the mueller report explains how paul manafort briefed kalamnic in early august of 2016 on, and i yet, the -- and i quote, the state of the trump campaign and manafort's plan to win the election, end quote. including the campaign's focus on the battleground states of michigan, wisconsin, pennsylvania, and minnesota. next the mueller report documents the trump campaign's communications regarding secretary clinton's and the d.n.c.'s stolen emails. specifically, the report states, and i quote, within approximately five hours of president trump calling on russia to find secretary clinton's emails, russian intelligence agency g.r.u. officers, quote, targeted for the first time clinton's personal office. end quote. the mueller report also reveals that president trump repeatedly asked individuals affiliated with his campaign including michael flynn, quote, to find the deleted clinton emails, end quote. these efforts included suggestions to contact foreign intelligence services, russian hackers and individuals on the dark web. the report confirms that trump knew of wiki leaks releases of the s

conduct directed at paul manafort. on october 27, 2017 a grand jury in the district of columbia indicted manafort and former deputy campaign manager richard gates on multiple felony counts and on february 22, 2018 a grand jury in the eastern district of virginia indicted paul manafort and gates on additional felony counts. the charges in both cases alleged criminal conduct by manafort that began as early as 2005 and continued through 2018. in january 2018 he told gates he had spoken with the presidents personal counsel and they were caught going to take care of us. he told gates it was stupid to plead saying he had been in touch with the presidents personal counsel and repeating that they should, sit tight and will be taken care of. gates asked manafort out right if anyone mentioned pardons and manafort said no one used that word. as the proceedings against manafort progress in court told porter he never like to manafort and that manafort did not know what he was doing on the campaign . the president discussed with aids

paul manafort's campaign period contacts. immediately upon joining the campaign manafort directed gates to prepare for his review separate memoranda addressed to deripaska, akmito wind chill. i'm sorry. livichkin, the last three ukrainian oligarchs bloc officials. the memoranda described manafort's appointment to the trump campaign and indicated his willingness to consult on ukraine yan politics in the future. on march 30th 2016 gates e-mailed the memoranda and a press release, announcing manafort's appointment to kilimnik for translation and dissemination. manafort later followed up with kilimnik to ensure his messages had been delivered. emailing on april 11th 2016 to ask whether kilimnik had shown our friends the media coverage of his new role. kilimnik applied, absolutely, every article. manafort further asked how do we use to get whole? as o. vd, that olick deripaska, operation seen in kilimnik wrote back the same day, yes, i have been sending everything to victor. boirken deripaska's deputy who has been forwarding the co

he was one of that lended to paul manafort. hard for paul manafort to get money. a time he was trying to keep up his lavish life-style, was in a tremendous amount of debt. in a lot of cases he lied on loan applications. seems that stephen calk knew the truth about the financial situation and helped him lie to the bank. later the bank found out and loans were downgraded. he tried to use it as laid out in the indictment as a way to be able to sway favor and get into the pivotal trump administration when trump was a candidate. he was able to get on the council of economic advisers in 2016 and laid out a list of positions he would like, secretary of commerce, treasury, even the secretary of the army. this didn't go through in part because manafort then came off the campaign after his arrest in 2016, he couldn't curry as much favor. it showed there was pay for play and he was in the middle of it. >> thank you for the reporting on this. julia ainsley, nbc news correspondent. >>> coming up, the $16 billion aid package for farmers. second bailout for losses they sustained

so investigators came across steven calk and these loans as they were investigating paul manafort and found that they were giving him loans that other banks would not. and it's clear now that steven calk had some skin in the game for himself because hep wanted a position within the administration and thought, well, if i lend to the president's campaign manager or the candidate's campaign manager, maybe i'll have a good shot at getting something in that white house if he's elected. >> in the end, what happened? >> he was appointed to the counsel of economic advisers in august of 2016. but he never got a position within this administration. it could be that that would have gone differently if paul manafort had stayed on within the administration, but as we know, he stopped being the campaign manager before trump was even elected. but he ranked his top positions, ali, he ranked secretary of the treasury, of commerce, and even defense, something he had no experience with. and ultimately, he did not get that. and then after that, the banks' regulators downgraded the loans to manafort. but

