but paul wood had it first. paul wood also reported at the time that the cia and the fbi had formed a joint working group that among other things had been looking during the campaign at the connections between the trump campaign and russia, and specifically, they had been look at the connection of whether russian money had made its way into the u.s. presidential election. well, we didn't know anything than at the time, that paul wood first reported it, a year ago january, but ultimately, that was borne out. it's one of the things i ended up asking james clapper about last night because that's in his new book too. he writes about that joint intelligence and law enforcement working group that met together in the united states during the presidential campaign just as paul wood reported last january. james clapper says in his book about that quote, we all agreed that russia was behind an unprecedented aggressive multifaceted influence campaign using cybertheft and cyberespionage, propaganda across the broadcast spec

paul wood's reports. paul: donald trump's run for the u.s. presidency was watched with alarm by the ukraine government, dismayed by his pro-russian rhetoric. then trump had a setback. his campaign manager, paul manafort, was forced to resign, accused of getting millions of dollars from russianests in the ukraine. the leak that brought manafort down came from the top of the rainian government. , according to sources here and outside ukraine. ukrainianstrue, t badly miscalculated, backing the losing side in the u.s. election. in early 2017, president poroshenko was desperate to get talks with donald trum but he was being offered little more than a white house photo op. according to a senior official here who has direct knowledge of what happened, poroshenko t instruct close associates to open a backchannel.

this report from our producer in new york suzanne kianpour and correspondent paul wood in kiev. nald trump's run for the us presidency was watched with alarm by ukraine's government, dismayed by his apparently pro—russian rhetoric. then trump had a setback. his campaign manager, paul manafort, was forced to resign, accused of getting millions of dollars from russian interests in ukraine. the leak that brought manafort down came from the very top of the ukrainian government, according to sources

paul wood reporting.t's keep the focus on the us president, because a new yorkjudge has ruled that donald trump may not "block" twitter users based on their political beliefs because it would be a violation of the right to free speech. users who are blocked cannot see or respond to tweets from the accounts that have blocked them. 0ur north america technology reporter dave lee told me more about the case. this is the case that has big implications i think, i think, for not only how president trump conducts himself on twitter, but also public officials across the us. they're all being guided now by new recommendations by the judge in new york. what she said was that blocking people on twitter would impinge their rights to have a free and open discussion with those accounts. so for example if someone disagreed with president trump but was blocked by president trump, they wouldn't be able to reply to his tweets and nor would they be able to quote his tweets and therefore the judge ruled that was in violation

our correspondent paul wood has this exclusive report. trump's run for the us presidency was watched with alarm by ukraine's government, dismayed by his apparently pro—russian rhetoric. then, trump had a setback. his campaign manager, paul manafort, was forced to resign, accused of getting millions of dollars from russian interests in ukraine. the leak that brought manafort down came from the very top of the ukrainian government, according to sources here and outside ukraine. if that's true, the ukrainians badly miscalculated, backing the losing side in the us election. so in early 2017, president poroshenko was desperate to get talks with donald trump, but he was being offered little more than a white house photo op. according to a senior official here, who has direct knowledge of what happened, poroshenko instructed two close associates to open a back channel. that back channel, our source says, was president trump's personal lawyer and trusted fixer, michael cohen. the senior official says cohen was paid $400,000, a second source says

this report from our producer in new york suzanne kianpour and correspondent paul wood in kiev. nald trump's run for the us presidency was watched with alarm by ukraine's government, dismayed by his apparently pro—russian rhetoric. then trump had a setback. his campaign manager, paul manafort, was forced to resign, accused of getting millions of dollars from russian interests in ukraine. the leak that brought manafort down came from the very top of the ukrainian government, according to sources here and outside ukraine. if that is true, the ukrainians badly miscalculated, backing the losing side in the us election. so in early 2017, president poroshenko was desperate to get talks with donald trump, but he was being offered little more than a white house photo op. according to a senior official here, who has direct knowledge of what happened, poroshenko instructed two close associates to open a back channel. that back channel, our source says, was president trump's personal lawyer and trusted fixer, michael cohen. the senior official says cohen was paid $400,000. a second source s

paul wood reports. donald trump's run for the us presidency was watched with alarm by ukraine's government, dismayed by his apparently pro—russian rhetoric. then trump had a setback — his campaign manager, paul manafort, was forced to resign, accused of getting millions of dollars from russian interests in ukraine. the leak that brought manafort down came from the very top of the ukrainian government, according to sources here and outside ukraine. if that is true, the ukrainians badly miscalculated, backing the losing side in the us election. so in early 2017, president poroshenko was desperate to get talks with donald trump, but he was being offered little more than a white house photo op. according to a senior official here who has direct knowledge of what happened, poroshenko instructed two close associates to open a back channel. that back channel, our source says, was president trump's personal lawyer and trusted fixer, michael cohen. the senior official says cohen was paid $400,000. a second source

the ukrainian president's spokesman declined to comment .paul wood has this bbc exclusive. trump's run for the us presidency was watched with alarm by ukraine's government, dismayed by his apparently pro—russian rhetoric. then trump had a setback. his campaign manager, paul manafort, was forced to resign, accused of getting millions of dollars from russian interests in ukraine. the leak that brought manafort down came from the very top of the ukrainian government, according to sources here and outside ukraine. if that is true, the ukrainians badly miscalculated, backing the losing side in the us election. so in early 2017, president poroshenko was desperate to get talks with donald trump, but he was being offered little more than a white house photo op. according to a senior official here, who has direct knowledge of what happened, poroshenko instructed two close associates to open a back channel. that back channel, our source says, was president trump's personal lawyer and trusted fixer, michael cohen. the senior official says cohen was paid $400,000. a second source says

