podesta and the podesta group. it ghndz we stop reporting on the podesta group and he said mr.odesta may pursue legal action to protect his rights. the letter warns us that we will face legal action under the copyright act merely for quoting from this letter publicly as we just did. the most amusing line is this one, paul manafort did not work with the podesta group in its representation of the european center for a modern ukraine. that's what the lawer's letter told us. apparently he hasn't read the manafort indictment yet. at the direction of manafort and gates companies a and b engaged in extensive lobbying on ukraine. the indictment says the podesta group and mercury were selected personally by paul manafort to lobby on we half of ukranian interests. so if john podesta's legal team has a complain it's not with us it's with the department of justice and the mueller investigation. podesta's lawyer wasn't trying to inform us of anything but to threaten us, to shut down our reporting on his clients. one lawyer said the podesta have used this tactic with people before, it's to u

the podesta group is chief among these. "they are more focused on facilitators of russian influence in this country, says our source, then they are on election collusion. "the podesta group he says is in their cross hairs. we should note the obvious, many of the lobbying efforts are source described are not yet illegal necessarily and i told you a lot about modern american politics. but if true, the story we heard overturns much of what we think we know about russian attempts to influence american policy. we believe our source is telling the truth. we don't think he has reason to lie to us. the fact we've been able to check have turned out to be accurate. if we believe our source has exposed behavior that undermines this country, but that unfortunately is common here in washington. we plan to proceed carefully as we report this out, but we will proceed bringing you everything went fine. if we suspect there's a lot there. brit hume joins us tonight. the fact, or the idea from our source that paul manafort was working for the

robert mueller has launched a criminal inquiry into tony podesta and the podesta group. mealey's investigation began by looking into the finances of former term campaign chairman paul manafort but has since expanded to include tony podesta over whether his firm violated what is known as fa ra, the foreign agent registration act. working for foreign entities, they must register with the department of justice and disclose what they are doing. according to nbc? the podesta group lobbied for a ukrainian nonprofit that has ties to pro-russia political in that country. this is where it gets interesting. as nbc news reports, the podesta group updated that registration and its work with the ukrainian group only in june, only after media reports and after congress started asking questions. this hypocrisy from the democrats is beyond stunning. we've heard from over a year that russia is a hostile country, put in a such a bad character. and now it's the democrats? would you be here for the corrupt media? nothing, crickets. they've been attacking president trump and claiming there's

when we talk about wikileaks, also the podestas. the person who had been hacked was john podesta. his brother tony podesta, a well-known lobbyist, was also manafort in charge of backing the ukranian government. and the trump tweet saying the biggest story yesterday was podesta running from his firm, what he knows about crooked dems, and he his brother could drain the swamp which would be another campaign promise fulfilled. fake news weak! and this has prompted today a john podesta tweet, the campaign chairman, saying, not bad enough that i was a victim of a massive cybercrime conducted by the rusian president. now i'm the victim of a big lie campaign by the american president. 10 years of his e-mail account were dumped out in public view as part of this russian campaign, according to the u.s. intelligence community. >>> we'll have to leave it there. thanks so much, peter alexander, pete williams, of course our friend robert acosta, matt miller and michael fall, former ambassador to russia. there are startling discoveries about russia's covertness as well. facebook saying 80,000 ru

tony podesta's brother john podesta was the campaign chairman of hillary clinton's 2016 campaign, obviouslyup in the e-mail investigation and his e-mail was hacked as we well know. we are told tony podesta told his staff that he was stepping down at a meet at an all-staff meeting and he is clients to let them know. podesta had a powerful lobbying group in washington, d.c. and they're trying to salvage their clients and they're trying to change their name and change their leadership in the hopes of staying and it comes on a day when much of the news has been dominated by the mueller probe and tony podesta's work with viktor yanukovych has been at the center of his lobbying work and his probe. i want to read you a statement that we got from the podesta group, they stood by their position that all of their work was in accordance with lobbying regulations. as the podesta group's work by the european center for a modern ukraine, a non-profit think tank was in support of ukraine's admission for the eu and a position supported by the experts at the time. the cfmnu was not directed by a government

