it turned out that was for paul manafort.ut the white house got wind of the fact that we issued that grand jury subpoena and called up and demanded to know whether we were doing a financial investigation of the president, that that was a red line. at that early stage in the investigation where there was this sort of dam close over us as to whether we were going to be fired from one day to the next, the decision was made better to let the investigation go forward and put the financial investigation on hold. the issue i have is that that decision was not revisited and that we really should have done the financial investigation. and many of the questions that people have from the new york times reporting would have been answered. >> in a normal prosecution that doesn't involve the president when a suspect or a target of an investigation tells you some thinged are red lined, don't go there, wouldn't you take that as an indication of that's where the crime was? >> that would be a red flag. usually when someone is saying don't look

that intelligence committee report did say bluntly, though, is that the trump campaign chair, paul manafort, was regularly communicating with a guy who was a russian intelligence officer, this guy konstantin kilimnik, and giving him internal campaign documents. did manafort know that kilimnik was a russian intelligence officer when he was giving him all this internal stuff from the trump organization, all of this strategically sensitive stuff? >> whether he knew or not, he is a savvy enough man, having traveled the world. and in the circles he frequented, he darn well knew somehow that that information could make its way to the russian intelligence services. and that's a really interesting point. you know, at the time my understanding of kilimnik was very much in alignment with how the mueller report describes him. ssci went first. they called him an intelligence officer, and that's a much more certain description. i don't know what caused that change and what additional intelligence might have come to light. but i would note that report was signed off by every single republican on the comm

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 stra 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 in the plane crash "huh, so the i

we did this kind of tax case with respect to paul manafort. is we followed the money with respect to paul manafort, but we weren't able to and didn't follow the money with respect to the president of the united states. and what you want to do is you want to look at what is actually reported in the returns, and then you compare it to what it is the trump organization and donald trump knew at the time. what was he telling his accountants? one of the reasons you have the president fighting so hard to keep the information about what -- that his accountants have from the manhattan district attorney's office because that is critical information. i describe in the book, when we found that information with respect to paul manafort, that was an a-ha moment, where we knew that we now had a tax case because we could compare what he knew internally versus what he was telling the irs. >> would his tax assembler, his tax person, whoever it was, would that person also -- or that company also potentially be indictable? >> potentially, but you have to remember

in 2016 it was the president's campaign chairman, paul manafort who was working closely in that election. while russia -- it is his personal lawyer, rudy giuliani. again, working closely while russia is again messing with our election to keep trump in the white house. it is not just that russia wants to do this or russia wants to do this again. it is that point that you are getting a lot of help and those closest to the president. there is more. russian hackers have targeted 200 groups tied to u.s. elections. in addition to political consultants and state and national parties, its recent target included advocacies and state and national parties. >> the hackers relied on spear fishing and attack that voinvols another person, to steal log-in potential and it deploy force attacks. microsoft detected these eattacs from china and iran. microsoft says it took time for the firm to tie this activity to russia. the russian hackers had become savvier this time running their operations through a thousand different i.p. addresses. here is "the new york times." the intelligence unit attacked the dnc

paul manafort, quote, conducted influence operations that supported and were a part of russian active measures campaigns, including those involving political influence and electoral interference. quote, manafort's relationship with russian government-aligned interests began with his introduction to oleg deripaska, an oligarch, in approximately 2004. since at least that time, deripaska, the russian oligarch, has acted as a proxy for the russian state and intelligence services. deripaska has managed and financed kremlin-approved and directed active measures campaigns, including information operations and election interference efforts. deripaska has conducted these activities in an effort to install pro-kremlin regimes to control local economies and politicians and to strengthen kremlin-aligned power brokers across the globe. the committee has limited insight into the origins of manafort's relationship with this oligarch oleg deripaska but likely began in 2004. the report then continues, michael caputo, a former employee of a firm run by manafort and several others, including roger stone