paul manafort conspired with the russians, we have a possible conspiracy issue. paul paul manafort did not cooperate with the special prosecutor about this so it's possible you have -- and because it's possibly because of president trump's stating to him be strong, in essence, don't cooperate, he's a good guy. so we have a situation in which the attorney general didn't seem to be familiar with one of the key facts. how can he come out and -- >> paul manafort is not a random guy in this whole thing. >> no, he's the campaign manager, he met with the russian that our intelligence community believes is connected to russian intelligence. he gave that person connected to russian intelligence during the trump campaign trump polling data. this is a corroboration, collusion and possibly conspiracy. how can the attorney general of the united states not know that fact and then on top of it make a decision that there's no evidence to warrant obstruction of justice? i mean, it's just a complete -- we're living in an alternative reality where they are making up the facts. they

that this loan, that this ceo stephen cox made these loans for paul manafort even though significant ort's ability to repay and went around the normal procedures with the bank, and also entered into evidence a list of positions in the trump administration that cox wanted. number one, secretary of treasury, secretary of defense and ended up interviewing with the trump transition team to be secretary of the army and didn't get the job. what's significant about this to me is that paul manafort, even though he was fired in august of 2016 essentially from the trump campaign, he retained influence in trump world. he was in touch with people in the trump transition right up through the inauguration and able to get this guy an interview for secretary of the army out of what we know is now a corrupt relationship. questions still to be answered, who inside trump world was manafort talking to? a who agreed to give him an interview for secretary of the army. stephen cox is facing up to 30 years in prison if convicted on this serious charge. >> thanks, ken delanian. appreciate it. >>> time for a l

the federal judge in manafort's case entered an order granting the forfeiture of paul manafort's apartment in trump tower to the u.s. government to help basically make good on his ill-gotten gains and the money he ripped off as part of his crimes. after manafort was initially convicted on eight felony counts he struck a plea deal with prosecutors a in the special counsel's office to try to avoid a trial on several more counts. it was part of that deal that manafort would agree to forfeit his real estate and assets. the value of manafort's forfeiture to the government was estimated to be as much as $46 million. as many people pointed out would mean that the special counsel's investigation has more than ended up paying for itself. despite the president's frequent complaints that it cost taxpayers too much money. taxpayers made money on the mueller investigation. taxpayers made millions of dollars. and now look, here we are tonight with a trump tower apartment of our very own. we don't yet have pictures of our new apartment. we have external pictures of the building, of course. we don't have

tell him. >> i did not say paul manafort. i said specifically flynn and christie. but look you and i can spend an hour going back and forth. what i will tell you let's be real. you all applauded for two yeerps an extensive and expensive mueller investigation well i suggest it could have been done by congress. >> net, net made month basted upon paul manafort's taxes. >> let's have a basic deentcy of replying the rules to this exercise. i would be happy as a patriotic american when it's proven that nothing bad happened. let's find out. instead of just saying let's not ask questions. can you marriage what conversation you had have had if i towelled a here go ago why go through the mueller exercise nothing sure if bad things happened. >> you already are investigations into investigation. >> no. >> and there is not a single. >> and there were no. >> not a single comprehensive. >> your point doesn't hold up on that. >> there is not a single comprehensive investigation okay. the ig has a limited remit primarily looking at the fisa i

now, the president also tried to influence witnesses, like michael flynn and paul manafort while they cooperated with the special counsel. back to the mueller report. quote, with regard to flynn, the president sent private and public messages to flynn encouraging him to stay strong and conveying that the president still cared about him before he began to cooperate with the government. when flynn's attorneys withdrew him from a joint defense agreement with the president, signaling that flynn was potentially cooperating with the government, the president's personal counsel initially reminded flynn's counsel of the president's warm feelings towards flynn and said, quote, that still remains, closed quote. but when flynn's counsel reiterated that flynn could no longer share information under a joint defense agreement, the president's personal counsel stated that this decision would be interpreted as reflecting flynn's hostility towards the president. that sequence of events could have had the potential to affect flynn's decision to cooperate as well as the extent of that cooperation. with

paul manafort worked with the trump campaign.g deripaska denies the claims that the suggestion in that report that campaign information was funneled back to him through intermediaries. what i find fascinating about this interview and the southern we're about to play you president trump likes to talk about the mueller report as the end of the story. actually when you read it frankly throughout it there's evidence that he was not able to gather evidence, particularly from russian actors. now oleg deripaska was asked to give evidence to the mueller inquiry. he refused to do so on the advice of his lawyers. take a list enabout what he has to say about the range of evidence he was asked to submit. >> it's a long list of companies which they tried to get information of and just for your understanding, he was asked -- turn over documents from 2005 to present. huge documents. in my view it's completely irrelevant because it was a company. it was a stupid question just to report on every negotiation, contact with trump advisors and team.

