although, i think george papadopoulos' wife is right.olomon will have a new report tonight. 69 days away from what is the most important mid-term election in our lifetime. look at the side of yournt scre. we have long warned you what the democrats will do if they regain power. it's a scary picture. this is especially true for two states. california, which has become so liberal it's now almost a one party socialist state. and former san francisco mayorne gavin newsom, who wants to be president looks poised to become the next governor. this is a disaster for the people of california that pay a state income tax of 13.5%. if newsom wins, voters will get a supersized helping of radical left-wing agenda, including of course medicare for all. under this statewide single health care system, the state will not only cover the citizens of california, no. they are going to cover all of the states 3 million illegal immigrants. a lot of people's health care to pay for free. take a look. >> it needs to be pulled into the governor's office, the executiv

they make it look like papadopoulos lied because there was a plot between this professor and papadopoulos. this professor told the fbi none of that went on. it was about world peace and diplomacy. it was hyped ed into something it is not. another important point. the fbi opened that allegation on july 31st, 2016. it was clearly not very important. i have a theory that something happened early on in the allegation to papadopoulos. i believe the fbi found out it was a nothing burger and kicked it to the sidelines until february and now made it something bigger. >> sean: it's sad to do this to his kid. his wife is fighting every night to save him and pull out of the plea deal. victoria, all of the information we have about bruce ohr and his testimony yesterday. robert mueller never called him. all of the contacts. he was the conduit for the fbi and christopher steele. trying to funnel that phoney dossier to robert mueller. hoping that fire wallace hold. i am thinking 70 contacts and 60 pages of texts and emails and private meetings. why does he still have a job? >> i don't know why he still

manafort, papadopoulos, others.f they have just become pawns, really just ponds in robert mueller's effort to take down the president. they wouldn't be in any trouble if these people were not associated with donald trump. if mueller didn't exist. so you see where this is going. as judge ellis noted during manafort's trial, mueller is clearly turning the screws, in this case on manafort, so that he will sing or compose, in other words, so the witch hunt can prosecute or impeach donald trump. of course robert mueller is just picking up or his fellow deep state sycophant john brennan left off. for months we reported on brennan's abuse of power and specific allegations that as of the cia director he disseminated hillary's dirty russian dossier throughout the federal government and tonight sara carter has a brand-new report detailing congressional allegations that brennan may have been responsible now for getting the dossier to then senator harry reid who then subsequently released in detail to the public vis-a-vis a let

of george papadopoulos. to the program. i've been watching from afar, can you give us any insight into your husband's tweet, decisions? >> as i said, it's been very difficult for george and i who suffered this prison time lasting for far too long considering that mueller apparently considered his cooperation worthless. i think the real progress of the investigation was not -- we know today's having ties, no ties with russia. there was no evidence to lead to this conclusion.g it was about, do you communicate this information to anyone in the campaign? basically obsession was not about that, but about revealing any wrongdoings in the campaign. as i wrote in my tweet, george was loyal to the truth. he could not of course lie to please mueller's agenda. that's basically why he was not satisfied. but there are too many nonsense in his case. >> sean: i want to say one thing. i give you a lot of credit. i like that you are fighting for your husband. i also see the injustice that you see in this case. are you saying

papadopoulos, the special counsel, didn't provide substantial evidence and the government -- the mueller investigation has not challenged what the sentencing guidelines for him would be, zero to six months, he sent out a weird tweet saying decision time. could the president do a few things by suggesting a pardon for manafort and would he do it now? >> i absolutely think that manafort is playing the pardon long game here and we will know that almost for sure by september 17th when this trial in washington, d.c. is set to begin, because the time to cooperate, the last best chance is right now and interestingly, manafort's lawyer when he got out of court yesterday did not say as many defense lawyers do, we will appeal this, we have -- >> considering all his options. >> we are evaluating our options which indicates they're thinking about a lot of things. i thought for a long time that manafort is playing the pardon game in part because there's no other sensible rational to choosing to have two trials. it only benefits the government and so when you start to see donald trump's tweets and stat

