>> paul manafort is not go to guy, he's right where he should be.ampaign probably wishes they had vetted him more but he did what he did for money, that's the oldest motive known to man. he was cash-straps, so he's showing internal poles for himself, not to help donald trump at to help himself so i congratulate senate intel, they worked hard on it but in terms of takeaways when you're talking about a ukrainian or russian whose name we can barely pronounce, that is not the narrative we've been fed over the last four years, that trump colluded with russia. there is no evidence of that and keep in mind what marco said. marco didn't say there is insufficient evidence, we couldn't prove it beyond a reasonable doubt. no evidence of collusion between the trump campaign and russia. >> martha: you got two exhaustive, multi-year investigations that both came to the same conclusion. the mueller report and the senate intel report which were independent and have the exact same findings. the fbi was flawed according to the report when it came to their handling of

it describes constantine kilimnik who is the right-hand man of paul manafort in ukraine.describes him as a russian intelligence officer. that is much further than he was described publicly by the special counsel's office. and it also says that there was some evidence that that person, kilimnik, was involved in the hacking operation. that is the russian operation to hack into the dnc emails and distribute those. so that's substantial new information. >> it also says that donald trump lied to you, that donald trump's answers to the special counsel's office, to your boss robert mueller, were lies. can you talk about that? >> so you're a very careful reader because i'd say that the report elegantly tries to not use the phrase "lie" but it comes darn close. and to give you the specifics on that, the president in his written answers to the special counsel's office says he doesn't remember having communications with roger stone about wikileaks. and this report, signed off by republicans and democrats, says that roger stone actively was trying to get the information from wikileak

. >>> a rough week for team trump on the legal front from paul manafort's ties to russians to steve bannon's indictment and new rule on the president's taxes. >>> democrats making history at their convention, but with 73 days to the election, there are more challenges ahead. >>> and new reporting sob soboroff. how the family separation program got its start. >>> right now, they're working on a bill to prevent changes to the postal service before election day. they want to inject $25 billion to help them handle operational capacity. if it passes the house, it heads to the senate. the white house is already vowing a veto. america got to meet the post master general friday, the man president trump picked to make operational changes at usps that are now threatening our election. dejoy admitted to the homeland security committee there have indeed been mail delays since he took over two months ago but promised the election would not be effected. speaking on the hill, house speaker nancy pelosi said the legislation is not just about the election. >> the post master general is saying we're not going

stating that paul manafort was actually a grave counterintelligence threat because of his links to a this report raises the prospect that manafort was involved in the 2016 dnc hack and leak operations. then the report gets into roger stone, saying he did share the wikileaks intelligence directly with donald trump. and he worked at the direction of trump and his aides, shared wikileaks information to help trump. the report does something very significant. it puts on record, bipartisan, from the senate, republicans and democrats, that their committee assessment is that trump did in fact speak with stone about wikileaks. one 100 days from the presidential election. republican senators are hitting donald trump for lying to mueller. and that's not all. there's also news that the senate committee sent bipartisan referrals that other aides lied to congress, a felony, to consider potential charges. that's a lot out of a bipartisan committee. it's big news, and we're joined by david and julia. viewers remember from many russia discussions. thanks to both of you for being part of our extended

the republican-led senate committee about the connection between 2016 trump campaign chairman paul manafort the kremlin. tonight, ellen's emotional apology to her staff after she s.res her top three producer what she says about the future of her show. and finally, making history: the celebration in the sky tonight honoring the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment, which helped give women the right to vote. >> this is the "cbs evening news" with norah o'donnell, reporting from the nation's capital. >> o'donnell: good evening to our viewers in the west and thank you for joining us. we're going to begin tonight with breaking news. in a dramatic reversal by the head of the u.s. postal service. at the same time, president trump was stepping up his attacks on universal mail-in voting today, falsely suggesting it would lead to a rigged d stoputbacks at postcked offices nationwide. now, the decision by louis dejoy comes after blistering attacks from democrats and some republicans, accusing him of slowing down mail delivery in order to delay millions of mail- in ballots this fall. today, presiden

