still, resume-padding is part of the papadopoulos m.o. especially after trump announced him as a foreign policy adviser. >> george papadopoulos, an oil and energy consultant, excellent guy. >> critics seized on the fact that papadopoulos listed his time on a model u.n. as international experience. papadopoulos worked briefly on the short-lived ben carson for president campaign where he says he helped prepare the candidates for debates and prior to that he traveled to cyprus and israel as a researcher at the hudson institute, a conservative think tank in d.c. >> i jumped right into working with a very high-level official who had just left the bush administrati administration, scooter libby, douglas feith. so these were my mentors. >> but it's the job george papadopoulos had before he joined the trump campaign that seems to prove pivotal. this is the london center of international law practice and behind its unassuming brick facade lies one of the central mysteries of george papadopoulos' story. what is the london center? according to its w

papadopoulos' lawyer is speaking. i want to listen. >> judge issued what he thought was a very fair sentence. >> could you explain why you think president trump hindered the investigation for the george papadopoulos? >> the problem i have with the fake news twitters that go out or the tweets that go out is that he was tweeting seven days before george was interviewed that -- he's the president of the united states. based on all of his information, i would assume and the information he had, that this was a witch hunt. and that it was fake news, that russia had meddled in the election. well, i think we are all somewhat satisfied this point in time at least we know of russia meddled in the election no. doubt about it. george was listening to his preferred candidate and his president of the united states. opining that this was a witch hunt. obviously it was not. when george went in on january 27th he was of the mind-set this was not as significant as we have now all learned it to be. >> mr. papadopoulos -- >> pardon me? >

to george papadopoulos's guilty plea?thank you very much. >> president trump in a tweet, after you were arrested, he said quote few people knew the young low level volunteer named george, who proved to be a liar. is that a fair assessment of your role in the campaign, low level volunteer? >> i'm certainly not a campaign chairman or steve bannon or michael flynn, i also wasn't serving coffee. i don't think the campaign would have invited me to speak at the rnc the way they did if i was a coffee boy. >> you spoke at the convention? >> yes. >> not exactly. papadopoulos spoke at a cleveland during the time of the convention. still, resume patting is part of the papadopoulos mo, especially after president trump introduced him. >> george papadopoulos, and energy and oil consultant. >> reporter: critics seized after he was listed as model u.n. as a credential. he worked on the ben carson for president campaign where he says he prepared him for debates and before that, traveled to cyprus and the hudson institute. >> i jumped in w

kiki papadopoulos. it is amazing the number of people i've learned about who i would never otherwise encounter because of the criminal cases involving people close to the president in the campaign. she said this. just left courthouse. amazing judge. judge gave george two weeks of jail time. a amazing. god bless america. a few minutes later, judge moss is a fair and good man. everything went amazing. he is great. like tony the tiger. great. so george papadopoulos will go to jail for a very short stint. a dude holding a team putin sign outside the courthouse did throw an orange jump suit at him which was at the courthouse. his lawyers told the judge today in the courthouse that george papadopoulos's lack of cooperation couldn't have hindered the investigation nearly as much as the president of the united states had hindered the investigation himself. that was an interesting line of argument. mr. papadopoulos's lawyer told also recorders that he's pretty sure the guy who told his client that russia had hac

. >>> i see papadopoulos today. i don't know papadopoulos, i don't know him. i saw him sitting in one picture at a table with me. that's the only thing i know about him. i don't know him. but they got him on, i guess, a couple of lies is what they're saying. >> a couple of lies. that may put low-level george behind bars. his sentencing hearing is underway as we speak. we should know his fate any minute. we do know he's looking at up to six months in prison. it comes as president trump's team faces its own grim legal reality. the president's attorney rudy giuliani taking his hardest line yet when it comes to allowing trump to interview with mueller telling the a.p. flat out trump will not answer fellow investigators questions in writing or in person about whether the president tried to block the probe into russian interference in the 2016 election. giuliani later tried to walk that back in comments to nbc news as he so often does, but the message was clear. trump's attorneys are hardening their stance against mueller and one explanation forge's reluctance to le

