so in that time period mueller's team is saying that paul manafort did have these communications. rtainly it raises the question why did manafort tell prosecutors he didn't have these communications with people within the trump administration and trying to convey these messages to them. what was it about? that certainly raises a lot of questions. >> now in all of these documents we have multiple times in which cohen describes contacts with administration officials in 2017/2018. the special counsel is saying paul manafort, you lied about your contacts with administration officials. so what this does, despite donald trump's tweet and he's cleared, and of course he's not, but is it takes it inside, not just the campaign but inside the administration. i think that, you know, that is a big, important piece of information that we are learning tonight. >> yeah. i think it raises more questions about what exactly the obstruction inquiry is looking into. i mean as you pointed out, we now have in the cohen filing his cooperation with the special counsel about contacts with the white house in

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mueller's office says that paul manafort testified to a federal grand jury twice in the past six weeks. twice, which suggests prosecutors were using manafort to build a criminal case against someone else. and then there's this from page 9 of the filing. quote, the evidence demonstrates that manafort had contacts with administration officials. manafort said in february 2018 that he had been in communication with a senior administration official up through february 2018, which raises a very significant question. why is paul manafort talking to people in the white house as recently as this year? but that's not the only thing we learned about the mueller investigation today. sources telling cnn that white house chief of staff john kelly has been interviewed by mueller's team. the questions centering on kelly's recollection of the president's reaction to reporting about how he had tried to fire mueller. now sources say kelly, who is widely believed to have one foot out the door, is not on speaking terms with his boss. you know who else doesn't appear to be on speaking terms with his former

mueller's office says that paul manafort testified to a federal grand jury twice in the past six weeks. twice, which suggests prosecutors were using manafort to build a criminal case against someone else. and then there's this from page 9 of the filing. quote, the evidence demonstrates that manafort had contacts with administration officials. manafort said in february 2018 that he had been in communication with a senior administration official up through february 2018, which raises a very significant question. why is paul manafort talking to people in the white house as recently as this year? but that's not the only thing we learned about the mueller investigation today. sources telling cnn that white house chief of staff john kelly has been interviewed by mueller's team. the questions centering on kelly's recollection of the president's reaction to reporting about how he had tried to fire mueller. now sources say kelly, who is widely believed to have one foot out the door, is not on speaking terms with his boss. you know who else doesn't appear to be on speaking terms with his former

"the guardian" story about whether paul manafort went to london. paul is a bad guy to spent a lot of time in jail for something that had nothing to do with the campaign. because they want click bait, that's what happens. so the president has to use his megaphone to push back on these stories. dave: this story is days old. nobody in the mainstream media, the garbage they continue to put out there on this julian assange story. howie: it's hard to prove. dave: the embassy where this meeting was supposed to happen, security cameras. the media stakes this out all the time. there would be one shred of evidence if this happened and not one person a week later has been able to say it happened. howie: you guys write the media is nothing more than the public relations arm of the democratic party. i get there is bias and stories that are wrong. p.r. for the democrats? dave: the new york times, cnn, msnbc, they are super pacs for the democratic party. howie: they broke the hillary clinton story. that doesn't sounds like a super pac to me. dave: if you look at t

the judge in the case of former trump campaign chairman, paul manafort, is demanding more details of his alleged lies to the special counsel, robert mueller. tonight, why she wants to meet again in january, and why manafort's lawyers may not want to talk. >>> and pleading for mercy. we're standing by for a sentencing memo from former national security adviser, michael flynn's attorneys. the first time we'll hear flynn's side of the story about lying to the fbi and his cooperation with the mueller team. >>> i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> this is cnn breaking news. >> we're following breaking news. president trump doubling down on a government shutdown, saying a few moments ago, and i'm quoting the president now, i don't mind owning that. that came a short time after a jaw-dropping meeting between the president and top two democrats in congress clashing in the oval office on live television over funding for his border wall. i'll talk about the breaking news this hour with senator richard blumenthal of the judiciary committee. and our correspondents, analysts and s