that doesn't mean that paul manafort is done. next attorney general, the next justice department, in an appropriate way, can convene a grand jury and put paul manafort before that grand jury, and ask him questions about all the things for which he has been pardoned. he can't be prosecuted for those things, but he can be asked about them. and if he lies about them, he can be prosecuted for perjury, for not telling the truth before that grand jury. and through that interaction and interrogation, we can find out exactly what happened in his interaction with the president in regard to the subject matter. what happened to his interactions with other people in the campaign. so yeah, he can't be charged if there is a pardon for the underlying conduct. but he can be put before a grand jury and then held accountable if he lies. >> attorney general eric holder, thank you so much for joining us on this evening. it's great to see you. maybe at the next convention, everyone will be back in person again. thanks so much. >> okay. good to see yo

and it's why this report says that paul manafort was a counterintelligence threat., makes clear that they never got to the bottom of robert mueller, never got to the bottom of what extent paul manafort was tied in to the russian government. what information he did provide. there's a tantalizing line that says he may have been connected to that hack and dump operation, but the evidence isn't provided, chuck. >> speaking of what i would say is circumstantial conclusions but which you now -- we now have a better understanding why the justice department, while some in the justice department tried to prosecute roger stone. he then spoke with roger stone extensively in wikileaks. this is the most damning part of the roger stone part of this inve investigation. "the washington post" released the "access hollywood" tape. witnesses involved in the debate preparation recall the team first heard the tape about an hour prior to its public release. according to jerome corsi, news of the release made its way to roger stone. corsi and stone spoke twice. once at 1:42 for 18 minutes

paul manafort.your clients, your past clients or current clients conflict in any way with the unclassified intelligence briefings that donald trump as the nominee is going to get? >> well, i have no other clients except for donald trump to start with. and i'm not getting the briefings. he's getting the briefings. >> and what about your past clients? >> i don't have any more clients. >> so that was just a hint of what we were thinking when we looked at his background. now we know it in startling detail. >> and remember that both paul manafort and roger stone were willing to lie or stonewall and accept the criminal consequences of that rather than cooperate and tell the truth because had they told the truth, they were worried that the consequences would be so shocking to the public and so harmful to president trump. and what i'm saying to my colleagues is, remember this occurred when donald trump was a candidate but without official power. now it's the same donald trump, but he has official power to s

campaign and russia according to the senate intelligence committee, former campaign chairman, paul manafortussian intelligence officer named konstantin kilimnik and briefed kilimnik on the campaign strategy for beating hillary clinton. the report also says manafort might have had a connection to russian hack and leak operations >> seth: that's right, the russia investigation is back, baby remember that whole plot line from a few seasons ago when we all got to know and love crazy characters like paul manafort, felix sater, konstantin kilimnik, george papadopoulos, and sam clovis you remember, hogan's zeros? well, they're back in the news now that senate intelligence committee has released the final volume of its russia report with the shocking finding that trump campaign manager paul manafort shared internal campaign polling data with a russian intelligence officer who may well have been involved in the hacking. this is as definitive as it gets collusion happened and the worst part is, no one cares because it's old news. it's like finding out now that the characters on "lost" really did die

specifically, the report detailed the links between then-trump campaign chair paul manafort. and constantkonstantin kilimnik. and the russian intelligence officer, quote, almost certainly helped arrange some of the first public messaging that ukraine had interfered in the united states election. the report added that the committee had identify, quote, no reliable evidence that the ukrainian government interfered with the 2016 election. and also evidence that, manafort, may have been connected to the operation to steal and leak democratic emails which if proven in court would have been constitutioned as collusion. there's that word. the report concluded that after three years of an investigation, there was no collusion. the white house reacted to the release of the senate intel's report saying in part this. after a special counsel, numerous other committee investigations and four prior reports from this committee, the senate intel report affirms what we have known for years. there was absolutely no collusion between the trump camp and russia. now, a source telling nbc news tha

it begs the question, why was paul manafort sharing this information deemed an intelligence officer of look at is it was just shocking to me the section on what paul manafort doing after he was campaign manager and after the election, he still was essentially working to put better policy positions in place for russia particularly in ukraine, but there's also discussion about iraq in there in terms of his negotiations and relationships, so i think this is a stunning revelation, throughout all of this, the plan was measures, went through the force of politics, then the politics of force and what russia did they were trying to advance their policy agenda. >> and one of the terminologies if you used in the report was hack and leak, the hacking conducted by the russians allegedly. the leak coming out from the wikileaks side. what's the significance of this report and its implications for wikileaks? >> yeah, so it's fascinating, in there they provide reference although they can't prove 100%, they say wikileaks they had to know where the information was coming from, from russia. the second pa

