paul manafort did go beyond russia. here is what the memo says? first it says the special counsel is authorized to investigate allegations that manafort committed a crime or crimes by colluding with russians. then it also says, and this is outside of the russia scope, perhaps, that mueller is authorized to investigate manafort for money he received while working for the pro-russian head of the ukraine. as we know now, manafort has been charged with the money he made from that work. his attorneys are arguing that mueller has overstepped his jurisdiction by bringing those charges because it has nothing to do with the russia investigation. clearly what this memo shows is that the special counsel was authorized to go ahead and investigate manafort for those issues. >> we have that part of it. the memo itself is heavily redacted, correct? >> it certainly is heavy, heavily redacted. we only see a glimpse of what the scope is. that is as relates to paul manafort. it's certainly notable for what we don't see. those parts, as yo

i want to put up this document that has two paragraphs about paul manafort. it says, investigate collusion, possibly crime or crimes in the top, and then investigate payments from political groups in ukraine associated with russia. it's the black redacted part. if you're donald trump, that has to set a chill up your spine. if you see these documents, the tip of the iceberg is manafort. what does that say? we don't know about everybody else, but that is where robert mueller began. his charge from the deputy attorney general, the president's deputy attorney general. >> this document, as you said, was filed yesterday, i think sort of tells us there is a lot that robert mueller is looking at. because about where they start to talk about allegations, practically the entire page is redacted, is blacked out. if i was paul manafort, certainly i would still be worried that i could potentially face more charges involving collusion. that is where it's clear by this document that paul manafort still has exposure on, and there are other people that we know whose names hav

paul manafort is nation up to 300 plus years in prison for the allegations against him. re going to try anything and everything you can given those stakes. >> paul, as chris said, he's trying every avenue that he should, but if you look at this, and that's the avenue that he has as an option, and it clearly does not appear to be good considering what rosenstein, who oversees the mueller investigation, because the ag sessions recused himself what does that tell you? >> well, i have to agree with chris. this is an uphill battle for him. his lawyers have been extremely aggressive in trying to get this indictment dismissed. and they have made this motion and essentially this motion says two things. one, it says that they didn't have the right to be investigating this particular aspect of it. but also they say that this authorization that was given to the special counsel was so broad, allowing him to investigate so many things, that it is like a blank check. and you're supposed to appoint a special counsel to be looking at a very focused thing. and they also talk about special

paul manafort is not a veteran. the loans to him also represented almost a quarter of the bank's total loanable assets. why would you give away a quarter? the president of the bank turns out to be a trump campaign adviser. does that look a little odd? nbc news reported, though, that though the special counsel team looked at those loans, they didn't see any connection to their investigation in the special counsel's office. and so they referred that case to the u.s. attorney for the southern district in new york. they referred that case to the federal prosecutor in manhattan. it's not like the mueller investigation, mueller and his team stopped looking into manafort. they still then and are still going after manafort on a gazillion other charges. and in fact when evidence later turned up that those loans from that little chicago bank to paul manafort, they might have been a quid pro quo. they might have demand exchange for promises to the chicago bank they're he could get a big job in the trump administration. well, w

manafort's lawyers and mueller's prosecutors this is the seventh search warrant executed against paul manafortand this can't be reacted even though manafort's lawyers want that because it relates to on going investigations. that strikes me as strange given manafort is in trail in two different jurisdictions. does this seem more typical for you as someone that's been through federal prosecutions? >> it would maybe be a little unusual if this is your standard simple case but in a complex white collar investigation or public corruption case, you'll often see this wave of indictment with on going investigation and although you can't continue to use the grand jury to investigate once you indicted a defendant on certain charges, you can continue to investigate other crimes on going crimes or as you point out perhaps even crimes that manafort is not the defendant or the target that they are investigating. so a couple different possibilities here. >> over the course of a criminal trial, does the defendant and his legal team have the right to see unredacted versions of the search warrant used to obtain

comey about paul manafort who the government has admitted in open court, paul manafort has been undertion by the fbi as far back as 2014. the fbi knew that when he became chairman of the donald trump presidential campaign in 2016. is there some duty to warn? is there any sort of -- is there some action that the fbi should take? you are not asked to do background checks on people for political campaigns. when you know what you know about these folks, you know about ongoing investigations involving these people in serious matters, should something have been said? >> i don't want to talk about those in particular. in general, it depends what the facts are that started the investigation and what you have learned. the goal is always to disrupt and defeat the adversary's actions. sometimes that means building a criminal case. sometimes it means going to the person and saying we know you are hooked up, knock that off. sometimes it's a laying in the wooetds t weeds to develop sources to get close. the goal is to defeat the adversary's actions in an effort to influence the united states. >> di

