the meeting of june 9th, 2016 at trump tower. >> who was trump's closest business associates in russiae guy he did miss universe with. so if you want to get a message to the trump campaign from the russia's side, those are the people who you go to. >> rob goldstein, a publicist orchestrated the event and would not attend the meeting. the message to his e-mail no donald trump jr. would later raise eye brows. >> some officials documents and information that'll i n criminae hillary. >> don jr. would later ignite a fire storm of controversy. >> he says i love it. it becomes part of the evidence record that knew and trying to get dirt with hillary clinton in kahoot with russian nationals. >> when you tell someone we have dirt on hillary and you are testing the waters to see what the response is and once you get a yes, a positive response to that. you have hooked your fish. >> joining don jr. at the meeting, donald trump's son-in-law, jared kushner and campaign chairman paul manafort, the powerful political consultant with ties to russia. it includ includes nathialia bu. >> the question had

the special counsel's investigation did not find that the trump campaign or anyone if associated with it conspired or coordinated with russia in its efforts to influence the 2016 u.s. presidential election. as the report states, the investigation did not, quote, did not establish that members of the trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the russian government in its election interference activities. that is a quote from the mueller report. the investigation did not establish that members of the trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the russian government in its election interference activity. this goes on. the special counsel's investigation determined that there were two main russian efforts to influence the 2016 election. the first involved attempts by a russian organization, the internet research agency, to conduct disinformation and social media operations in the united states to sow social discord. eventually, with the aim of interfering with the election. as notes above, the special come did not find any u.s. person or trump campaign official or associate conspired

reporter: as the trump investigation appeared to be winding down earlier this year, long-time trump associate roger stone is indicted. in january, the fbi raided stone's florida home. the special counsel alleges stone coordinated and sought e-mails that could damage trump's opponents and awaits his fate on the charges he faces and proclaimed his innocence. >> the justice department is telling us that attorney general bill barr received the report from special counsel robert mueller. >> it will be up to trump's attorney general william barr to decide how much of the report will be made public. jason carroll, cnn new york. >> thank you very much. after everything that's happened over the past two years now that mueller finished his investigation, what will happen next? ♪ ♪ t-mobile will do the math for you. right now, when you join t-mobile, you get two lines of unlimited with two of the latest phones included for just one hundred bucks a month. it's a deal so good, it will make everyone a fish lover. you get 100%, wild-caught alaska pollock breaded with panko bread crumbs and topped with tarta

it looked more significant than it is. >> as the campaign continues so did contacts between trump associatesrussian individuals. after winning the election, the president-elect trump prorussia statements raised concerns. >> if putin likes donald trump, guess what, folks, that's called an asset, not a liability. in 2018, when president trump criticized american allies in the european union and barbed the u.s.'s role in nato. >> we are going to have to do something because we are not going to put up with it. >> his words sent shock waves around the world because a week in nato which was created to protect against russian aggression could strengthen putin's influence. the unusual relationship continued to evaluate and in july 2018, during the helsinki meeting, the president was put in the spot in the entire world. >> every u.s. intelligence concluded that russian did. interfered. my first question to you, sir, who do you believe? >> people came to me and they said they think it is russia. i have president putin, he just said it is not russia. i will say this, i don't see any reason why it would

we know several of trump's associates have been taken into custody, charged in connection to mueller'snvestigation. the big question has been whether there was any collusion between the trump campaign or the president himself with the russians. that will be the big question presumablyr's report will seek to answer. givenr's report has been to attorney general william barr. it will take some time to review. this is only the beginning of the struggle between barr, lawmakers and the white house about how much of these findings and the evidence will be disclosed to the public. i'm reading our bloomberg news right up on this now which you can find on the terminal. this fight is likely to escalate the social media wars between the president and his critics. the president just fired another wars today, that he believes social media, platforms like twitter and facebook, prioritize liberal views. the irony being the president himself is sort of the tweeter-in-chief. whatever mueller found, the completion of this investigation is a big turning point for the president. he has been dogged with inc

mueller as the special counsel and with each passing month, the investigation moves closer to trump associates. october 2017, paul manafort and his business partner and former trump deputy campaign chairman rick gates are indicted on charges of conspiracy and money laundering. gates later pleaded guilty to two counts and became a cooperating witness in the investigation. manafort was tried, convicted and sentenced to a total of 7.5 years in prison. trouble for trump reached his innermost circle. >> donald trump has the next president of the united states of america. >> december 2017 former national security advisor michael flynn pleads guilty to lying to the fbi regarding his conversations with him and agrees to cooperate with the mueller probe. >> i feel badly for general flynn. he led a strong life and i feel very badly. >> february 2018, mueller indicts 13 russian nationals and three russian companies for interfering with the election through social media. april 2018, things took a dramatic turn. >> you want to get -- >> acting on a referral from mueller to prosecutors in the southern distr