here, they are saying, we think papadopoulos should go to jail. and that is interesting because i thought there was more they could get out of papadopoulos in terms of testimony. we haven't heard in public everything he knows about where it went in the campaign. but perhaps mueller feels he has all he can get. and he is done with papadopoulos. >> if again, if mueller was feeling generous, he could say, if these guys say they don't want to go to jail, whatever. whatever you decide. he is not saying that. he is saying apply the guidelines. >> he is saying we recommend incarceration. >> i guess the mueller investigation does signal you ca the fbi because it seems to be something in the air these days. people like to lie to the fbi. >> rick gates lied to the fbi. the difference they're happy with rick gates cooperation that he got on the stand and testified about paul manafort's alleged crimes and in the case of papadopoulos, that's not true. >> your take away is if you're going to lie to the fbi, you better have something to offer up to the governmen

i should mention she and papadopoulos both have spoken to fbi agents as part of the mueller probe.sible that learning more information has made papadopoulos feel that he gave up too quickly? one of the theories here is that the type of stuff he was hearing about wasn't really real, that is to say wasn't coming necessarily from all the way to the kremlin, even though he may have actually literally mis led the fbi at a later point in the chain of events. >> hard to know for sure what's actually in his mind. important to remember that his crime is lying to the fbi. so if he made a material misstatement of fact without regard to where the information came from in actuality, he's likely guilty of that crime. but the real problem for papadopoulos, ari, is withdrawing his plea, even if the court lets him do it, doesn't put him in a much better position. it just presents him with the binary choice, plead guilty again, maybe try to get a better deal, or go to trial, and see if you can actually roll the bones and successfully avoid a conviction. not a great outlook for papadopoulos either wa

. >> the next person to go to prison in the trump scandal might be george papadopoulos. late friday we learned the special counsel recommended to the judge in this case that george papadopoulos should serve up to six months in prison. the actual recommendation range it was zero to six months in prison. the great lynn sweet at the "chicago sun times" report that george papadopoulos's lawyers intend to ask the judge in this case for zero jail time. the formal response to the sentencing recommendation is due at the end of next week. when you look at the sentencing recommendation for george papadopoulos from the special counsel's office, from the prosecutors, it was really not good for him. aside from the range of potential prison time they are suggesting, the way they describe papadopoulos's behavior is not complimentary to him. the prosecutors told the court, the plea agreement entered into was not a standard cooperation agreement. prosecutors merely agreed to bring to the court's attention at sentencing the defendant's efforts to cooperate with the government. what prosec

so nothing is that dangerous to papadopoulos.out any assistance, he would be in that category, because he pleaded guilty. the important thing, if even as a witness i decide to cooperate, the ultimate decider of whether i've cooperated to their satisfaction is the government. >> we have to note that the president, kim, has repeatedly tried to discredit mueller, just as recently as the other day. listen to this. >> mr. mueller has a lot of conflicts also directly yourself. you know that. mr. mueller is highly conflicted. in fact, comey is like his best friend. i could go into conflict afflict. but sadly mr. mueller is conflicted. let him write his report. we did nothing, there's no collusion. if he was doing an honest report, he would write it on the other side. >> kim, we know the final decision is about george papadopoulos' sentence lies with the judge, but you have these kind of statements almost daily. could this have an impact? >> i think it's unlikely a judge would pay attention to it. the bigger issue is, does a jury in both

time, we got their sentencing recommendation for papadopoulos.re between 0 and six months. prosecutors telling the judge that the defendant's crime was serious. when he lied about his contacts with russian officials, that, quote, caused damage to the government's investigation into the interference into the 2016 election. prosecutors say because papadopoulos lied about his meetings with a rush union government connected professor, that professor "got away." quote, the defendant's lies undermined investigators ability to challenge the professor or detain or arrest him while he was still in the united states. the government understands that the professor left the u.s. on february 11th, 2017, and he has not returned to the u.s. since then. prosecutors say the judge -- tell the judge tonight that even after papadopoulos was arrested even after he was charged with lying to federal investigators, he still was not completely forthcoming with the investigation. quote, the defendant did not provide substantial assistance and much of the information provid

they take a pretty dim view of papadopoulos' cooperation.ember, this is someone who pleaded guilty to lying to investigators, and they basically say he didn't provide a lot of substantial assistance and most of what he fessed up to he only did it after we confronted him with his own e-mails, his own text messages, other things that investigators had obtained from search warrants. this does seem like a much more sort of hostile cooperation situation than what we've seen from other witnesses, for instance rick gates, that mueller has managed to flip and get to cooperate in this probe. >> and they recommended for gates, probation is the issue, so they want to send him to jail. did they make a case as to why the lying matters, impacted the investigation? >> they did. remember, george papadopoulos was this guy, you know, trump world has downplayed his role in the campaign, but he was a foreign policy adviser. as you sort of pointed out before you went to break, he had a conversation with this london-based professor where the professor said the ru