meanwhile, we're getting some details about paul manafort's alleged lies to the special counsel that plea deal. mueller says manafort lied about his contact with trump administration officials after donald trump took office, including that he had been in contact with officials as recently as this spring. prosecutors write, quote, in a text message from may 26th, 2018, manafort authorized a person to speak with an administration official on manafort's behalf. that could be key because as "the washington post" points out, the text message came two days after trump issued a posthumous pardon to boxer jack johnson and he has raised the possibility of pardoning manafort. let's bring in our panel former prosecutor cynthia oxley and maya wiley, senior vice president for social justice is back with me, paul butler, professor of law at georgetown law school, david corn, mother jones' washington bureau chief and elliott williams, former deputy assistant attorney general. thank you all very much for being here. all right. i'm going to raise the question that i raised in the previous hour about

right now attorneys for paul manafort are back in court in washington, d.c. where they will respond to accusations that the former trump campaign chairman lied to him. the special counsel's office says the move violated manafort's plea deal and that hearing is just one of several developments in the russia investigation taking place this week. you can see for yourself. we are also expecting michael flynn to ask a judge for no jail time today. prosecutors will have their chance to reply friday. tomorrow trump's former lawyer, fixer michael cohen will be sentenced and then a mystery grand jury hearing will be scheduled. so what should be happening there today? >> brooke, a lot could happen or very little could happen. this a scheduling hearing. this is something that could take place on paper traditionally but for some reason the judge has called on both sides to show up today. we do know that paul manafort himself, who is in jail in virginia about 30 minutes away, he has waived his right to be there so he will not be there. and the fact that this is taking pla

click or visit a retail store today. >>> former trump campaign chairman, paul manafort, that's the otherf of the story of the government filings that came out yesterday evening. manafort will be sentenced in march as you look forward. this after he was accused of breaching his plea deal with the fbi and the special counsel's office. mueller and his team released two separate filings. this just yesterday, fried, one is still under seal. we don't know what it's in it at the moment. it has more details of manafort's alleged crimes and lies. the other filing, which is public, heavily redacted, you can see all the way on the right side, a lot of black lines. it does lay out five key lies that manafort allegedly told, including his contact with suspected russian spy constantine kalemnek and alleged participation in obstruction of justice and a wire transfort for a firm working for manafort with information relating to a justice department investigation and his contacts with trump administration officials. mueller's team goes further, alleging manafort told a person to talk to a trump administr

lawyers for paul manafort were back in court today. d while we were expecting to hear a response to the prosecution's assertion that manafort lied about his contacts with associates tied to russia and the trump administratio

the country, had a meeting with paul manafort. ed about how manafort would make good with a guy he owed money to. he clearly lied about that. >> he could give them intel on the election. >> that's right. access to the trump campaign. the thing i find so interesting about the filing is the that is correct all of that is blacked out. what that tells you is that relationship with kilimnik while he was the campaign their are something still relevant to the russia investigation. we have heard from the president over and over again, i think we heard it from sarah sanders tonight, that the things paul manafort has been prosecuted for have nothing to do with the president. all about his business before he came to work for the president. we found out tonight that is absolutely not true. >> i'm looking at this document. and the redactions, this number one, the interactions with kilimnik, this whole thing is redacted. it's almost impossible, i don't know, ken, when you're reading this, what you can make out. >> well, there is a reference to a

it's a strange predicament paul manafort has himself in. he lied, according to this document, about things that were provable. either that or he didn't realize, perhaps -- some of these things he's said to have lied about, including interactions with this guy kilimnik, the special counsel has documentary evidence, emalts, text, phone communications to prove his lies, did he not realize they had this capacity by now? >> talk about kilimnix. >> he was manafort's right-hand man in ukraine when manafort was representing that russian-backed ukrainian politician. he spoke the language, manafort didn't, he made the trains run on time. there is some suspicion he was a russian operative the entire time. and the role that he's played in manafort's interactions with russians during the campaign and his role with the trump organization, that's always been a mystery. as you said, he is indicted as part of this obstruction conspiracy, but he's in russia now, so he's out of reach of justice, that's the most intriguing thing about this filing. the second m