lou: from the dnc and the hillary clinton campaign led by john podesta, his brother tony podesta hasuse he is being investigated now by the special counsel. and as he put it, wants to fight it along. you have such symmetry and circular motion in this that the swamp has a whirlpool in it. gregg: it appears his company was named as company b in the indictment. you don't want to be company b in an indictment. i would expect that mueller will eventually get around to tony podesta in some form or fashion because i didn't file timely as a foreign agent, and the question is what did he do with all of his money? lou: i would assume this would be a big deal, not filing according to law that you are representing a foreign power. apparently there have only been six prosecution of this type of crime. gregg: generally lobbyists thumb their nose at the law all the time and they get to amended belatedly their filings. lou: the solution is to put people in jail tore life. gregg: it's a law and let's not be lax about it. lou: tonight, you never know, podesta and manafort may be laughing at all of thi

connected than john podesta john podesta was the chairman of hillary clinton's presidential campaign john podesta is one of the biggest democrat operatives in the country so when tony put the name in the pedestrian group which by the way they say john podesta is not currently affiliated with when the pedestrian name and john podesta his brother get implicated like this and that we find out that they were allegedly he allegedly is under a a criminal type investigation by muller here is have to perk up what is special prosecutor rob or what if you're looking at exactly well let me first just say this is how insane the whole thing is and this is an investigation really that they they came to protest as group by looking at fort the former campaign chair for trump and their aftermath a fourth day they came into his home they they took all his computers they're really after him but this is about a business stealing that took place in between oh twelve and over fourteen this has absolutely nothing to do with donald trump it has absolutely nothing to do with trump and collusion i want to mak

maybe podesta didn't know, somebody knew.out the word coming back on what you've done. because if you've got nothing, stop spending it. doesn't make sense and covered up for months now. if such a straightforward issue, why not come out. >> that is the other issue. >> when the dossier came out in january, i said at time, i had never heard of fusion gps prior to after the election and never heard of christopher steele and that was true. if i had known, that was work product of research, i would have been happy to admit to it. there's no shame in this. campaign opposition research is campaign work 101. >> draw a distinction here. gps did a lot of work, not just dossier, for the clinton campaign. the dossier, the last state on the dossier is december of 2016. a month after the election. everyone in the clinton campaign at that point was curled up in fetal position on the sofa, not involved in doing that. so i think -- >> at that point might have been the fbi. >> it's not clear who was funding or why they were doing the research a

firm and its connection, tony podesta and his brother who worked for hillary clinton? >> i think if you want to fire shots and you've been talking about the misfortune of last year, if you are part of this, the investigation is going to find out where you're at. if you didn't file the proper paperwork you will pay the pric price. if you are paying for things that end up getting used in different ways, those of the kind of things we have to look at here. we will see how it moves from here but i think this all goes back down to a thing with many democrats, they are wanting to do everything they can to get us away from an agenda that is focused on the american people. you want to talk about something that's really good, its tax reform this week. i want to talk about putting more money in the pockets of families out there so they can spend it and make dreams for themselves instead of democrats dreaming about what could've been last november when they lost the election. >> harris: i hear you talking about that and the economy and you've thought what's coming down in terms o

john podesta?ice that even susan collins tonight, senator collins said he's going to have to come back and testify? implying they did not tell the truth. look at all the people that have been lying. we finally get down to a 29 year old guy? not that they condition i could have him of doing anything wrong in the meeting with the russians, but he gave the fbi the wrong date. now, i think this thing is going to grow into a bigger and bigger the scandal. at the center of it is a corrupt justice department whose professional staff was totally in the tank for hillary clinton and has been grotesquely abusing its power. >> sean: can you think of any reason on god's green earth that barack obama, hillary, putting aside all the evidence that we now know they had h. that vladimir putin had agents in america, bribing, exporting, money laundering, racketeering, they knew in 2009? holder knew it. mueller had to know it. rosen teen knew it, the two guys in particular nick. why would hillary or obama, just on the