mike: what about george papadopoulos with the recommendation he gets up 6 months of jail time?> well, what's most interesting about the recommendation is what the prosecutor about the things that papadopoulos had done to really lie to the prosecutors and to try to tort their investigation, so if i'm a federal judge i don't like the fact that that's the way papadopoulos treated investigators and he's got a real chance of spending some time in jail. mike: alex little, thanks a lot. >> tensions escalating as president trump increasing pressure on turkey over the american pastor being held captive there, here is how the nato ally is responding plus trump administration is launching a new strategy to curve urban's dangerous activity, what the white house is hoping to accomplish. >> from aspirations of nuclear weapons it's support for terrorism, its cyber activity, proliferation of ballistic missiles and much more, the iran regime has been a force for instability and violence. so you just walk around telling people geico could help them save money on car insurance? yea,that and homeo

well, tomorrow, big day for george papadopoulos.time he should get, what they are recommending in terms of his sentence. part of the drama is that his wife, who appears to play a key role in the whole drama of george papadopoulos and the russians and his contact with the trump campaign and all the rest of it, he has been making noises that george papadopoulos might need a new lawyer and that his plea agreement might be a bad deal with the government that should be torn up. most people believe if he tries to tear up his plea agreement with the government at this point, that would essentially be a legal act of i don't want to say suicide, but it would be an ongul on the part of george papadopoulos. it does inject drama into the proceedings tomorrow when we will wait to see if the plea agreement survives and how much time the government suggests he should get if it does. that's one thing. i mentioned on the top of the show we will have a big night tomorrow night. we will be joined by john brennan, who is the author of this incredible o

he's lost several of his close friends and associates, flynn, gates, cohen, papadopoulos. now he's just lost pecker. seth waxman got it right, when that doorbell rings and the guy says i'm from the fbi, let me tell you, it's every man for himself. so that suggests to me that the longer he waits, the worse it's going to get. i think they're going to go

last night special counsel recommended the sentence to papa dollars -- papadopoulos to have six month. according to a memorandum, he lied to conceal his contact with russian and russian intermediary during campaign made his false statements to investigators and janet was seven, 2017 early in the investigation with key investigative decisions including who to interview and when. papadopoulos is scheduled to be sentenced on september 2, next week manafort is expected to reach -- learn his fate in the first of two trials maulers team has against him. after 14 hours of deliberation the jury has not reached a verdict. they will not be at it again until monday morning. manafort said turney said at this point they are feeling very confident. >> i do and he does . >> reporter: on friday the judge denied a request by a handful of media outlets to seal the name of the jurors. he couldn't do that without endangering their safety. because he has already received threats himself in this case. now he travels with an armed detail from the u.s. marshals. >>> a brooklyn bridge could lead to scrabble t

papadopoulos, to paul manafort, to others that he might will pardon them.them to believe that he will pardon them so that they will not be forthcoming with the mueller investigation. let me say one last thing about what's going on. we also heard trump earlier talk about let mr. mueller issue his report and say what he has to t in the white house that increasingly, the president has said that he wants to bury the mueller report when it's written and make sure it never reaches the congress of the united states but rather he believes and he probably is right, has the power that the report not go to the congress of the united states. that it stay within the deputy attorney general purview, rod rosenstein or whoever is in that position. that seems to be the case that could happen under the guidelines for the special prosecutor. we keep coming back to the question of why is there a cover- cover-up? why isn't the president saying i'm an open book with russia. let's open the books up. let's get everybody in here. show what happened. show what didn't happen. get on

he is also directly connected to george papadopoulos and reached out to him in september 2016.here he asked him what would you write a report for me? i will pay you $3,000. come to london, let's talk. and then even more interestingly enough -- >> sean: that sounds like poor papadopoulos was set up. >> that's exactly what george papadopoulos' wife has said over and over again in interviews saying that george was basically set up by stefan halper and >> sean: part two is carter page in this story. >> yes. so carter page, who develops a very close relationship with stefan halper, continues to email him and according to the sources that we've spoken with and according to the reports written in "the washington post" and "the new york times," stefan halper was reporting back to the fbi information. but really quick, he also goes back to lieutenant general michael flynn and i don't want people to forget about this. in 2014, when flynn was at one of the seminars and attended a dinner one night, it was stefann halper who not only invited flynn, but also invited a he russian woman, i hop

