nbc reached out to paul manafort's spokesman for comment on this reporting. eleased this statement. quote, mr. manafort has not been contacted by any authorities other than the u.s. congress and officials responsible for fara guidance which is the foreign agent registration act. and he is cooperate with those inquiries. now since they bring it up, since paul manafort's spokesman is bringing up the foreign agent registration act, when he says that they've heard from officials responsible for fara guidance, that means presumably they've heard from justice department officials about the foreign agent registration act and paul manafort potentially having to register under that act. i should tell you that we have reported on this show that even though it has been widely reported and it is widely believed that paul manafort retroactively registered as a foreign agent after he left the campaign, in fact he has not done so. we've also rorted this odd news out of the justice department which oversees the foreign agent registration act. we've reported exclusively the ne

and now trump campaign chairman, paul manafort had to do it too. amazing story. except here is the thing. manafort never did it. you can search yourself to see who is registered as a foreign agent. it's a good little forum. i have it bookmarked on my phone. it's mobile friendly. i do it every day. every day i type into the search box manafort, search. and there is nothing new. everybody thinks he registered as a foreign agent like mike flynn did. manafort never registering. and here's why this is important. investigations need source material, right? investigators need evidence. they need open source material they dig up on their own. they need data and documents that they pry out of agencies and out of individuals by various means. they may need intercepts and stuff like that, particularly if it's a cloak and dagger investigation with espionage, foreign intelligence or something. but really what they need, what they desperately want are witnesses, cooperating witnesses, people who were close enough or high ranking enough well placed enough that they know what hap

they would tell us that attorney general jeff sessions is also recused from matters involving paul manafort since manafort was the campaign chairman. the justice department will not say that they told us a million other things. they gave us paragraph-long stories about what recusal is, where it comes from, and this whole idea of recusal and it's a big question. and what do you really mean by that. we went back at them again and again and again. i'm considering just publishing our back and forth between me and the justice department. >> some of it involves rachel maddow. staff was making, but you got on the phone yourself to the justice department to say is jeff sessions recused from matters involving paul manafort, which could involve -- which do involve ukraine and russia and if he is -- if he is recused on russia, he must be recused on manafort and there is no answer. >> i wasn't on the phone. i was on the keyboard. but that means our whole back and forth actually we have in writing. i remain convinced that the justice department has an answer to this question. it's either yes or no. he i

really under playing paul manafort's role.aul manafort was speaking to reince priebus a week before inauguration, then clearly sean spicer was incorrectly characterizing his relationship currently with the administration. >> yeah, and, in fact, one of the things we understand that the administration is nervous about is the comey memo that you mention that the senate and house demanded but the fbi is sort of dragging their feet on providing to the senate and house intel committees, that they might characterize in a way that priebus would not want his conversations with the fbi with both comey and comey's deputy director about a request that the fbi come out and sort of rebut some of the characterizations that were out there about communications between trump's team and russia including possibly manafort. >> i want both of you to stay put. we have breaking news to report. nbc news reporting jared kushner, son-in-law and senior advisor to president trump is under fbi scrutiny in the russia probe. we have a lot to cover on this st

with humira, remission is possible. >>> former trump campaign manager paul manafort continues to be inct with the trump team months after the fbi launched its russia investigation. according to a new politico report. manafort resigned from the trump campaign last august, but according to politico, he called donald trump's chief of staff reince priebus about a week before inauguration day to discuss the russia scandal according to four people familiar with the call. manafort wanted to brief trump's team on alleged inaccuracies in a recently released dossier of memos written by a former british spy for trump's opponents that alleged compromising ties among russia, trump and trump's associates including manafort. and joining us now, ken vogel, chief investigative reporter for politico who broke the story and david corn washington bureau chief political analyst. ken, this is a pretty block buster story. among the many interesting details is this one. that manafort, according to your story, discussed with other trump allies the possibility of launching a counter veiling investigation bayy u