so, joyce vance, then there's paul manafort, who, now we know, was just completely dealing. and tell us about that angle. i mean, this was way back before trump even became president. this manafort, who's one of, you know, several who went to jail, paying the price, but we're learning so much more about exactly how deep into this he was. >> it's just another piece in this puzzle of lies that we've been talking about this morning, mika. we've always known a lot of the information around paul manafort, that he had debts worth millions of dollars to russian oligarchs, that he was working with a man named konstantin kilimnik, who was widely believed to be affiliated with the gru. the senate subcommittee actually goes a little bit further and actually i'dentifies him as someone who was working with russian intelligence. so what we see here is just this patina of lie upon lie upon lie being told by desperate people close to the president. and folks don't go in front of the senate select committee on intelligence and commit lies under oath unless they have something to hide up. that

of course, paul manafort was fired around this time in 2016.have was in business with constanti constantine kalimnik and then we go to the leaks from wikileaks from hillary clinton's campaign and the committee looks at some of that information and says, quote, trump and senior campaign officials sought to obtain advance information about wikileaks planned releases through roger stone, and at their direction stone took action to gain inside knowledge for the campaign and shared his purported intelligent directly with trump and senior campaign officials on multiple occasions. now, some of this has been muddled over the last couple of years. roger stone was found guilty of lying to congress, trying to obstruct the mueller investigation. the president has since pardoned him and he says that roger stone did nothing wrong. the president for his part has said, has denied that he remembers any of these conversations with roger stone. roger stone, however, there's plenty of evidence that was introduced in this trial that indicates that he was actively t

the report determines that trump almost certainly talked to roger stone about wikileaks, and paul manafortarly met with an individual identified as a russian intelligence officer calling manafort a grave threat to counterintelligence. the it lays bear russia's role in the 2016 election. this report leaves no doubt that on instructions of mr. putin russian intelligence sought to aid the election. that the president, mr. manafort, mr. stone and several other key campaign officials lied about the affair. he goes on to say mr. putin undeterred is once again seeking to aid mr. trump in this fall's election. the senate report and the president's reaction to it leave little doubt that mr. trump will welcome any aid that moscow provides. while it seems like russia is again trying to force a trump win, the president is simply a vehicle for putin's ultimate goal of undermining american democracy. joining me to discuss that is joyce vance, an msnbc contributor. thank you for being with us. you pointed out to my producer that senate republicans have had this information for some time. they had this sa

the report said that trump campaign chairman paul manafort represented a grave counterintelligence threaty confirmed that manafort was indeed exchanging information with a russian intelligence officer, in other words, a spy. not only that, but two pieces of information which are redacted from the report raise the possibility of manafort's potential connection to the kremlin's hack and leak operations. the committee found that russia tried to cover their tracks by accusing ukraine of election interference. and trump later seized upon that false narrative which led to his impeachment. and two of the russians at that infamous trump tower meeting with don jr., they had significant connections to russian intelligence as well. the report even delves into the salacious revealing unconfirmed allegation about trump's relationships with women in moscow, which were overheard from three different sources, two of whom also described a tape. while the report included some criticism of the fbi, it cannot be emphasized enough that committee republicans signed off on all of this. if anything, it goes furt

news media doing what the news media do figured it was a paul manafort type. b. anthony, and doris, tell the folks watching why it proved to be a controversial choice given history. >> well, in some ways it did prove to be a controversial choice, but i'll make an opposite argument. i think anything that reminds us of an important event and the struggle to get that right to vote is a good thing to do despite the fact that he was maybe using it for himself in a very different way. i mean think about the fact that susan b. anthony was indeed arrested and issued a fine because she wanted to vote in 1872. the whole women's movement had to do with trying to find that vote, and one of the key moments in the women's struggle was in 1914-1915. the war has happened, and they are picketing. the women are picketing the white house. day after day they're there, and wilson is against the idea of giving them the right of suffrage. so finally the women, they're really getting more militant, and they get arrested for obstructing traffic. they get fined. they don't accept the f

what it says about the president's judgment, at this point, the head of his 2016 campaign, paul manafort found guilty, his deputy head of the campaign rick gates found guilty, thirst national security adviser, michael flynn, guilty, his campaign roger stone, guilty, his personal lawyer, michael cohen guilty. so the president's own new campaign manager bill steppian two weeks ago said "i think you need to judge joe biden by the people he's surrounding himself with." by that standard i think president trump is looking really, really damaged, and the last thing i'll say about this is that there's also some other breaking news out of that same court, the southern district of new york, just in the last few minutes. president trump's case against cy vance, trying to subpoena information about him has been decided against president trump as well. so this is the rule of law asserting itself, taking its time but coming back. >> for folks we are expecting to see president trump within the next hour at the white house. he has a state visit there before he departs the white house and heads up to pen