moms, we can't wait. ♪ >>> while papadopoulos has stayeds silent until >>> while papadopoulos stayedfe has been speaking out on her husband's behalf even testifying before congress. >> grur itayou're from italy? your accent doesn't sound italian. >> i speak five languages and working for the european union a few years. studies abroad and in the united states. so my background is international enough to contaminate my accent. >> reporter: she attracted the fbi, she says. >> on the day george was in washington to pled guilty on 5 october 2017 and fbi agente'ds÷ knocked on his mother's house door, leaving at the time with the subpoena. to testify in front of grand jury in washington, d.c. the fbi agent told me if you want you can talk to the fbi acts in chicago and if we're happy with your interview we will eventually drop off the subpoena. i took the chance. >> so you talked to the fbi agents in chicago? >> yes. >> what did they want to know? >> the interesting question. part of the interview was about george and part of the interview was about me. they were trying to profile me in lig

kiki papadopoulos. it is amazing the number of people i've learned about who i would never otherwise encounter because of the criminal cases involving people close to the president in the campaign. she said this. just left courthouse. amazing judge. judge gave george two weeks of jail time. amazing. god bless america. a few minutes later, judge moss is a fair and good man. everything went amazing. he is great. like tony the tiger. great. so george papadopoulos will go to jail for a very short stint. a dude holding a team putin sign outside the courthouse did throw an orange jump suit at him which landed on him outside the courthouse. his lawyers told the judge today in the courthouse that george papadopoulos's lack of cooperation couldn't have hindered the investigation nearly as much as the president of the united states had hindered the investigation himself. that was an interesting line of argument. mr. papadopoulos's lawyer told reporters outside the courthouse that he's pretty sure the guy who told

papadopoulos pitched a meeting between then candidate trump and putin. sessions would later say he discouraged papadopoulos from setting up the meeting. but papadopoulos cently contradicted that, saying sessions seemed enthusiastic and a trump-putin meeting. responsible e roger stone is still under scrutiny. a comedian and radio show host testifying before the grand jury friday. he claimed he was his back channel to wikileaks, which russia intelligence used to circulate information about the democrats in 201. >> however the hell did i ever get involved in this mess. a nice guy like me doing in a place like this. >> he fielded questions before the grand jury. mainly about his relationship with stone. all with his dog at his side. >> bianca didn't bark one time. she was so good in there. >> now back on the issue of george papadopoulos, attorney general jeff sessions attorney put out a statement saying when it comes to what happened in that campaign, session stands by his testimony that he discouraged him from setting it up. >> only got two weeks in jail, a

. >>> i see papadopoulos today. i don't know papadopoulos, i don't know him. saw him sitting in one picture at a table with me. that's the only thing i know about him. i don't know him. but they got him on, i guess, a couple of lies is what they're saying. >> a couple of lies. that may put low-level george behind bars. his sentencing hearing is underway as we speak. we should know his fate any minute. we do know he's looking at up to six months in prison. it comes as president trump's team faces its own grim legal reality. the president's attorney rudy giuliani taking his hardest line yet when it comes to allowing trump to interview with mueller telling the a.p. flat out trump will not answer fellow investigators questions in writing or in person about whether the president tried to block the probe into russian interference in the 2016 election. giuliani later tried to walk that back in comments to nbc news as he so often does, but the message was clear. trump's attorneys are hardening their stance against mueller and one explanation forge's reluctance to let

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trump also arguing papadopoulos not significant. >> i see papadopoulos today. i don't know papadopoulos. i don't know him. i saw him sitting in one picture at a table with me. that's the only thing i know about him. i don't know him. but they got him on, i guess, a couple of lies is what they're saying. now, flynn, where the fbi said he didn't lie, but mueller's people said he did lie. so i don't want to be set up with a perjury trap. >> now, here is that picture of that table. we'll put it up for you in that meeting in march 2016, papadopoulos lawyers also punched back about what happened in that room you're looking. they say while some rebuffed it, trump nodded, deferring to sessions who appeared to like the idea. now, mueller is now effectively done with that defendant. but today he was putting another witness into that intimidating grand jury room. it was a busy day for mueller, randy creditco who has links to julian assange and roger stone was back there testifying. of course, it makes you wonder, was mueller interested in wikileaks today or roger stone or