it's out. >> shepard: so if you are paul manafort, what options are you now weighing? nafort, you are now 100 percent now thinking you have to flip. manafort has been very staunch. he has been aggressive. this move on the part of his defense attorneys, i can't fault them for, this look, they tried to dismiss the indictment. this is a bombshell on the part of robert mueller in terms of what they responded to, his memorandum to dismiss all the counts in the indictment. they basically said -- they called his bluff and basically said no. the special counsel has every right to do what he is doing to investigate crimes potentially committed in this arena. so, the argument that manafort had been sort of gripping to with all of his life was that the special counsel maybe had overstepped his bounds because everything, of course, came in that indictment didn't really have anything to do with his time on the trump campaign or with russian collusion, it had to do with his efforts involved in ukrainian lobbying efforts. so, he doesn't have a leg to stand on. this is a classic pee py

it's funny, katy, thinking back to the fall, we saw paul manafort as the first person to be charged inhis partner rick gates. it's been a really long time where we tried to figure out why manafort hasn't agreed to cooperate in the same way rick gates has. we're assuming rick gates is cooperating because of his guilty plea, but it seems we're getting more information of why mueller is continuing to go after manafort and why he's continuing to generate these headlines, and a lot of this came this week when we heard about this person "a," this person who rick gates communicated with, who was a known russian intelligence officer, and who rick gates knew was a russian intelligence officer in 2016. so there are more dots that are being connected as this case goes on and it's more clear why manafort is so important to this case and why the argument from the white house that manafort was someone who just came in and out of this campaign and is not close to the president and really didn't have his hands in this, that argument is not standing up, as we're seeing how closely tied manafort was wit

paul manafort continues to be a focus and it's funny, thinking back to the fall, we saw paul manafortrst person to be charged. it's been a really long time, we've tried to figure out why manafort hasn't agreed to cooperate in the same way that rick gates has. it seems that we're getting more information of why mueller is continuing to go after manafort, and why he's continuing to generate these headlines, a lot of this came this week when we heard about person a rick gates communicated with. and rick gates knew was a russian intelligence officer in 2016. there are more dots that be being connected as this case goes on. it's becoming clear why manafort is so important to this case. and why manafort was someone who came in and out of this campaign really didn't have his hands in this that argument is not standing up, as we're seeing how closely tied manafort was with the campaign. and also the connections that go to russia and the lobbying efforts they did on behalf of prorussian interests in the ukraine. >> we hear a lot about paul manafort, rick gates. we could describe this as semipe

mueller is authorized to pursue collusion charges against the president's former campaign chairman paul manafort. the documents highlights payments to manafort from the ukrainian government which have links to russian politicians and operatives. the memo says the link compels them to examine russian efforts of interference in 2016. >> the payments from ukraine to manafort is the basis for financial crimes charges he faces. manafort wants the charges dismissed claiming beyond mueller's scope because ukraine is unrelated to the campaign. the declassified memo was written in august by deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. it shows rosenstein's strong backing for the special counsel despite attacks from the president. "the wall street journal" reporting that robert mueller is expecting former campaign adviser roger stone's possible ties to wikileaks and its founder julian assange. he wrote in the 2016 e-mail that he had quote dined with julian assange last night. wikileaks released a trove of information on hillary clinton that u.s. officials say was hacked by russian operatives. >> stone said the

defending its case against former trump campaign chairman and former client of alex van der zwaan paul manafort. mueller has a formerly secret memo. shimon prokupecz breaks it down for us. what does the memo say? >> reporter: all of this happening as a result of manafort's attorney challenging the special counsel's authorization to investigate paul manafort as it relates to ukrai ukraine. this memo lays out what the special counsel was authorized to investigate by rod rosenstein, deputy attorney general, and who is overseeing the russia investigation. but really the big piece of info here is there is an active collusion investigation relating to paul manafort, it shows this scope as it relates to manafort and there is two things here in this memo that is up on your screen now really that kind of explains it, this is an allegation that the special counsel is investigating manafort committed a crime, crimes by colluding with russians, and then also says that mueller is authorized to investigate manafort for money he received while working for the pro russian head of the ukraine, which are the cha