they didn't charge paul manafort with any of those criminal conspiracy related crimes.y an unindicted coconspirator to any of the charges that the special counsel levied. he was actually an unindicted conspirator. he didn't conspire with anyone to commit obstruction of justice or perjury. and the southern district is a different animal because the special counsel's office treated -- i think michael cohen is a great example. the special counsel's office operated under different rules because there's no institutional precedent they had to follow. whereas in the southern district of new york, they did not sign michael cohen up as a cooperator. the special counsel's office used his information freely. but the southern district of new york would need michael cohen to testify in order to charge donald trump with campaign finance fraud. as of right now as we sit here, michael cohen is not an available witness to the southern district. >> frank figliuzzi, what i'm reminded of reading the reporting on andrew weissmann's book is we never got our answers. why did donald trump have

and with that political character and culture as it was formed with the paul manafort like characters and because there is a conspiracy. >> i'm ready maybe people realize and then invite me to do a radio show. >> this is tension during that period so i have a great quotation from goldwater and said the east coast and with that campaign commercial. and then the southwest. so can you just talk about geographic and with those generational gaps. >> and with those in light of that insight in a british journalist and also a historian of the 1968 election. and basically the history of the postwar american consensus. and with that conservative movement and talk by his first trip to arizona nearly sixties and when becoming a national figure in writing about it with a plantation. and a lot were talk about being colonized and they were suing for their independence. and making the president 1964 with the baking reserves the west of the mississippi really was a colony on wall street and that's why the greatest term of derision that was wall street republicans with the political and cultural and ec

in a lie. >> they kept it open for the purpose to lay a perjury charge for flynn. >> reporter: paul manafortrman. according to a new report, manafort was a grave counterintelligence threat, who sought to secretly share with the russian intelligence officer sensitive campaign polling data. if it is their polls, isn't it theirs to give to whoever they want to give? >> if you're giving that to somebody who is passing it to a foreign adversary who is targeting our elections, how is that possibly okay? >> reporter: is it a crime? >> whether or not it is a crime, it is unequivocably unpatriotic. >> reporter: by the time manafort was charged, he was no longer on the case. july 21st, 2016, the summer before the election, trump is a disaster. and then one week later you open that crossfire hurricane investigation. i mean, it just looks like you saw a way to stop donald trump from becoming president of the united states. >> i can understand why some people might think that, but they had nothing to do with each other. >> reporter: one week after strzok opened the investigation, lisa page texted him, tr

they cite the case of paul manafort who was the trump campaign chairman, was working directly with someone the u.s. intelligence community considered to be a russian intelligence officer. do you accept that? >> i accept that russia made some efforts to influence the election. i wouldn't say i necessarily accept the characterization -- >> but do you agree with what the senate intelligence committee concluded that russia did directly interfere in the 2016 presidential election with the goal of helping donald trump? >> based on the intelligence i've seen, i don't dispute an assessment that they attempted to interfere. >> i know we're almost out of time. you got a lot of stuff going on and i'm grateful to you for joining us. this is an important interview. if the president is re-elected, do you want to stay on as the attorney general? >> that would be presumptuous for me to say anything on that. i'm not going to. >> but what do you think? >> i'm not going to discuss -- >> are you enjoying what you're doing? >> i wouldn't don't use the word enjoy. [ laughter ] >> you enjoyed it more the first t

special counsel mueller and the senate intelligence committee found that the trump campaign manager, paul manafort, gave internal polling data and campaign strategy to a russian intelligence officer. the senate intelligence committee issued the bipartisan finding that manafort was a grave counter intelligence threat. i'd like to put in the record this report of the senate's select committee on intelligence, mr. chairman. thank you very much. would you agree that a direct tie between a presidential campaign manager and a russian intelligence officer is a grave counter intelligence threat? >> yes. >> could you tell us why please? >> because someone occupying a role in the heart of american democracy running a campaign is in a position to supply information about that campaign or the workings of our democracy to a foreign adversary. that's the definition of a counter intelligence threat. >> so you would agree that this type of counter intelligence threat does warrant investigation? >> yes, of course. >> the senate intelligence committee determined manafort's presence on the campaign and proximity to