the judge also fined papadopoulos $9500 and ordered papadopoulos to compete 200 hours of community serviced he'll be on probation for one year after he is released from custody. well n a new interview with cnn taped just before that sentencing, george papadopoulos responded to a question about whether he told the trump campaign about the russians claim to have on then candidate hillary clinton. >> i might have, but i have no recollection of doing so. i can't guarantee it. all i can say is my memory never shared it with anyone on the campaign. >> joining me is ken delaney along with guy lewis. ken, let me start with you. put this into context for us here. two weeks' time, not a whole lot of time, what does this tell you about the course of the investigation? this sentencing yesterday? >> well, look, george papadopoulos as it turns out was not quite as big a fish as some people thought he might be when the arrest was announced. there was a lot of talk of, did he wear a wire or was he cooperating? it turns out he did not cooperate with the mueller team, so he didn't get a downward departure f

so trump is strangely in a sense correct that the papadopoulos sentence, the papadopoulos crime is abouter underlying collusion with russia. so in a sense, trump is correct, but at the same time this may be part of a larger group of defendants that we my see in the future demonstrating that there was, in fact, collusion. >> and danny, does any of this suggest that papadopoulos has given mueller any critical information? >> it is interesting because papadopoulos -- the government said he did not cooperate to the level of what we call substantial assistance. that is a very magical phrase in criminal defense land, meaning the government is satisfied the defendant gave them all of the information that they wanted so that they file a motion to give him a much lower sentence. but in this case, it may have been a gam bit by papadopoulos, he didn't need to cooperate because his sentencing guidelines were so low and he might have gotten seven days instead of 14. it may have been a gamble but one that may have worked out to not cooperate in this case. >>> and turning to brett kavanaugh and his lon

george papadopoulos first trump campaign advisor heading to jail.e former campaign advisor to 14 days. who gets 14 days for anything. board air force one president trump sought to distance himself from him. >> i don't know papadopoulos, i don't know him. i saw him sitting in one picture at a table with me. that's the only thing i know about him. i don't know him. but they got him on a couple of lies is what they are saying. >> i don't know nothing. pled guilty to repeatedly lying to fbi agents. mueller has indicted or secured guilty pleas now from 32 people and three companies. that is 32 people indicted so far. for more, i am joined by jawia ainsley and greg brower. give me a sense. i have been counting on you to do this. this young guy, 29-years old. with his picture of him at the meeting. how does he fit into the whole thing. >> we understand that he had some kind of drunken conversation with an australian diplomat and that could be the critical thing that kicked off this investigation. this in particular because he was offered dirt from this pro

i can't make -- honestly, i can't make heads or tails of george papadopoulos. literally if i was strong enough to pick him up and throw him in the air, i don't know if he would land up or down. he's on his way to prison and now we don't necessarily understand why. on his way to prison he is trying to change the public perception of how the fbi started investigating whether the trump campaign was colluding with russia. we do not yet know why he is doing that. he's doing that with this weird i don't recall thing. we don't know why he's doing it, but here's a hunch as to how we are going to find out why he is doing this. this is the other thing i said to watch for today and in coming days. axios.com is reporting that as early as this week the president is going to order the declassification about more documents about the start of the fbi russia investigation. quote, president trump is expected to declassify as early as this week documents of surveillance of carter page and the investigative activities of senior justice department lawyer bruce ohr. carter page, he

the judge gave papadopoulos some credit.d his plea for leniency and was he was remorseful during the sentencing. i would put that in the context again that the most he probably could have gotten was the six months because that's more comparable situation with what the government was asking, and in terms of further cooperation, the government was a little angry he was not more helpful, and they can't drag him back in on this. where he has exposure is whether congressional investigating committees want to come in and say sessions told us this in sworn testimony, tell us your story under sworn testimony in front of congress. that may be what could happen next. >> patrick, in this interview with jake tapper, papadopoulos kind of reveals a few contra dik -- contradictions, claiming sessions was enthusiastic about the meeting with russia. sessions testified he pushed back on that idea. might this present a problem for jeff sessions? >> yeah, it does to the degree to which people either see papadopoulos as now a credible figure or