the big question concerning paul manafort has been what's his connection to russia collusion pop so prosecutors laid some of that out. and some of that has to do with whether or not manafort had been this back channel to russia communications channel so prosecutors are saying naturally because of his long standing relationship with russians that this is something they would look at. they are looking at other communications he may have been having with the russians. really what this shows is that the prosecutors, manafort's team are not done investigating whether or not manafort and his connections are tied to any of the russians that perhaps may have been involved in collusion. >> major developments unfolding today. thank you very much. thank you to you as well. also breaking the republican allies in congress are getting what they have been demanding. access to classified memos about his conversations with president trump. let's go to our correspondent. how it could impact the russia investigation. >> the deputy attorney general has been under enormous pressure from republicans in congress who

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this is about paul manafort's double dealing. the shady business that paul manafort did on the side that had very little to do with us. what i think we learned today or at least what was confirmed today in the doj filing that was released overnight, is in fact no, there is a collusion element in the manafort investigation. despite the white house's best efforts to distance themselves from paul manafortmanafort, pau manafort led the campaign at a pivotal time, during the national convention. if there is an element to any collusion that pamanafort had wh the russians, that is a huge deal. it's not something the trump administration can walk away from. >> ned price, danny, a big thanks to you. >>> i want to bring back geoff bennett. just a few moments ago, president trump, he gave his first public comments on embattled ed epa head scott pru. >> scott pruitt, sir, you support scott pruitt? >> i hope he's going to be good. >> i hope he's going to be good. among a wave of negative headlines, it seems the white house not cutting off tie

he also worked with paul manafort and rick gates. wile talk about what he learned today and what clues we might get on where robert mueller is going with all of this. we do know he's looking at collusion with documents saying he's focussing on paul manafort. we want to know who gave him the okay to go that route. >>> we also got our eye on stocks after another day back in the red. the second quarter, initially the worse sense the great depression. worries about a trade war now. the president's fight with amazon, raising interest rates, making shaking occupy your 401 (k). we. >>> we got our twitter alert set for anything new on scott pruitt. that's later in the show. starting with nbc's ken delaney whose outside of washington. explain who alexander vanderzwan is, what he's pleading guilty to. where he fits in to this thing and what comes next. >> reporter: alexander vanderzwan is a 34-year-old butch lawyer who was working on a project for the ukrainian government that was commissioned by paul manafort and rick gates. vanderzwan didn't

he pleaded guilty for lying in his dealings with paul manafort and rick gates. this is his punishment and you see him their center screen. 30 days in prison, $20,000 in fines, a two month supervised release to remember, he lied about his last communication with richard gates who was indicted in october along with former drum campaign manager paul manafort. so when he talked with investigators, he was out with full about that and that has been kind of a theme with the mueller investigation as i pull people into talk, sometimes those people have been caught in things that they consider truthful perhaps but that the mueller investigation found out not to be true. we've been waiting for the sentencing of alex van der zwaan and we find out now the highest point of that will be the 30 days in prison and then beyond that, $20,000 in fines and two month supervised release. as we learn more about the situation, we will bring you the details. and now this fox news alert. it looks like president tom's policies on immigration are getting tougher. his administration plans to

that time it was about paul manafort. it related to some unusual loans that extended to paul manafort right after he left the trump campaign, over $15 million in loans to paul manafort from a small regional bank in chicago that seemed to have no business making those kind of loans. that bank in chicago was set up. mueller's team reportedly started looking at those loans again themselves. so that one thing involving that little bank and those loans to manafort right after the election, that's the only other time we know of on a particular matter mueller's prosecutors came across something they thought was potentially criminal but not with their agreement with the special counsel's office so they kicked it out to a part of the justice department outside the special counsel's office for them to pursue. that appears to have happened for a second time today with michael cohen. that seems important. at least in terms of understanding the importance of what happened it seems like a helpful distinction to grasp. because there are