in a statement, a spokesperson for podesta, brother of former hillary clinton campaign manager john podesta said they complied with government rules and are fully cooperating with investigators. there are new developments in the battle over the controversial unverified trump dossier. the matter is in washington district court after an emergency hearing to block the house intelligence committee subpoena. by wednesday, a federal judge, obama administration appointee, will decide whether they must provide financial records for the firm behind the research, fusion gps. they reveal sources and who paid for the file. tom cotton questioned the firm's resistance. >> fusion gps has gone to the greatest lengths possible to try to conceal who paid them. probably a democratic political operative. >> in march, the ranking democrat on the house intelligence committee relied on the dossiers unverified claims when he read a dramatic statement. allege inclusion between from campaign associates and russia. >> is a possible all of these events and reports are completely unrelated? yes. it is possible. it's al

there are reports that mueller is scrutinizing tony podesta, brother of john podesta, the issue being the russian friendly ukrainian political projects that hired paul manafort and podesta's company. mueller not commenting as usual but trump is. new interview, says nobody at doj has asked for interview. >> there's a report that you're legal team is saying yes, do a interview with robert mueller. is that what you're going to do? >> nobody has asked me to do that, i don't know. there is no collusion. i can tell you. >> joined now, betsy, we're seeing in dribs and drabs. people who follow this come across your name as one of the reporters breaking these stories. that investigation is proceeding. podesta news shows that interviews confirmed with reince priebus and sean spicer show that. what else are you seeing? is it relevant if the president will testify? >> it's relevant to ask if the president could be in on this. in the past, waco debacle, had a phone conversation to interview then president bill clinton. there's precedent for moouler to speak with trump. can't predict it. over the l

he was representing john podesta. even though he knew at the time that his firm had retained fusion gps as its client to research these allegations and podesta said he had no knowledge of it, elias did not offer any information there at that interview that he was aware of this. but he was there, just to be clear, he was not a witness during this interview. he was just there serving his client. but he very well could come back as a witness now that we do know that the clinton campaign and the dnc were helping fund this research. but, anderson, in the aftermath of us learning about this, elias's firm put out a letter saying that their clients only knew that they had this arrangement with fusion gps only recently, suggesting last month john podesta did not know at that time. >> what about former dnc chairwoman debbie wasserman schultz? what did she tell the senate intelligence committee. >> we're learning for the first time she did meet earlier this month and she made a similar case. she was asked directly about whether

stepping back for a moment, the fact that tony podesta, the brother of john podesta, chief of staff to president bill clinton, and campaign manager for hillary clinton, the fact that he's stepped down from his firm and there may be some more indictments coming down. this suggests the net has been cast wide what attacks against mueller as a hack or someone interested in a witch hunt, i think those are unfair and sounds desperate to me. let this man do his work. kennedy: we don't know what mueller has yet. we have seen some curious leaks. but let the facts speak for themselves. as we talk about paul manafort and some of it is intriguing. so far it hasn't touched the white house. it's not about president obama. >> according to anything i have read, heard, understood, or seen in on a tattoo or puppet show. i think i'm only person who hasn't been offered money by the russians. i'll take money from uranium three at this point. if this is suppose to be the big bombshell, so far it hasn't looked like a lot. if you look at what papadopoulos got pad for piptd' the martha stewart way of being gui

so he was sitting next to john podesta which podesta was asked directly whether or not the clinton campaign had ties and a contractual relationship with fusion gps. and podesta said he didn't, he was not interviewed because he was the attorney. now he may eventually had to come back and be interviewed as a witness, we'll have to see this. that remains a possibility. now since then, wolf, in the last couple of days, the firm has put on a statement saying that it just only recently informed it's clients, the dnc and the clinton campaign that had retained fusion gps as it's own client to investigate, to pay for this research and that the clients, the dnc and the clinton campaign didn't know anything about it the, but mark was in that room while john podesta was asked a key question, wolf. >> very, very awkward indeed. you're working on other new developments. stand by, we're going to get back to you very soon. mano reporting from capitol hill. and joining us now, someone who wore a lot of hats near washington. leon panetta is a family memberer cia director and the white house chief of staff fo