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you just heard what papadopoulos said.son to believe that jeff sessions perjured himself? >> jake, let's take a step back and look at where we are at this point. the mueller investigation now with the papadopoulos jail sentence, we are now at five or six guilty pleas, over 30 indictments. the key that comes out of -- from what i read about papadopoulos is there was absolute evidence that the russians had dirt and emails on hillary clinton, they offered it to papadopoulos as a trump campaign official, and this guy papadopoulos, i've never met him but he clearly is aspiring to be a player and my understanding is he can't remember whether he turned that information over to other senior people in the trump campaign. that is not very believable. in terms of the questions about attorney general sessions, i'm sure the mueller team will look into that but if you look at this and this, i think, is maybe one of the reasons why this white house is in such chaos and the president is becoming more and more untethered over the last few

know papadopoulos. don't know him. i saw him sitting in one picture at a table with me. that's the only thing i know about him. >> that picture shows the adviser sitting with the then-candidate and his security team back in 2016. papadopoulos worked on the campaign for several months. the trump crowd, you'll remember, rather famously tried to diminish his role to that of coffee boy. it is clear now he was not. >>> also today, a long-time friend of roger stone's appeared before a mueller grand jury in d.c. his name is randy credico. he is a lot of things. a radio personality, a stand-up comic who once appeared on "the tonight show" with johnny carson, and a political candidate here in new york. importantly, roger stone called him his back channel to wikileaks and assange. credico, accompanied by his comfort dog, was questioned for several hours today and has now been subpoenaed to do the same before the senate intel committee. there is also new reporting from bloomberg tonight. this is important. accordi

papadopoulos said mr. sessions appeared to like the idea. the campaign should look into it. >> it's hard to know who to believe. there's credibility issues on both sides of that but papadopoulos is so shredded as a cooperator i wouldn't bank anything on him. clearly the mueller team has written him off. he started as a potentially promising cooperator but he's misstated so many things that have been disproven so i don't know who i'd bet with that. >> before you go, the "washington post" moments ago is reporting fbi deputy director andy mccabe, who has been fired, is now still under investigation, significance of that? >> it's significant, i wouldn't draw too many conclusions but the inspector general's report recommended a criminal investigation. if these reports are correct that would be what a criminal investigation is. >> for specifically? >> for lying to congressional investigators. mccabe it appears was behind a leak to the media about the fbi's involvement in the clinton foundation and appears to have denied he was the leaker to invest

the president said that he did not know george papadopoulos very well. he also mocked the sentence on twitter seeming to suggest that 14 days behind bars doesn't justify the cost of the special counsel. a federal judge sentenced papadopoulos, former foreign policy aide to the trump campaign to 14 days in prison, for lying to the fbi. he's the first former trump campaign aide to be sentenced in the special counsel's russia investigation. comments that papadopoulos made in a london bar reportedly helped initiate the russia probe. according to reports after a night of drinking in may of 2016, papadopoulos told an australian diplomat that russia had political dirt on hilary clinton. the president of course has repeatedly denied any type of collusion between his campaign and russia, and he has repeatedly called the special counsel investigation into his campaign a witch hunt. jon? jon: we have heard that term. ellison barber, thank you. let's bring in the politics editor for the washington examiner. so i guess that robert mueller gets another notch on his bel

we're talking about the former aide, george papadopoulos.e will spent the next two weeks behind bars. the president claims he doesn't know papadopoulos and the issue is a distraction. >> the level of animosity, it's hard to believe. so if i was going to say there is any one problem in this country, it is definitely have you two sides and there is great division and there shouldn't be that division. but it seems no matter what you do, no matter how wages are going up, such a good thing the numbers are great the stockmarket is at an all time high, there is more people working in the united states today than ever before. the only thing that troubles me is when you see an economy doing so well, a country doing so well, yet, there is this level of division and hatred and that's a shame. maybe we can do something about it. >> meantime, cnn has learned the white house has ha short list of possible authors of the that damaging opinion piece in the "new york times". a source says the president has become obsessed with finding out who wrote it. here's