election by leaking documents are paul manafort designed to smear the trump campaign. a few weeks ago we got nellie orr's testimony and we learned that same parliamentary member was the one feeding trump dirt to fusion gps, christopher steele and nellie orr's firm. in the time frame when he was doing both of those things, leaking the documents about manafort, providing information to fusion gps for clinton campaign and dnc he was receiving money, that's the suspicion prosecutors say, from a russian oligarch, then ended up buying an expensive apartment, just a few days after paul manafort was forced to resign from the trump campaign. beginning of an investigation in the ukraine. it's been announced the prosecutors told me they are looking at whether that russian money had something to do with his dealings on the trump campaign, the cl town campaign, and of course -- clinton campaign and paul manafort. >> sean: interesting to see if the media cares about collusion, they don't seem, to just like if they really cared about obstruction, they might care about subpoenaed e-ma

the mueller report explains how paul manafort briefed her in early august of 2016 on and i quote, the state of the trump campaign and manafort's plan to win the election, end quote. including the campaign's focus on the battleground states of michigan, wisconsin, pennsylvania and minnesota. next, the mueller report documents the trump campaign's communications regarding secretary clinton's and the dnc's stolen e-mails. specifically the report states and i wrote within approximately five hours of president trump calling on russia to find secretary clinton's e-mails, russian intelligence agency gru officers, quote, targeted for the first time clinton's personal office, end quote. the mueller report also reveals that president trump repeatedly asked individuals affiliated with his campaign, including michael flynn, quote, to find the deleted clinton e-mails, end quote. these efforts included suggestions to contact foreign intelligence services, russian hackers and individuals on the dark web. the report confirms that trump new of wikileaks releases of the stolen e-mails and received stat

so paul manafort is hired by daraposka for things related to the ukraine. they have a bunch of failed business ventures, but he's on the payroll of a russian oligarch that has interest completely misaligned with the american government and the american people. and he's on his payroll. is it permissible for someone to be paid by somebody who's an enemy of the united states and then could that individual volunteer and start to donate their time and talent and expertise to a campaign in the u.s.? i mean this -- let me interrupt for a second. one of the things i think is painfully tragic about a hearing like this, i think the vast majority of the american people are going to tune it out. and those that pay attention are going to think the only two takeaways that you need today, is that a bunch of people were pro-trump, and anti-trump, and we didn't dig into what the trump says. i think these 448 pages say a lot of important things about intelligence operations against the united states and i think it isn't just about 2016. there are important questions about 20

also in the room: trump's son-in-law jared kushner and campaign chairman paul manafort. m the "tes" wanted comment from the president, who was traveling on air force one. >> my one rings, and it's the air force one operator, you know, "can you please hold?" and it's, "i know we were supposed to have a call, i, i know we're, we're late. can you just give us a little more time? we're working on this." atd of course we now know at the front of air force one, hope hicks and president trump are kind of working on this statement. >> narrator: the president had taken charge of writing the response. >> he is at the center of it and driving it. you have the presidentph ically dictating a message that he's going to put in the name ohis son, donald trump, jr. >> the lawyers for the president are losing their minds. they are not on air force one, but they are heari secondhand that a statement is about to be issued to the "n york times." am to write a statement, just... i mean, that's juseur hour. but in fairness to these m lawyers,n, i... they couldn't control their client. they still can't control th

oon august 2, paul manafort met in new york city with konstantin kilimnik who the it fbi believes has ties to russian intelligence. it was a back door way for russia to control part of eastern ukraine. both men believed the plan would require candidate trump's ascent to succeed were he elected to be president. they discussed the status of the trump campaign and manafort's strategy for winning democratic votes in midwestern states. months before that meeting, manafort had caused internal polling data to be shared with kilimnik. the sharing continued for some number of time after their august meeting. fall, 2016. on october 7, 2016 the media released video of candidate trump speaking in graphic terms about women years earlier which was considered damaging to his candidacy. less than an hour later wiki leaks made its second release, thousands of john podesta's e-mails stolen by the gru in late march 2016. the fbi and other institutions were at the time continuing their investigation of suspected russian government efforts to interfere in the presidential election. that same day, october