he's the business fixer for paul manafort and later on in the time as paul manafort was involved with why would paul manafort want to protect? why would he be willing to not tell the truth or lie around this particular business fixer at this time? >> you know, it's hard to know for sure. paul manafort's behavior has been to any outside observer occasionally irrational. after he was indicted he engaged in a new crime of witness tampering after he struck a plea deal with prosecutors in september. he now has engaged in new crimes of lying and possibly obstruction of justice. we're not entirely sure all the allegations on the table and the special counsel has not ruled out filing new charges on paul manafort before he's sentenced last year. why he hasn't been wanting to talk about the ties to russian intelligence, it's a message that he was a fixer. what exactly he was fixing is still unclear. still redacted, i'm afraid. >> still redacted. the seals indictment could be much larger than the 7 or 10 pages that we've seen from the mueller filings as of yesterday. mike, when we look at this o

paul manafort's attorney saying that paul manafort had a meeting with ecuadorian president to discuss a possible deal regarding julian assange. why has julian assange become a central focal point of this investigation? >> because julian assange is the connection to wikileaks. wikileaks may be the connection to russia, and that of course mueller's team has already concluded that russians were involved and committed crimes involving the united states election. that is the nexus. roger stone may be telling the truth that he has had no contact, personal contact with julian assange. paul manafort may be telling the truth that he had no personal contact or never met julian assange but all the conspirators need not have personally met or signed an agreement or shook hands or even negotiated the terms of this agreement so long as a group of folks, more than two, get together and agree to some unholy alliance, they can all be held liable for all the other conspirators' activities. >> to that point, there's been a lot of activity in washington, d.c. what is the mood like there with all of the d

don't go too terribly far. >> rudy giuliani says robert mueller believes paul manafort is lying aboutt trump. we'll talk about former white house counsel and get perspective on that. mueller's team believes manafort is lying about president trump. plus, breaking his silence after flying under the radar since his state department departure, fire secretary of state rex tillerson is talking claiming some of the president's ideas would have broken the law. missed out on this. don't worry, the biggest deal is happening right now at t-mobile. when you buy one of the latest sumsung phones you get a free 50" samsung 4k tv. seriously, no! [announcer]seriously! t-mobile is giving you a free 50" tv. you gotta be kidding me. this deal won't last long. so get your free samsung tv at t-mobile store today. woooo!! pop pop pop!! i saw my leg did not look right. i landed. i was just finishing a ride. i felt this awful pain in my chest. i had a pe blood clot in my lung. i was scared. i had a dvt blood clot. having one really puts you in danger of having another. my doctor and i chose xarelto®. xarelto®

you look at paul manafort. tomorrow we will be told some, at least, of what he has been lying about. and you think manafort is a key playerier and there might be key information. >> sure. just one question i focus on. when you look at what manafort was involved in before when he got the guilty plea, it was about money. a lot of the conversation about michael cohen is about money. the question i want to know is the question everybody asks. manafort was at the center of the allegation when there is allegations there was contact and cooperation with wikileaks. a, is that correct. and b, is he lying, not about money, which he's already been convicted on but lying to protect inappropriate interactions. >> and it will be interesting to see how much of that we could get out of this memo, too. how much is redacted obviously in the flynn filings. in terms of what we did learn, you said if you were donald trump's attorney that this would cause you great concern. >> yes. i spent a couple of decades as a defense lawyer, and

liz: let's stay on the breaking news about michael cohen and paul manafort. icating russia tried to reach trump as early as 2014. and manafort lied about tie to the russian military hacking the democrats. your take on all of this. >> my head is spinning over all the information that continues to come out with both of these individuals. but when it comes to the entire thing, the investigation with robert mueller. this has been going on for over two years. the money, time and resources and we don't have concrete answers to the initial terms and charges which was russian collusion with president trump and his campaign people. what are the answers? and will we ever find out the truth to what's going on? liz: as of this moment, when you look at what's going on. no proof president trump worked with the russians to hack into the democrats. there is no evidence of that right now. that's why the president is tweeting out, i'm in the clear. thank you. >> there is no hard proof yet, that's why the investigation is ongoing. over the course of this investigation, a number

and paul manafort, who is accused of violating his deal could also face new charges for lying again. plus remembering 41. the new details on final arrangements to honor the legacy of president george h.w. bush. his remains go to washington tomorrow where he will lie in state at the capital rotunda. >>> president trump and chinese president xi jinping agree to a temporary cease-fire in the mounting battle over tariffs. what the 90 day delay could mean for wall street and for main street. >>> several more developments are expected just this week. in days in robert mueller's russia investigation. watch tuesday. we expect to learn more details about former national security adviser michael flynn lies to federal agents. those details expected to be revealed when prosecutors file a sentencing memorandum. also watch friday. that's when prosecutors will turn into -- turn them in, their detailed accounting of how former trump campaign manager paul manafort lied to them and how he breached his cooperation agreement with them. plus we're watching this. mueller is believed to be zeroing in on lo