it's all about eyelove, my friends. >>> former trump campaign manager paul manafort continued to be inact with the trump team months after the fbi launched its investigation, according to a new political report. manafort resigned last august, but according to politico, he called reince priebus about a week before inauguration day to discuss the russia scandal, according to four people familiar with the call. manafort wanted to brief trump's team on alleged inaccuracies. in a recently released dossier of memos written by a former british spy for trump's opponents that alleged compromising ties among russia, trump and trump's associates, including manafort. now tim vogel and david corn, washington bureau chief of mother jones and an msnbc political analyst. this is a pretty black buster story. among the many interesting details is this one, that manafort, according to your story, discussed with other trump allies the possibility of launching a countervailing investigation into efforts by ukrainian government officials who allegedly worked in conjunction with allies of trump's democratic

the conversations focused on paul manafort and michael flynn. the times reports russian officials became confident they could use manafort and flynn for a specific goal, that both men could be used to help shape mr. trump's opinions on russia, though ultimately is unknown whether russian officials actually tried to directly influence manafort and flynn. russia's election meddling is well-known, the hacking, the leaking, disinformation and cybercampaigns that the fbi by the way is still exploring at this hour. like reports that russian internet operations distributed millions of twitter and facebook post carrying links to stories on sites like breitbart news and kremlin wars and kremlin backed rt news and sputnik news. this new report tonight is about effort aimed at two americans, but two americans atop the trump campaign, manafort and flynn. and it's a big question about whether those efforts worked and whether they have any link to how those men advise trump who became president. now, we don't know the answer, but we do know flynn is the only s

aside from that, the person who we have not mentioned in this conversation is paul manafort. hat it is known by people in the press, by investigators on the hill and the fbi that the person most closely being examined in terms of collusion is manafort in many regards. and so the fbi and other investigators want to know what were kushner and the president's interactions with paul manafort. that is something else that kushner can answer. >> but carl, david raises -- >> all i'm suggesting. >> carl, david raises an important point, which is if you are a trump supporter, it is understandable that you would be upset that these leaks continue to come out one after another. the president has -- is on an overseas trip and is doing the things most presidents do and this leak comes out and overshadows that. >> first of all, it's -- let me just finish and i respect what is being said on the other side of the table there. that, yes, people are concerned about leaks who are the president's supporters. but remember, "the new york times," "the washington post," cnn, "the washington journal" h

a conspirator. >> kwesqueeze him. >> that looks like their intention with a mike flynn, with a paul manafort. they're investigating conduct that seems to have very little to do with rush nlz. like in flynn's case, lobbying for turkey and failing to disclose it. in manafort's case, some questionable real estate transactions. you know, but the fbi is not going to turn a blind eye to crimes that it sees as part of its investigation and will use that as leverage to get people to talk, chri >> i have to say, ken, you know this and robert knows this and jay and maaret, that we're looking at a story that's developing like watergate did with enough headlines each week to keep the public's interest in the question and to keep the prosecutors energized. let's go to capitol hill for some other people that need to stay energized. on the phone is u.s. congressman eric swalwell. congressman, i want to give you some time here. tell me about what this new information -- we now know the name of that white house insider. we now know the name of the person close to the president as described last week. and we

"the conversations focused on paul manafort" on behalf of the russian, "conversations focused on paulfort and michael flynn, undirect tries to russian officials and appeared confident each could be used to help shape mr. trump's opinions on russia. ""how long does this go on until someone in the white house convinces the president to just, i don't know, demand that everyone sort of come clean? >> i'm not sure that they'll ever come. >> really? >> all of the reporting coming out of the white house is they're getting into, they're gearing up for a protracted period of total war and the -- >> talk about that. they've said a war -- they didn't have a war-room as a campaign. >> that's true. they've been studying past administrations and taking certain lessons selectively from them which is to say they want to try to create a rapid response and an operation that's dezisigned to deal with this son theory it doesn't get in the way of other things they're trying to do. talking about putting corey lewandowski in the room. if you're bill clinton or george w. bush, you don't go for a highly parti