we're continuing to hear news about paul manafort yet another search warrant for paul manafort. why is he still such major focus for this investigation? >> julie, i'm sorry. i'm looking at the camera. sdp >> i work a lot with carol. that's a compliment. paul manafort continues to be a focus. thinking back to the fall, we saw paul manafort the first person to be charged. we haven't figured out why he hasn't cooperated in the same way that rick gates has. we're assuming rick gates is cooperating because of his guilty plea. we're getting more information of why mueller is continuing go after manafort and continuing to generate these headlines. this person a. this person who rick gates communicated with who is a known russian intelligence officer and who rick gates knew what has a russian intelligence officer in 2016. there's more dots being connected as this case goes on and it's becoming more clear why manafort is so important to this case and why the white house said he just came in and out of this campaign and not close to the president and didn't have his hands in this, that ar

the idea that paul manafort's past business dealings might have very well had an impact on paul manafort's this -- that what we've seen publicly charged against paul manafort thus far appears to be ret retroactive looking business deals. this letter begins to say maybe that's not the case. maybe this is actually much more closely related to the center of the 2016 election than we currently believe. >> excellent note. >> brooke, on that point that garret just made about mueller having the goods, the memo that's redacted that's now public, there's still a lot. >> there's a lot of black. >> right. and that's almost as interesting as what has been revealed. it will be about people and other possible charges or information even about manafort that have not yet come out. he may not be done with manafort and other people that have not been revealed yet. >> what about the russian oligarch sentenced to 30 days for lying to investigators? what's the message that the mueller team is sending? >> in addition to jail he will also be deported. i think that's important. prosecutors take those things into

prosecutors are now saying and apparently paul manafort is not contesting the manafort raid was not based ontsz contractor on a no knock raid or in the dead of night even though everybody reported in detail at the time, including me, i'm sorry. this is yet another reminder whatever you think may be going on with the mueller investigation, any reporting to that effect is probably not coming from people who are actually working on the mueller investigation. special count sell's office, itself, really doesn't leak. and when people talk to reporters of what the special counsel is supposedly doing or done, we now know they often get it wrong. the special count sell's office does speak. when they do have something to say, they tends to do so on the record through public court filings. we saw that in this new filing from last night. and that brings us to the next thing, we all have been getting wrong. we can clear up. that's next. ways to lthe northern belly fat. percussion massage. not cool. freezing away fat cells with coolsculpting? now that's cool. coolsculpting safely freezes and removes fa

rod rosenstein to probe the russian connections of former trump campaign manager and chairman paul manafortining me now is former u.s. attorney paul fishman. paul, good to see you, thanks for being here. >> thanks for having me back. >> why is robert mueller interested in russian oligarchs. >> not that he is interested in russian oligarchs per se, his job is to find out if there were any ties between the trump campaign and people in russia. and he may well have obtained information from rick gates who is cooperating. or in other words about people to -- some of the russian oligarchs who may have connections. or to paul manafort. we don't know exactly what he is looking for. all we know is they're being stopped and questioned about campaign donations and other things. >> the special counsel does have clearance to probe mueller's contacted and there were other names redacted. would he want to see the russian contacts of other folks within the trump orbit as well? >> i assume that is right. and i don't think that order is a big surprise. one thing that robert mueller and rod rosenstein is good

going investigations that are not the subject of either of the current prosecutions involving paul manafort they were still executing search warrants against refacting information that relates to on going investigations that aren't the subject of either of the prosecutions involving paul ma th -- manafort. that's breaking news item number one. the second is this, a form of this -- comes in the form of this story which is just out which tells us two things. here is the first. quote, special counsel robert mueller's investigators this week questioned an associate of the trump organization involved in overseas deals with president donald trump's company in recent years. armed with subpoenas that, el t electronic records, mueller's team showed up unannounced at the home party to multiple transactions connected to trump's efforts to expand his brand abroad. part of what is very intriguing here, tonight he doesn't name this trump business associate who was questioned at his home and searched this week by the special counsel's team, but the other thing we learned is mueller's team is very keen on

a mueller lawyer questioning whether the indicted former campaign chairman paul manafort may have acted as a back channel to russia. manafort trying to convict a judge that he overstepped the authority. the justice department handing over memos written by james comey about his conversations with president trump in the months before the president fired the former fbi director. the house judiciary committee chairman threatening to issue a subpoena for those memos. we'll talk about all the breaking news and more with congressman denny hecht. and our correspondents and specialists all standing by. first, let's get straight to the breaking news with our justice investigator evan perez and white house correspondent pam ra brown. evan, the mueller team in court defending the investigation of former trump campaign chairman paul manafort. tell us what happened. >> reporter: that's right, wolf. this is a hearing focused on whether the justice department had the authority, whether the special counsel robert mueller has the jurisdiction to make these charges against paul manafort. his lawyer was ar