robert mueller will also make the case that paul manafort, the former trump campaign chairman, lied tonvestigators and breached his plea deal. let's begin with manafort and jessica schneider outside the district court in washington for us. jessi jessica, what are we expecting to learn today? >> well, another day of watching and waiting here in washington. we're expecting at any minute, really, that filing from the special counsel could come down. now, prosecutors have to tell the judge why they believe that paul manafort lied during their plea talks and what exactly he lied about. because remember, it was at the beginning of last week when prosecutors dropped that bombshell, saying they were calling off the cooperation deal with paul manafort because they say he lied about various different subjects at several different meetings. really, the past two weeks we have been left to wonder what exactly did paul manafort lie about. the key question here, we wonder if it will be answered today in the filings, is did paul manafort lie at all about the trump campaign. about then-candidate donald

a close associate of paul manafort with alleged ties to moscow intelligence agencies. ly redacted filing, the evidence of the above includes electronic communications, including detailed descriptions, draft and travel records. after being told of such evidence. manafort conceded that he and kilimnik discussed or may have discussed at each meeting. he's a shadowy figure. this picture that manafort is also in, one of the few known photos showing him. kilimnik was manafort's right handman for years. they did business with russia in ukraine. and a russian oligarch, said to be close to vladimir putin. manafort denies including with russians, questions continue to swirl around his interactions with kilimnik. the mueller team saying they were in contact with russian intelligence services, meddling in the 2016 election. when asked about cnn today, putin spokesman with a vehement denial. >> we are quite tired of following these jaw dropping investigations. we don't know these persons mentioned in the investigation, these new names. >> in the past, vladimir putin has defended pre

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if i were president trump, i would pardon paul manafort, i would commute the sentence of michael flynnnd be done with that those cargo. the only reason those people were prosecuted is because of politics, not because of their crimes. if manafort was going to be prosecuted as a consequence of his tax crimes or lobbying crimes, that would have happened more than a decade ago. you know who is in the decision tree for that? rod rosenstein. he wasn't initially prosecuted. manafort faces consequences, not as a result of what he did, but as a result of his service in the trump campaign. that is why we have to have the pardon power, so you have overzealous prosecutors going after people because of their politics. the president should pardon him right away. cohen, very different story appeared he is being called to account for his present day improper conduct. the southern district of new york may be right that he should get a long prison sentence. >> martha: we will see. back to comey for a moment, when he came out of the room and spoke with reporters, the suggestion that the fisa process was

he sees this, and erin, i think back to when the president was saying, oh, paul manafort's issue has to do with me. this is about his taxes and other things. well, it does. you know, just knowing that the manafort team had been in contact with the president of the united states at the very at least that's unethical. at the very least, it's unethical. and now the president is saying, oh, he was a good boy, i'm going to possibly keep the issue of a pardon on the table. at first, they didn't know what to do. he was like, they weren't thinking about it. now, i'm thinking about it. and now that's probably even changed now with what we're hearing today with these filings and then with this cohen issue, the president needs to be worried, because there is evidence out there, not only does the president need to be worried, but those who bear his name need to be worried because they are involved as well with that -- the russia meeting. you know, and all of these payments. this does not bode well for the president, and it's going to be a slow process, i'm not even going to say impeachment right

or did paul manafort simply lie about some of his business interests in ukraine?was the focus of the trial out in virginia where he was convicted on eight counts. so the filing here, it could drop at any time. it's expected definitely before midnight. the special counsel has said that they will reveal some of it in public, but again, like we saw earlier this week with the michael flynn filing, a lot of it could be redacted. so jim and poppy, we continue to wait and wonder here in washington, but that big filing on paul manafort expected today. >> any minute now possible. jessica, we know you'll bring it to us once it happens. the other big thing waiting to drop relates to michael cohen. mj lee is here on a pivotal day for the man who once bragged he would, quote, take a bullet for president trump, no longer. mj, what do we expect to be revealed today? >> jim and poppy, we know what michael cohen wants and what he wants is leniency at his sentencing hearing next week. he wants as little time, jail time, as possible, and in fact, hiss lawyers argued last week that h