paul manafort is hired by deripaska for things related to the ukraine. they have a bunch of failed business ventures together. he is on the pay roll of a russian oligarch that has interested completely disaligned with the american people. he is on his payroll. is it permissible for someone to be paid by someone who is basically an enemy of the united states? could that individual volunteer to a campaign in the u.s.? i mean this -- let me interrupt for a second and say one of the things i think is painfully tragic about a hearing like this, i think the vast majority of the american people will tune it out. those that pay attention will think the omtake aways is a bunch of people were pro trump before they came and stayed pro trump and we didn't dig into any of what the report says. i think the 448 pages say a bunch of really important things about intelligence operations against the united states people and our public and our government and our public trust. i think it isn't just about 2016. there are important questions about 2016. chairman graham summar

the only person in trump's orbit and been charged is paul manafort and basically just barely. spent 70 hours with the special counsel's office and southern district of new york with the new york attorney general. he spent 30 hours on capitol hill testifying publicly, privately. he continued to do that after. prosecutors in the southern district of new york were not willing to be lenient based off his cooperation. i don't know if they didn't feel it was substantial or there is another reason unknown but they weren't willing to give him credit. >> last question. you described the nine boxes of documents you got before congressional testimony that was blockbuster stuff. 20 more boxes of documents and a hard drive with this on it. what's happening to that stuff? >> the boxes were in his storage unit in his trump apartment building, jared and ivanka keep an apartment here, too. >> that stuff is still on storage? >> i don't know. i don't have eyes on it but that's where it was before today. >> emily jane fox, national correspondent for "vani"vanity " ". i'm hoping they are not in th

i think the only person in trump's orbit who has been charged and sentenced to more time is paul manafortarely. everyone else has been given immunity or credit for their cooperation. now, cohen spent 70 hours with the special counsel's office, he met with them eight times, he spent time with the southern district of new york, with the new york attorney general, he spent 30 hours on capitol hill testifying publicly, privately, he continued to do that after. prosecutors in the southern district of new york were not willing to be lenient based off of his cooperation. i don't know if they didn't feel his cooperation was substantial or if there's another reason that is still unknown, but they weren't willing to give him any credit. >> very briefly, last question, you've described the nine boxes of documents he got before his congressional testimony that was such blockbuster stuff. 20 more boxes of documents he got thereafter, plus a hard drive with all this stuff on it. what's happening to all that stuff while he's in jail? >> well, i know the boxes were in his storage unit in his trump apartm

this time it is not paul manafort or done -- don jr. it is rudy giuliani and heading to ukraine hoping to dig up dirt on joe biden. and he's not hiding anything. we're not meddling in an election, we're meddling in an investigation which we have the right to do. adam schiff strongly disagrees with that. >> it's stunning that the trump administration is going down the same tragic path they did in 2016. here you have the president's lawyer seeking help from a foreign government again to influence an american presidential election and it is just appalling. and his defense that he's not seeking a foreign government help in the election, just an investigation, yes, it is an investigation designed to affect one of the candidates they fear the most, joe biden. and i think it is reprehensible. >> let's go the guy who is connected all of the dots. cnn reporter michael warren is in washington. so michael, you talked to rudy giuliani this morning, first set up for me what he's after with regard to joe biden and how biden's son hunter was somehow i

they did not find evidence that campaign official such as paul manafort, george papadopoulos and carter page acted as agents of the russian government or at the direction control or request during the relevant time period. as a result the office did not charge, redacted, any other trump campaign. george papadopoulos acted as an agent or in control of the government of israel while they revealed significant ties between papadopoulos and israel and search warrants were obtained in part on that basis. the office ultimately determined that the evidence was not sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction under section 951. three campaign finance. campaign areas involved efforts or offers by foreign nationals to provide negative information about candidate clinton to the trump campaign or to distribute the information to the public to the anticipated benefit of the campaign. as explained below, the office considered whether two of the efforts in particular, the june 9 2016 meeting at trump tower, redacted, constituted prosecutable violations of the campaign finance laws. the office determin

what you're going to find is that he cheated on his taxes, he cheated the banks, and he did what paul manafort5 years in piz for. prison for. >> for those that may not remember, remember every day seems like a 400 year span. this is mitt romney talking to a lot of donors. >> the president starts off with a huge number. 47% of americans pay no income taxes. our messages of lower income tax opportunity relate. >> that tape showed he had no connection to ordinary people. it si built by a lot of polish laborers. they were going to pay their salaries, they are ripping out the wires, he uses undocumented labor. he is not just helping people and employing them, he is a cheater. i wonder if the romney stand argue has to apply to someone that helps no one and is one of the 47%. >> i like that you use theed word cheater because he is. he cheated workers, contractors, he cheated the banks and he committed fraud along the way to cheat them, and he cheated the american taxpayer. the first new york times block buster story was that his family basically defrauded the u.s. government of $400 million in taxes