papadopoulos is due to be sentenced next week, jury selection will start in the seconds felony trial of paul manafort. today manafort's defense team asked the judge in that case to move the trial out of washington, d.c. to more conservative roanoke, virginia instead. the judge should rule on that motion within the next week or so. discussions in open court about that issue yesterday suggested that the judge might not be inclined to move the case but we will not know till we see her ruling. today was also the deadline by which the special counsel's office, the prosecutor's office had to tell that same judge, excuse me had, to tell the judge -- sorry. had to tell the judge from manafort's first case whether they wanted to retry paul manafort on the ten felony charges for which the jury in his first case was unable to reach a verdict. prosecutors from the special counsel's office filed this brief with that judge asking for more time to make that decision. now, if the judge grants that extension we think that means we'll go maybe another 30 days or so before we know if the president's ca

papadopoulos, to paul manafort, to others that he might well pardon them.nts them to believe that he will pardon them so that they will not be forthcoming with the mueller investigation. let me say one last thing about what's going on. that is we also heard trump earlier talk about let mr. mueller issue his report and say what he has to say. i'm paraphrasing him there. in fact, i've talked to people in the white house who say that increasingly the president has said to others in the white house that he wants to bury the mueller report when it is written and make sure that it never reaches the congress of the united states but rather he the president, he believes, and he probably is right here, has the power that the report not go to the congress of the united states, that it stay within the deputy attorney general's purview, rod rosenstein or whoever is in that position, and that seems to be the case, that that could happen under the guidelines for the special prosecutor. we keep coming back to the question of why is there a cover-up? why isn't the presiden

ask george papadopoulos. i bet he regrets volunteering for the trump campaign.sk the white house counsel don mcgahn. the white house counsel interrogated for 30 full hours. trump thinks, the lawyers thought we will cooperate and turn over 1.4 million documents and cooperate with mueller. it will go away. we didn't do anything wrong. and the most expulptory evidence in comey's notes. i didn't conspire but if anyone on the team did you have to hold them accountable. those were in comey's notes. now mueller's witch hunt is not and has never been about russia collusion. how did we get to taxi cabs? and tax fraud. and bank fraud. and lies to the f.b.i.? this is what we have been telling you for a long time. we have the evidence. it's an attempt at a political takedown of the man that the deep state never wanted to be the president of the united states. i will tell you tonight that the sovereignty of your vote is now in question. before we get to our guests we have another important topic to cover. for weeks foxnews.com has been following the heart-wrenching story out

papadopoulos pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi last year.king for a sentence of up to six months. in a moment i'm going to get reaction from watergate special prosecutor nick akerman. but first, papadopoulos's wife has revealed he's considering backing out of the cooperation deal, all this as rudy jewel -- cooperating with robert mueller. great to have you with us, thank you very much for being here. let me begin with -- >> thank you for inviting. >> let me begin with this possibility that your husband, george, is going to break his cooperation deal with the special counselor. can you give us any update as to where that decision stands? >> as i mentioned many times there are, first of all, george at this time cooperated for more than one year. he's -- the recommendation from the special counsel presents some discrepancies. and there are many events that came out, and changed the assessment and the context of these alleged lies he pled guilty to. we know today that -- likely to have played no role whatsoever in this interference with american

it was the papadopoulos, the report approximate the papadopoulos conversation, which didn't get told to the fbi until july of 2016 after the wikileaks release of the hacked emails by russian intelligence. that's why it was taken so significant by the fbi. the conversation that was referenced between papadopoulos and the australian ambassador was in april of 2016. the australian ambassador didn't immediately report it through channels to the u.s. government, but once he saw that the emails, that the russians had hacked the emails and then -- and that they had been dumped publicly by wikileaks, there then was a connection made, there might be a connection between what papadopoulos was saying and the release of the emails, and that's what's got the fbi spun up. now, i should point out, the dossier was part of the mix. i don't want you to think that it was not known to the fbi -- >> but to say that the investigation was based wholly off of it is misleading. >> that's not true. it was part of the mix, but it was not the immediate trigger for the investigation. >> and then, michael, you ha