then we have a bombshell report that "the guardian" put out last waoe week that paul manafort may have met with julian assange, the founder of wikileaks, over -- perhaps even multiple times during the campaign and before the campaign. then there are all sorts of breadcrumbs and unanswered questions in this investigation that we still have to get to. >> garrett, thank you for laying that out. >> they are such important questions. i want to start with the first one you brought up because it's fascinating to so many people. carrie, i will slthrow this oneo you. the fact that it's being handled by robert mueller, and certain things were passed on to the southern district because it made more sense. what is your take? >> senator burr gave us insights to this last week when he gave remarks at an academic conference, and he, of course s. the chairman of the senate intelligence committee, and he made reference to the plea and the committee referred several matters to the special counsel's office, and he made a point that said if individuals lie to the senate intelligence committee that that co

paul manafort's lawyers dispute that. - - says investigators are looking beyond paul manafort. >> it means that paul manafort was doubledealing basically been going through the pretense of cooperating but he was an underhanded way, supplying information to the trump legal defense team and president trump continues to dangle a pardon which adds the growing body of evidence that the president is involved in obstructing justice. that is the ultimate significance here. >>reporter: president trump has said mueller's team has treated paul manafort quote, so poorly and that he hasn't taken anything, such as a pardon, off the table. >> thank you molly. >> i have an update now from the southern border. that's where - - are forcing t1 officials, shutting down the sports complex they've been using as a shelter for those migrants. 6000 central american migrants are being told they are moving to a former concert venue that happens to be further away from the border because they have to get them out of that stadium. vice president mike pence is the same again mexico will work together on a more ma

lawyers for paul manafort were back in court today. and while we were expecting to hear a response to the prosecution's assertion that manafort lied about his contacts with associates tied to russia and the trump administration just this year, it seems the defense team needs a little more time. raising the question, did manafort also lie to his own lawyers? we're within 24 hours after the sentencing of michael cohen. he's implicated the president in a legal scheme to defraud voters by covering up sexual relationships just ahead of the election. the cohen sentencing document from the southern district of new york suggesting that the president may for all intents and purposes be an unindicted co-conspirator. also expected this week, the sentencing of mike flynn. robert mueller's investigation describes flynn as having provided substantial cooperation. axios describes this moment for donald trump as a reality tremor, writing, "last week's stunning court filings detonated what one official calls a reality tremor that has white house officia

she also writes about paul manafort and writes that the government's filing in mr. manafort's case has absolutely nothing about the president. it says even less about collusion and is devoted almost entirely to lobbying related issues. once again, the media is trying to create a story where there isn't one. that's certainly not the case, especially considering it was revealed that paul manafort was having conversations with a senior administration official as recently as may. something that was not addressed in this statement either, as we noted previously, jeremy noted the president tweeted these documents clear him. the question of whether he staunl understands he is individual one in the documents is still out there. individual one directed michael cohen to commit campaign finance violatio violations. we'll ask the president as he departs later today to attend the army, navy game, fred. >> all right. he doesn't usually pass up an opportunity to speak. we'll see if he'll do that today. all right. boris sanchez, thank you so much. joining me to discuss, former assis

ken, kristen talked about paul manafort. you, i think, just got off the phone with paul manafort's spokesperson confirming the deals of "the new york times" reporting that he tried to broker a deal with ecuador. what's up? >> that's right. his spokesman says that he does not dispute this "new york times" report and in fact he says it's accurate that paul manafort did discuss with the president of ecuador in may of 2017 a possible -- the possibility of trying to get julian asa juli julian asa julian assange back to the united states. they're wanting to get assange out of the embassy in london and the real purpose of the meeting was to discuss chinese investments and the power sector. and the times said and we have no reason to dispute that there was no indication that this had noig anything to do with russian election interference. there are allegations or suspicions that julian assange coordinated with roger stone and other people who had connections to the trump campaign. this is all what robert mueller is vekting. its no t

