robert gates was cia director under the george h.w.ush administration, and he was secretary of defense under presidents george w. bush and president barack obama. robert gates, welcome to the program. >> thank you, christiane. >> i could have gone on and on. you have a massive portfolio and massive experience in intelligence, as being secretary of defense, and all other roles. so what do you make of saudi arabia's explanation in public for what happened to jamal khashoggi? >> well, i find the story that they've told to not be credible. just looking at the photographs of mr. khashoggi, he doesn't appear to be the kind of person who would engage in a fistfight much less with 15 people. so i don't think that anyone finds the story credible. i think that holds true of the president himself. but i think the challenge that we face, and maybe i'm getting ahead of ourselves, i think the challenge is how do we thread o o o o the needle in terms of oo o protecting our interests in the o middle east and at the same time eye standing up for the va

when robert gates became legal powerful director of central intelligence enough m. but much ninety one stage was sent for google's remarkable request to become a reality one of my primary responsibilities was going to be out to. moved this gigantic american intelligence apparatus from a singular focus on the soviet union in the cold war to a range of new challenges so i had a pretty good idea of the kind of resources we had. the way they had been applied against the soviet target and that we had this huge archive of material and just the notion that uniquely in the world we have been taking photographs of the same places in the arctic for decades. because the reaction of the broader community to us doing this was a shock and awe. we might not get out of it what we're putting into it. at that we might be doing things that cause damage to the interests of the nation that there was skepticism. you have to remember that we worked for president bush he was a republican and now he's running against bill clinton and al gore and i'm running this project the gates gore task

you'll remember at the height of the counter terrorism fight, robert gates convinced congress to shut-22 production line. in fact, the air force chief at the time general buzz moseley was believed to have been fired in part because of his desire to keep the f-22 line open. now it is very expensive, if not impossible, to get parts for those f-22's. planes have to be cannibalized to be fixed. a recent report found the original manufacturers no longer make the parts or are out of business. restarting the f-22 production line would cost billions according to experts. the president, who visited tyndall tuesday, explained why some planes couldn't be moved. >> they were under repair. many of the aircraft were flown out prior to the hurricane. sam you can't because the engines are taken out. they're doing work on them. there was some damage. not nearly as bad as we first heard. >> reporter: defense secretary mattis said this week after his air force secretary toured the damage, it looked like most, if not all of the f-22's left behind could be fixed but it may take some time, dana. >> dana: j

. >> i want to see whether you agree with your former civilian boss, former defense secretary robert gates, who we keep pushing all these leaders as to what they think is the best response. as they call it, thread the needle, that you are talk bing about right now. he said this administration could do worse than look back at what the george h.w. bush administration did after the tiananmen massacre in china, beijing, in 1989. listen to what he said. >> he was the first head of state to impose sanctions on the chinese government to show how much we disapproved of what they had done, but at the same time sent emissaries to the government to talk to the leadership in beijing, tell them why we were doing what we were doing, why we had to do what we were doing, but that we wanted to keep the strategic relationship still on track. >> so there are methods, right? i mean, this administration could just look back into the not too distant history book. >> well, i think so, and i completely agree with secretary gates. you have to tell them there is a future, but at the other time, you have to tell in

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gates has been cooperating. i assume the mueller tum, the robert mueller team involved in the russia investigation, they're investigatingf this very closely but they have a pretty good collaborator right now in the cooperation of rick gates. >> right, to the degree that this involves rick gates, i think like laura said you can count on the fact the mueller team is looking into this and looking to whether it ties into any other pattern of activity on the part of the trump campaign. whether or not it was legal or illegal, they are trying to piece together a jigsaw puzzle about how much the trump campaign was willing to go to sort of play tricks on their opponents in the primary and general election and how much they were willing to use foreign help, whether or not they crossed the line into breaking the law is not determined yet. >> you cover the white house for us, kaitlan. i don't know if there's been official reaction to this story. i can only sus sppect it will b source of getting under the president's skin quickly. >> right, and we will be able to tell because we saw the president get off marine one on the south lawn