now, you could say papadopoulos lied and he's going to go to jail for lying to the fbi. but presumably he knows the penalty for lying, lying once again. from a legal standpoint, you have someone like that, is there credibility automatically impugned by that guilty plea to lying or does this create problems for the attorney general? >> i think it creates big problems for the attorney general. i mean, i think he should be thinking about lawyering up himself. he's clearly on the record under oath stating the exact opposite of what papadopoulos is saying. and at this point, while juries sometimes factor in the question of credibility of someone who has pled guilty, for purposes of our analysis and the investigation's analysis, papadopoulos has no reason to lie about sessions at this point. and there is this transition that cooperators make where they may start out very aggressively denying things and then papadopoulos obviously without the benefit of counsel really leading him through it continued to fudge, may land with some jail time at this point. that's a transition he's

papadopoulos telling the court, i made a dreadful mistake, for which he was ashamed. he was part of the trump campaign's foreign policy team. seen here in that infamous photo with jeff sessions and four seats from the candidate who praised him during the campaign. >> george papadopoulos, he's an oil and energy consultant, excellent guy. >> reporter: but just hours before today's sentencing the president saying he didn't remember him. >> i don't know papadopoulos. i don't know him. i saw him sitting in one picture at a table with me. that's the only thing i know about him. saying. >> reporter: papadopoulos pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi about his contacts with a professor who claimed the russians had obtained. his attorney just told me outside the courthouse, papadopoulos can't recall who, if anyone, he told about those hacked e-mails, but we believe that this is something that robert mueller is pursuing, david. >> thank you, pierre. >>> there is much more ahead on "world news tonight" this friday. the tv anchor who found herself read a story about her own daughter

they've already gone over george papadopoulos.so nuanced that a lot of people have tuned it out and they're saying you know what? something happened. i can't keep up with all the details. it's coming at us at a friequic pace. they don't want to be talking about the op-ed and woodward and how randy went and testified before a grand jury and it looks like roger stone might be indicted in the next month or so. >> if i can jump in and say one last thing about papadopoulos. so papadopoulos says in response to questioning this morning, you know, i'm not sure if this will result in a collusion or conspiracy charges against trump, but i probably helped things move in that direction. but then he also says i don't remember telling the campaign about the russians having dirt on hillary clinton. so my question is then what did he say too investigators that would lead him to believe he pushed things closer to conspiracy? what other piece of information does he have? >> 15 seconds and then i'll get killed on the air ear. >> i thought this was o

that's a big play by them to try to get leniency for papadopoulos. >> for papadopoulos, they are hoping probation. right? do you think he will still serve jail time? >> i think he has a shot at probation. you have to remember the way federal sentencing guidelines work. the judge listens to a recommendation by the government and weighs the amount of cooperation that the subject has given. ultimately, the decision is up to the judge. if the judge looks at papadopoulos, he may say, he has been totally cooperative and deserves probation, it's a first offense. >> does it change anything for session s sessions? >> you have on the table a claim that he committed perjury before congress. the reality of this going forward as a prosecution is another matter. remember, for congress to vote perjury indictment, it takes a majority of the house of representatives to vote for those charges. at least as the congress is currently constituted, they are certainly not going to vote to indict or refer to the justice department for perjury charges. sessions is safe in terms of criminal charges so far. >> saf

george papadopoulos, a trump campaign adviser has now been sentenced. tonight we are also hearing from president trump who is now distancing himself from that former adviser. here's abc's chief justice correspondent, pierre thomas. >> reporter: former trump campaign adviser, george papadopoulos today making his way to court to learn his fate. >> congratulations. you'll look great in orange. >> reporter: his wife by his side. she had pleaded with the president for a pardon. >> i trust and hope and ask to president trump to pardon him. >> reporter: inside a federal judge handing down the sentence. 14 days in prison, a year of supervised release, and 200 hours of community service. papadopoulos telling the court, i made a dreadful mistake, for which he was ashamed. he was part of the trump campaign's foreign policy team. seen here in that infamous photo with jeff sessions and four seats from the candidate who praised him during the campaign. >> george papadopoulos, he's an oil and energy consultant, excellent guy. >> reporter: but just hours before today's