in addition to that, none of the charges paul manafort is facing have anything to do with any of thatof course, that it's only half the story. washington times reporting that mueller investigated paul manafort on an allegation from the never corroborated, now known to be lies that clinton bought and paid for dossier, that came from a nonnamed russian source and sources. pretty shocking but it shouldn't come as a surprise. the special counsel mueller as corrupt as they come. he doesn't seem to care about truth. doesn't care about facts. he doesn't care about evidence. doesn't care about being fair, doesn't care that he's biased. look at the tvs assembled, a team of democratic donors that donated to hillary, obama, the dnc. we can't ignore that rod rosenstein, he's a guy that appointed mueller, rosenstein is giving mueller free reign to do whatever he wants. whatever happened, by the way, to this so-called collusion? turn out to be a witch hunt. rod rosenstein, you should be ashamed of himself and frankly, he's the same guy that signed the fisa extension against trump associate carter p

they have paul manafort every which way, and clearly they're trying to push him into cooperating. resisting. every time the president suggests he might end up pardoning people, that obviously makes it easier to kind of play not making a deal. but the wealth of evidence that exists as david corn was saying earlier in this case that's already been made public is astonishing. > david, what do you think of the theory, david ignatius just mentioned, david corn, the theory of the idea of the pardon of scooter libby and floating the pardon as some kind of communication to michael cohen or paul manafort or both? >> you know, trump in previous years showed no interest in the scooter libby case. scooter libby, important to note, was convicted, prosecuted successfully for lying to the fbi and obstructing justice. now here comes trump to say you know, doesn't bother me so much if people lie to the fbi and obstruct justice to protect people in the white house which is what scooter libby did. i mean, it seems to be not a dog whistle but a bullhorn to people that i may have your back. you still h

paul manafort is challenging the special counsel's authority to prosecute him, including false statements, including money laundering, including conspiracy to defraud the united states. so manafort is trying to challenge the special counsel's authority. as a result rk, the special coul filed this long democrat which includes money from the associate attorney general. it shows the deputy association that he is conducting active oversight of the special council's vechgs. it is just an indicator in that he is really doing that, and it dates back to august. there could be other memos that have been issued in the ensuing months we don't know about that continue his written oversight in addition to what he has said has been meetings he'd had. >> it clearly underscores that mueller is investigating possible collusion, money laundering, obstruction of justice. he has a full plate moving along. >> it clearly says rod rosenstein is on board with the course of this investigation, which isn't going to make the president of the united states happy. he thinks it's all not a hoax and rod rosenstein is i

it's also interesting because it probably torpedos paul manafort's fairly hopeless argument that he should be sprung and have charges against him dropped because there was something wrong with mueller being the special counsel, manafort's argument was that mueller was running off on a wild goose chase and nobody was controlling him and he was an unaccountable lose cprosecutor. now he's answering to the department attorney general what he's pursuing but here is the thing i want you to know, something else from this filing that looks to me like it's something really important. it's from deep in the filing page 42. mueller's prosecutors give us a couple new pieces of information here. they tell us that the charges brought against paul manafort weren't just brought by special counsel robert mueller's office a alone. the charges were signed off on by main justice. they signed off on some of the charges and tax division signed off on some charges. really? that's interesting. robert mueller is not acting alone in bringing these charges in the return sussia investigat. he's getting sign off from t

paul manafort has done that, saying the special counsel is out of bounds here. you're going to see 27 pages here way lot of black in the back. you get to the back of these documents, this is evidence provided to the united states government, to a judge. paul manafort challenged the indictment saying, what does this have to do with russia? and the special counsel filed this motion with all the redacted pages. >> one of the safeguards built into this system is when evidence is seized from an attorney's office, it's seized by a privileged team of the fbi. they look at those documents and make determinations as to what is privileged or not privileged. they can go to court for a court to look at it as well, and then, as you say, john, the defense attorney wants all that is settled. then the evidence which is sort of clean or unprotected evidence. it goes to a team of prosecutors. the other thing i want us to fom sl makes this much more sensible. on a 1-off, $130,000 payment to stormy daniels as hush money, it doesn't seem you need this big a stage of activity. to me