paul manafort is held by oleg deripaska, ostensibly for things related to the ukraine. they have a bunch of failed business ventures together, it looks like, over time. but he's on the payroll of a russian oligarch that has interests completely misaligned with the american government, the american people, and the interest of nato. he's on his payroll. is it permissible for someone to be paid by somebody who is basically an enemy of the united states, and cut that individual just volunteer and start to donate their time and talent and expertise to a campaign in the u.s.? i mean this -- let me interrupt for a second and say, one of the things i think it's painfully tragic about hearing like this, i think the vast majority of the american people are going to tune it out. those that pay attention are going to think the only two takeaways you need to know is a bunch of people were pro trump before they came and they stayed pro, a bunch of people were anti-tribe, and the state into the we didn't dig into it the report actually says. i think is 448 page essay a bunch of really

paul manafort is going all this stuff. journalists broke his sketchy real estate transactions, but for the mueller probe, he may never have faced accountability. there is nothing fundamentally wrong with supporters of a president getting jobs in the administration. >> i went through the transition process with the obama administration. they check you out and vet you and so on. there is a lot of people, it seems who were willing to behave in a corrupt manner and engage in the acts of buying each other off in a surely arrogant manner. i will look to your cleverness about how to manage this underwriting. the next day i want to thank you for fixing my issue. the issue was a total financial failure and $300,000 of credit card debt that barred him from being extended and the very notion that there is people with this degree of -- it's as if they are not talking about -- just minor problems. they are not qualified to be receiving loans. set aside the government issue and shows a gross inequity of financial services that you can b

statements to suggest that a for in was it -- pardon manafort and gates resident did not want paul manaforto slip and cooperate with the government. volume 2, page 131. >> congresswoman joyce beatty. one, page seven. >> immediately after the november election, russian government officials and prominent russian businessmen began trying to make inroads into the new administration. the most senior levels of russian government encouraged those efforts. the russian embassy made contacts hours after the election to congratulate the president-elect and arrange a call with president clinton -- putin. several russian businessmen take up the effort from their -- taped up -- picked up the effort from their. >> the president with a second phase of conduct on attacks of the investigation, nonpublic efforts to control and efforts toboth public and private encourage witnesses not to cooperate with the investigation. volume 2, page 7. the president position as the head of the executive branch provided him with unique powers -- with unique and powerful means to influence official proceedings, subordinate of

paul manafort, who would later become campaign chairman, harm to ongoing matter, redacted. michael cohen, former executive vice president of the trump organization and special counsel to donald j. trump told the office that he recalled an incident in which he was in candidate trump's office in the trump tower, redacted. harm to ongoing matter. cohen further told the office that after wikileaks' subsequent release of stolen dncemails in 2016, president trump said something like harm to ongoing. redacted, harm to ongoing maerlts. he also spoke with canned trump. redacted. harm to ongoing matter. man fort, also redacted, harm to ongoing matter. wanted to keep apprised of any continuously redacted harm to ongoing matter throughout the footnote. developments for wikileaks and separately told gates to keep in touch, redacted. harm to ongoing matters about future wikileaks releases. according to gates, by the late summer of 2016, the trump campaign was planning a press strategy, a communications campaign and messaging based on the possible release of clinton emails to wikileaks, r

and in that situation, knowing you got carter page, paul manafort, mike flynn all out there with these contacts, why shouldn't the fbi have pursued that lead? >> okay. as i stated that was the gold narrative. and you're right about manafort and page and ties to russia. look, i testified to congress about six months ago where we actually were discussing people like alex. if you look carefully through my transcripts you'll see this is not a random concerned diplomat meeting with me. he was actually an asset sent to make contact with me. just looking at my testimony from congress, i'm sure that information will be revealed after certain materials are declassified. leading up to my meeting with downer where you suggest or "the new york times" i was drunk, even doalex downer and i confird we can't even drinking. i had one drink. the u.s. intelligence agencies, the british, australians, even the israelis made contact with me by mid-april. how did this meeting even emerge? and the surroundings and the events that led up to this meeting with downer were very suspicious. and, look, i understand