you also have a situation where paul manafort had ties to -- >> yank low vich. >> people sometimes overlook manafort was campaign manager, that is when the gop removed from its platform providing legislatele assistance to ukrainen rebels. you can certainly see the influence of these -- >> try it this way, molly. they paid him. they paid flynn. they got what they wanted with regard to the platform in ukraine. they got something for their money. the words out now according to "the new york times," they went out there to try to influence trump through his people. so buying somebody to get to trump and then of course the guy denies ever getting money from the russianrussians. if it starts with the russians, it goes to trump's people, and trump gets influenced, i don't know how you exonerate anybody in that daisy chain. >> i'm not a lawyer and i'm not a trump spokesperson. but i do think that there is -- if there is a smoking gun that shows that donald trump personally was directing this activity or was apprised of this activity, even if by your standard you would have picked up on it, you think

paul manafort acting as a foreign agent. we know that, hadn't filed, hadn't declared it. the other question is whether russian meddling despite the fact they were aggressively meddling, all the workman, a fort and flynn were doing for them, it also constitutes a contribution to the trump campaign. so there are campaign finance laws involved as well. >> so a lot to be said. iant to let viewers know, this

and "the washington post" tonight reaffirmed they were keenly interested in mike flynn and paul manafort. flynn and manafort are both subjects of criminal investigations, both in the cross hairs, but we now know it's not either of them because neither mike flynn more paul manafort is a current white house official. so the president flies off on his first foreign trip tonight in the face of confirmed reporting now that his former campaign chairman and national security adviser and somebody working for him now as a senior adviser in the white house are the subject of active law enforcement investigations specifically into whether his campaign colluded in the russian attack on the election last year. these are not normal times. "the washington post" also reports tonight that the fbi is investigating whether any financial crimes were committed by people close to the president. and they report the fbi's inquiries are getting to a point where their work may be more public, more visible in public because the fbi according to "the washington post" is getting to a point we're going to see more su

did paul manafort? did others around him?nk we need to begin asking ourselves who is driving this game right now? and increasingly, i think the question with robert mueller and others is donald trump may very well be the russia obsessed person who actually had people he was running on the russia side because he wanted to play kissinger or nixon in this case. but the difference is this isn't going to mao. this is going to putin, who wanted this kind of thing to happen. so it's bizarre, and it's unusual because we don't see the other elements as ned would know of a strategic design behind this that make his russia obsession make any sense. >> ned, there is enough information out there about michael flynn that you could even imagine roughly some of the lines and some of the things that michael flynn might be talking about on the phone to the russian ambassador. but when you are talking about 18 different contact points with the campaign, that's way too many people to be able to sit here and say we have any sense of the scope, th

we were writing about this last summer, even before when paul manafort came on.ciation, longtime association with the pro-russian political party -- >> the manafort finances here are crucial, right? it was something you reported on, and you have experience, ken, in sort of looking at the ways in which money is moved around, particularly russian money, which flows in incredibly byzantine and dark channels. >> well, that's true and much of it flowed through paul manafort and his association with others close to putin. but just to follow up on what michael was saying, the trump campaign and trump himself knew exactly who they were hiring when they hired paul manafort. it wasn't a mistake. he was not a big player in u.s. national politics at the time. he was a big player in the ukraine, where he was a chief adviser. so trump and the trump campaign knew well that manafort would be a direct conduit to the inner circle of putin, and that was part of the resume that most attracted trump and his staff. >> does that sound right to you, michael? >> yeah, absolutely. you kno

there are interesting loose threads to watch with paul manafort. the former campaign chairman for the trump campaign. i want to give you one heads-up about him now, there is a new very large very interesting question mark about paul manafort and his potential involvement with the justice department. this is sothing that we've got a bead on, we are actively reporting tonight literally while i'm on the air, trying to continue to report this out, i swear we will have news on that, we'll have an answer on that for you by tomorrow at this time at the latest. the way things have been going today we might have it before the end of this hour. stick a pin in that. busy night. lots more to come. ♪ nobody does underwater stunts, sylvia. except me, of course. this is my stop. adios! ♪ if you're a stuntman, you cheat death. it's what you do. if you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. it's what you do. número uno! can lead to sleepless nights making you feel helpless. take control of your sleep with unisom® sleeptabs. you

