you for the conversation. thank you for watching. we will be back tomorrow morning at 7:00 eastern time. enjoy your weekend. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] recentsupreme court's term wrapped up this week and the washington council of lawyers will look at some of the major cases in the term, live at 12:30 p.m. eastern. chief justice john roberts sits down for an interview a

. >>> joining me now from chicago is simona poppa bapadopoulos an wife of george papadopoulos. and thanks for being here. you're here to ask president trumo pardonour husband? i know that -- i know that his kind of formal request to the white house to pardon your husband. why haven't the lawyers done that? >> actually this is an interesting question. good evening. i am n sure i can share the opinion i could just say that this doesn't ire in my view with the plea agreement. he feld guilty for lying to the fbi. my appeal to the argument, he deserves a pardon because we have to dig into the nature of the lies. heie because of the nature of his relationship with russia. because he didn't have any relationship with russia. he lied about the date in which he met with professor mips and today and mostly after it came out in story, we know that the professor is likely to be announced that the western intelligence mold in russia. we don't know -- whatever his intention when he targeted george as -- someone sensitive but it deemed to approach talking about [ inaudible ] and those e-mails

i want to play simona mangiante, the fe of george papadopoulos has changed her tune about her husbands involvement in the investigation. i want to play this for you, betsy and get your reaction. it looks like to me the pardon dangling may be having an effect. take a look how she used to talk about everything and now. >> as soon as he found out he made a mistake he took responsibility for that and passed to the right side of >> the decision to cooperate. >> you exactly. i think he has been sort of the first domino in the russian case. >> dyorump shouldonder a pardon for george papadopoulos? >> yes, as i said i really wish for a pardon mostly in light of the circumstances that came out recently and they became public recently. they would completely justify and make a pardon appropriate in this case and deserved. >> betsy, she was calling him the john dean of the investigation. now she's saying james comey is corrupt. what do you think is going on here? >> he's courting president trump to try to pardon her. it would say something about ari melber's show if trump is decide who to pardon,