paul manafort during the 2016 campaign. steve bannon now using his association with donald trump and the immigration policy to raise an amount of money on go fund me and it was all a fraud. that is pure projection, nicolle. obviously no one in obama's inner circle was indicted. it was remarkably scandal free as you pointed out. it's his mechanism of deflection, of avoiding the elephant in the room, which is he has not only surrounded himself with the best people, he's surrounded himself with criminals and that's what you get when you sort of lead from the top in the way that he has. >> i want to go through the two developments and explain them to me, dan goldman. take me through why the southern district of new york would use the postal service which is very much in the news right now for another reason, donald trump's efforts to corrupt it to slow mail-in voting ahead of november. why have they made the arrest and what happens next? >> the first thing to know is this is clearly an investigation that's gone on for sometime.

and the president's campaign chairman was arrested, paul manafort, the president said quote, i didn't know manafort well, he wasn't with the campaign long. he was with the campaign as you know for a very short period of time. when lev and igor were arrested back in october, all the pictures emerged all of different times they had been with the president, remember when they got arrested, president said about lev and igor, quote, i don't know these gentlemen. why are you in all the pictures with them then? national security adviser pled guilty, what the white house said about mike flynn when he got charged. michael flynn was quote, a former obama administration official who did have volunteer work for the campaign. he was national security adviser! when roger stone was arrested for things he did and things he lied about during the presidential campaign, president tried the same thing. you know, roger didn't work for me in the campaign, except way at the beginning, long before we're talking about him. this is how loyalty works. loyalty demands are infinite. the loyalty reciprocity, what,

michael cohen, paul manafort and roger stone just to name a few. the president asked about the former campaign adviser earlier today. >> i feel very badly. i haven't been dealing with him for a long period of time as most of the people in this room know. he was involved in our campaign. he worked for goldman sachs. he worked for a lot of companies but he was involved at our campaign and for a small part of the administration very early on. i haven't been dealing with him at all. i know nothing about the project other than i didn't like when i read about it i didn't like it. i said this is for government. not for private people and sounded like showboating and i think let my opinion strongly stated at the time. i didn't like it. showboating maybe looking for funds and you will have to see what happens. i think it's a very sad thing for mr. bannon. >> cnn's cara scanel joining me from outside the courthouse. what can we expect from today's court appearance? >> reporter: anderson, we are just learning that steve bannon is expected to appear in court i

one, we know the campaign chairman, paul manafort for donald trump met more than once with a russianpy and gave him polling data that was secret so the russians could decide how they wanted to go without influencing the 2016 election. two we know ford, don jr. and jared met with two intelligencen trump tower canadians trying to steer the trump campaign thed three we know that roger stone rained on wikileaks through met area to steal emails from hillary clinton and to publicize them which the trump campaign did using stolen goods. so call it what you want, that is what exactly happened. so many notion that the trump campaign with a trump white house has been putting up there is a hoax here is absolutely blown out o out of te water. >> richard -- it is absolutely a hoax, and you don't have to, okay. >> shannon: hold on a second, this was a bipartisan investigation. and they do say the trump campaign because of inexperience was a good target for a number of these rations because people didn't know what they were dealing with. but they found no collisions between them and this is a bipar

one, we know that the campaign chairman paul manafort for donald trump met more than once with a russianpy and gave him polling data that was secret so that the russians can decide how to go about influencing the 2016 election. we know that manafort, don junior and jared met with two russian intelligence agents in trump tower were trying to steer the trump campaign the russians way and 3, we know that roger stone leaned on wikileaks or intermediary to steal emails from hillary clinton and publicized in which the trump campaign did using stolen goods so call it what you want, that is what has happened so any notion that the trump campaign for the trump white house that there is a hoax here is blown out of the water. this -- it is absolutely a hoax and you don't have foreign power. shannon: this was a bipartisan investigation and they do say because of its inexperienced the trump campaign was a good target for a number of russians because they didn't know what they were dealing with but they found no collusion between them and this is a bipartisan report. response what richard said about t