there are interesting loose threads to watch with paul manafort. the former campaign chairman for the trump campaign. i want to give you one heads-up about him now, there is a new very large very interesting question mark about paul manafort and his potential involvement with the justice department. this is something that we've got a bead on, we are actively reporting tonight literally while i'm on the air, trying to continue to report this out, i swear we will have news on that, we'll have an answer on that for you by tomorrow at this time at the latest. the way things have been going today we might have it before the end of this hour. stick a pin in that. busy night. lots more to come. k you! imagine if the things you bought every day earned you miles to get to the places you really want to go. with the united mileageplus explorer card, you'll get a free checked bag, 2 united club passes... priority boarding... and 50,000 bonus miles. everything you need for an unforgettable vacation. the united mileageplus explorer card. imagine where it will ta

he and paul manafort deny there was anything pro-putin about the work they did. oleg deripaska says that work ended in 2009 and he's upset by any indication that his payments to manafort had something to do with the trump campaign. the ap says it stands by its reporting. this russian aluminum oligarch paid millions to manafort who would later go on to chair donald trump's campaign. bank accounts that raised repeated red flags for money laundering investigations and were quickly closed when those investigators stopped making inquiries. started making inquiries. so oleg deripaska is one of the names we know. another name in the trump/russia investigation. and here is why he's really important to this story. in that ad, he took out in march, objecting to the ap reporting of his past dealings with manafort, deripaska said he was ready to take part in any hearings conducted in the u.s. congress on this subject in order to defend my reputation and name, which is pretty exciting. if russian oligarchs are going to start giving sworn public testimony to congress, pass the

paul manafort, roger stone, they say they are willing to turn over documents, already have turned over documents to the senate intelligence committee. michael flynn's lawyers say he will refuse. just listen to what they say in a letter to the committee, and let me put it up on the screen. the context in which the committee has called for general testimonial production of documents makes clear that he has more than a reasonable apprehension that any testimony he provides could be used against him. multiple members of congress have demand that had he be investigated and even prosecuted. he is the target on nearly a daily basis of outrageous allegations, often attributed to anonymous shoreses in congress or elsewhere in the united states government which, however, fanciful on their face and you be substantiated by evidence, feed the escalating public frenzy against him. the letter adds, additionally, in the intervening time since the committee issued its subpoena the department of justice has appointed a special counsel to investigate these and other matters this. environment creates a re

we've learned that mike flynn and paul manafort, mike flynn the and paul manafort are subjects of the investigation. that is a term of art which means an investigator suspects them of crimes. to be clear, paul manafort and mike flynn, and to be clear, their lawyers have denied any wrongdoing on their part. and no evidence has surfaced publicly linking them to this russian effort to interfere in the election, but there have been some -- there are financial transactions have been examined. in mike flynn's case he registered as a foreign lobbyist for turkey not having done so during the campaign. and paul manafort, there had been some questionable real estate transactions that have been the subject of grand jury subpoenas. in both cases we have grand jury subpoenas relating to records for these men. we have also been reporting on the fact this is an fbi investigation that spans multiple field offices, and we're talking to people involved in it who say that despite, you know, the recent news about donald trump's request to former fbi director comey regarding mike flynn, they have experien

there's new details about paul manafort and roger stone.ith me, howard fine man, editorial director of the huffington post. and ken -- >>> who are the two under the spotlight tonight in the campaign? >> well, if you're talking about the paul manafort and roger stone report, those gentlemen, former trump advisers, paul manafort, the former trump campaign manager, are cooperating with the senate intelligence investigation, we were told today and have turned over documents pursuant to this request. if you'll recall, they were asked to list their contacts with russia and russians and to disclose any communications with the campaign about russia and russians. we don't know exactly what they've turned over but we're told they have turned over documents pursuant to that request, greta. >> howard, it's a terrible thing to think that someone who takes the 5th is guilty and if someone turns over documents and is helpful tend to think the person is innocent. what do you make of all of this? >> what i make of all this, you have to look at it as a whole