cohen, his partner felix sater and the two intermediaries, deny involvement, as our correspondent paul wood presidency was watched with alarm by ukraine's government, dismayed by his apparently pro—russian rhetoric. then trump had a setback. his campaign manager, paul manafort, was forced to resign, accused of getting millions of dollars from russian interests in the ukraine. the leak that brought manafort down came from the very top of the ukrainian government, according to sources here and outside the ukraine. if that's true, the ukrainians badly miscalculated backing the losing side in the us election. so, in early 2017, president poroshenko was desperate to get talks with donald trump. he was being offered little more than a white house photo opp. according to a senior official here, who has direct knowledge of what happened, poroshenko instructed close associates to open a back channel. that back channel, our source says, was president trump's personal lawyer and trusted fixture, michael cohen. —— fixer. the senior official says cohen was paid $400,000. a second source says it was more

bbc journalist paul wood broke the story earlier — he's spoken to sources who claim ukraine's petro poroshenkohe meeting, which took place at the white house injune, was more than a brief photo op. cohen and the ukranian government have denied the allegations. pauljoins us now from the white house. explain what you found? the meeting was agreed through official channels but president petro poroshenko needed something he could portray as proper talks, something substantive. you have to look at what happened in the election. details were leaked from a ukrainian investigation into paul manafort, trump's campaign manager. he denies the allegations, of having millions of dollars from a pro—russian party in the ukraine. sources in kieft told us that petro poroshenko authorised the leak and he did it on the assumption that hillary clinton would win and that trump was a pro—russian candidate. if that really happened, it was a disastrous miscalculation. ukraine made an enemy of the new us president at a time when it was fighting against russian backed separatists. poroshenko needed to build bridges and

paul bunyan statue. >> but he only lasted one season... >> oh. what happened? >> ...'cause he was made out of paper-mache and he melted. >> they build a second bunyan, this time 24 feet tall and made from woodng to start screaming from the back seat if they see a giant paul bunyan along the highway, so this was a great kid magnet. >> they figure a bigger bunyan will get even more kids to scream, so in the early '60s, ray and mary lee double up. paul number three is 49 feet tall with 10-foot high boots and a 52-foot waist. he even waves, winks, and makes >> welcome to trees of mystery. >> how you doing, paul? >> well, i'm doing great. how could you not on a day like today? couple also create a trail of tall tales attraction, featuring 80 wood sculptures from milled-redwood timbers. john grows up right here on site during this golden era of the park. >> when i was about 8 years old, brush around the trail and pick up the flashbulbs people threw out after taking pictures. >> but it's not all happy memories. in the mid-'60s, john's parents divorce. his dad, ray, leaves the family and the park forever, seeking out a new escape. >> where did dad go? >> he went sailing. [ laughs ] >> so, mom staye

paul. film and small plastic bag as well as small pieces of wood and metal can know go in the recycling bin, so really narrowing what's going into the trash and expanding recycling. we're seeing tremendous response from our customers. 78% of customers are accepting the new system, the new 16-gallon trash. and the loads that we're receiving in recycling are actually cleaner that they've been before. partnering with the department or s.f. environment, we have a large outreach program, restickering every single container and bin in the city, providing new signage, and outreach material that every customer's receiving three touches to educate them on the new commodities, the new program, and how little should actually be sent into the trash bin. we can stay here for a minute. also, in order to prepare for that, we made a $14.7 million upgrade to our pier 96 central recycle facility, and that equipment has enabled us to accept those film plastic materials. we have a suction system where our employee owners, teamsters at pier 96 are able to take those pieces of film plastic and place them into a

. >> and paul manafort is not out of the woods yet. >> absolutely not. one judge in virginia, this is a tax case we are talking about. interesting point to follow up on. the august 2 2017 memorandum. by rosenstein. they redacted it to this judge to make the point that they had the authority to go after paul manafort in this way. this is also a battle between the doj and congress. because this has been a document that congress is trying to get and they have been battling. we have seen impeachment draft memo that has been authored and some other things that we have seen in the press. this memo is important moving forward. not only to this case but to congress. >> we have to go to your last question. you think that this will last that long? >> it will take a long time. >> absolutely! >> the paul manafort case has to be tried before anything. at the very least we have to come to a conclusion on that case. >> looks at will have you back a lot! >> thank you. >> laura? rather, rudy giuliani. he will be on fox that would judge jeanine pirro on justice 9:00 easte

woods, and thes e david gura. >> thank you, gigi. >>> we have learned that robert mueller has interviewed president trump's close friend tom barrack. >>> and a special counsel is accused of using paulat and when and new accusations that trump knew about the stormy daniels' payout months before. >>> that is where we begin this hour. last night "the new york times" broke the story that the president knew about his attorney michael cohen's payments to stormy daniels quote, several months before he denied any knowledge of it to the reporter aboard air force one in april, and this is according to two people familiar with the arrangement, and nbc news reached out to the outside legal team, and they declined to respond, and last night, "the wall street journal" came out with the report of michael cohen through the public records that michael cohen gained access to $774,000 from the line of credit that a new mortgage of the 216 presidential campaign, and they said that they reached out to cohen and his attorney, but they did not respond to the request for comment. for more on this, we bring in betsy woodruff, a politics reporter for daily beast, and msnbc contributor as well,