tony podesta, one of the biggest lobbyists in d.c. resigns from his firm and the same date we get this manafort news. a lot of folks are connecting dots. what do you see with respect to the hillary clinton campaign and maybe even president obama may have known something with respect to the dossier. >> today the former campaign chairman for the campaign of the president of the united states was arrested for lying to the fbi. charles: no, no, no. paul manafort was indicted for 12 counts, but lot of it had to do with money laundering and tax evasion. >> all the time while he was work as the chair of the campaign. charles: not a single word that mentioned donald trump or the campaign. >> our president is so good at head fake. charles: is it a head fake when bill clinton gets $500,000 for a speech? >> now we understand why it was such a big deal for them last week it was a head fake. real conversation is paul manafort and rick gates arrested today. >> the real head fake is jehmu not want to go talk about what the facts are. who needs to be

firm created by john podesta.ording to a source we spoke to who worked for podesta for years, the company received huge sums of money from april russia show group in order to bolster russia's interests in washington, all without declaring itself in agent of a foreign power, which are demonstrably was. it might also look like the infamous and fraudulent trump dossier which was compiled in 2016 and then released this past january abide by his feet as a laughably stupid news story. much of that information, the restaurant sources with ties to the kremlin who paid for this -- who paid for this? at one point, from the democratic national committee, or clinton's campaign, possibly even the fbi. let's say you were looking for a smoke and gum in this story, and many are looking for this smoking gun. we have evidence the democrats literally paid money for russian intelligence as well as prove that the top democratic lobbying firm in washington was getting rich by advancing russian interests. collusion? if that's not collus

he was actually sitting next to john podesta when podesta made the same denial. that gets you into very difficult area, that's when false statements are given to federal investigators. that has to be of concern. it doesn't mean that crime occurred but it's an obvious concern. >> can you think of an alternative explanation? i will take off the table the idea that the head of the campaign and the head of the party didn't know about millions being spent on opposition research. is there some other way they could explain their behavior before that committee? >> well, that's what the investigators really have to look at. it's hard to argue that this isn't appropriate for investigation. there are serious questions here. it doesn't mean there's crimes but there's serious questions. it's also true that if you're investigating the trump side for coordinating or including with russians this would seem to be an, analogous situation. having said that the moral high ground in washington has always been measured in millimeters. i'm not so sure i'm going to cast aspersions or co

now, we first reported on tony podesta over a week ago october the 24th.is the brother of former clinton campaign manager john poo desattachment according to politico john podesta is stepping down by from his lobbying group because is he being investigated by the special counsel. as we have been reporting the probe into podesta came about after mueller started looking into manafort's. they even european center for modern ukraine. and nbc news even adds that mueller could be looking into whether podesta and his company violated what's known as fara, the foreign agent's registration act. and politico is reporting that both tony and, yeah, john poo destax hillary's campaign manager and even said vicious blumenthal, they were all conveniently together this weekend at hillary clinton's birthday party in washington. i wonder what everybody talked about? and after new revelations that the clinton campaign and the dnc paid almost $10 million to help spread russia anti-trump lies and propaganda, well now even senator susan collins is saying that john podesta and di

tes da, brother of john podesta. though john is not part of the group and not part of the mueller investigation. a spokesman for the group released a statement saying in part the firm is cooperating fully with the special counsel's office and has taken every possible step to provide documentation that confirms timely compliance. for more, one of the reporters on that article justice reporter julia ansley. thank you for being with us. what's this about? what's podesta got to do with us? >> this is looking into his filings, filings that any group like a lobbying group would want to file after they've taken money from another government, the foreign agent's registration act. he could be in violation of that because if you look back to his original filings on the work that the podesta group did with the european center for a modern ukraine, they called it a nongovernmental organization like an ngo on that filing. in fact, it's a political party and it's linked to this pro-russian ruling group of that was there at the tim