whether or not you have strong feelings about the eventual fate of paul manafort and mike flynn. the investigation into the heart of the matter of the president's campaign to the extent a real investigation into that will require testimony from cooperating witnesses in a position to see and know what was going on, well, the former national security advisor and the former campaign chairman being the subjects of law enforcement pressure like this that affects the odds whether or not either of those men will ever surface as witnesses in any of these broader investigations. in terms of mike flynns, they get better when mike flynn's attorney says he volunteered in exchange for immunity claiming he has a real story to tell. here's some questions tonight. now that we know a special counsel has been named by the acting attorney general has named someone for special investigations. and the guest that can answer these question we have coming in tonight. i think they're all answerable questions and important as far as i'm concerned. as i see this. first of all, how will the appointment of f

the russians appeared confident they could use paul manafort and general flynn to shape trump's views on russia. manafort denied helping russia in the election. one democratic senator said in the report is true, that could be problematic for president trump. >> obviously these press reports indicate there a lot of shoes may be dropping. as i understand it, the president may have hired counsel. if these press reports are right, those lawyers may have a full closet to deal with. >> one republican senator said the focus should be less on what the russians tried to do and more on how the americans responded. >> the elections tried to influence our election. nobody is shocked. yet what they have done is to show that any american was trying to reach out to the russians to say yes, we want to help. that's very different than the russians trying to reach towards us. >> shepard: we don't know which it was, not yet. that's what the investigation is partly about. president trump said his campaign did nothing to help russian influence on the election in his favor. peter doocy has more. you spoke

-- mike flynn, the former national security adviser, paul manafort, the former campaign chairman, are key figures in it, not because any evidence has emerged at least publicly suggesting that they colluded with russia in this hacking and leaking campaign, but because of other elements of their business activity. you know, in mike flynn's case, he failed to register as a foreign lobbyist for turkey. he didn't tell the truth about his contacts with the russian ambassador. he didn't disclose that he was paid for a trip to russia in 2015. in paul manafort's case, there have been a series of real estate transactions that have come under federal scrutiny. by the way, both of these men deny any wrongdoing. they have not been charged with crimes. but they are clearly in the crosshairs of a sprawling fbi investigation that spans multiple fbi field offices across the country, and it's both a counterintelligence and a criminal investigation, chris. >> you described it as both a counterintelligence and a criminal investigation, and this might be too fine a point to zero in on now because we don't

came on the air a few minutes ago, nbc has reported that two former trump campaign associates, paul manafort roger stone have provided documents to the senate intelligence committee and we'll try to confirm that independently, shep. >> shepard: we know the former fbi director will testify after memorial day. any word on the house? >> we're still waiting for word from the house government oversight chairman who has extended an invitation to james comey for wednesday this week. congressman chafetts said the two plan to meet today. this move has angered republican chairman chuck grassley and dianne feinstein who are asking the former fbi director to continue. feinstein says she plans to press comey on the earlier exchange. >> does anybody oppose a specific investigation? can they halt the fbi investigation? >> in theory, yes. >> has it happened? >> not in my experience. it would be a big deal. tell the fbi to stop doing something that -- without appropriate purpose. >> at the time when we covered this hearing, it didn't seem like a important or dramatic exchange. now that we know director comey

the conversations focused on paul manafort and michael t. flynn. the white house, fbi and cia all declined to comment when asked about this by "the times." both manafort and flynn have previously denied allegations of collusion. speaking of flynn, after the meeting yesterday announced would be subpoenaing documents from his intelligence life. the ranking member adam schiff did not comply with the committee's initial request for documents. also today, a new "washington post" report says that james comey might have based his actions involving the clinton e-mail probe last summer on a bogus russian document, but that document, according to the report, was, quote, viewed within the fbi as unreliable and possibly a fake. more on all of that in a moment. these stories all hit while the president is still overseas. and on the same day as a round op of bad polling numbers for this white house. a new quinnipiac poll finds trump's approval rating at just 37%. 55% disapproval of the job he's doing. same poll, 54% of voters say the president is accusing his off