. >> including paul manafort, who was convicted on eight counts of financial fraud.campaign advisor, who pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi. and the mueller team found evidence of at least ten potential instances of president trump himself obstructing justice. yet the special counsel could not find prosecutable evidence of conspiracy with russia. >> there's no obstruction, collusion, no nothing. >> a false trump mantra. coming up, another white house crisis. >> i'm the first person to ever get impeachd and there's no crime. >> and the ripple effects of russia. still your best friend. and now your co-pilot. still a father. but now a friend. still an electric car. just more electrifying. still a night out. but everything fits in. still hard work. just a little easier. still a legend. just more legendary. chevrolet. making life's journey, just better. think you need to buy expensive skincare products [♪] to see dramatic results? try olay skin care. just one jar of micro-sculpting cream has the hydrating power of 5 jars of a prestige cream, which helps plump skin cells a

which with this was a campaign of sleazy grifters with all kinds of counterintelligence exposure, paul manafortgiven their coordination with russian intelligence assets but they never crossed the line into criminal behavior and were willing to be played by the russians and push russian disinformation but didn't cross that line. if donald trump had left us alone he could have spared himself two years of heartache and drama but he didn't. mike: your thoughts, does this deliverable into the surveillance powers? >> you have to ask why do they start an investigation in the first place. as brad said and robert mueller found there was no grounds for any kind of crossfire hurricane investigation and instead i think what you are now starting to see i'm afraid to say is a longer-term damage that was potentially done. as you said in the lead-in to show this decision by the fisa court raising questions about the fbi and how it is using its powers. we do have to use the fisa court for an important purpose, to surveilled foreign terrorists and foreign spies but now the courts are going to look at anything th

. >> reporter: they say that trump campaign chairman paul manafort was a grave counter intelligence threatde information with a russian agent. >> during the transition the president began discussing his first meeting with vladimir putin and two of his officials around him were concerned. they just interfered in the election. you don't go and meet with the russians early in the presidency. >> reporter: we wanted to ask president trump about his relationship with president putin but he turned down repeated requests for an interview. >> then what happened with general flynn was troubling as well. >> reporter: just three weeks after entering office, talk of russia intensified when the president fired national security advisor michael flynn. flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi about the nature of his contacts with russia but later claimed he had been pressured into a plea deal by prosecutors. in may 2017 fbi director james comey, who was leading the investigation into moscow meddling -- >> there's james. >> reporter: -- was fired by president trump. >> he's become more famous than me. >> r

the president's allies got swept up in these probes. >> including former trump campaign chair paul manafort of financial fraud. >> congratulations. look where you're going. >> and campaign adviser george papadopoulos who pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi. and mueller found ten potential instances of president trump himself obstructing justice. yet the special counsel could not find prosecutable evidence of conspiracy with russia. >> there's no obstruction, there's no collusion, there's no nothing. >> a false trump mantra. coming up, another white house crisis. >> i'm the first person to ever get impeached and there's no crime. >> and the ripple effects of russia. what if you could have the perspective to see more? at morgan stanley, a global collective of thought leaders offers investors a broader view. ♪ we see companies protecting the bottom line by putting people first. we see a bright future, still hungry for the ingenuity of those ready for the next challenge. today, we are translating decades of experience into strategies for the road ahead. we are morgan stanley. monitoring patients

we learned that paul manafort had been giving polling data to a russian operative.things came out of the investigation. where i take issue with the decision is that we didn't revisit it later in the day. and it seemed to me that later on in the investigation, after we had proved all those things and proceeded, it was important for us at that point to do the full financial investigation that was warranted by the appointment order of the special counsel. >> and in fact all of us had assumed that you were doing that. we assumed that the fbi already had his tax returns, which clearly was a false assumption as well. you write in the book that lawless white house -- you write that our country is now faced with the problem of a lawless white house with a belief that following the rules is optional and that breaking them comes at minimal if not zero cost. and then you say about the subpoena, about what you told robert mueller, quote, what are we saying to future presidents and to future investigators if we do not subpoena the president in this investigation? how can others