so, lots of interesting connections with the podesta group. >> martha: all right. $500,000 clinton -- bill clinton speech. how does that play into this? >> well, that ties into 2010 when they're trying to get the approval of uranium one to be sold to the russians. bill clinton gives a half a million-dollar speech in moscow, which is basically three times more than he had ever been paid to give a speech in russia before. and the company that paid for that was an investment firm that, of course, was pushing uranium one as an investment that people ought to invest in. >> martha: i'm sorry, because i remember when hillary clinton became secretary of state the obama administration was concerned about the clinton foundation and all their deals and bill's speeches and all of that the former president's speeches. so when all of this is going on, how is there not oversight from the obama administration that would have led someone to say hey, guys, this is not cool. you need to straighten this out. >> it's a great question, martha. there was no oversight. here's the thing. b

keep in mind, it walls tony podesta is the brother of john podesta who was hillary clinton's campaigna criminal inquiry whether or not his firm, when they were lobbying on behalf of the ukraine, violated the foreign agent's registration act. ainsley: ukraine hired him to promote and his company to promote their image here in the west. so what happens is if you lobby on behalf of a foreign government or a leader or political party, you have to file a detailed disclosure about their spending and their activities with the justice department. it turns out, according to this article, they did do that, but not until the media made others away that they were working with ukraine and they didn't file this. so then they go back and file it. so now roberts mueller is investigating. brian: and three separate sources back this up this investigation is taking place. i want to add something else to the fray. investigating paul manafort for his links to eastern european countries in russia and ukraine. paul manafort wasn't even with trump yet. then he joins trump and everybody goes what's going on t

tony runs the podesta group. >> juan: he is 1 of 6 firms paul manafort brought in.ister on the acts you were talking about but retroactively tried to register which is legal. nonetheless, i think it's caught the attention of bob mueller. what was going on there would seem to be that the u.s. lobbyists were not only making a ton of money. i mean, this was big money. you had six people feeding at the trough. this is another example of how russia gets involved in american government. >> dana: "the hill" newspaper said the russians were trying to find a way to mess with hillary clinton all the way back to 2009. that's when she was hitting the reset button. >> greg: yeah, they are gremlins, the russians. gremlins from the kremlin. i want to find out about the collusion stuff. i think we are coming down that road that it was basically russians being russians. this is a hotel flashlight that exposes the blemishes of bias in the media. in the media landscape, if you salivate over occlusion but dismiss these stories, that's the exposure. >> kimberly: like a black light? >> g

he goes after tony podesta and his brother john and down the list of the clinton people.he most sobering thing about this unbelievable scandal is if she had won, none of this would be coming out. think about it. they would have covered it up continued to corrupt the fbi, continued to corrupt the justice department. we would learn nothing about how horrible this is and they would have continued to sell out america's interest. it is an astonishing gap and people who wonder whether it was important donald trump won, think about the difference between what we are learning now and what would have been covered up by hillary clinton. rob: a quick break from politics. mandalay bay security guard and only eyewitness in the las vegas shooting jesus campos has been tightlipped about sharing his story. >> talking about it now and won't talk about it again and i don't blame you. why relive this over and over again? rob: he will have to talk about it under oath, being subpoenaed by an attorney representing one of the victims to testify what happened in the moments leading up to the sho

podesta is the brother of the clinton campaign manager john podesta who is not a part of this. according to the report, the investigation into tony podesta and his company began as a fact finding mission into a ukrainian nonprofit and paul manafort's role in the campaign. quote, this has now morphed into a criminal inquiry into whether the firm violated the foreign agents registration act. this is just one front of the russia story. and here to talk about all of it tonight, one of the coauthors of that report we just cited, nbc news national security and justice reporter julia anzly, also wall street attorney jill wine-banks, assistant former watergate counsel, and msnbc legal analyst. so, julia, let's talk about this and that tony podesta has been caught up in this means what about the mueller investigation? >> well, you know, i was just thinking, brian, about this "the new york times" piece how it has become political on the hill. if anyone is concerned mueller's investigation is politically motivated, they need look no further than this probe into tony podesta, a known democ