the one here related to paul manafort. the special counsel's team must detail to the judge exactly how they believe that paul manafort lied and what he lied about during these plea talks. remember, it was at the beginning of last week when the special counsel's team revealed that they believe that paul manafort has lied about multiple subjects over several different meetings, but in that past two weeks we have been led to wonder what exactly did paul manafort lie about. the question will be in these filings. will the special counsel reveal what he lied about. and the key question being did paul manafort lie about anything to do with the trump campaign, with the president himself who at the time was the candidate? did he lie about anything possibly related to any possible collusion between the trump campaign and russia or were these lies, instead, about paul manafort's business and trysts in ukraine. remember, he faced that trial in virginia related to that and was convicted eed on eight counts. if paul manafort lied about

paul manafort alleged read oleg deripaska millions of dollars.he story quotes a middle man as saying he pressured manafort during the height of the 2016 presidential race to pay it back and that manafort offered ways to do so. so what does that mean? well, essentially that a powerful russian may have had leverage over the future president's campaign chairman. the same being investigating for possible collusion with the kremlin. matthew chance is live for us in moscow. matthe you have tried to question him about these reports. but he's a difficult man to get in touch with. tell us what he told you. >> reporter: you're right. he is a very difficult man to get hold of. once you get hold of him, he's a difficult man to question as i found out last november in vietnam. when i approached him a russian billionaire close to vladimir putin in a legal dispute with paul manafort over the loss of millions of dollars in a business venture that went wrong, i asked him about those allegations that paul manafort when he was the campaign chief for donald trump of

there is open source reporting that has sort of followed the saga of paul manafort and konstantin kilimnik and how manafort's business entanglements and russian entanglements followed him into his involvement in the trump campaign. because of that open source reporting, it seems possible that one of the things that could be behind the redactions here could be related to manafort's knowledge of a meeting that allegedly happened during the presidential campaign between manafort's own right-hand man kilimnik and this russian oligarch named oleg deripaska. russian oligarch to whom manafort reportedly owed money, and to whom manafort reportedly offered private briefings about the campaign while he was still trump's campaign chair. but, again, that is my inference. this section of the filing is all blacked out. we will take some expert advice later on this hour as to whether or not it is a reasonable inference i am making here as to whether something having to do with oleg deripaska and meeting with konstantin kilimnik might be one of the things that paul manafort is allegedly lying here to pros

>> reporter: alison, he is an important figure to paul manafort. he worked for paul manafort for a long time while manafort was working in eastern europe and in ukraine. they also worked for a russian oligarch who is close to vladimir putin. as you mentioned, the mueller investigation claims that kilimnik has ties to the organization and manafort stating he did not meet kilimnik, but the mueller team confronted manafort with the lies. this is a heavily redacted document which reports the evidence includes electronic communications and drafted and travel documents. manafort conceded he and kilimnik discussed or may have discussed -- another redacted part -- at each meeting. kilimnik is accused of tampering with witnesses after manafort got arrested. someone of big interest to the mueller investigation. just quickly, we are on a conference call with the kremlin. if we get more reaction from them on this matter, i'll bring it to you soon. alison. >> thank you. fred pleitgen, thank you. >>> james comey calling out for donald trump's defeat in 2020. the

neither is paul manafort. definitely some interesting connections. >> what does $19 million worth of access look like? but there's a lot going on. a mystery case in mueller's russia probe, challenged all the way up to the supreme court. >> right. this is that mystery secret case here. it involves a -- few details have been revealed on this, except that an unnamed foreign government-owned company has been found in contempt for not complying with a grand jury subpoena related to the special counsel's investigation. so this unknown company, they've been fighting every step of the way. and while the two d.c. federal courts have said now that the company must hand over information about its commercial activity in relation to this criminal investigation, the company has asked the supreme court to stop the citation they got for not complying. it's a citation where they would actually be fined for every day they were in violation of this. now, two days before christmas, the chief justice, john roberts, he actually gav

some of these emerged during paul manafort's trial in virginia. a lot more of this when the mueller report comes out or whatever new charges might be coming from mueller, too. >> jack, you were in the middle of a shutdown. it is going on. there doesn't seem to be any closed door negotiations trying to wrap this thing up. there's just no movement, but democrats will have these votes when they take over control of the house. to what effect though? what is the end game here? >> it feels like they're sort of moving things around, right? >> just doing something to do something? >> right. only president trump knows the end game because mitch mcconnell is waiting for president trump to say what he will sign. and even if he says it, there is no guarantee until his signature is on the paper -- i mean how many times have we been in a situation where there's a deal in the house and the senate and the president undermines, cuts the legs out of his own republicans. now we have democrats, he's going to have to come to them with something because they're not goi