funded though the government is expected to recoup millions from his former campaign chairman paul manafort convicted in the probe. >> biden's plan for the china virus to shut down the u.s. economy. >> one of his most of the repeated lies. or i should say that was wrong. biden said that he would be prepared to shut down. if scientists recommended it. worth noting a president can't single handedly shut down the economy. that is why when president trump implemented his own national shutdown effort those 15 days to slow the spread in march he advised americans to follow directions of staite and local authorities as they shut down schools and so much economic activity across the country. then the president talked trade. >> we're looking at the world trade organization, they've become much better. never used to win anything. we'd lose every case and now winning the cases. >> that is wrong. the u.s. has won cases at the world trade organization, according to the president's council of economic advisers. they reported in february 2018 that the u.s. had been 86% of the cases that it has brought sin

. >> i feel it is similar to what he said about paul manafort when he was first being investigated, it know him, he was only here a short time, felt like he was trying to put distance between himself and louis dejoy. >> how many times have we seen this movie? the president cuts and runs whenever he thinks one of his boys has criminal exposure. it's interesting in this case trump himself can't actually fire the post master general, that has to be done by the postal service board of governors, now the majority of appointees of that body were nominated or appointed by trump so he has some leverage but he himself can't fire dejoy, dejoy could also be impeached by the congress, but he'd have to do that presumably before the election if you're concerned about what he's going to do with regard to the election, but again, trump himself, no direct power to get rid of the post master general. >> so it's interesting that this story was teased in august by a congressman, jim cooper, a democrat from tennessee, during that questioning of louis dejoy in front of the house at the time it kind of felt

morgan chase helped donald trump's former campaign chair paul manafort move millions of dollars between shell companies, even after manafort faced charges of money laundering and corruption. the trump administration will reportedly announce sanctions on over two dozen people and entities related to iran's nuclear program as early as today. this comes after the u.s. unilaterally declared the re-imposition of all u.n. sanctions against iran. but the u.n., including fellow security council members and allies britain, france and germany, all say international sanctions against iran have not resumed and the u.s. has no legal standing to enforce such a move. trump withdrew the u.s. from the iran nuclear agreement in 2018. in peru, preresident martin vizcarra surviveved an impeachmt vote friday as peru grapples with a major economic crisis and one of the world's worst covid-19 outbreaks. vizcarra was accused of intervening in the allocation of government contracts and then obstructing the government's investigation. in belarus, police arrestedd hundreds of women demonstrators saturday as an es

paul manafort. >> not collusion. >> dana: i think it is important to point out, they are not in jailn. >> it is conspiring with russia. >> dana: let me ask you this. do you think that biden did enough last night to put to bed questions about ukraine and hunter biden last night, mark? >> no. i don't think that he did at all. i think the reality of the hunter biden becoming a multimillionaire through the connections to his father is a serious case. but going to the other thing that came up last night was this whole idea, he called trump putin's puppy. in 2016 the obama-biden administration knew that russia was interfering in the election and did nothing about it because i thought that hillary clinton was going to win. donald trump -- i interviewed the president and got him to acknowledge publicly that he launched a cyber attack against the intelligence in 2018 when they were trying to repeat that. >> dana: when i read that, i was like, marc can get some news. jessica, may be one last word to you that to the idea that to the president has a point that this was not clear cut by the obama