it's still on going, specifically as it relates to paul manafort. now, the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein who is overseeing this investigation, who oversees bob mueller, in this memo was basically written, this memo was written to basically laying out the scope by which mueller and his team could conduct their investigation. now, this memo authorized them to investigate, according to the memo, crimes committed by manafort collusion with the government russian officials. it also then which authorizes bob mueller and his team to look at some of the ukrainian work that paul manafort has done including the fact that he had been charged with some of the money laundering, the government claiming that some of the money he received from the ukrainians that he was working for and hid it in offshore accounts, didn't pay taxes for it. this is a controversy here in terms of on the side of the manafort team. they've been claiming that mueller has overstepped his boundaries and that his scope in the investigation of manafort and his past money dealings an

paul manafort? >> yes. >> sarah huckabee sanders said october 30th "today's announcement has nothing to do with the president, nothing to do with the president's campaign or his campaign activity." now we don't know about the first, but it's possible that m manafort is being investigated specifically for actions taken during the president's campaign or his campaign activity, isn't it? >> yes. so mueller's charge is to, number one, investigate allegations of collusion between russia and the trump campaign. number two, any other -- any other leads that come out of that first investigation, he's allowed to do that as well. >> crimes that he uncovers -- >> exactly. so ken starr, remember, started out with this failed real estate transaction, whitewater, he ended up focusing on perjury. so that's how these investigations always kind of flow and that's what's happened here. what mueller -- what mueller's emphasizing is it's, again, not just about real estate, manafort's real estate dealings, that they are

these are -- paul manafort has been at the center of this. it would be unusual and bizarre if they weren't putting their best prosecutor in order to investigate this further. it goes back years and years and years and there's a lot there. >> may mondamon, i mentioned yo fired by trump. you have a sort of alternative fan fiction apprentice themed advertisement that just came out in your race. let's look at that. >> wouldn't you say you crossed a line in. >> i'd say i did what was right for nm. >> you're fired. when i'm in congress, your next to get fired. >> what are you saying there? >> what i'm saying is this president, president trump should serve no -- he should serve in office no longer than any day necessary according to the constitution. right now what we see is we have an investigation going on special counsel mueller. that needs to be respected an supported. also, it appears the evidence, there's enough there for impeachment hearings and in the house and looks like there's grounds for american people to vote him out of office. this pr

this all is a chain that leads back to paul manafort, who was donald trump's campaign chairfor manafortign chair for several months manafort, who was donald trump's campaign chairfor several months in the heat of the presidential campaign. as we found out from this information that was released last night, they are notjust looking at paul manafort because of what he did before he joined the trump paul manafort because of what he did before hejoined the trump campaign, that's what he's been indicted about, this is dealing with ukraine about, this is dealing with ukraine a number of years ago. they are also looking at whether paul manafort couuded looking at whether paul manafort colluded or worked with russia while he was involved with the trump campaign, and that runs at the very heart of robert mueller is try to investigate. any piece that puts more pressure on manafort that could reveal more information about what ma nafort reveal more information about what manafort may or may not have been doing, that is central to the thrust of this whole investigation. and if he cracks that open,

prosecutors are now saying and apparently paul manafort is not contesting that the manafort raid wasnock warrant and it wasn't in the dead of night, even though that's what everybody reported in detail at the time, including me. i'm sorry. and this is yet another reminder that whatever you think may be going on with the mueller investigation, any reporting to that effect is probably not coming from people who are actually working on the mueller investigation. special counsel's office itself really doesn't leak. and when people talk to reporters about what the special counsel is supposedly doing or what the special counsel has supposedly done, we now know they often get it wrong. when the special counsel's office does speak, when they do have something to say, they tend to do so on the record through public court filing, and we saw that in this new filing from last night. and that brings us to the next thing. we've also all apparently been getting wrong that we can also now clear up. that's next. t. the northern percussion massage. not cool. freezing away fat cells with coolsculpting?