you pull that together and see what questions you have and go to the michael flynn and paul manaforts and jared kushner. >> ron brownstein, jeff said we could not overstate the role in the white house because he is in charge of just about everything. in all honesty. he is in charges of the operations of the white house and many policy and in charge of nearly every aspect and he is the president's son-in-law. now we also know this investigation not just looking at finance and russian connections, but the data operation jared ran during the campaign. fascinating. >> to the first point, the core of his power is he is seen by the president as someone who is only client which is the president. reince priebus has an allegiance to the republican establishment. steve bannon has allegiance to the populous nationalist movement. jared kushner, his allegiance and political identity is to the president. he is also family. the data operation is fascinating. one of the questions is how did the russians target what they did. we saw in the congressional testimony earlier this year that they were very

you put paul manafort with russia. >> i think that's a real problem. the different messaging points are a different subject. you were saying russian connections, and then you said -- charles: one second, guys. we've got to wrap it up, but i do want the ask, rick, you're excited about the notion of shattering the status quo. the bottom line is those guardrails maybe need to be taken down or readjusted. that's your opinion. >> yeah. no, i i worked on capitol hill. i know washington, d.c. well, but i don't live there. and i can tell you unequivocally that any politician, any elected official who touches the third rail of taking down the status quo, of changing the bureaucracy in the magnitude that donald trump is doing, the swamp is going to swing back. charles: all right, guys -- >> i think we've got to be very clear about that. charles: we've got to leave it there. thank you all very much. in the meantime, the major averages rallying bigtime into the weekend. i'm going to tell you when you start to continue to add because charles: great news from ohio.

russians trying to use paul manafort to influence donald trump. and we have pictures of the powerful bomb that killed 22 people in the concert in britain. let's got "out front." good evening, i'm erin burnett. "out front" tonight, the breaking news, a crucial security clearance emission. jeff sessions did not disclose meetings he had with russian officials when he applied for top secret security clearance. this is the form sessions filled out. on page 76, which i hold here in my handled, it required sessions to list "any contact with a foreign government or its representatives over the past seven years." it includes specific mention of embassy and consulates. sessions met at least twice with the russian ambassador last year alone. on this form he didn't list either meeting. this as the new york times reports the russians tried to use paul manafort to influence president trump. we are covering these breaking stories from all details and we begin with phil mattingly on capitol hill. want to begin with manu raj u on the breaking news about attorney g

then when it proves to be true, distance themselves from whether it's carter page or paul manafort or mike flynn or whomever, and then deflect. but in this case they certainly can't do that. this is the president's son-in-law and arguably the president's closest adviser, someone who is essentially in charge of everything that matters to president trump, so they're going to have to find a different strategy in this case, chris. >> naveed, what's so crazy to me here is if you look at "the washington post" reporting, the subject -- the thing they're looking at are these meetings that happened after the election. i really -- this is a real head scratcher to me. i mean the scrutiny was already there. we knew what the russians had done. there was a lot of people looking at it very closely. and during that period of the transition, jared kushner has a meeting with the ambassador, which, again, fine, but takes him to the back of trump tower so no one receives. he leaves it off his form, and meets with the ceo of a sanctioned russian bank, both of which seem like -- particularly the latter, st

paul manafort is still kicking in the business world and he's under investigation.u can survive in washington. i think you have to wonder for both of them, they both have very successful careers in business to come join this washington, d.c. it was sort of an alien place for them. i wonder at what point they decide it is not worth it. i suspect it would be a high bar for them. they're deeply intertwined with this administration. in a sense, its success is their success and its failure is their failure. >> as we wait for the start of this white house press briefing, we're hearing now that president trump is having conversations about dramatically changing the way that information is shared coming out of this white house. what do we know about that? we know that the coms director is out. any word on mr. spicer'sle >> well, first of all, this is striking that the communications director has offered a letter of resignation after just three months on the job, and it really underscores the internal turmoil that this administration is dealing with, craig, clarl particularl