he was assigned to investigate and he links to trump associates or other crimes arising out of the probeyou can think of it as three topics. the russian interference and trump links and other crimes. mueller have just finished his probe on friday and this ending marks the end of indictments on those three topics so what's different tonight is we can draw some conclusions of what mueller found. he found russian election interference indicting 12 russians in exposing their tactics. he found a lot of crimes throughout these 22 months. 37 indictments. he found many action of trump related to the crime of obstruction which are noted in the new letter why barr wrote mueller did not exonerate trump, an issue that was decided by congress. mueller repeated all of that in one day in the end. if he issued 37 indictments simultaneously, one can imagine washington and much of the country overwhelmed and melting down by the efficacy and the crime and what he found. mueller was appointed because president trump fired comey and cited the russia probe as part of his reasoning. think about that as we refl

he was assigned to investigate and he links to trump associates or other crimes arising out of the probe. you can think of it as three topics. the russian interference and trump links and other crimes. mueller have just finished his probe on friday and this ending marks the end of indictments on those three topics so what's different tonight is we can draw some conclusions of what mueller found. he found russian election interference indicting 12 russians in exposing their tactics. he found a lot of crimes throughout these 22 months. 37 indictments. he found many action of trump related to the crime of obstruction which are noted in the new letter why barr wrote mueller did not exonerate trump, an issue that was decided by congress. mueller repeated all of that in one day in the end. if he issued 37 indictments simultaneously, one can imagine washington and much of the country overwhelmed and melting down by the efficacy and the crime and what he found. mueller was appointed because president trump fired comey and cited the russia probe as part of his reasoning. think about that as we re

trump has missed the big picture. there is plenty of evidence of a conspiracy to collude with russia. but this is about lying and obstruction evidence. >> that same committee also turning its attention to an associate of trump and cohen. late today it announced that felix sater who worked with cohen on the trump tower moscow deal will testify at a public hearing march 14th. our panel standing by to join us, but first we want to go to one of the four reporters on this multiple sourced, multiple by line breaking story. washington correspondent mike monaco joins us tonight by telephone. this was troubling enough. this development with jared kushner's security clearance application that senior aides were hiding contemporaneous evidence in realtime about the case that can't be a good sign. >> no. there was deep concern about this and how the process was playing out. and these folks wanted to document how the president had overridden what the intelligence community was saying, what his own white house lawyer, the white house counsel, don mcgahn who recommended that kushner not get this. but the president controls security clearances. it's something he derives as the head of the executive branch and he ig

six trump associates. the mueller report now turned in. caied by a surity officer towas. the department of justice. tonight what we know already. the letter from the attorney general william barr to congress. and early word coming in from the ag that his first summary could come as early as this weekend. jon karl and pierre thomas with new reporting. >>> tonight president trump responding. sources telling abc news the initial reaction, quote, glad it's over. >>> also tonight no new indictments from robert mueller? dan abrams on what that means. and what's in the report itself? are there any clues yet? and tonight reaction pouring in from capitol hill. demands the mueller report be made public, that the american people get to see it. will that happen? mary bruce standing by live on the hill. >>> also breaking tonight, that chemical plant fire. worries about the air. and just tonight, the new fire erupting a short time ago. >>> major news on boeing tonight and those new max jets grounded. after news many were missing crucial safety software that cost extra. tonight the new

court filings established senior trump associates were eager to accept help from the russians. prosecutors zeroed in on trump's one time chairman paul manafort and his extensive connections to russia and including one associate with ties to russian intelligence. >> manafort passed trump campaign polling data to that associate while he was overseeing the trump campaign. prosecutors said that move was at the heart of their investigation. >> nor has the smoke cleared around one roger stone. mueller claimed stone was coordinating with trump campaign officials at the same time he talked to wikileaks about the release of emails 12stolen from democrats. and michael cohen tried to clear this up last month. >> stone told mr. trump that he had just gotten off the phone with julian assange and that mr. assange told mr. stone that within a couple of days, there would be a massive dump of emails that would damage hillary clinton's campaign. >> certainly the president sees this as being absolved by mueller, but the investigation spawned by mueller's probe brought down several members of trump