comes as mueller sheds new light on his case against the president's former campaign chairman paul manafort. documents filed late last night revealing that rod rosenstein specifically stind off on two areas of investigation, the pachts manafort received for his work in ukraine, already the subject of a 32-count indictment and crucially potential collusion with russian government officials to interfere in the 2016 election. jennifer rogers and renato marriotty are both former u.s. attorneys. we also have robert costa from the west on the phone. bob, are you there? >> i'm here, chris. snifr fill me in on the story you just broke. >> so carol and i at "the washington post" just broke a big story we've been working on for a week which is an update on the mueller investigation. we know based on our reporting that bob mueller has personally informed president trump's attorneys that he remains under investigation, he is not a criminal target at this point. he's the subject of the investigation. and that means he still wants to have an interview with the president. there's negotiations on going whe

three unnamed sources reported his former lawyer john dowd broached the subject of pardons for paul manafort and mike flynn. the white house is denying the story and dowd gave a flat discussion. as far as i know, no discussions. joining us, gail troasht. mara liasson, and jessica tarlov. so the "new york times" story would be significant if pardons were potentially being dangled in front of witnesses. how does it stack up against the

you give paul manafort?uld tell him to hit his knees every night and say his prayers. this seems to be the type of thing that is in the wind right now. without a pardon, mr. manafort goes to jail. with a pardon, he does not. in terms of exit ramps in this case, katy a pardon seems like the best one for him. whether or not it happens, we'll see. >> chuck rosenberg. thank you for coming on. we appreciate night my please your. >> >>> that will wrap thing up for me this hour. ali velshi. oh, my gosh it has been wild. >> i just don't wanna. >> it's been wild. buckle up. >> i can't keep track. i can't keep -- i'm not a simple guy. i just can't keep track. >> one commercial break that hour. the ig report came out. >> from the fbi about -- >> cohen in court. new information on what was seized. >> the bradentony. >> bradentony stuff. playboy playmate. >> and then there is sarah huckabee sanders. >> let's listen to sarah huckabee sanders for a minute while we collect our thoughts. >> memorial on the ellipse it is a mo

> well, i think when you look at the pardon issue, that's complicated because the charges that paul manafortrrently facing in the indictment are state and federal and donald trump's pardon power would only extend to federal charges brought against manafort. you're definitely seeing that the investigation by mueller's team into paul manafort and the broader russian collusion question is very much on going. earlier this week we saw or last week i guess we saw that in the recent court filing that there have been a number of warrants that robert mueller's team brought in recent months against paul manafort, one of which was dated march 9th. very recently that was trying to get more information on the cell phone records of five individuals. what your seeing is that the russia collusion question is still very much being probed by mueller and his team and that paul manafort, while there are other indictments that deal with this money laundering scheme that spanned a decade or so, that that's one part of it but there is also, you know, this other side of potential deals involving donald trump, invol

paul manafort has been indicted by the special counsel robert mueller. so far at least he's pleading what -- not guilty. >> that is right. he's pleaded not guilty. but in it the court documents filed late last night by the special counsel, we learned that there are at least four different statements that were made by paul manafort that prosecutors believe that they could now use against him. one of them was made in 2013 and another in 2014. these were obviously before the trump campaign. and twice in 2017 when his apartment -- his condo in alexandria was -- searched by the fbi and arrested in 2017 and twice he made statements they believe they could use against him. obviously when you get arrested, people always say don't say anything to the investigators because everything you say can be used against you. we also learned from the court documents last night that the prosecutors clarified that the warrant that they used to search his condo in july of 2017 was not a no-knock warrant. the fbi entered at 6:00 a.m. and we and others thought maybe it was a no-

paul manafort worked for him, rick gays worked for him. he is the one who sat atop the enterprise that is the subject of a criminal investigation. the news that mueller communicated that he is subject to that investigation but not a criminal target in the context of discussions about getting him to talk to them what do you make of it? >> so here's how to read this. it's not that oh, thank goodness if you're in the white house the president's not a criminal target. it's oh, my. the president is a subject of this investigation. that's how i look at this. everything else is lawyering with regard to trying to give some comfort level to the white house that hey, hey, we're negotiating with you for an interview. no problems. we want to sit down with you. you're not a criminal target yet, mr. president. as been said previously on your show, you're a day away from that. it's only as good as the paper it's been written on. he's the subject of an investigation. he's not yet a criminal target. he could be tonight, tomorrow or whenever mueller chooses