gates out of the top spot on the annual forbes list for the first time in 24 years it's not led by gates. robertnk has the staggering stats. >> yeah, as you and our "power lunch" voters know, he became the richest man in the world a year ago, but the forbes' list is annual, so it is now official the first time in 24 years that gates has not topped the forbes' 400. bezos is also the first person to appear with a fortune of over $100 billion is forbes pegged his net worth at $160 billion. but it's already higher since they closed the list the "forbes'" realtime index puts him at 161 and the bloomberg realtime index putting him at 162 gates second at $97 billion. the minimum net worth to even make the list this year was a record $2.1 million. more than a third of the nation's billionaires were too poor to make the cut now, there were 50 newcomers on the list ripple's chris larson, he's the first cryptobillionaire. drew houston of drop box entered the list and my favorite, the burger heiress, lindsay snyder. she's the youngest person on the "forbes'" 400 at a mere 36 she inherited the in-n-out burge

. >> obviously gates is cooperating with mueller, so robert mueller has all this information and more we reported that mueller has the proposals that we wrote about in the story, and has not only we presume questioned gates about them, but also his investigators in the fbi have gone to israel and interviewed numerous employ weiss with a firm called cy-group. the firm no longer exists. >> another hint of where the mueller investigation may go. mark, thanks so much. >> thanks, anderson. >>> up, we have new details about the horrific limousine crash. new york's governor says the vehicle shouldn't have been on the road and the driver shouldn't have been driving it. the latest on that is next. d en. crest gum & enamel repair cleans below the gum line and helps repair weakened enamel. gum & enamel repair, from crest. i get it all the time. "have you lost weight?" of course i have- ever since i started renting from national. because national lets me lose the wait at the counter... ...and choose any car in the aisle. and i don't wait when i return, thanks to drop & go. at national, i can lose

last year, rick gates and his boss, paul manafort, were indicted by special counsel robert mueller's team on multiple counts of fraud and tax evasion. gates pleaded guilty to many of the charges. in turkey, authorities are searching for a black van seen leaving the saudi consulate in istanbul as they investigate the case of disappeared saudi journalist jamal khashoggi. on monday, "the washington post" published a photo taken from a cctv camera at the consulate that is believed to be the last known image of khashoggi. he had entered the saudi consulate to obtain papers related to his coming marriage. in tech news, the wall street journal is reporting that google will shut down its social network google plus after the revelation of a data breach that exposed the private data of hundreds of ththousands of user. the breach was discovered in march, but was not disclosed to the public. number showedogle executives were worried that would face new government regulations if news of the data breach got out. the scandal follows news last month of a major datata breach t facebook, , which saw th

. >> obviously gates is cooperating with mueller, so robert mueller has all this information and more mueller has the proposals that we wrote about in the story, and has not only we presume questioned gates about them, but also his investigators in the fbi have gone to israel and interviewed numerous employ weiss with a firm called cy-group. the firm no longer exists. this that be an information gathering effort by the mueller team to get to the bottom of this. to see where it goes. >> another hint of where the mueller investigation may go. mark, thanks so much. >> thanks, anderson. >>> up, we have new details about the horrific limousine crash. that killed 20 people in new york. new york's governor says the vehicle shouldn't have been on the road and the driver shouldn't have been driving it. the latest on that is next. this is actually under your budget. it's great. mm-hmm. yeah, and when you move in, geico could help you save on renters' insurance! man 1: (behind wall) yep, geico helped me with renters insurance, too! um... the walls seem a bit thin... man 2: (behind wall) they are