it's very sad. , paul manafort, steve bannon -- what does it say about your judgment? was great lawlessness in the obama administration. they spied on our campaign illegally. if you look at all the scandals they had, they had tremendous lawlessness, but i was not involved in the project. i have no idea who was, but i can tell you, i did not know the people -- the three people that were talked about were people i did not know. i don't believe i ever met them. i don't really that should be a privately financed wall. i don't think -- it's too complex, too big. in another week and a half, we will be up to 300 miles of wall at the highest level. they were even having construction problems. i was reading -- the little i know about it i got from you. i was reading with ar having construction problems with the wall that they had a small area just to show people they could build a wall, and they were having a lot of problems where it was toppling over and other things, and i did not like it because i did not want to be associated with that. we built a very powerful wall. it was

this as a committee concluded that paul manafort's ties to russia pose a grave counterintelligence threat during the 2016 campaign. we'll talk with the former head of the f.b.i., james comey. and we'll get the latest on the coronavirus from dr. scott gottlieb, and then talk with the robert robins, as some schools are forced to make dramatic changes in their covid era learning plans as children head back to school. it is all ahead on "face the nation." ♪ >> brennan: good morning, and welcome to "face the nation." with just 10 weeks until election day, former vice president joe biden has maintained his 10-point lead over president trump, following the democratic convention, according to our cbs news battleground tracker. and there is yet another scandal facing theent on tof his convention, into audio recordings have surfaced of president trump's sister, mary, sha brother. cbs news has obtained those tapes, but we have not independently verified their authenticity. weijia jiang reports. >> reporter: the recordings paint president trump as a liar who does not read, and even paid someone to ta

and if he doesn't think that they had good reason to look at paul manafort, then, he doesn't understand anything about law and order. and he knows all these things, don, and he is lying to people, anyway. but more importantly than the man, more importantly than the message, is the moment. my brother, these are heavy days. people are getting sick. two out of three of us, now, know somebody who's had covid. >> yeah. and that's what this election is going to -- going to be about. but i have to say, we shouldn't, you know, we're talking about the former president a lot. and listen. this was kamala harris's night. we are going to pay her -- give her honors, because she deserves it. but i -- i -- i can cannot really speak enough about how unprecedented this is. what the former president did. i talked to you, last night, chris. i said to you, there is this gentlemen's agreement that current and former presidents have. you don't criticize a sitting president. you barely criticize the president before you. you may say that we're in this mess because his administration dug a hole. but certainly,

president, this isn't just about steve bannon, it's about michael cohen, rick gates, paul manafort, michael flynn, the list continues. i said, what does it say about your judgment, what does it say about the culture of lawlessness in the upper echelons of your campaign? the president said, "i don't know about that," then he pivoted to a more comfortable place and attacked the obama administration. he was also asked by jeff mason about the russia bounties issue and the president said he doesn't know if that's true. "the new york times" reports, and i'm preaching to the choir here because you know this better than anybody, the secretary of state warned russia's foreign minister against those bounties, so that suggests, as our reporting indicates, that it's legitimate. >> and just picking up on your previous point about all those indictments and convictions or guilt y pleas from people arou the president and his campaign, phil, you ran through the list, let's run through the list again, we're putting it up onscreen. this is a litany of people at the top echelons of the 2016 campaign. phil? >>

when the president's campaign chairman was arrested, paul manafort, the president said, quote, i didn't know manafort well. he wasn't with the campaign long. he was with the campaign, as you know, for a very short period of time. when -- my guys. when lev and igor were arrested back in october, remember that? and all those pictures emerged of all the different times that lev and igor, of all people, had been with the president. remember what he said when they got arrested? quote, i don't know those gentlemen. why are you in all these pictures with them, then? when the president's national security adviser pled guilty to felony charges, do you remember the trump white house, what they said about mike flynn when he got charged? they put out a statement saying that michael flynn was, quote, a former obama administration official who did some volunteer work for the campaign. he was national security adviser. when roger stone was arrested for things he did and things he lied about during the presidential campaign, the president tried the same thing. he said, now, you know, roger didn't work

four years ago paul manafort was the chairman of the enterprise. mike flynn led lock her up. you know, almost got locked up. don jr. is one of the last remaining redacted sections because he either lied to mueller or took the fifth. eric trump has been subpoenaed by the new york ag. they are different people than they were. and what they say, an open question about this convention is is it just the that of them. the that is that they will all show up this week. or are voters, the ones that voted for him last time interested in what has transpired in the last three and a half or are they just frozen in time? >> well, as we have been talking about, the president's adult children are all expected to speak during the convention, including the two who continue to run the president's business, donald jr. and eric trump, which means they are in the news today in a way that is inconvenient given the timing of this convention-like thing tonight. the attorney general of new york has now announced she's investigating the trump family business for misleading financial lenders by inflatin