trump. none of this with have happened if he was not associated with trump. trish: robert where is that association with collusion. he was accused of stealing millions of dollars from the taxpayers by not disclosing what he was doing in coordination with foreign governments. >> i'm not saying that's right. but you have got a rabid congress going after everyone ever associated with donald trump. but they are not getting them on the things they are hoping to get them on. because that didn't happen. michael cohen said it himself. there was no collusion. if you have no collusion, aren't you breaking down government and wasting taxpayer's time and money by going after 81 people? >> if we have reason to believe they committed crimes. go after them. michael cohen is going to prison for committing crimes. >> anybody associated with trump now potentially in the hot seat. why don't you spend time digging into what's going on with ilhan omar and who's backing her and why she is so anti-american and anti-israel. >> she was talking about aipac, the political action committ

and with each passing month, the investigation moved closer to trump associates. r, 2017, paul manafort, and his business partner, and former trump deputy campaign chairman, rick gates, are indicted on charges of conspiracy, and money laundering. gates later pleaded guilty to two counts, and became a cooperating witness in the investigation. manafort was tried. convicted. and sentenced to a total of seven and a half years in prison. trouble for trump reached his most inner circle. >> donald trump, as the next president of the united states of america. >> december 2017, former national security adviser michael flynn pleads guilty to lying to the fbi regarding his conversations with kisliak. flynn also agrees to cooperate with the mueller probe. >> i feel badly for general flynn. i feel very badly. he's led a very strong life. and i feel very badly. >> february, 2018. mueller indicts 13 russian nationals, and three russian companies for interfering with the election through social media. april, 2018, things took a dramatic turn. acting on a referral, from mueller, to

mueller locked in on what critics have called suspicious contacts of trump associates with the kremlin including that infamous meeting at trump tower, new york, where a number of russians showed up promising dirt on hillary clinton. in attendance the president's son, don junior, son-in-law, jared kushner, and paul manafort. >> it was such a nothing there was nothing to tell. >> reporter: and there has been a parade of witnesses to a grand jury here in washington. many involving trump associates like friend and longtime political adviser roger stone who are being investigated for their possible ties to wikileaks which published damaging hacked emails stolen by the russians. stone now indicted and awaiting trial accused of lying to congress. yet after all those witnesses and countless hours of investigation, not a single american so far has been directly charged with conspiring with the russians to undermine the election. and much of what mueller has found remains shrouded in secrecy, but now the key questions, what does mueller have to say about whether the trump campaign colluded with

rick gates is awaiting his sentence and we learned there are 16 trump associates who had contact with russians and instead of reporting those contacts to the fbi, they instead lied about them. so it's not like donald trump can point to this report and say, me and all of my associates are completely clean, completely blameless here. >> still unanswered, what was all the lying about? we still don't really know. we're going to have you back. we have so much more to talk about. sar sarah, michael, david, thank you so much. >>> first, we've got this breaking news, this out of london. hundreds of thousands of people filling the streets right there in protest of brexit, britain's vote to leave the european union. they are demanding a second referendum. k we're live now in london. it's a significant turnout. >> reporter: fred, there's been a huge turnout here. organizers say that they estimate 1 million protestors took to the streets of central lond london. they started from hyde park and worked their way through some of the most important streets of london and ending up here, just outside of

this report that i just mentioned, that hints at potential misconduct by trump's associates. abc news cites sources who say in the crucial period after the feds searched cohen's office, lawyers linked to team trump and giuliani popped up and started pressing michael cohen to do a very particular thing, to stay in his joint defense agreement with trump, even as his legal headaches multiplied. and they implied if cohen was loyal, he could increase his chances of a pardon down the road. let me be very clear about what we know. it can be an abuse of power to trade a pardon for some sort of obstruction, a crime. that was literally in the articles impeachment against nixon. trump's lawyers know that, and you'll see this story doesn't say donald trump personally made this offer, but rather that some intermediaries implied it. the kind of move which, again, is exactly how cohen said trump operates, by pushing people implicitly while trying to avoid getting in trouble. and then, of course, if you follow the news, you may notice an echo here and it's a bad one for the white house becaus