rick gates plead guilty to those charges from robert mueller and the special counsel's office. . well we can now say that according to the court, rick gates has been doing a satisfactory job when it comes to cooperating. we can say that because today a federal judge in his case in d.c. agreed to finally ease up on the bail conditions for rick gates in ways that the same judge and the same court had previously declined to do. quote, the court now has the benefit of additional information, including defendant's record of ongoing cooperation with the government, his testimony at the trial of trump campaign chairman paul manafort in the eastern district of virginia under difficult circumstances as well as his compliance with all the travel conditions to date. in light of that and general good behavior by rick gates, his judge today said, quote, the conditions of defendant's release will be modified to eliminate the curfew and the requirement of gps monitoring. ah, gps monitoring. that means no more pesky ankle bracelet for the president's deputy campaign chairman. rick gates is stil

gates. there should be nothing whatsoever that surprises people, that this conversation would have taken place and that they would have explored this possibility. >> do you see a direct line to robertueller's russia probe? >> well, as -- insofar as rick gates has now turned states' evidence, we will find that out. i don't expect, as i said before, for there to be any more announcements between now and the mid terms, 28 days, four hours-plus from now, wolf. i think at some point there will be additional indictments. i don't think he's done yet. there are too many people cooperating too fully, now mr. manafort and mr. cohen and immunity granted to the chief financial officer at the trump organization and mr. gates. bob mueller would not have struck plea deals with them if they had not made a proffer, in other words showed their cards a little bit, in other words, here is the information i have that might be of use to you. i expect there to be additional indictments before all is said and done. >> i expect there will be as well. thank you, congressman denny heck, for joining us. >> you're welcome, sir. >>> the breaking news continues. we will have more on the surprise resignation of t

times" report that suggests the former trump deputy campaign chairman, rick gates, no the cooperating with special counsel robert mueller, seriously considered enlisting the services of an israeli intelligence firm that promised to create fake online identities, use social media manipulation to help donald trump defeat his political opponents. first republican political opponents and then hillary clinton. what are your thoughts on this new report? >> well, what's so striking is that the proposal that was put forward, obviously, based on the reporting, is similar to what the russians ended up doing. and the fact that a man associated with this firm, the group, was ultimately paid about $2 million by a trump associate is also very striking. so i believe that, you know, basically, bob mueller still has many different leads that he's following, and i don't think we have seen the end of the indictments and other legal troubles for folks who are associated with the trump campaign. >> congressman joaquin castro, thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you. >>> up next, more on the surprise sudden resignation of u.s.

robert frank looks at his achievements. >> it was 1975 and a 22-year-old paul allen and 19-year-old bill gates wrote a programming language for the altair computer later becoming microsoft ast inled in 90% of the computers in the 90s. allen left the company after eight years to bamgts hodgkin's sease and channelled his frrn into media quips, space exploration, dwefrmgla the seate union district and buying the seattle seahawks and trail blazers. he gave more than $2 billion to charity and his estate is likely toive even more having signed the gates buffett giving pledge plannio donate most of his $20 billion frrn. and vulcan, inc, holding his investments will pass to his sister jodie. but shi has said she may not be interested in owning teams. >>> some of his personal troe trophies the 4149 yacht octopus and fleet of jets and 1plus mansions scattered from mercer to london and brance cou sold would the proceeds going to charity. for nightly business rert, robert frank. >>> all right one more look at the big rally on wall street today. thanks to the better than expected earnings, the dow advanced 547 points. e nasdaq added 2

robert mueller. that apparently doesn't guarantee smooth sailing for paul manafort and rick gates.re still awaiting sentencing, so it has to be weighing on both of them that just yesterday, another dude, who has also plead and cooperated, a guy who was on the hook for much less than either manafort or gates, he yesterday got sent to federal prison for six months. again, this guy also plead guilty. he also kooptd. co cooperated. compared to gates and manafort, he was an absolute small fry. so him heading off to prison has to sort of focus the man, you might imagine if you are paul manafort or rick gates. but all of the sudden in the last 24 hours we've also had a bunch of news that indicates there are still live issues in both of their cases, separate and apart for how much jail time they're going to get. for gates, he has the benefit of not being in jail right now. he sat home under relatively strict orders about his ability to move around the country and how frequently he needs to check in with the court. he's also got an ankle bracelet he keeps on to monitor his whereabouts for t