it's rick gates, paul manafort, michael cohen. what's it say about your judgment these are the kind of people you are affiliated with? >> well, i have no idea. >> how did these people get into trump's inner circle? trump has no idea. i should note we cutoff the sound bite because the president then went on into a lie about the obama administration. there is no need to amplify those lies. but trump made an effort to brand himself as the president of law and order. look at the people he surrounds himself with. look at him. robert mueller detailed nearly a dozen potential instances of obstruction of justice by trump during the russia investigation. trump paid $2 million in fines and closed his family foundation after admitting that it had used donations to pay campaign and business expenses, some personal expenses, too. the prosecutors in that case are still investigating trump's banking and tax conduct. federal prosecutors in new york, the ones that bring charges -- that are bringing charges against steve bannon are looking at alleg

one is that the guy that paul manafort was working with labeled in the senate report as, quote, russianfic officer, mueller report said ties to russian intelligence, senate report released by republicans said he's a russian spy who appeared to be running paul manafort as an asset. october 7th, 2016, "access hollywood" tape drops and wikileaks released the emails of john podesta, on a friday. according to the report, no coincidence, didn't look like one. roger stone told his pal corsi to make it happen. wanted the podesta stuff to balance the news cycle. and stone told him to have wikileaks drop those emails immediately. it was what it looked like all along. how in the world did robert mueller not know that? how are we finding out about it now? joining me now to talk about it jeffrey toobin, author of "true crimes and misdemeanors," which centers on the mueller investigations. that one line in the senate intelligence report that says kilimnik is a russian intelligence officer. for years heard ties to russian intelligence, trained by gru. that's incredible thing to include and not what mu

it's very sad. >> roger stone, michael flynn, paul manafort, michael cohen.it say about your judgment -- >> well, i have no idea -- >> -- lawlessness. >> there was great lawlessness in the obama administration. they spied on our campaign illegally. if you look at all the things and all the scandals they had, they had tremendous lawlessness. i was not involved in the project. i had no idea who was. i can tell you, i didn't know -- the three people talked about were people i did not know. i don't believe i even met them. i don't think that should be a privately financed wall it's too compl complex, too big. we're now up to 300 miles, almost. in another week, week and a half we'll be up to 300 miles of wall at the highest level. they were even having construction problems. i was reading -- the little i know about it i got from you. i was reading where they were having construction problems with the wall, they had a small area just to show people they could build a wall and having a pr lot of problems where it was toppling over and a lot of things. i didn't like

. >> it's roger stone, michael flynn, rick gates, paul manafort, michael cohen.does it say about your judgment that these people were indicted and the culture of lawlessness -- >> there was great lawlessness in the obama administration. they spied on our campaign illegally. if you look at all of the things and all of the scandals they had, they had tremendous lawlessness. but i know nothing about -- i was not involved in the project. >> if there was a drinking game. bannon is now one of seven trump associates from his campaign and administration who have been criminally charged in less than four years. by comparison, here is how that number stacks up against trump's predecessor, barack obama. oh, wait, 0, 0 of obama's people were indicted in his eight years as president. joining me now is glenn kirschner and kurt bardella. i'm going to ask you first, kurt, what you make of this. is it all just a grift, this xenophobia and building a wall to keep out the brown folks. is it all just a grift? >> i thought mexico was supposed to pay for the wall. why there even needs

but on paul manafort the former trump campaign cochairman, it goes further than the mueller report, sayinge was in close touch with a russian intelligence officer, who became a business partner. it says manafort posed a grave counterintelligence threat the report says he may even have been connected to russia's hacking and leaking of hillary clinton campaign e-mails, an operation it says was actually directed by russian president putin. as for the notion promoted by president trump that it was the government of ukraine that tried to meddle in the election not russia, the report says that idea originated in russia as propaganda. and the report says trump's foreign policy team was so inexperienced that it left itself open during the transition to russian manipulation lester >> pete williams, thanks >>> tonight another major university is going online for two weeks as the covid crisis shakes up learning the university of notre dame becoming the second in two days to reverse course on in-person classes. our morgan radford is at the university of north carolina at chapel hill. >> reporter: toni