papadopoulos is scheduled to be sentenced on september 7th.gh, former trump campaign chairman paul manafort is expected to learn his fate in the first of two trials mueller's team has against him. after 14 hours of deliberation, the jury has not reached a verdict and they won't be at it again until monday morning. manafort's attorneys said at this point they are feeling very confident. >> deliberating longer it favors your client? >> i do. and he does. >> on friday the judge also denied a request by a handful of media outlets to unseal the names of the jurors and said he couldn't do that without endangering their safety because he has already received threats in this case himself and now has to travel with an armed detail from the u.s. marshals. jon? jon: thank you. >>> for more on the manafort trial and what it bodes for the russia investigation, let's bring back the white house correspondent for the daily caller. we know that paul manafort god swept up in this special counsel investigation, but the special counsel, the prosecutors never said

not the case for george papadopoulos.foreign policy adviser during the campaign. like rick gates, papadopoulos is cooperating with special counsel robert mueller. last october, as part of a plea deal, he pled guilty to lying to the fbi. but unlike rick gates, papadopoulos does have a sentencing date. he is due to be sentenced on september 7th, which is the friday after labor day. special counsel's office has until this friday, the end of this week, to file with the court their recommendation for punishment. basically, to tell the judge in papadopoulos' case, how long they think he should spend behind bars. but a funny thing happened today. today, special counsel robert mueller requested, and was granted, a protective order, quote, restricting the use, dissemination and disposition of discovery materials, meaning evidence, which the defendant has requested in advance of his sentencing. protective order today? here's what i want to know. why, five days before mueller's prosecutors make their recommendation for punishment fo

it rerchferenced subpoenas, ema, texts of george papadopoulos. a prosecutor, i see that and i realize they are doing that for everybody. when people claim this is taking so long, they need to put it in context of the exhaustiveness of this investigation. >> daniel goldman, ken dilanian, guys, thank you very much. good luck out there. >>> and a majority black county in georgia is about to lose seven of its nine polling places. why some say the timing is curious. it was here. i couldn't catch my breath. it was the last song of the night. it felt like my heart was skipping beats. they said i had afib. what's afib? i knew that meant i was at a greater risk of stroke. i needed answers. my doctor and i chose xarelto® to help keep me protected from a stroke. once-daily xarelto®, a latest-generation blood thinner significantly lowers the risk of stroke in people with afib not caused by a heart valve problem. warfarin interferes with at least 6 of your body's natural blood-clotting factors. xarelto® is selective, targeting just one critical factor. for af

people like george papadopoulos, not around. i never saw him on the campaign. j.d.was named. didn't see him on the campaign. these names seem to come -- not out of nowhere. but the trump organization was asked to release a list. it kind of felt like these people were just random people they put on a list and sent to reporters. now it look like there's something more there. given that carter was somebody that the intelligence community had their eye on because of the interactions he was having with russians. george papadopoulos, who it's reported started this whole investigation because he was bragging to an australian diplomat in a london bar that russia had dirt on hillary clinton and now j.d. gordon linking these two seemingly separate investigations on a russian influence campaign. >> yeah, i've done quite a bit of reporting on carter page and george papadopoulos in particular and one of the things that struck me about them was they aggressively sought out the connection with the trump campaign at a time when, as you mentioned, the campaign was having a devil of

george papadopoulos was never the trigger for the trump/russia investigation.ficials trying to cover up the real reason which is they used this fabricated phony dossier to launch the investigation and to wire tap the trump campaign and so the new york times is either stupid or -- rachel: a follow-up from that report every day it seems like they have another bombshell that means nothing and they keep thinking they are bringing it down it doesn't work. ed: this morning brennan was on meet the press breaking a few moments ago on a related topic of weaponizing intelligence and john brennan given your knowledge of the law as you apply it here, with the mueller investigation john brennan is claiming he may file legal action against the president of the united states to stop him from stripping his security clearance and the others that might be stripped this week we keep hearing about was james comey or andrew mccabe or others do you think there could be legal action to say the president is sewing his reputation somehow and he doesn't have this authority or will this

now, papadopoulos is expected to be sentence pd. and paul manafort is expected to learn his fate in two trials that mueller last brought against him. the jury will be back on monday morning. and manafort's attorneys are feeling confident. >> how are you feeling? >> deliberating longer, it favors your client? >> i do, and he does. >> and a handful of media outlets wanted to unseal the juror's name and he can't and now he has to travel with a armed detail from the u.s. marshal. >> garrett tenney, thank you so much. >> here to weigh in, john, i want to start with breaking news. what do you make of the fact that the special counsel is now seeking jail time for pa papadopoulos? >> they're looking for anybody who have kind of contact with the president and squeezing them. that's why manafort is-- >>, but he has been squeezed. >> it's significant, they're only asking for six months and going to sentencing in september, which suggests that his cooperation is done and what have they found? i think with respect to papadopoulos, it was a big z