in an election season like no other robert oulds al-jazeera las vegas new mexico he was the man who came up with the name from microsoft and together with bill gates folau and helped revolutionize the way that we work with computers the sixty five year old died after a reoccurrence of cancer john hendren has. paul allen helped lead a revolution in personal computing in his later years he was known as a philanthropist a builder of a music museum and owner of a professional basketball team the portland trail blazers and american football seattle seahawks bird in my mind. as specially specially the home games and the intensity the intensity of the fans and the emotion and and the feeling in the locker room as bill gates partner he was often called the other guy at microsoft but it was alan who came up with a name for the world's largest software company together they made em as dos in the graphically driven windows interface that still dominates the industry he later became a real estate developer and a boating afficionado with one of the world's largest yachts for parties and scuba expeditions we try to do these both. as really exciting examples of

robert rayburn says that incident provided urgency to what they were doing. >> sometimes it takes a tragedy in order to focus attention. >> reporter: there would also be video monitors at the station gate so passengers can see what's happening on the platforms. this artist depiction shows emergency phones installed so passengers can talk directly to police dispatchers. all with the privacy advocates. >> we like it's not limited. it's buttoned up so people might know where to go under what circumstances. >> reporter: now, all of these are planned for the future. in fact the money has not been allocated yet. bart says it wanted to make sure it had the guidelines for under surveillance. so they don't invade anyone's privacy by trying to maintain people's safety, as the delicate balancing act. live at the bart station, eric thomas, abc 7 news. >> eric. thank you. a man accused of posingi as ride share driver hand assaulting a woman has been arrested. they arrested brandon sherman this morning. that's the photo. on the left, that's the sketch investigators released in august. during the course of the investigation, people found out he had been suspended by uber for misconduct the day before

remember though earlier this year gates pled guilty to conspiracy and lying to the fbi and is now cooperating with the special counsel roberter's russian investigation. joining us, ronan bergman, staff writer for "new york times" and one of the reporters that broke the story. thank you so much for being here. first of all, what was the goal of the effort? >> we have to put this in a time line. this was march and april of 2016. and the trump people were concerned. the republican party is not going to vote for trump, even if he should be elected. they wanted to look for people to look for companies, to look for someone who can make sure the 5,000 delegates are influenced to vote for trump and against ted cruz. this is one of the reasons that rick gates was brought to the campaign in the first place. he is in contact with the person by the name of george birnbaum, a king pin in the success to win the elections in 1996, and heavily connected with israeli officials. in a meeting in hotel in d.c. that time they discussed the possibility of hiring an israeli intelligence company, company staffed with former israeli intelligence op

robert can't forget saving his street. no regrets but the consequences are unexpected. >> i feel like i did something wrong. you're not supposed to feel that way. >> homeowners enter the locked gate to visit their mobiles. everyone is working with housing advocates and the property owner on next step but no end in sight. >> can they are build the park so it's live able again. >> that's not on the table. the property owner apparently plans to redevelop it as senior housing but it will be more dense. it will be an apartment building. whatever goes here will take years. >>> vandals hit a mission causing $30,000 in damage. graffiti was on the stone facade late tuesday night or yesterday morning. the words rape and genocide was on the church. the graffiti included never forget the lives pollutes land stole -- plus, land stolen. >>> the travel industry said tourism is up over last year and next year is expected to be stronger. as rob tells us the report comes with a warning. clean up dirty streets or tourism will drop. >> this is what tourist near the cable car turn around saw today. >> i landed at 3:00 a.m. there were homeless people everywhere. i've just flown in from new york it was