okay, where are the other ones in addition to carter page, she named papadopoulos, paul manafort, and lt. general michael flynn. if jackson lee, the congresswoman, know's what she's talking about that could be a new massive development. here now with more on his big release, house judiciary committee ranking member doug collins. thank you, we wouldn't know so much that we know but for your courage to release these closed-door testimony documents. what did you take out of yesterday, about loretta lynch and so much more? >> well, thanks, sean. one of the things that john talked about is the american people are turning because they're seeing the truth, they're seeing the testimonies that the investigators did, you saw it with my colleagues, radcliff, jordan, meadows, other. what they found out, there was a conflict, what they were finding out, there is a coverup, they knew if it was ever uncovered that there would be trouble. lynch, we knew, it was basically we've seen the incompetent she showed as attorney general. now we're seeing them turning on jim comey, who, his little run as capta

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the mueller report explains how paul manafort brief kalanick in early august of 2016 on and i quote the state of the trump campaign and manafort plan to win the election and quote including the campaign's focus on the battleground states of michigan, wisconsin, pennsylvania, and minnesota. next the mueller report documents the trump campaign's communications regarding secretary clinton's and the dnc's stolen e-mails. >>again this live comments here by california senator dianne feinstein as we are waiting. testimony and questioning her as attorney general bill barr on his characterization of the mueller report sums claiming his characterization was a false ones when he initially appeared befo >>25 clear skies overhead as epo looking great as ours other airports for any sort of travel plans you may have no visibility issues not a whole lot of wind out there either that compared to earlier this week in this past weekend when it was especially breezy at times today going to be and nice and calm what now calmer winds is good for pollen levels does a stir things up so much so we're going to s

in one case, the president sent messages to his personal lawyers to paul manafort that he would be taken care of and just, quote, sit tight, end quote. the president then publicly affirmed this communication by stating that manafort was, quote, a brave man, end quote, for refusing to break. similarly, the mueller report stated, the president used inducements in the form of positive messages about in an effort to get michael cohen not to cooperate and then turn to attacks and intimidation to deter the provision of information or undermine cohen's credibility. finally, while the march letter to congress and the april press conference left the impression there were no remaining questions to examine, this report notes several limitations mueller faced while gathering the facts that congress needed to examine. more than once, the report documents that legal conditions -- excuse me, conclusions were not drawn because witnesses refused to answer questions or failed to recall the events. in addition numerous witnesses, including but not limited to jared kushner, sarah sanders, rudolph giuliani,

mueller has taken in more than 25 million from paul manafort. zero. so this is how bad it is with this president. and he thinks we're going to believe anything. >> got it get ready for the -- he might tweet about you tonight. >> i'm ready for him. i'm challenged because i try to use facts. he's not challenged because he's fact free. >> chuck schumer went from chuck to senator and speaker. and pelosi had a new statement that said the president had a temper tantrum for us all to see. why does he get so earthed by nancy pelosi? >> she's mommy eand she's not treating him well. she's a powerful woman, a bit older than him, got authority. i don't think he likes it when women aren't taking care of him. absolutely she lives in izhead and what's weird is she doesn't have to do much, does she e? she just has to say this is a cover up. and what's amazing is his whole life has been a cover up. there's not been a thing that he's claimed. he walked out into the rose garden and covered up the real reason why this emeetling blew up. he was covering up as he's s

democratic national committee contractor were asking for ukraine's help in building the story about paul manafort and trying to tar donald trump with it. the ambassador is very clear about what happened, she came in, he has this plan to get this information, break it in congress and try to get donald trump disqualified in the election in the fall, so they have an october surprise plan, so to speak, or maybe september surprise. one of his deputies told me ukraine actually went and gathered all of the evidence to see what they had on donald trump. the investors that ultimately they chose not to give it to this woman because they knew what she was asking was unlawful intervention in the u.s. election, but pretty extraordinary that the party that gave us the russia collusion narrative, the full story, was colluding itself with the ukrainian -- are trying to collude with the ukrainian government. >> sean: john, all of the people, obstruction, obstruction, obstruction, notice that they never talk -- this is the same time period, this is what makes it so interesting. they don't care what hillary's obvio