michael cohen, paul manafort, rick gates, michael flynn and george papadopoulos. headlines around the world shouting trump hell hour, a dark day for trump, the darkest day for the presidency since watergate. cohen pleads guilty. trump's former lawyer happy to testify. the president implicated. the president's campaign manager, let's walk over here with me was found guilty in alexandria, virginia, courtroom within minutes of the president's personal lawyer pleading guilty in a new york city courtroom implicating the president in his crimes. all of it bringing impeachment back to the forefront. let's take a look at the process of impeachment. the house of representatives let's do that -- let's open that up. there we go. first of all, the house of representatives draws up articles of impeachment. think of the house as the prosecutor, the document details any, quote, high crimes and merchandise that the president is believed to be guilty of. only the house can bring charges against a president but any individual congress person can start this process. next, the house

for george papadopoulos.t is an order under federal criminal procedure 16 to seal the discovery that was given to papadopoulos for his sentencing, his rule 32 hearing. i didn't do that very often, but when i did or when my fellow prosecutors did, that's a big deal. that means you have an ongoing investigation. it is active. we are not done. we are not done. period. i can tell you that right now. i can feel that something more below this little iceberg that's the paul manafort trial. and here is the other thing. the paul manafort trial may be a distraction. look what you are hearing in the trial. you are hearing that gates worked for the transition committee. you're hearing that there was an oligarch. i'm going to say oligarch. they can't say it. there was an oligarch that was befriending manafort. there was unekovich that was crooked as god knows what. there is a lot of stuff pointing to russia. we don't know how much, but this investigation is not dead. period. >> gene rossi, thank you so much for coming on

papadopoulos, thank you for coming on.trial. is that the thinking? >> absolutely. there are many evidenced already in the public domain that says entrapment was more than any point of collusion. all the crossfire operation started based on the ol allegation of clinton ally yas, donor, who reported to have a conversation with george where allegedly reserve about the famous clinton who had gossip in the time of the meeting in rome. now we know that this person was affiliated with the clinton. george has no recollection to ever said anything like to the donor. and they stated clearly to the italian journal she is a clinton ally and said many times she was a member of the clinton foundation. and today, it's speculated that the russian spy tried to collude with the trump campaign and specifically with george. now president trump is saying that the campaign has been the target of the intelligence and the clinton spies infiltrating the campaign. i want my husband -- >> sean: i don't want to interrupt you but we have 30 seconds. 2

george papadopoulos pled guilty to onlse count of making statements last october. in a filing late last night, prosecutors said jail time was warranted after papadopoulos repeatedly lied during t interview abe timing and significance of information he solici hillary clinton.about sentencing is scheduled for september 7. 24 migrant children under age five are still separated from their parents, ac acordin new court filing. read more at www.pbs.org/newshour. >> sreenivasan: tensions are rising between the united states and itsatally, turkey. today, in ankara, president recep tayyip erdogan addressed thousands of supporters as his country's currency continues to ll. erdogan is calling the united states' recent economic sttanctions an pted economic coup." >> ( translated ): today, some people are trying to thaten us through the economy, through sanctions, foreign exchange, interest rates and inflation. we are telling them, "we've seen your games, and we a challenging you." >> sreenivasan: erdogan's statements come one day after president trump calleprturkey "a oblem fo

. >> what it means is that papadopoulos was not particularly helpful to mueller's investigation.is is the typical sentence length that would be recommended for someone who committed the crimes that papadopoulos has pleaded guilty to. what it means is that mueller is not particularly grateful to papadopoulos for giving him anything. in fact in the document that mueller's team submitted to the court where they laid out their recommendation for his sentencing, they took some jabs at him. they said he wasn't helpful. >> is this a sign to flynn? >> i'm not sure, that's a good question. it's possible. i'm certain flynn has read it, is keeping an eye on it. >> we know he watches the news. my thanks to you, that does it for this hour, i'm nicolle wallace. "mtp daily" starts with katy tur in for chuck. >> what was that in front of you, nicolle? >> he is the unsung hero of our hour but i think he was -- >> he is a beast. he does my hour sometimes too. we all walk in front of a camera from time to time. >> it's a better shot him than me, so it was a little extra, monday extra. >> nicolle wa