gates, george papadopoulos. a lot of people cooperating. not to mention the countless tax documents and communications and e-mails that robert mueller has. the one thing that came out earlier this week that shed some light on how i think we might be able to receive that report is what deputies attorney general rod rosenstein told the wall street a few days ago saying he believes the public will see that the justice department put forward the right resources to this investigation because it was an independent and appropriate investigation. that, to me, believes that rod rosenstein wants some level of transparency and he is the ultimate decision maker about whether or not that robert for mueller goes public. he will send it to congress but he does have the decision whether or not to make that public. mueller does not. >> julia, changing gears a bit. i want to ask you about statement from the director of national intelligence. this is about combatting foreign influence in u.s. elections. this has been a major topic of discussion post 2016 election. what is being said here? >> i also got myself. still going through it. it seems a public serv

gates, both of whom have already pleaded guilty to financial crimes. if convicted edwards faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison. >>> prosecutors from robert mueller'sg information about president trump's friend and business associate roger stone. sources tell abc news that special counsel's office is pushing paul manafort for information on roger stone. according to abc news, nearly a dozen individuals close to stone have been brought in for interviews with the mueller team. many of those same individuals have also appeared before a federal grand jury. mueller's interest in stone appears to be focused on whether stone or his associated communicated with wikileaks about the release of damaging e-mai e-mails hacked from hillary clinton's campaign. >> how does this square away, continuing an investigation with roger stone when we've heard that mueller's investigation may be pretty much wrapped up and just waiting for the passage of the midterms. how does that square up? >> here's the thing about federal investigations, is that every time they turn over a new rock and find new potential lines of inquiry, they're going to pursue those options. there's n

robert bower's acts were politically motivated. she is making sure members of her temple are safe. >> we pray for peace on this day everywhere. >> reporter: the front gates of temple emanuel are locked uptight and heightened security will continue until further notice n. san francisco, cornell beard, a brbc 7 news. >>> the attack happened where dozens of families start their day. they were attending baby naming ceremony in the synagogue. maggie rulely joins us with more. good morning, maggie. >> reporter: kate, good morning. this is the neighborhood where it happens, often described as charming and local leaders never have to deal with any violence here, let alone like this and left many people in shock trying to comprehend how hate-filled violence can happen here. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: a community, an entire faith and nation in mourning. grieving after a gunman opened fire in pittsburgh. >> the only shots we hear are the shots coming out towards the officers. >> reporter: authorities say the chaos raged for an agonizing 20 minutes as dozens of people were inside on a saturday morning. first responders took down the suspect, 46-year-old robert bowers shooting

robert handa, nbc bay area news. >> getting my glasses, being mauled by a tiger. i wonder which is the right choice. >>> a gorgeous shot of the golden gate bridge. nice and warm out there and not so windy. yes, the winds are calming down. that kept the fog from moving in across the bay area. we're going to start right with tomorrow's forecast and winds will be variable 5 to 15 miles an hour. not super gusty, no more wind advisories. we hit tuesday's forecast and that will leave us with a warm day. 82 in morgan hill. still have some 70s. a low to mid-80s. so clear to start and we'll see that sunshine as we head through the afternoon. the forecast looks similar to what i'm seeing now. mid-80s right through saturday with lots of sunshine but notice this, once we hit next monday we are seeing another system and cooler temperatures with 76. i want to set the table with where we are so far for the rainfall season which started on october the 1st. you can see we're at a surplus but running a small deficit for oakland, san francisco, livermore and san jose anywhere from 1,100 behind. what about next week? everything is still pinning the highest

robert bowers' acts were politically motivated. rabbi singer is making sure members of her temple feel safe. >> we play for piece and say shabbat shalom and pray for peace everywhere. >> reporter: the gatesre lock add up tight.tie further notice. in san francisco, cornell bernard, abc7 news. >> the council on american islamic relations releases a statement today expressing solidarity with the jewish community. it says, "such an act of terror aches all of us. we often our full support and assistance in the aftermath of this tragedy and our doors are open at all times to our neighbors." it is the largest advocacy organization. >> the sports world senior remembering victims. before the start of the world series game between the dodgers and red sox, there was a moment of silence. all of pittsburgh's professional sports teams have posted some sort of tribute on social media. >> reporter: the pittsburgh series is one in a series of attacks against american jew. here in the bay area we've seen an upward trend in anti-semit m anti-semitism. some experts say it is not all motivated by hate. fear is a big issue, as well. >> we saw today in pittsburgh what we believe to be the deadliest anti-semiti