>> i would say the proof is when paul manafort was on board during the convention in cleveland, the only that was changed in the republican national committee platform was the policy on ukraine, not to arm them against aggressive russia. that was the only thing changed. paul manafort, the trump folks. >> that is proof that the russians had affected the outcome of the election? that's ludicrous. >> i'm not saying that's ludicrous or they didn't have sway with the trump folks and their team, but you can't just turn a blind eye that there is some type of activity. >> i think this should be absolutely looked into. and it is. as of now, there's no proof, simply allegations. even maxine waters, the left of the left, said there's no proof. dianne feinstein said the same thing. let's wait for the investigation to come out before we demonize people and tell them they're wrong or treasonous. >> i think the facts will lead us where they may and we have trusted folks in there. i would prefer we just be able to trust the white house and trust donald trump, trust his team and not have to worry about a

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you have paul manafort, who's in a lot of trouble.hink that michael cohen is going to face a lot of scrutiny, as well. you know, we found out -- >> that's trump's lawyer? >> yes, that's trump's attorney. he also goes by the name michael hacking, but that was related to his taxi cab company. so he has two names. you know, i think the main point is that his family needs to be implicated in this, because they were behind a lot of these deals. so you have eric and don jr., but most importantly, you have ivanka and jared. i think those are the two key people that need to be implicated now in regards to the whole trump/russia probe. >> and sarah, one of the sort of things about donald trump that people learn when he ran for president is that he does have this long-standing kind of affinity for all things russia. he's done a lot of business there. his son bragged about a lot of their business coming from russia, a lot of their con does were brought by russian llcs or russian humans. his $90 million sale of a house in florida. but there is th

york's attorney general is investigating the real estate dealings of former trump campaign manager paul manafort. "bloomberg news" news reports a separate investigation is also underway by the manhattan district attorney. manafort oversaw the trump campaign for five months last summer. we are learning more about a missile test in north korea over the weekend. the country now claims the missile it tested... is capable of carrying a nuclear warhead. the missile flew about 500 miles before crashing in the sea of japan near the russian coast. while the missile may be capable of carrying a warhead... it's unclear if north korea can make a weapon small enough to fit on the missile. the trump administration-- denounced the test. this marks the seventh missile test since trump took the u-s is calling on the international community for tougher sanctions on north korea. new developments in a virginia protest. city leaders in charlottesville are condemning saturday night's torch-lit protest next to a controversial statue of robert e-lee. the group chanted phrases like "no more brother war" and "russia is o

paul manafort, chairman of the campaign, being paid reportedly by russia intelligence services, also being paid -- and we've seen the ledger now -- by pro russian ukrainians and then serving -- >> that was up to a decade before he served as chairman. >> right, but here's the convergence, is that he is serving as the chairman of the trump campaign when the campaign is asking the republican national committee to take out any pro ukrainian language at its republican convention, so again -- >> so, he said that he didn't do that. again, manafort said on "meet the press" that he did not, he was not the one who spoke up to change the platform. i mean -- >> do you think manafort is a credible witness? >> i'm absolutely not the one to judge, but john's point -- i mean, you need to answer his question. you made these claims of collusion. where's the evidence? >> so, roger stone. roger stone intimates to the world that john podesta is about to spend his time in the barrel. that is weeks before john podesta's e-mails are put out by guccifer 2.0, and then we see conversations that roger stone was

this is coming to get information from at least four of trump's former associates includes paul manafort. >> i have been researching. >> rejecting the request to provide records of communications with russians saying in an unusual letter that if the committee wants details they will need to ask former president obama because of surveillance that occurred during his administration. >> when carter page wants to be cooperating and all of a sudden we get another message, that's not the way to kulconduct a tho reinvestigation. >> yates expected to tell that she gave a warning. >> the attorney general informed the white house council they wanted to give a heads up to us. >> moments ago donald trump between twooetieeting about mic flynn saying he was given the highest security clearance but the fake news talking about that. of course those foreign payments michael flynn failed to disclose back in 2016 now at the center of a congressional probe and also from the defense department inspector general but also a lot of questions about the vetting process to name michael flynn as national security a