it's not about paul manafort.s about one person, donald trump. >> this is the first time that federal prosecutors are accusing the president of the united states of having directed a crime. >> the department of justice today in the most explicit terms said the president of the united states committed two felonies. >> synergy. >> cinergy sounds a little collusiony. >> donald trump must be impeached. pete: conclusiony. i heard that word in there. pete: can't say conclusion it's conclusiony. pete: conclusionist. friday was a very bad for president trump. conventional business doll, he said a very bad day for president trump. it said the walls are closing in. ed: we have heard that before. pete: papadopoulos is out of jail. flynn, nothing. cohen he was dabbling in taxi medallion and sold a fancy hand bag for $30,000. >> bottom line don't lie to the feds or cheat on your taxes. pete: they are hunting trump down not looking for the original mandate of the special counsel. ed: michael cohen document, we need to point out

and the filings also state trump campaign chairman paul manafort lied about five major issues after he cooperate, that includes recent contact with administration officials and contacts manafort had with a russian national with ties to russian military intelligence. >>> at least six people are dead, dozens more wounded after a stampede that took place in an italian night club. this happened during a rap concert near florence. local officials tweeted that the panic started when someone sprayed an irritant substance. >>> more than 1500 yellow vest protesters are on the streets of paris, these pictures from moments ago when tear gas was fired into the crowds. they are calling for economic reforms and are critical of the president's policies. officials are prepared for the protests to turn violence there. they took in more than 300 people for questioning before the demonstration started and we understand at some point some 1500 are on the streets of paris. let's get insights now into what is happening with agnes. we appreciate your time and perspective. let's look at these live images ever

as far as paul manafort is concerned, he's screwed. to go to prison for the rest of his life because the plea agreement he signed not only binds him to the federal government for the rest of his life, but presidential pardons are only for federal offenses, and the types of reply and the types of crimes against paul manafort would take a presidential pardon off the table. >> a lot of people including republicans are advising the president against a pardon of paul manafort, saying it would definitely be a step too far. to listen what marco rubio said this morning on cnn's "state of the union." >> it would be a mistake and i would strongly counsel against it. i don't think that in my view the presidential pardon power was not created for these sorts of purposes. i just think it would be the wrong thing to do and it would be a huge political mistake as well. >> to be quite honest, it's not first time we've heard republicans have this tough talk only to be followed by complete inaction when trump does crosses the line. is there a reason to

and paul manafort was putting himself out there and i think on one obvious potential implication couldrt was lying and hiding about things and wanted to coordinate those lies and make sure people knew so he got credit for keeping the secrets. >> if you're in the white house, wouldn't you be worried about any further inference or overreach or obstruction of justice if you're talking to, you know, a witness in a case? wouldn't you worry that now that opens you up for another charge? >> well, for sure. yes, of course. it's always dangerous to be talking to somebody who is the subject of a federal investigation. there's always -- you have to be careful about doing that and how you do it and what you say. on top of that, although it's gone back and forth at least for a lot of time this year, paul manafort was somebody that the white house was saying wasn't that involved with trump, didn't -- you know, trying to distance him from -- >> yes, he wasn't with the campaign very long. >> right, so why the heck are you reaching out to this guy and having direct conversations with him when he's faci

but so is the fact that paul manafort, his plea deal with mueller collapsed this week. manafort, hisl -- his d falling apart, does that mean he's going to break at some point, roz, and be a cooperative witness like a micha coe went or does this mean he's going to face another trial and more trouble down the road? >> there was a hearing in the special council's office told the judge that they had not decided whether to pursue further charges against himor his new lies where his crimes and lies. and it does seem like the ship has sailed for him to be a corporating witness. this is not what an attorney wants to reach a deal. i think he's likely to come around. we're going tomp see antant development a week from today when the special council ice office goes into court and details for the judge all of his lies, all of the ways in which -- >> why do they have tos detail things? >> it's part of the way to tell the judge that his pleaeal has been breached and he's not deserving of leniency for having assisted. otherwise he would get a break in his sentence. they're going to fil