in one case, the president sent messages through his personal lawyers to paul manafort that he would be taken care of and just, quote, sit tight, end quote. the president then publicly affirmed this communication by stating that manafort was, quote, a brave man, end quote, for refusing to break. similarly, the mueller report stated the president used inducements in the form of positive messages in an effort to get michael cohen not to cooperate and then turned to attacks the and intimidation to deter the provision of information or undermine cohen's credibility. finally, while the march letter to congress and the april press conference left the impression there were no remaining questions to examine, this report notes several limitations mueller faced while gathering the facts that congress needed to examine. more than once the report documents that legal conclusions were not drawn because witnesses refused to answer questions or failed to recall the events. in addition, numerous witnesses including but not limited to jared kushner, sarah sanders, rudy giuliani, michael flynn, steve b

what about paul manafort, what about michael flynn? was there other surveillance going on? clearly a lot of republicans in congress are looking into the investigation from the attorney general to tell them that. melissa: we wonder if they had a good reason to open this up and if they didn't we're all at risk. >> correct. melissa: let me get your reaction to me. new york city mayor bill de blasio expected to announce a 2020 next week according to "the new york daily news." a spokesperson for the mayor telling fox news that no decision has been made. what is your take? >> this is the campaign nobody wants. i mean, there has been talk about this for a while. there have been polls. citizens of new york don't want de blasio to run. de blasio's wife didn't want him to run. a lot of political consultants say there is no reason for him to run. if he wants to run in a progressive lane, there are people like bernie sanders and elizabeth warren are already doing quite well in the progressive lane. remember about being mayor. rudy giuliani talked about running for president. now we hav

mueller investigation cost that actually paul manafort has to pay $25 million which is basically thee a smorg as board. i told you about john boyd jr. it's interesting. he's been very vocal about what he thinks about the president's tariffs and policies. we've got colin quinn, dan abrams has a new book out. west point cadets will be on. the most diverse class in history, chris, from west point academy. and we're going to -- six of them are going to join us. stick to that conversation. >> i love it. prestige and progress. >> yeah. >> beautiful marriage. >> see you soon. >> see you in a little bit. >> yup. >> you hear what happened with julian assange? he's been slapped with more charges by the united states. this, for me, is not about assange. i'm not a big fan and for good reason. but listen, tough look at the case against this government. it is scary. and i'll tell you why, next. (gasp) (singsong) budget meeting! sweet. if you compare last quarter to this quarter... various: mmm. it's no wonder everything seems a little better with the creamy taste of philly, made with fresh milk an

and, you know, this is the danger that paul manafort found himself in. they dragged his accountant into court, and she was -- they produced her notes. and if trump is directing his accountants to lie, you know, that could come out and that could -- that's a big blow. >> so here the stakes are incredibly high. >> yes, the stakes are very high because this is useful information to better understand the president's finances. and it may not have even been something within the scope of the mueller investigation or not entirely. >> right, this is the red line he said you don't cross. in terms of april saying he's going to fight it and you're saying it's a live subpoena. if it doesn't get overruled the next seven days they have to hand it over, but let's say it does hypothetically just to play the appeals process out, how long does it take before we know? >> if it gets stayed by the court of appeals by the district of columbia which would be the next court up in the chain, that appeals process even if expedited would take several months to go forward, and these

some of his business dealings, but it didn't take that much work in the same way that, perhaps, paul manafortgn. you kind of look at the guy and say, huh, what's really going on here? you dig a little under the surface, and you say -- kennedy: oh, my goodness, yeah, there are a lot of bedbugs. joe, thank you for your time. joe, thank you for your time. >my insurance rates are probably gonna double. but dad, you've got allstate. with accident forgiveness they guarantee your rates won't go up just because of an accident. smart kid. indeed. are you in good hands? number 360 smart bed. it senses your movement and automatically adjusts to keep you both comfortable. save $1,000 on the new queen sleep number 360 special edition smart bed. plus, 0% interest for 36 months. ends monday. (danny)'s voice) of course you don'te because you didn't!? your job isn't doing hard work... ...it's making them do hard work... ...and getting paid for it. (vo) snap and sort your expenses to save over $4,600 at tax time. quickbooks. backing you. it's a revolution in sleep. the sleep number 360 smart bed is on sale now

the facts seem weaker than what they charged paul manafort. while mueller didn't bring any cases of obstruction, the report seems to present a lot of evidence of obstruction and it would not surprise me at all if we would not see mike flynn testifying before congress because feels like there is more to learn from mike flynn, a key witness in this investigation. >> donald trump may prepare us for that because he is generally not criticized michael flynn. obviously, we know one of his first conversations with jim comey was could you see your way going easy on him. donald trump tweeted this morning about michael flynn. it now seems general flynn was under investigation long before it was common knowledge. it would have been impossible for me to know this, but if that was the case and with me being one of two people who would become president, why was i not told so so that i could make a change? what is he talking about? >> i know the answer to that question because i reported it last year. he was not told because the fbi and investigators were co