his defense actions in the flynn case even the moving of paul manafort into federal custody instead ofte custody. those are all actions that would not have happened, but for the relationship of those people to the president, and so here, the real issue is, it's the standard being applied here really one that's applied to everyone else. and one little sign that there may be a problem with this is that the filing that you put up, just a moment ago by the department of justice was made in the southern district of new york well, do you know whose names do not appear on that filing? anybody from the southern district of new york meaning, nobody in that office, which usually very much protects its turf, was willing to sign that it is all people from main justice in washington, d.c >> and you're bringing up again another area where there has been extensive controversy the president and mr. barr's attempts to take control not of just any of the 90 some offices but the ones in new york and d.c. where the president and his allies have the most liability or convictions where does that go does tha

that the odd, very odd, trump campaign guy, the old roger stone protege, the guy who worked for paul manafortia when manafort was servicing russian oligarchs close to the kremlin, this very odd duck who has turned up in all sorts of weird fringy ways in the trump universe for years, michael caputo, the man who the trump administration put in charge of the cdc, the trump administration installed him as the top spokesman at the health and human services department. he then took it upon himself to try to block the cdc from publishing its scientific reports on covid he and some guy who he appointed to be his scientific adviser, even though he was just a

that the odd, very odd, trump campaign guy, the old roger stone protege, the guy who worked for paul manafort

political decisions such as trying to promote and facilitate leniency for trump's cronies, like paul manafort or roger stone or michael flynn. so his remarks are baseless, but par for the course in terms of what we've seen from this attorney general >> your committee has oversight of course of doj of barr essentially. are you planning to do anything about those comments in the congressional level? do you believe these remarks are disqualifying for the a.g. or would you not go that far? >> that's a decision that ultimately i think needs to be made by the speaker in consultation with chairman jerry nadler we recently did hold an oversight hearing where it was clear that bill barr is out of control, but the trump administration is out of control. donald trump has a master's degree in chaos, crisis and confusion and a ph.d. in deception, and we're going to continue to remain focused as a house democratic caucus on delivering for the people particularly as it relates to a meaningful congressional intervention to address the pain, suffering and death being experienced by everyday americans in the c

that the odd, very odd, trump campaign guy, the old roger stone protege, the guy who worked for paul manafort in russia when manafort was servicing russian oligarchs close to the kremlin, this very odd duck who has turned up in all sorts of weird fringy ways in the trump universe for years, michael caputo, the man who the trump administration put in charge of the cdc, the trump administration installed him as the top spokesman at the health and human services department. he then took it upon himself to try to block the cdc from publishing its scientific reports on covid he and some guy who he appointed to be his scientific adviser, even though he was just a spokesman, came in and said that they were overruling the entire cdc. they actually successfully got cdc to change wording in some of their scientific reports they forced delays of other cdc studies about coronavirus, which michael caputo decided he didn't like and so they got held back for weeks. you may have seen today that michael caputo, today, is out. he announced that he is taking a leave of absence after the publication last night b

we've seen the senate intel report show unprecedented achlts connections between particularly paul manafort and the russians. so if the president wants to clear this up he really should start taking a strong stand against vladimir putin instead of vladimir putin being the only person on earth he seems afraid of insulting and offending because it recalls the national rational question why when it's clearly not in america's interest. >> president trump has previously seized on strzok's extramarital affair mocking him in a way some would find inappropriate. take a look. >> remember he and his lover, lisa page. what a group. she's going to win. 10 million to one she's going to win, i'm telling you, peter. i'm telling you, peter. she's going to win. peter, oh, i love you so much. i love you, peter. i love you too, lisa. lisa. lisa! oh, god, i love you, lisa. and if she doesn't win, lisa, we've got an insurance policy, lisa. >> the president at this point as far as we know has held back can in tweeting anything about this book or cohen's book. do you think the president will even respond to the b