paul manafort and michael cohen. jessica shnig iica schneider isd i want to begin with you, jess. what are we expected to learn about the manafort filings today? >> we could learn about how paul manafort lied. what he lied about and most crucially, whether or not paul manafort lied about the trump campaign and the president himself or even any collusion between the trump campaign and russia. if that's what the lives are about, we may learn and we may not. if that's what the lies were about, that sends more shock waives through washington and rock the special counsel's case. mueller's team told us they expect part of this filing to be public. we are not sure which points will be made public and on the flip side, which will be redacted. it's about two weeks ago. the beginning of last week when they dropped this bombshell and calling off the cooperation deal and they said he lied about various subjects during a number of meetings that paul manafort had with the special counsel's office. you will remember they have been working with the special have two counts. one of conspiracy and on

and even worse for paul manafort. paul manafort had his cooperation agreement ripped up by the special counsel's office. because he continued to lie, too. so you can't just tell some truths. you have to tell the whole truth, all of the time. >> and nothing but the truth. stay right there. i want to bring back shimon prokupecz to bring us more explanation about what's going on with the other cohen document right now, which has to do with robert mueller. >> right. >> shimon, what is robert mueller recommending when it comes to prison time, if any, for president trump's former fixer, michael cohen? >> he's not -- they're not recommending any specific jail time. but i will say to you that what the special counsel is actually arguing here helps michael cohen. whereas what we see the way in which the southern district is arguing, it's not very helpful to him. so two things here in this mueller document. first thing is that they say that the information michael cohen has provided has been credible and consistent with other e

later in the week. >> judge, paul manafort has tonight to sleep on it.s got tomorrow. he's got thursday, and his lawyers have a telephone. they can call robert mueller and start talking again. >> the problem is that his credibility -- whatever is left of his credibility was shot. and, in fact, in some ways mueller was strategizing. you can see how this works together. it was a bit of flynn and a manafort show. if you cooperate, you get what flynn got. no jail time. remarkable, given that flynn was where a lot of this started. flynn was involved with setting up the secret line with kushner december 1st, 2016. the two of them, kushner and flynn and kislyak, are setting up a secret line of back channels and yet flynn today is getting no jail time based on mueller's recommendation. on the other hand -- that's the carrot. on the other hand, there's the stick, manafort. and one other thing people haven't noticed, what else is at stake for manafort? his family. he was making sure that this plea deal allowed his wife to keep the house. that is in jeopardy now, r

but of course, he was in this disastrous business deal with paul manafort. ed up owing him millions of dollars, or at least that's the contention of deripaska. you know, manafort then offered these private briefings to oleg deripaska when he was the campaign chairman for donald trump as a way of getting whole, in his words, with oleg deripaska. i tracked down oleg deripaska, a very difficult guy to meet, in vietnam last november, put some of these questions to him. take a listen. >> did manafort owe you billions of dollars when he was the head of the trump campaign? we just want the real news. we want the real truth. did he owe you millions of dollars? >> it's news for idiots. >> did he offer those private briefings to try to repay that debt, mr. deripaska? can you just answer me that, please? it's a big issue in the united states, sir. did he offer you those private briefings to try and repay some of that debt to you? is that why he offered them? >> get lost, please. thank you. >> reporter: yeah, just let that hang there. i couldn't come back with a snappy r

but then again, you look at paul manafort, someone in this position, where he really didn't come forward what will be really key in this is the fact that manafort continued to lie not only after he was charged but in the thick of the plea agreement where he agreed to come forward and tell everything. he still didn't say he had been in touch with white house officials. and as we're looking to the next of this week, if that name comes forward, that's when this doesn't just become about paul manafort but becomes about this administration. if they continue to have contacts with paul manafort, knowing the trouble he was in and while they distanced themselves from him only a public stage, if they continue to talk to him behind the scenes during this legal trouble, that could be -- spell a lot of problems for this administration. >> all right. nbc's julia ainsley in washington. julia, thank you for that. >>> and house democrats, meanwhile, are not letting up on the president following friday's release of multiple court filings from the special counsel in the southern district of new york on don