contacts with konstantin kilimnik and polling data by paul manafort and negotiations on trump tower moscow, the meeting at trump tower new york and dealings with his father on the statement that obviously was misleading and deceptive in explaining that meeting. there are a slew of questions that the intelligence committee has to be focussed on. i'm not on the intelligence committee so i can't speak for that committee or richard burr, but he is doing his job. >> one question. he didn't have contact with constantine kilimnik? >> he didn't have the contact, but jump, jr. may have known about it. >> you had him before your committee and now that you had time to look through the whole report, do you think he lied to you when you had him before your own committee? >> there are very, very serious questions about his credibility and factualness. he should be called back to explain why he gave seemingly inaccurate answers. for example, whether he knew about the negotiations. he had only peripheral awareness. michael cohen testimony said he was in the thick of it. those kinds of misleading and inacc

say, from a russian oligarch, then ended up buying an expensive apartment, just a few days after paul manafort was forced to resign from the trump campaign.ai beginning of an investigation in the ukraine.e. it's been announced, the prosecutors told me they are w looking at whether that russian money had something to do with his dealings on the trump campaign, the clinton campaign, and of course paul manafort. >> sean: unbelievable story. it i will be interesting to seef the media really cares about collusion. they don't seem to, despite that they really cared about obstruction. i think they might care about subpoenaed emails, 33,000 deleted, bleach bit, hammers, sim cards removed. just like if they really cared about the treatment of women only for kavanaugh but not the lieutenant governor of virginia and the serious allegations there. this is now the cascade effect.s oow much deeper this going to go as we only have a few more seconds? >> listen, i think the ukraine prosecutors have to do their job, follow the money, see if the russian paid for, see if it's connected to manafort.. there's no d

trump used his pardon power to influence his associates including paul manafort and michael cohen notfully cooperate with the investigation. trump through his own statements such as complaining about people ho flip and talking to investigators and through communications between his personal counsel and manafort, cohen, gave at impression that they would be pardoned if they did not fuly cooperate with investigate perds.manafort ultimately breached add agreement to cooperate with investigators and cohen offered false testimony to congress including denying that the trump tower moscow project had extended to june, 2016 and that he and trump had discussed traveling to russia during the campaign. both men have been convicted for offering false information and manafort's lack of cooperation left open some significant questions such as why he exactlied he provided an associate in ukraine with campaign polling data which he expected to be shared with a russian oligarch. some of the president's actions were inherently corrupt, other actions were corrupt and therefore, impeachable because the p

he was a federal prosecutor in the eastern district of virginia where paul manafort was tried. he was the u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york where cases were being handled and he was the deputy attorney general that sat in rod's chair before rod. we have to take his word and his weight here seriously. and he's not out of line. this is well within the bounds of what most serious federal prosecutors have said over the last couple of weeks since the mueller report came out. but that's why it's so important. he did the digging. he left it undecided and confusing and he needs to clarify it. >> comey was generous in the way he layed this out in the town hall. he left it confusing for a specific reason. he felt he had been barred from indicting the president and it was unfair to make criminal allegations short of something that the president could be tried on. >> i hear you on that but very to hear it. we have to hear muller articulate how it is that mr. bar and mr. rosenstein found it. such an easy case to render a decision when mueller could not. the other allegatio

you saw it in the question about paul manafort and his conduct towards paul manafort when he said he wasn't just attacking flippers, it's only flipping if you lie, that's what he didn't want you to do. >> aren't flippers usually liars who find religion -- >> you saw him questioning the origins of the investigation. saw him twisting himself into a pretzel and refusing to condemn things the attorney general would always condemn, like the president encouraging someone to lie because he wanted to defend the president. to bring mueller back into it -- the attorney general's letter on may 24th so much there was a phone conversation, two letters that went back and forth. he was per it shaturbed he was misleading the american people. what has the attorney general did since then? he held a press conference to double down, and he did it today saying the report showed nothing wrong occlusion. that's not what the report shows. it said it didn't establish a crime was committed. doesn't clear the president and say he did nothing wrong. if mueller comes and testifies, if the attorney general allows