group which is a democrat firm, tony podesta, the most powerful brother of john podesta, hiring thatcause he is trying to influence a democratic president, nothing to do with donald trump, this is the irony, of all the democrats involved in this framework during a democratic administration it was supposed to be about trump. this is where democrats once again have not just let their base down but misled them, lied to them. they know what it is like to be misled. democrats were expecting is this huge thing about trump and they were going to get them and that is not going to occur. i think there will be more indictments, mike flynn had an illustrious career, an awful situation for him but he has been involved in some shenanigans, that will come up and mister podesta will find himself, he is behaving as though he expect something to happen. >> we were talking the end of the week before this information leaked out, talking about democrats and russian collusion, the impacting of them. now we have this happen, the timing of all of it. >> no matter what happens democrats are always trying to

i don't think podesta was involved with his brother.avid: what kills me the chutzpah of his brother john podesta, tweeting out, not bad enough that i was victim after massive cybercrime directed by the russian president. now the victim after big lie campaign by the american president. here is a guy who makes millions of dollars masquerading as a public servant, and he calls himself a victim. >> i don't understand that victimhood is in vogue these days. if you can get the crowd to think you're victimized they will start thinking about you. david: what nerve. >> i don't know what the allegation is against john podesta. i can speculate as we've been doing, what the allegation is against tony. but, david, there are no coincidences. there has to be reason why he left his very lucrative business, the very day, yesterday, that the indictment of his friend and republican paul manafort was announced. david: wouldn't it be good for mueller to show that he is hitting on both sides of the aisle? i mean this would, this would discount the charge tha

. >> democratic lobbyist tony podesta announced yesterday he is leaving his powerhouse firm the podestaroup to focus on the special counsel's probe. he is the brother of hillary clinton's campaign chairman john podesta. neither of them has been charged with any wrongdoing and mr. manafort entered a not guilty plea yesterday. >> harris: thank you very much. the story now has a couple of podesta's and a british spy. for the longest period of time we have seen the shingle out, are they going to look at everything, it hasn't been one of the other, do you look at republicans or democrats? it's always been look at everything. >> guy: that is the charge of the special investigation on this team, it is not to get donald trump, it is to find out what the russians did and anyone who gets swept up in that, republican or democrat, if they were engaged in wrongdoing, so be it. i think the fact that the podesta group is apparently in the cross hairs of this investigation speaks well of mueller and undermines the narrative among some on the right that this is a witch hunt designed to go after only one

podesta, the older brother of john podesta, announced that he was deaf aside from the podesta group afteroming under investigation by robert mueller. in brussels, the ousted president of catalonia is portraying himself as a leader in exile. he is going to press catalonia's claim of independence to european leaders. he faces up to 30 years in prison on charges that include -- power is slowly being restored to hundreds of thousands of homes in new england after a severe storm down numerous trees and power lines and flooded roads. the lack of power forced dozens of districts to cancel classes for a second consecutive day while many towns -- the storm left more than one of a half-million customers without electricity. global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. this is bloomberg. david: tax reform is at the top of the list of a lot of people's wish lists. president trump is promising to deliver just in time for christmas. >> i want the house to pass a bill by thanksgiving, i want all the people standing by my side when we get ready to s

podesta is the brother of the clinton campaign manager john podesta, who is not a part of this. according to the report the investigation into him and his company began as a fact finding mission into a ukrainian non-profit and paul manafort's role into the campaign. this has now morphed into a criminal inquiry into whether the firm violated the foreign agent's registration act. here to talk about all of it tonight one of the coauthors of that report. so, julia, let's talk about this and that tony podesta has been caught up with this means what about the mueller investigation? >> well, you know, i was just thinking brian about this new york city times piece talking about how it's become political on the hill. if anyone is concerned that mueller's investigation is politically motivated they need look no further than this probe into tony podesta. his brother worked as hillary clinton's campaign manager. he's been trumpeted liberal democratic causes for his whole career. it will ties to a pro russia political party and mueller is looking at his releases which he did not disclose unt