papadopoulos, thank you for coming on.hot in court in a trial. is that the thinking? >> absolutely. there are many evidences already in the public domain that says entrapment was more than any point of collusion. i wouldsi like to make a point, which is clear, the cross fire hurricane operation was based on the allocation of the clinton ally, a donor, who reported to have a conversation over drinks in london with george, who were allegedly talking about the famous journalist to clinton, who had costs up about, at the time of the meeting. now we know this person was affiliated with the clintons. george has no recollections. stated clearly that these are clinton allies, said many times, a member of the clinton foundation. and today, but speculated that the russian spy whous tried to collude with the trump campaign, specifically withfi george. now president trump is sayingde that the campaign has been the target of foreign intelligence, obama, clinton allies are trying to infiltrate the campaign. >> tucker: i don't want to in

you may remember the name, george papadopoulos.ilty. after papadopoulos said he was aware that the russians had compromising information about hillary clinton and a sentence for him is expected next month. the jury goes back to work monday in the case of paul manafort, must decide 18 counts of financial crimes alleged against manafort. the president spoke out in support of the former campaign chairman and called the case against manafort very said. president trump indicating that he might be making plans to revoke another security clearance involving a justice department official that has ties in the russian investigation. stripped john brennan of his security clearance and he spoke out last night calling that an egregious violation of the president's authority and asked if he is using the power to criticize his enemy or punish or silence his critics,s the president deny that had. >>> a young woman pushed off of a bridge by her friend speaking out after learning about the charge and facing the woman who pushed her. nbc following th

. >> and prosecutors are asking for up to six months in prison for george papadopoulos.message does this send to others thinking of cooperating with robert mueller? >> the message is this -- if you come in to speak with federal investigators, and you tell any kind of fib or any stretch of the truth or embellish, you can be charged with section 1001, false statements to investigators. just like martha stewart, and just like papadopoulos, just like general flynn, all of these folks came in and thought they could outwit prosecutors who already know all of the facts. so this signals that the government is taking very seriously section 1001 prosecution and sending a message, if you are going to come in to talk to us, then be warned. you better tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth. >> one trump insider maintaining his allegiance is roger stone. let's watch. >> i think if they bring a case against me, it will be a fabricated case and there is no circumstances whatsoever in which i will testify against the president. i have no information that is negative toward the pr

we'llpa let you know if papadopoulos takes his wife's advice.y the way, the aggressive tactics of mueller. a lot of ground cover news we are breaking. joining us now, investigative reporter, fox news contributor sara carter. author of the now three weeks in a row number one "new york times" best seller, "the russian hoax: the illicit scheme to clear hillary clinton and dream donald trump" fox news legal analyst gregg jarrett. judge jeanine pirro was number one but you knocked her off. i think you are doing pretty good rates because she's a friend, i feel badly. >> sean: you don't feel badly about that. you want to be number one. you are full of it. are happy you are number one.be it's okay. you made number one, too. sara, let's go back to last night and let's go to the developments we have today. steele writing ohr, any news, we are apprehensive given the scheduledd appearance in congres on monday, and hoping the firewalls will fold -- firewalls plural -- sorry i have no news. i believe my earlier information is still accurate. i will let you kn

it is not the case for george a papadopoulos.n september 7th, which is the friday after labor day. the special counsel's office has until this week to file with the court their recommendation for punishment. basically to tell the judge in papadopoulos' case how long george should spend behind bars. but a funny thing happened today. robert mueller requested and was granted a protective order, quote, restricting the use, dissemination of discovery materials which the defendant has requested in advance of his sentencing. protective order today? why five days before mueller's prosecutors make their recommendation for punishment for george papadopoulos, why today was a giant legal cone of silence dropped on top of all the evidence in this case? why did that happen and why now? if you know, tell me. if i find out by hook or by crook, i will tell you next. stay with us. ♪ -morning. -morning. -what do we got? -keep an eye on that branch. might get windy. have a good shift. fire pit. last use -- 0600. i'd stay close. morning. ♪ get ready

frankly, it's still quite a sweetheart deal for papadopoulos. may have hoped not to have any jail time whatsoever. i think the judge will probably follow that recommendation. >> lynn, final word? >> actually, what is so interesting in the government sentencing memo is how they go through how they went in and george papadopoulos, who lives in chicago with his wife, how he went in on the first interviews without a lawyer. what's also interesting is his wife had taken to tv shows in a plea either for clemency or go fund me for their legal costs and the lawyers even went to the trouble of slapping her down a bit and saying she said something that wasn't right, so, you know, i do agree, the range is 0 to 6 months imprisonment. even though they, the prosecutors did mention that range is there, the judge has discretion. >> real quick before i let you go, why wouldn't a case like manafort's -- why wouldn't the jury be sequestered, given this is so highly publicized and there's so much at stake? >> probably judge ellis felt that was too great an impositi