george papadopoulos, of course, just pleaded guilty and was convicted of lying to the fbi.ility issues i could observe. we reached out to attorney general sessions and his lawyer says that the attorney general stands by his testimony from last november when he said that when papadopoulos brought this up, the idea of a candidate trump-vladimir putin meeting, sessions pushed back. obviously mr. papadopoulos sees it quite differently, saying sessions was very enthusiastic about the idea. >> enthusiastic, pushing back. that's very different. on the other key question, papadopoulos of course became a player to some degree because he got early word that russia apparently had hillary clinton's hacked e-mails here. he claims to you that he didn't tell anybody in the campaign, and you went after him multiple times to say no one. but then he reverted to that old iran-contra answer, right? you remember? i do not recall. as you were listening to him there, did you believe his denial that he told no one in the campaign? >> well, here are the facts as i see them. one, there is a guy name

. >> martha: coming up next, so much hinged on george papadopoulos. but that he turn out to be what he was cracked up to be as a source? or are we witnessing the special counsel potentially falling apart? dan bongino is up next. >> how i was transmitting information to the campaign, and it was 99% over email that at that time. obviously that email has been discovered. ♪ to ced safety standard. experience amazing. and i don't add up the years. but what i do count on is boost®. delicious boost® high protein nuritional drink now has 33% more protein, along with 26 essential vitamins and minerals boost® high protein. be up for life. who would have guessed? an energy company helping cars emit less. making cars lighter, it's a good place to start, advanced oils for those hard-working parts. fuels that go further so drivers pump less. improving efficiency is what we do best. energy lives here. and as if that wasn't badur brand new enough, totals it. improving efficiency is what we do best. now your insurance won't replace it outright because of depreciation.

. >> i don't know papadopoulos. i don't know him. i saw him sitting in one picture at a table with me. that's the only thing i know about him. i don't know him, but they got him on, i guess, a couple of lies is what they are saying. >> reporter: papadopoulos

papadopoulos.ed about -- it's reported in the paper that he said something about going to russia and dealing with the russians. and i pushed back and said you shouldn't do it. >> greg? >> yeah, i think we need to be very careful here to not overinterpret what we see in defense counsel's sentencing memorandum. as you mentioned at the outset, it is implied in the memorandum filed on behalf of mr. papadopoulos that the attorney general and the president may have had one reaction to his floating this idea. but there's no quote, there's no transcript, obviously. we simply can't tell exactly what happened in that meeting from this sentencing memorandum filed in an effort by papadopoulos' defense team to get a lighter sentence for him. it's simply not clear. >> then there is also this development. front page today on the "new york times," and the headline reading, u.s. agents tried to turn oligarch into an informer. they're alluding to one example, oleg deripaska, katie, also involved in this story, by th

but they haven't called george papadopoulos. however, jim, papadopoulos hasn't been sent to serve those 14 days yet. he still out, awaiting when he'll actually go to prison. so it's possible maybe he could be called to capitol hill. >> he is available right now. >> exactly. >> justice correspondent, jessica snide e thank you very much. >>> let's get more on all this with democratic congressman, mike quigley of illinois, a member of the intelligence committee. congressman, thanks for joining us. the white house still wants to investigate this writer of the anonymous op-ed. but they cannot cite a law that was violated. is this an abuse of the department of justice, in your view? >> just another one, unfortunately. the president needs to appreciate the fact that justice department is not his own private law firm. the fault lies not in our stars, but in ourselves, mr. president. clean your own house. you need to address this internally. obviously, you have issues to address. >> and some democrats have said that using the attorney ge

. >> i see papadopoulos today, i don't know papadopoulos. >> another camp campaign aide is sentenced. mueller has his sights set on a bigger target. >> the threat to our democracy doesn't just come from donald trump. it is indifference. >> president obama's return to the campaign trail. >> you are the antidote. >> i began by telling the president there was a cancer growing on the presidency. >> dire warning from a man who would know on the last day of the kavanaugh hearing. >> there is now a cancer on the presidency? >> yes, i would agree with that. >> all in starts now. >> good evening from new york, i am chris hayes. 60 days from the midterm election. including tonight a report that his private business empire, a thing that defines him above all else is in the cross hairs of a federal probe. inside the white house the president and closest aides are reportedly turning the west wing upside down to try to identify the anonymous author of the op-ed. asked by a reporter if he thinks the attorney general should investigate who wrote it, the president responded he does. claiming the op-ed