it is not just tony podesta., this was just a ukrainian group he was helping improve its image. it's a ukrainian group that was pro-russian. according to nbc, financed by the russian oligarchs. so i think some of these firms like the podesta group now knee-deep in it. it will expand. melissa: knee deep in it. what does that mean? as we look threw all of this, you sort of start to get this picture that there are russians hiring americans to help them with all kinds of things. whether it is lobbying, improving their image, trying to make connections in washington, one way or the other, everybody has done something some point in time. it is starting to feel like that. is that inherently wrong? >> that is inherently right. melissa: is it unlawful, is it immoral, where is the law in all this? >> the law in this can be a minor one. well, they didn't register. they didn't disclose that they were working for this ukrainian group, nominally ukrainian group and that's a pretty, you know, you can be sent to jail for five ye

he is the brother of hillary clinton's campaign chairman, john podesta and the podesta group was listed as company b in yesterday's indictment of paul manafort, the trump campaign chairman. >> there may be more to come on that as well and it bears washington the resignation could have been for health reasons for all we know but it is sudden and unexpected which makes you think it's something to watch. >> neither podesta has been charged with any wrongdoing. mr. manafort entered a not guilty plea yesterday. >> jon: so on capitol hill tech giants google, facebook and twitter set to testify how their platforms were used by russian groups during the 2016 election campaign. lawmakers are split along party lines as to what comes next. in light of the indictments for three ex trump campaign advisors. >> mr. manafort has had continuing contact with the president since his resignation from the campaign. just as shocking was the admission by the trump campaign advisor that he met with the kremlin contact to discuss so-called dirt on secretary clinton. >> i believe the investigations into the russ

democratic power broker tony podesta says he is stepping aside from the podesta group, the washingtonrm he founded. tony represented a range of clients here in u.s. and abroad. >> cnn reported earlier the firm failed to fully disclose its work to are a ukrainian group. podesta's firm has since amended that paperwork. it also shows up in the manafort indictment unsealed on monday described as quote company b. >> 39 minutes past the hour. everyone knows slavery was the cause behind the civil war so why did the white house chief of staff say this? >> the lack of ability to compromise led to the civil war and men and women of good faith on both sides made their stand. >> on both sides. comments from john kelly. next. oh, look... another anti-wrinkle cream in no hurry to make anything happen. neutrogena® rapid wrinkle repair works in just one week. with the fastest retinol formula to visibly reduce wrinkles. neutrogena®. you wof your daily routine, so why treat your mouth any differently? complete the job with listerine® help prevent plaque, early gum disease, bad breath and kill up to 99.

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and john podesta and company says no. the answer apparently is yes. now there is something wrong there. i mean, congress is entitled to accurate information. >> i agree with that. >> and it sounds like if the answer was yes, the response may have been so what. that's what campaigns do. but if the answer given to congress is incorrect, that's just not right. >> that's not how the system is supposed to work. >> we have to end there. i appreciate everyone jumping in. it was bright and full conversation. we are going to end it on congress should know. thank you all very much. i appreciate every single one of you here. we have to move on. pentagon holdingal conference on niger. we'll talk to somebody in that classified briefing. that will come next. also, a veteran journalist stepping down after five women allege sexual harassment. how nbc mark hall per rin is responding to these allegations. >>> also together five decades after john f. kennedy president trump is expected to release classified documents. we'll look ahead to what could be revealed. you are

podesta, by extension.acquire records? yes. the question is, was there russians over the trump campaign, as well as the election? if president trump has financial handsest, that were in the or could be influenced by russian figures, that will be a concern. there is not, we haven't seen any evidence like that. in the second indictment that we saw, you had guilty it was remarkably light in terms of connections to trump or actually concrete steps that had been taken. here was a lot of interest expressed, but notably very few x visions that said and so happened as a result. much had cause, but not effect. host: a minute ago you were in ing about the interest this story around the world. here is a few more papers, front ages of various pages from around the world this morning. from one paper in sweden, a paulre of president trump, manafort and vladamir putin on the front page. to dubai, the story there with picture of manafort and papadopoulos, mueller probe nets english aide voozor, language paper from dubai. t