trump's claims of little to no contact with russia, we have learned that, in fact, at least 16 trump associatess either during the election or the presidential transition. one such interaction took place in june 2016 at trump tower in new york when donald trump jr., jared kushner, and paul manafort all met with several russians who offered dirt on clinton. and clad mir putin himself has admitted one of the central allegations of the dossier was true. >> translator: yes, i do, because he talked about bringing the u.s./russia relationship back to normal. >> reporter: it's important to note that other parts of the dossier have not been verified, including the claim that has gotten a lot of attention. the claim that michael cohen traveled to prague in 2016 to coordinate with russians in order to cover up the russian meddling. cohen has recently denied this including under oath to congress. >> pamela, thank you. >>> and next, today the deadline for the white house to give congress information about trump's meetings with putin so we've got a few more hours. are they going to fork it over? >>> and how

trump's former fixer answered questions for more than seven hours today out of the public eye. and there's more. the chairman of the house intel announcing a public hearing on march 14th with felix saider, an associate of donald trump who worked on the trump tower moscow project with michael cohen. president trump sided with a dictator yet again this time saying he doesn't hold kim jong-un responsible for otto warmber's death. >> he felt badly about it. but he tells me he didn't know about it. and i will take him at his word. >> we'll talk about that in the hour ahead. i want to bring in my panel. good evening. thank you all for joining us this evening. first let me ask you about "the new york times." the president ordered john kelly to grant a security clearance to his son-in-law and senior adviser jared kushner. it looks like the president overruled the recommendations of his own intelligence agency. >> we have known for a while that kushner had problems. this is a guy when he filed his initial report january 2017 he didn't put any foreign contacts on it. we learned that the last few years the fbi, the cia and others had raised concerns over kushner's contacts with a number of foreign businessman

also tonight another former trump associate, paul manafort is about to learn just how much prison time he's looking at for bank and tax fraud. tomorrow a federal judge in virginia is scheduled to sentence the former trump campaign chairman. manafort, you'll recall, convicted in august. he now fass up ces up to 24 yea federal prison, millions of dollars in fines. but then he gets sentenced in his next case in d.c. that's next week. manafort pleaded guilty in that case and agreed to cooperate with investigators. but then that deal collapsed and he was found to have lied to robert mueller's team. it's a lot to talk about. let's bring in our lead-off panel on a wednesday night. robert costa, national political reporter for the "washington post." moderator of "washington week" on pbs. michael crowley, white house and national security editor at politico. and julia ainsley, our own nbc news national security and justice reporter. robert costa, last time you were on this broadcast we had the following conversation, that in the television age we tend to link skanltds and scandals and investiga

you had 16 trump associates, at least 16 associates had contacts with russians that were suspicious to the fbi during the campaign or transition. and that propelled this investigation that has hung over this president but without a doubt, this is a big deal for the president. he can say there's no more indictments and so far in the indictments and public documents that have been released, there's been nothing that looks like collusion. nothing that looks like a conspiracy between people associated with the president or the president himself to collude with the russians to throw the election. >> at least nothing that rises to a criminal level or even if it did because he's the president he can't be indicted. >> exactly. but that's a big moment for the president to be able to take stock and to say that it's what i was telling you all along. >> he can say it louder. >> he can say it without a doubt and it's time for people to give him his due on that. there's a lot we don't know about what bob mueller found in this investigation. there's a lot of information on this report possibly that w

a protracted inquiry has already seen charges brought against six former trump associates and more than two dozen russian us media reports say the special counsel is not recommending any further charges president trump has repeatedly condemned the probe as a witch hunt denied any form of collusion with russia there was no collusion. there's no collusion no collusion there is a crawl over to the question was plagued with presidency since day water five that delusion. duties campaign team collude with russia to win the presidency did donald trump obstruct efforts to investigate this is the man tasked with finding out. shrouded in secrecy his team has been quietly conducting one of the most high profile political inquiries in u.s. history. so what do we know so far. russian meddling. in our twenty six to election our intelligence community has it right it was the russians we know that they know that it was directed from the highest levels. of the like. u.s. intelligence agencies say russia did interfere in the election more than two dozen russian citizens and three russian companies have b

white house lawyers are working to figure out how to handle the more than 80 subpoenas issued to trump associates including some of his family. tracie potts has the latest. >> it's a disgrace to our ry cou >> reporter: president trump hammering democrats for what he calls harassment. >> basically,they've started the campaign, so the campaign begins. >> reporter: his son, eric -- >> these people are so desperate. >> reporter: are among the81 trump associates asked for documents as the house judiciary ommittee investigates obstruction of justice, corruption and abuse of power. >> we need to build this record, collect the documents, interview witnesses under oath and showme therican people what we've foernd. >> repo critics say it's an insurance policy as the country awaits a final report any d w from russia special counsel robert mueller. >> there worried the mueller report will come up basically nothing against the president. >> reporter:erformer trump law michael cohen is back on capitol hill today behind closed doors. >> i look forward to tomorrow to being able to add my voice to tell the americ