now, after that meeting, papadopoulos's attorney told the court he was giddy of the approval. this court filing contradicts both what trump has said and jeff sessions told congress in sworn testimony last year. >> i have no clear recollection of the details of what he said at that meeting. after reading his account and to the best of my recollection, i believe that i wanted to make clear to him that he was not authorized to represent the campaign with the russian government or any other foreign government for that matter. i pushed back against his suggestion that i thought may have been improper. >> now, the justice department had no comment about this court filing in which papadopoulos is asking for leniency from the court for lying on the contacts with russia and, also, jim, democrats quiet, yet to hear from the top democrat and that's perhaps because democrats are concerned if they go too hard after sessions it could give the president pretext to fire him and install a loyalist to look after the mueller probe. jim? >> yeah. delicate politics there. no question. manu raju, t

papadopoulos' belief that he was in over his head.k at this as a piece of a larger picture, you see some of these threads that we've looked at throughout the campaign, the transition, about who some of the people were who were advising the president and whether, you know, what their political experience was, not just in the energy sector but in terms of politics and how that affected both the guidance the president was getting and who he was surrounding himself with. >> okay, but margaret, i have to ask you quickly, there's a new "washington post" poll that says 60% of people polled do not think sessions should be fired. notably, 47% of those are republicans. >> well, and i think that is why you see congressional republicans having urged the president so consistently in recent weeks. look, we know you have the power to do this, please don't do this until after the elections. republicans don't want this to shake the confidence of voters who might vote to put them back in office. it could affect control of either chamber of congress. >>

>> what papadopoulos is saying is vague. he doesn't have specifics.o transcript from the meeting and he's a convicted felon, having admitted to lying to the fbi. they said he simply did not accept this idea as a good one and did push back. other witnesses from the meeting seem to say that. >> woodward talked about john dowd, used to be a member of the president's legal team. you cover russia. you know everything about the special counsel investigation. let me play quickly what woodward had to say about the practice session, much is made about the president, john dowd and others. watch. >> he has a practice session with the president on january 27th of this year, in the white house. they are looking out on to the washington and jefferson monument and dowd says okay, i'm going to play mueller and they do the role-playing and the president goes ballistic, is not under control and dowd says, you know, you can't do this. you are not a good witness and his conclusion, dowd's conclusion in the end is, the president is fing liar. >> is it safe or fair to conc

. >> george papadopoulos, come talk to us. >> george papadopoulos, the first trump aide sentenced in the mueller investigation. his campaign meetings about russia sparked the fbi probe. but did his testimony help mueller build the case for collusion? what does it mean now for the attorney general and the president? papadopoulos here live this morning. >>> plus -- >> it's not conservative. it sure isn't normal. it's radical. >> president obama hits the trail. president trump hits back. >> i watched it, but i fell asleep. >> obama calls out trump by name for the first time, calls on democrats to take congress back. will the unusual gambit pay off big or fuel a gop backlash? insight and analysis from our powerhouse roundtable. we'll break down the politics, smoke out the spin, the facts that matter this week. >> announcer: from abc n> good o "this week." we have said this before and i'm sure we're going to say it again, it was a week that felt like a turning point. some called it a constitutional crisis. others a democratic crisis. according to bob woodward, john kelly thinks the white

donald trump for my campaign advisor george papadopoulos is jailed for fourteen days for lying to the f.b.i. . this is not normal. these are extraordinary times and they're dangerous times. and speaking his truth trumps british as it makes his feelings known as americans to get out and vote in the midterm elections. so iran has reportedly closed its border crossing with iraq off to protest to storm the iranian consulate in the southern iraqi city of setting it alight demonstrators also entered a water treatment facility briefly taking two employees hostage before leaving peacefully that angry at what they see is iranian influence in the region as well as a lack of basic services deep this is dissatisfaction with the government one protested died on friday taking the death toll since monday to twelve m. heywood has more. it'd been a day of tension culminating in the iranian consulate. after being stormed by a group of protesters they tried to set it alight the day before but were pushed back this time though it was left. demonstrators bent in their anger about iran's alleged involvemen