paul manafort made what was really kind of a frivolous argument. arguing that the entire indictment should be dismissed because bob mueller was acting outside the scope of his appointment. that was a pretty frivolous argument on the face for a number of reasons. the special counsel's response filed late last night goes through in pretty painstaking detail why -- why that motion should not succeed and why the indictment should stand. i think if you look at what manafort was really up to, this was a little bit i think of a press release masquerading as a legal filing. never likely to succeed in court but i think it was his way of arguing publicly that the special counsel is acting outside his authority. that he is, you know, off on a witch-hunt. his words, we've heard the president use -- >> except -- >> appeal to the president ultimately for a pardon. >> except we've learned rosenstein said nope, it's not outside the scope. >> yes. >> because we've learned that, isn't that going to make the president more uncomfortable, more unhinged, knowing how br

on the list, billionaire oleg deripaska, who agreed to invest $19 million with paul manafort and his , rick gates. >> is it true mr. manafort owed you millions when he was head of the trump campaign? >>. >> reporter: he won't answer questions when asked by matthew chance last year. manafort agreed to provide private briefings when manafort was trump's campaign chairman. and actilexander torshin may ha used the nra to illegally funnel funds to the trump campaign. torshin reportedly played a role in an effort to arrange a meeting between trump and putin that same year. and viktorvekselberg as well. >> there may have been back channels used by oligarchs to fund the trump campaign and perhaps the inauguration as well. >> reporter: cnn reported that mueller has pinpointed at least three russian oligarchs whose identity was unknown. one was stopped when his private plane stopped in the new york city area and agents searched their electronics. >> now mueller is looking at the oligarchs directly and interviewing them in an effort to understand from their point of view what happened here. so i

it comes after trump's indicted former campaign chairman paul manafort argued in court that the case nds of the special counsel's mandate. however, the highly redacted memo drafted last august shows the manafort inquiry was approved by deputy attorney general rod rosenstein who told mueller to investigate "allegations that paul manafort committed a crime or crimes by colluding with russian government officials as well as crimes arising out of payments he received from the ukrainian government." they're looking at collusion and working on manafort but not just about his role in probable collusion but going after his business affairs generally which means he is really vulnerable. >> this is very significant, chris. some critics of the manafort prosecution argued look, money laundering, tax evasion what does that have to do with collusion with russia. now we have in black and white from the justice department there are serious allegations that paul manafort colluded. obviously, the special counsel has not confirmed that to his satisfaction. otherwise we would see charges filed. that is w

. >> plus, what paul manafort's big loss in court means for the mueller probe. and why the sudden pause in the stormy suit. and the growing firestorm over paul ryan's decision to fire the house chaplain. >> may their efforts these days guarantee that there are not winners and losers under new tax laws. >>> and as the president celebrates -- >> i get a big, big kick out of that. >> -- what to make of the historic peace talks between north and south korea. >> "all in" starts right now. >>> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. on the very same day the president took a victory lap over a republican report clearing him of any wrongdoing in the 2016 election, nbc news revealed that that lawyer, who met with the president's son during the campaign has much closer ties to the russian government than previously known. today, republicans on the house intelligence committee released their final heavily redacted report on russian interference in the election, which you'll be shocked to hear, the president hailed at total vindication. >> yaeah, we were honored. it was

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we learn more about the scope of robert mueller's investigation to former trump campaign chair paul manafort. the first sentencing in the russia probe is handed down. >> the judge has just pronounced sentence for alex van der zwaan for lying to the special counsel. he's going to have to serve 30 days in prison and pay a $20,000 fine. >>> and bearing witness 50 years after the assassination of dr. martin luther king jr. a waitress at the lorraine motel in memphis is ready to share her story of what she saw that day with craig melvin. >> what were people saying? >> there was just yelling. just yelling. you know, "they shot dr. king! they shot dr. king! somebody shot dr. king!" that's all you could hear. >>> good day. i am andrea mitchell in washington. >>> the federal court has just handed down the first sentence in special counsel robert muell mueller's russia investigation. 33-year-old lawyer alex van der zwaan, a dutch citizen and the son-in-law of a russian oligarch, was sentenced to 30 days in prison and ordered to pay a $20,000 fine. he pleaded guilty in february to lying to federal agen

he pleaded guilty for lying in his dealings with paul manafort and rick gates. punishment and you see him their center screen. 30 days in prison, $20,000 in fines, a two month supervised release to remember, he lied about his last communication with richard gates who was indicted in october along with former drum campaign manager paul manafort. so when he talked with