six trump associates who have faced charges as a result of this. five people who have been sentenced to prison so far. 16 trump associates, at least, who have been found to have some kind of position in the campaign. >> let's talk about how this is going to go down, sara, because robert mueller will finish his report, send it over to the attorney general, and then what? >> we're all kind of looking at what is going to be the beginning between a terminal legal battle, but the president will deliver his report to the attorney general, bill barr. then bill barr is going to, according to the constitution, include any instances where the attorney general overruled a decision that robert mueller wanted to make to prosecute someone. maybe that is a situation that bill barr overruled, maybe roger whitaker overruled, but we might want to do. when there wasn't an executive summari summarily. pamela brown has reported that the white house hopes to see the entire summary, not just portions of it. th then. whaz they don't want to put it bunch of information. th

as many as 16 of them people associated with the trump campaign had contacts with russians. it made the fbi suspicious. it is one reason this investigation has gone on. we don't flow what happenknow w. >> hovering over all of this william barr, the attorney general has been precise during the confirmation hearing that he will deal with all of this. he wachbs as much as possible within justice department guidelineses. the second guideline is if you're not going to formally charge someone criminally you can't release a lot of damaging with private american citizen. that will be hovering over the decision how much to release publicly, right? >> if you believe both of those, you know, principles that you just described donald trump is the kind of heads i win and tails you lose situation. you can't indict me and you can't say anything bad about me either. i find it hard to believe that that will be the principle that governs the release of these documents. it does underline the challenge that barr will face in add dr s addressing these issues. we saw from the statement from sflar

and over the course of this, wee learned 16 trump associates had contacts with russians that at times and most of them lied about it. >> and most of them lied about it. the question is why? >> they were offering them dirt on hillary clinton when in a normal campaign you'd call the fbi. they said let's take the meeting and they want and lied about the context and content of those discussions or that they had them whatsoever. there's a reason this investigation started. and you can say, fine it was a big waste of time, there was enough suspicious behavior it had to be looked into. >> one assumes mueller, given his pedigree and experience understands he has to explain some of that. the question is whether we so it. or just the attorney general see it. where's the argument here? adam schiff, now the -- the democrats are in charge of the house. error different environment than if the republicans were in charge. democrats are in charge of the house. adam schiff says if you want to send your summary today, we'd be okay with that but very soon we want everything. not just the full report but

estimated $30 million in expenditures thus far, they have been brought up on charges on a number of trump associates, some close, some distant, and they'vee been brought up on charges including false statements, tax evasion, bank fraud, and so on, but not one thing pointing to conspiracy or collusion between trump and russia. despite that, the media have been irresponsibly ringing the collusion bell. >> the picture of russia collision is coming into focus now. >> i can certainly say with confidence that there iscoll significant evidence of collusion between the campaign and russia. >> this is evidence of willingness to commit collusion. s it's so obvious that they were eager to collude with russia. now we're seeing evidence that there was a conspiracy to cover up. >> right now we don't have evidence of collusion. >> we have paul manafort's yevidence of collusion. >> we are looking at the possibility that the president of united states concluded with a hostile foreign power to undermine the basis of our democracy. >> laura: by the way, most of them are on tv today acting like they didn't get anything

judiciary officials say encompasses the russia scandal and everything associated with almost any alleged misconduct we've seen involving trump these requests encompass everything from the national rifle association to the national enquirer. many white house officials and ancillary figures. remember peter smith now deceased who is alleged to have sought to pay hackers to look for hillary clinton's emails and obscure angles, house judiciary is ramping up to investigate. they will discuss impeachment. i asked one staffer and if he says that the president obstructed justice, implying that they're not ready to use the impeachment word and obviously, andrea, this is laying the ground for a potential impeachment inquiry down the road. >> they are looking at obstruction issues. kristen, one of the questions that michael cohen was asked was what was your left conversation with the president and he said it was after the raid at his hotel apartment and his other house and when asked what did you talk about? he said that is under investigation by the southern district of new york. it seems as though there is a potential pardon dangle be

six trump associates. the mueller report now turned in. caied by a surity officer towas. we know already. the letter from the attorney general william barr to congress. and early word coming in from the ag that his first summary could come as early as this weekend. jon karl and pierre thomas with new reporting. >>> tonight president trump responding. sources telling abc news the initial reaction, quote, glad it's over. >>> also tonight no new