now, jake, what would make paul manafort a grave counterintelligence threat?l, this report identifies his longtime associate constantine as a russian intelligence officer for the first time and says that he may have been involved in that russian effort, that russian intelligence effort to get the democratic national emails to steal them and make them public. >> all right, kaitlan collins at the white house, thank you so much. >>> coming up next, the alternative today offered by dr. anthony fauci for college campuses in coronavirus hot spots. stay with us. ♪ ♪ take the good, with the bad ♪ live the life you want to have ♪ ♪ send it off, with a bang ♪ ♪ ♪ whistling [ indistinguishable muffled words ] pre-order now and get up to $150 samsung credit. ♪ where everybody knows ♪ someyour name ♪ant to go ♪ and they're always glad you came ♪ applebee's. now that's eating good in the neighborhood. good morning, mr. sun. good morning, blair. [ chuckles ] whoo. i'm gonna grow big and strong. yes, you are. i'm gonna get this place all clean. i'll give you a hand. and i'm g

. >> respectfully, sir, it's not just steve bannon, roger stone, michael flynn, rick gates, paul manafort michael cohen, what does it say about your judgment that these are the kind of people to have - >> i have no idea. >> reporter: president trump said he knew nothing about the fund raising effort longtime ally kris kobach said the "new york times" in an interview last year the president said m project has my blessing. you can tell the media that >> kris kobach said you endorsed the wall. >> i didn't know that. i didn't know about bannon's involvement it was something i felt was inappropriate to be doing. >> reporter: steve bannon's court hearing ended today with his attorney entering a plea of not guilty on his behalf he was released on a $5 million bond with restrictions against private jet or yacht travel. >> geoff bennett at the white house, thank you. >>> to joe biden's big night in the middle of his third run for the white house he is now just hours away from accepting his party's nomination for president. it comes after former president obama's denunciation of president trump las

governments involved and other activities that manifested themselves around myself, general flynn, paul manafortcarter page. this could not have emanated from a low-level fbi agent like kevin klein smith or even workers like peter strzok or lisa page. this must have come from the top, and we now know based on declassified information that president obama and joe biden were directly involved in the una -- unmasking of general michael flynn and other campaign associates. we're till learning more about who that might have been. gerry: robert mueller says that, you know, it's fairly straightforward, you were told in the spring of 2016 that the russians had dirt on hillary clinton, and that was communicated ultimately to the campaign. and then we did see in the summer of 2016 a whole release through wikipedia about leaks from the democratic national committee, and they say, look, that's too much of a coincidence, right? here we have somebody telling the campaign or communicating to the campaign that the russians have dirt on hillary clinton, and a couple months later we see this is related to the pub

it comes on the heels of the intelligence committee report about paul manafort saying that he kind ofivered data to the russians so that is not a good moment for donald trump. on the other hand asked to be expected, he says he has nothing to do with it and he did not know about it and he has not been there for many months, if not years. donald trump is known as teflon don and i think it will not matter to his voter base. brent: we will see if it matters, election day in november. venus poll in delaware, thank you. well, the pandemic is reshaping the biotech industry as investors pile into support small companies in the hope that they can produce a vaccine. one of the firms in this race is the german company curevac whose ceo has told dw news aims to have a vaccine on the market by next year. >> a german pharmaceutical compmpany, 20 yearss old, 480 employees and dreams of changing the world. it has its sights set on the most sought-afafter of prizes,sa roronavis vaccine and a a newly liststed company i is making progress. >> we are planning to have the vaccine ready somewhere next year

the ump campaign paul manafort secretly was meeting with an agent russian intelligence providing that agent with internal polling data to help elect donald trump. these are really profound acts of corruption. a crime or not is one question. but they are clearly unethical, immoral and wrong. >> do you think these acts of corruption are in the past? do you belie there are current links between the trump campaign the trump presidential campaign and russian intelligence now? >> you know i can't say that the corruption in terms of trying to get foreign help to this campaign is in the past. as we insaw after ting russia to help him in 2016 he then went on to try to force ukraine p to hm. according to john bolton he also begged enchina's pres to help his campaign. so whathe and others may be doing right now i can't say. but you can certainly conclude that there is nothing about his character that would preclude him from corruptly seeking foreign help again. everything about his character would suggest that kind of unethical conduct will continue. >> i do want to talk about imth us package wh