notice the direct contrast between michael flynn and george papadopoulos, both who have pled guilty.eller recommended sentencing already for papadopoulos for his betrayal, they perceived, after he struck a plea deal for not being a cooperative witness, for not giving information they needed. michael flynn, in contrast, is somebody who i think pled guilty before george papadopoulos, and you have this notion of, well, we want him to still be there. the delay of sentencing tells you they have a need for this person and that he's a fruitful cooperator, not just giving information or a blow hard in different ways. he's somebody who's actually still useful. once he's no longer useful, they will then ask for sentencing. >> they told the court they'll give another update in 30 days, when there could be sentencing. >> and of course 30 days from now is around the time mueller's probe would have to end if the doj rules would say you can't interfere with an election. >> very important. no sentencing for michael flynn, at least not yet. meanwhile, other important news happening right now. the u.s

papadopoulos hadn't been charged when he knew his name. all the russians charged by mueller -- >> tucker: this is big, this can spirit see, i didn't realize part of it was taking place in aruba. >> you can joke about it -- >> tucker: i think this is an inherently a joke but a bad joke, a sad joke. i want to get back to first principles here because trump won't always be president. we will have other presidents god willing. at that point, is it okay to behave like this if trump is not the target? does any of this bother you at all? the obama people did something that's never been done that i'm aware of, they spied on a rival presidential campaign and that's okay with you. but would it be okay if the trup dated to the next guy? >> they didn't spy on a rival campaign, they spied on a single russian agent. you think that's a joke. >> tucker: no, i think you are accusing an american citizen of a crime for which he has not been charged. so i believe that between you and your libel lawyer to sort out. but keep in mind of the person you accused of

why did they not do that when it came to manafort, gates and papadopoulos? if they did have a confidential informant, what did the informant learn about the trump campaign in russia, apparently nothing. >> that seems like a couple of names that needed to be added. as you just said, i want to talk about iran. i read a statement from you today and it's one of those things where, would it have made a difference a few years ago if the iranian citizens had somebody to advocate where you did in the statement. you feel very strongly that this is the time again to support any kind of revolution that might pop. what's happening and why? >> president trump, if you are listening, this is a murderous regime that will not allow iran to be a peaceful of the member of the family of nations. the ayatollah is the religious. he wants to purify islam and destroy israel and come after us. world peace and the ayatollah cannot fit into the same sentence. this is disgraceful that you are picking this regime over the people. that you want to do business with this man who dismembere

hence the deal with papadopoulos.hillary and it turns out the air quotes here dirt on hillary came from western intelligence assets and not russians, ed, the guy was set up. what other explanation do you have? that's the big scandal here. this was a set-up the entire time. it was -- it was a baiting operation. i have no doubt about this anymore. todd: dan not fired up about this at all. the governor of your former state having a rough week said some things earlier in the week about america not being great and then walked them back. here are both of those sound bites and then we will get your reaction. take a listen. >> we are not going to make america great again. it was never that great. [laughter] >> the expression i used the other day was inartful. >> of course miracle is great. and, of course america has always been great. >> when trump started talking about the slogan, quote: make america great again, is not greatness at all. todd: governor cuomo using the phrase inartful. dan, what phrase do you use to describe

and now, papadopoulos faces more trouble.mueller said papadopoulos has not offered substantially assistance to the investigation and suggested the former campaign aide serve up to six months in jail. two months later, 2017, the president's national security adviser michael flynn also pleaded guilty to lying for the conversations he had with the russian ambassador. and in february, manafort's right-hand side guy and a top campaign official, rick gates, he struck a deal with the special counsel. gates pled guilty to conspiracy, and like the others before him, lying to the fbi which brings us to yesterday, when two of the president's closest confa dan f found themselves stamped with guilty. paul manafort eight counts of crimes, and michael cohen also pleading guilty. all of this doesn't even get to the 28 people and three separate russian entities that are facing charges related to the mueller investigation. that's a lot. i want to bring in my legal panel. midwin charles, an attorney for the law firm midwin charles and associate