robert mueller's investigation. natalie mayflower sours edwards worked in the department's financial crimes enforcement network. she allegedly leaked bankingin rmation about paul manafort, rick gates others to anbu unnamefeed reporter. a detained american graduate erudent has asked israel's supreme court to r an expulsion order, and let her stay in the country. prosecutors argue lara alqasem supported a boycott against israel and is still a threat. the flida native appeared in a jerusalem court today. e 22-year- said old's activist days are behind her. >> if she was an aivist in the past, that past was 18 months ago, everything in the rord indicates that she is not that same person, that she's come to israel in violation actuly of the academic boycott, and of the economic bcott because she's going to be living and breathing and living her day to day life in israel. ee>> woodruff: alqasem has detained in israel for two weeks, after arriving on a valid student visa. at least 19 people died in a shooting rampage at a vocational school in crimea today. ane alleged perpetrator wa 18-year-old student, and later killed himself. most of the victims were students at the college in the blac

robert rayburn says that incident provided urgency to what they were doing. >> sometimes it takes a tragedy in order to focus attention. >> reporter: the plan calls for a video monitor at station gates so passengers can see what's happening on the platforms. this artist depiction shows emergency phones to be installed so that riders can talk directly to b.a.r.t. dispatchers who will be able to see them on video. all of it drafted with the help of privacy advocates. >> we like that it's not unlimited. it's buttoned up so people know where the data might go and under what circumstances. >> reporter: the guidelines also say b.a.r.t. can't trade this information or supply it to information to any third parties without a subpoena or legal documents. although this package of surveillance measures has been approved in concept, there's been no money allocated for it yet. so putting this into practice is still a few years away. eric thomas, "abc7 news." >> thank you, eric. we are always interested to hear what you're seeing and experiencing on b.a.r.t. add the #dearbart to share photos and videos with us. >> we are,ing every dan on effort to build a better bay area, which means we're expandi

robert bowers' acts were politically motivated. she is making sure members of her temple feel safe. >> we pray for peace on this day and pray for peace everywhere. >> reporter: the front gatesterm emanuel are locked uptight. heightened security will continue until further notice. in san francisco, cornell bernard, abc 7 news. >> thanks cornell. >>> the counsel on american islamic relations or c.a.r.e. is expressing solidarity. c.a.r.e. says such an acre of t -- act of terror affects all of us. our doors are open at all times. c.a.r.e. is the largest muslim civil rights and advocacy organization. >>> the sports world remembering the victims of the shooting. before the start of the game between the dodgers and red sox there was a moment of silence. all of pittsburgh's professional sports teams posted some sort of tribute. the shooting is the latest of a series in ventrecent attacks agt jews. some experts say it's not all motivated by hate. fear is a big issue. >> we saw in mitt pipittsburgh biggest antis-semitic act in decades. >> reporter: they seen a spike in hate crime against jews going back to the 2016 presidential campaign. there is an almost 60 percent increase from 20

robert mueller have obtained copies of the proposal and questioned psy-group employees. according to people familiar with those interviews. "the times" identifies deputy manager rick gates as the person who sought the proposals from the israeli intelligence firm. rick gates, of course, pled guilty in february in the mueller investigation and has agreed to cooperate fully. what could the special counsel's office make of this and what happens now? joining us now is ronan bergman, one of the "new york times" reporters who broke this story. he's a staff writer for "the new york times" magazine based in tel aviv. mr. bergman, thank you so much for joining us tonight. >> thank you, joy. thank you for inviting me. >> thank you. we have a slight day. let's first talk about this company psy-group, who are they? >> sy group psy-group is one of israeli intelligence companies, private intelligence companies, there are a few of them. you probably heard of another company called black cube involved in the harvey weinstein case and others. what is in common, they're staffed with former israeli intelligence members, people who have great expertise in the different realms of intelligenc