i mean here's what paul manafort, who was the head of trump's campaign until he was indicted -- here'st manafort said. quote, roger stone's relationship with trump has been so interconnected, it's hard to define what's roger and what's donald. and so the question that's been asked repeatedly throughout all this is why all the -- why did stone lie and say he didn't have all these contacts and stuff? it was obviously trying to protect trump, but what is it they're trying to protect? that's number one. and the second goes to your nbc report today about the inspector general investigation is what is barr's relationship, bill barr, the attorney general's relationship in all of this because barr says his actions are by the book. but in july at the house hearing, representative swalwell really nailed him on this. he pummeled him with great questions. he said, did you ever interfere, attorney general, with anyone else's sentencing. he got barr to admit there was only one time in which he ever had, and that was the ronler stone case. and when swalwell followed up and said, hey, you intervened a

mike flynn, paul manafort, steve bannon, and we could go on and on and on, so i think part of it is thatys president obama, and he resents him because he knows that he's superior to him, and he just can't get past it. so this is no surprise, and as to be expected, and worse off, his policies are reflective of these views. >> yeah, i mean, you know, president obama didn't need somebody to like, you know, nudge the nobel committee to give him a nobel peace prize, and he didn't need anybody to take his college exams for him he just got into harvard by himself. we're just going to leave it there. david jolly, there's more in this book. it just goes on and on and on. on north korea from the woodward book, trump was taken with kim jong-un. he really loved him, and they exchanged wonderful letters woodward writes telling the author pridefully that kim had addressed him as excellencekim tells me everything including a graphic account of kim having his uncle killed this fascination and fetish for dictators is on full display here it sortd of also goes with it, donald trump respects people who ear

in 2016, president trump's campaign chairman paul manafort was regularly meeting with a russian intelligencegent. now the president's lawyer having met with andrii derkach who has been named by the treasury department, state department and intelligence community as not only a russian agent but an agent conspiring to interfere in the 2020 election and rudy giuliani has met with him and will not say whether he discussed that with trump. and that is a huge deal. i think president trump should answer for that. you know, the fact that the intelligence community has called out this guy is also a really interesting thing. donald trump's previous director of national intelligence was fired because an aide of his went to congress and informed him that classified intelligence suggested russians wanted donald trump to win. it must be pretty bad if they're all saying publicly this guy is trying to help the russians interfere in the election. and yet here rudy giuliani was meeting with this guy. i think there's more to hear about this story. >> which means you will come back when we learn more about it.

he is a protege of roger stone's, once roger stone's driver at one point, he is an associate of paul manaforthe russia investigation, sort of peripherally, because of his work on the 2016 presidential campaign so he is not someone who is a public health official, he does not have a public health communications background, or science background he is a pure political operative and a real long time supporter and ally of president trump's. >> shannon pettypiece with that context there outside of the white house. thank you. >>> coming up on the show, the star witness of the impeachment hearings, lieutenant colonel alexander vindman sounds the alarm in an exclusive interview on nbc news. what he fears most about a second term potentially for donald trump plus, a former impeachment manager jason crow, a member of the armed services committee, with his reaction next let me tell you something, i wouldn't be here if i thought reverse mortgages took advantage of any american senior, or worse, that it was some way to take your home. learn how homeowners are strategically using a reverse mortgage loan to

crowd-sourced fund to build a wall along the southern border okay, so now that's steve bannon, paul manafort george papadopoulos, lev parnas, igor fruman. am i forgetting anyone it's like every trump interview ends with "where do i see myself in five years? i guess, you know, prison. president trump met with the prime minister of iraq today at the white house, said trump, "how was your dri -- dri - flight, right? how was your flight? white house press secretary kayleigh mcenany yesterday declined to say whether or not president trump would accept the results of the november election and added, "the president has always said he'll see what happens and make a determination in the aftermath." and personally, i cannot wait to someday have a president whose every decision doesn't have an aftermath. "i will have an answer for you, right after we sift through the wreckage of the president's actions and not before." in a new interview, joe biden said that senator kamala harris would be the kind of vice president to tell him when he's wrong. and will you look at that, he already has 46 missed calls.