. >> i want to shift our attention to george papadopoulos referred to as a coffee boy. he's going to serve 14 days in prison. have a year of probation after he gets out and pay a fine as well. he's been doing interviews over the last couple of days talking about this and what he remembers about some excitement on jeff sessions part when george papadopoulos came to him and say there was interest in a meeting between trump the candidate and vladmir putin. your reaction to what george papadopoulos says with here. >> i think a lot of hay is being made about the fact he's not providing additional information to robert mueller. he's the guy that kind of got this whole thing started. he disclosed to that australian official there were russians that had dirt on hillary clinton. you have george papadopoulos saying on tv that at his recollection is different than that of jeff sessions. that's huge because jeff sessions testified under oath that he told george papadopoulos to stand down and not pursue a summit meeting. what's important is people like sam clovis, key members of the

when we look at this, 14 days in prison for papadopoulos.bout what he may have told investigators? this is for lying, 14 days for lying. >> that's right. remember the special counsel wanted a longer sentence. they didn't believe papadopoulos gave them all the type of information they were hoping to get from him. but the judge felt that pop doup laos who was at the time 28 years old, was remorseful and he understood the mistake he made and at 14 days was adequate. listen, anyone who has ever been to a federal prison won't poo poo the notion of spending 14 days behind bars. it's a serious place to spend any amount of time. he's got 14 days in jail, a year's probation, 200 hours of community service, $9,500 fine. for a 28-year-old kid who made a mistake because he was sort of enamored of the bright lights and a candidate who thought this was a witch hunt, probably fair enough. >> you say it's fair enough. we've seen the reaction. we saw the reaction from the president and others who are saying he's only getting 14 days. clearly he didn't have a

. >> i see papadopoulos today, i don't know papadopoulos. >> another camp campaign aide is sentenced. new evidence that mueller has his sight set on a bigger target. then. >> the threat to our democracy doesn't just come from donald trump. the biggest threat to our democracy is indifference. >> president obama's return to the campaign trail. his call to arms. >> >> you are the antidote. >> i began by telling the president there was a cancer growing on the presidency. >> dire warning from a man who would know on the last day of the kavanaugh hearing. >> there is now a cancer on the presidency? >> yes, i would agree with that. >> all in starts now. >> good evening from new york, i am chris hayes. 60 days from the midterm election. danger threatens donald trump's presidency from both within and without. 4 including tonight a report that his private business empire, a thing that defines him above all else is in the cross hairs of a federal probe. inside the white house the president and closest aides are reportedly turning the west wing upside down to try to identify the anonymous author

but on friday, his legal team told the courts that during a march 2016 campaign meeting, papadopoulosummit between putin and trump and then candidate trump nodded his head approvingly at the idea and deferred to attorney general jeff session who's was at that time an alabama senator and powerful surrogate for the trump campaign. and jeff sessions, contrary to what he has said publicly in the past, reacted favorably to that suggestion and suggested that perhaps they should look into the proposal. now, attorney general jeff sessions said in testimony to the house judiciary committee that he had pushed back on the proposed meeting between trump and putin when it was brought to his attention in march, 60. take a listen to what he had to say in november of last year about this proposal. >> i have no clear remembering election of the dee tills of what -- details of what he said at that meeting. i believe that i wanted to make clear to him that he was not authorized to represent the campaign with the russian government or any other foreign government for that matter. >> reporter: now, the de

papadopoulos was remorseful. and probably didn't completely buy in to the government argument that his misstatements were tended to undermine the investigation. >> in fact, they cancelled the interview, they found out he was talking to reporters. the judge thought he was remorseful. he wanted a second chance. the government asked for 30 days, that was the sentencing given to the lawyer that was indicted for lying in the mueller probe. we are talking about paul manafort, the charges are discreet. and a lot of times, the judge says, someone wouldn't go to jail. >> didn't the line allow the agent to escape? they were going to try to grab? >> from a former prosecutor perspective, i think anybody who prosecuted a case, would like to see someone get more time than 14 days for lying to agents. a win for the mueller team. the judge didn't think he deserved more time than that. >> he must have given them something. >> i don't think that is the case. >> i don't think that is necessarily the case. i don't think we know that