robert mueller is looking into more trump campaign efforts to sway the election with the help of a foreign entity. the "new york times" is reporting that a top trump campaign official identified as rick gates requested proposals in 2016 from an israeli company to create fake on-line identities to use social media manipulation. can you imagine such a thing? and to gather intelligence to help defeat republican primary race opponents and hillary clinton. the company is identified as psy-group, p-s-yp-s-y, dash, gro there is no evidence that the president acted on behalf of the group, but the owner, jack zamel, did meet in august 2016 with donald trump jr., mr. trump's eldest son. meeting with us, former chief of the cia, and former u.s. attorney both with the eastern district of new york and the southern district of new york. good evening and welcome to you both. versions of the same question for both of you starting in order. jeremy, is it proper what we saw today for rod rosenstein to be hanging out and flying on the plane? >> well, the president is a subject of a federal criminal investigation that rod rosenstein is overseeing. and rod rosenstein may have to make the ultimate judgment abou

gate was gi was killed in istanbul. they blame it on an interrogation that went wrong. roberthe verge of key findings in the russia investigation and that he will issue them soon after next month's election. he says he is close to rent during judgment on two of the most explosive assets, -- aspects, where there was collusion regarding the trump campaign, and whether the president obstructed justice. the summit battle over exit. you leaders will be told they need to be shown -- they need to show flexibility. that is the future of the irish border. exitas told the latest proposal would be rejected by parliament. and shares of netflix are soaring in premarket trading. the world's largest paid online tv network at it far more subscribers than analysts estimated in the third quarter. all of this made up for the stumble in the second quarter. netflix has been spending billions of dollars on original programming and uses that to attract subscribers. andred by 2700 journalists analysts in more them 120 countries, i am taylor riggs. this is bloomberg. francine? tom? tom: moments ago, b

robert mueller is looking into more trump campaign efforts to sway the election with the help of a foreign entity. the "new york times" is reporting that a top trump campaign official identified as rick gates requested proposals in 2016 from an israeli company to create fake online identities to use social media manipulation. can you imagine such a thing? and to gather intelligence to help defeat republican primary race opponents and hillary clinton. the company is identified as psy-group, p-s-y dash group. and is staffed with former israeli intelligence operatives. according to the report there is no evidence that the campaign acted on the proposals but psy-group's owner jack zamel did meet in august 2016 with donald trump jr. mr. trump's eldest son. and remember this rick gates, the top campaign aide we just mentioned, pleaded guilty to fraud and lying to the fbi. he is cooperating with team mueller. with us tonight to talk about all of it in order, jeremy bash, former chief of staff of cia, and pentagon, former chief counsel of house intel and barrack berger, former assistant u.s. attorney with both the eastern district of new york and the southern district of new york. good evening and

already to answer in private some of special counsel robert mueller's questions about the whole russia investigation. your book is out now. spy gate to you that maybe this investigation is finally winding down when they are in private answering these questions not under oath in the direct. they could still do a one op. one interview. is this finally winding down? >> it is, ed. this is what basically where i go with the book on this is donald trump has -- the reason that he is answering these questions at all by the way is let me be crystal clear on this. donald j. trump has absolutely nothing to worry about in the collusion front. on the mueller front he has a lot to worry about because it's a political hit. the mueller team is there to politically damage the president. not criminally on the collusion front. there is no collusion. there is brother collusion. nothing to worry about. one of the things we hit on in this book that is critical, we did a ton of research on this. ed, this was a movie script. okay? this collusion thing was a prepackaged narrative by glenn simpson and fusion g.p.s. all they did was erase the names and put