paul manafort, michael flynn. president's refused to die vest himself of his businesses and created massive conflicts of interest. since 2015 more than $16 million of taxpayer funds have been spent at president trump's own properties. this is a president for whom the law appears to mean little, for whom democratic norms appear to mean nothing and personal power and enrichment comes first. not america first as he likes to say. not for the people. trump first. himself above others and the law. republicans in congress, unfortunately and sadly, have been unwilling to stand up and ay the emperor has no clothes. mr. speaker, we have been working every day. we passed hundreds of bills. minimum wage, you're on your own. violence against women, you're on your own. equality for all americans, you're on your own. voting rights for americans, you're on your own. sitting unattended, unconsidered on mitch mcconnell's desk. mr. speaker, america is struggling. and what we ought to be doing is working together. i am hopeful as i s

the closest we had to a war profiteer was paul manafort. he'd -- given the dictators and violence he was involved in when part of this administration. so this is trump finally recognizing, i might have stepped in this. and a lot of times i'll say that sometimes the things we discuss, they are for the really politically engaged and maybe regular voters aren't hearing about it. this hit. i come from a military family. there is nobody in the military who hasn't heard about this story. and trump is hearing this. i am hearing this from my students who are in rotc, from veterans. people are livid about this. and you know that that is trickling up to donald trump. so this is the one time that i think he's actually afraid of something that he said. and as we pointed out before, you can have some, you know, dyed in the wool kool-aid drinking trump supporters who say this is fake news but when you add this to what he said about john mccain, which we saw on camera, it's not hard to believe he has these attitudes. is it going to change anybody's votes?

that grand jury investigation was into paul manafort as to whom we did do a full financial investigationhereas i mentioned the special counsel had a hard decision to make. so we never did that full financial investigation. and one. thi of the things that is important next time around is that for the special counsel rules to be clearer that there is a public education function of the special cumbent to talk and be broke wh about what was looked at and what was not. one of the ways that the zg is able to spin the report was to give the impression that we had looked at everything. so if we didn't find any wrongdoing, there wasn't anything to be found. but our report didn't actually cover a full financial workup of the president of the united states. and as you noted at the outset from a counterintelligence perspective, that leaves a lot to be desired. >> and you aired the clip of peter strzok, said that would be of the most classic ways to compromise somebody is to leverage their debt. does donald trump today represent a counter intelligence threat to tunited states of ame in. >> what i wou

he ran communications for a period under paul manafort when he was the campaign chairman in the 2016cused the cdc of. top communications official at the powerful cabinet department if charge of combatting the coronavirus accused career government scientists on sunday of quote, sedition in their handling of the pandemic and warn that left wing hit squads were preparing for armed insurrection after the election. it's dangerous. it's false. it's a guy who we pay. he's a government employee and it suggests that maybe he is not the most balanced person to be running communications at the department in charge of the country's coronavirus response. your thoughts. >> this is taxpayer funded disinformation coming from michael caputo is a protege of roger stone who is also a master of disinformation. it is astonishing to hear that from the words of a high level assistant secretary for health. a high level government spokesperson. it's a new thing. t i have to say he's doing his job. he was installed in that job to make sure that the public health pronouncements from the american public health

his 2016 campaign chief paul manafort convicted by a jury on eight counts at almost the exact same time entered a guilty plea to eight counts. >> what does it say about donald trump that we have to take a break from talking about his impeachment and rudy's criminal investigation to tell you about another one of his associates and friends to be talking about felonies in court. donald trump's longest serving political counsel roor stone fo guilty on all seven counts brought against him. >> judge the people he's surrounding himself with, indeed. i agree, bill. americans should. and this from yesterday. donald trump attacking joe biden's faith in god. >> he's following the radical left agenda. take away your guns. destroy your second amendment. no religion. no anything. hurt the bible. hurt god. he's against god. he's against guns. he's against energy. our kind of energy. >> hurt the bible. hurt god. as stewart stevens said, his money's on god but, anyway, here's a reminder anyway of donald trump's own musings on faith. >> have you ever asked god for forgiveness? >> i'm not sure i have. i j