shadow over his presidency, costing $25 million and has resulted in 37 indictments, including six trump associates. five convicted or pleading guilty. tonight president trump is in florida, the white house saying it has not seen the report. and this isn't the end of the president's legal troubles. investigations continue by federal prosecutors in new york and washington, several state prosecutors and by democrats and the house of representatives. stay with abc news for the latest in the mueller investigation. much more ahead in the morning on gma. >>> now to one woman's struggle with the legacy of her birth mother's horrific crimes. becky babcock learned as a child that she was adopted and that her birth mother was diane downs who shot and three children. killing one of them. >> reporter: according to elizabeth diane downs, she and her three children were shot by a strange man. it was 1983, an unimaginable crime. >> diane downs was a case that captured the imagination and horror of people at the time. >> we haven't overlooked any possible suspects. >> reporters covering the story were getting hint

they feared a final round of charges could ensnare trump associates or family members. wmakers want answers. >> there were dealings by donald trump himself on the moscow trump ptower. his son welcomed inchristmrimin information about hillary clinton. >> reporter: mueller investigate had 34 indictments and six from the campaign. three russian companies were charged with trying to sway the outcome. mueller looked into whether the president tried to obstruct the investigation. jennifer johnson, washington. >> the mueller report will be the focus of tomorrow's edition of meet the press. chuck todd willhe potential impact to president trump. you can watch at 8:00 a.m. >>> willie brown celebrated his birthday last night with some incredible dance movers. you have to see. ♪ . >> more than 200 people came out to the party. dancing across from willie, the city's current mayor. house speaker nancy pelosi was there. adam schiff was there. brown out danced every one. that's not just coming from brown. he was still going at midnight as the party was starting the wind down at that loc

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now they're dealing with this controversy or jerry nadler and the 81 letters to trump associates. what about the messaging from democrats being stepped on by their own controversies? >> they're happy with the investigations. they're not scared of those. i think this particular issue and all the days that it has taken up, a lot of the oxygen in washington is not what the democratic leadership was hoping for. you saw that in some of the speaker's responses to that. >> ed: no doubt about it, brett. stay with us. we have a live look right now. another breaking story in virginia. we're about to find out how much prison time former trump campaign chairman paul manafort will get for bank and tax fraud. a federal judge is set to sentence him in less than a half hour from now. it's possible he could spend the rest of his life behind bars. robert mueller has recommended up to 24 years in prison for the 74-year-old. it's up to the judge. the maximum possible sentence is 80 years total. prosecutors say that manafort brazingly and repeatedly broke the law over a decade. illegal lobbying for pr

next the house intelligence committee will be holding a public hearing next week with former trump associate felix seder. he is believed to have knowledge of negotiations for a possible trump tower in moscow. >>> a second federal judge has ruled that the trump administration's decision to address the decision question to the senses is legal. today a judge in san francisco so the move by the federal government quote threatens the very foundation of our democratic system. he also ruled it would violate a constitutional requirement that the census count everyone in the country. the latest ruling means the case will likely make its way to the supreme court. attorney general said quote we celebrate this ruling an important step protecting billions of dollars for services californians rely on for public sound safety and health. >>> tim cook join president trump at the house today, seated next to the president for a business roundtable on workforce changes. cook says it is critical to get students ready for digital jobs . >> we believe strongly it should be a requirement in the united states for ev

there are plenty of questions to answer like why so many trump associates lied about their contacts withs for our country, not just the president. on the question of obstruction, far less vindication. special counsel punted to the attorney general on this and it is a big deal because we know from republicans during the clinton years that obstruction of justice is an impeachable offense. so how does the mueller investigation stack up with past presidential inquiries? here is the tale of the tape. mueller investigation lasted 22 months, cost at least $25 million resulting in charges brought by more than 30 defendants including six trump associates. by comparison, the watergate investigation last four years and cost upwards of $30 million in today's dollars, led to 69 indictments, and resignation of the president. the iran contra investigation lasted around seven years and cost around $105 million resulting in 14 indictments and 11 convictions or ghiguilty ple. and the whitewater investigation lasted nearly five years and cost about $60 million and ended in a 300 page book detailing the inv

trump. he was assigned to investigate russian interference, any links to associates or any crimes arising out of the probe. the russian interference, the trump links and those other crimes. now mueller has just finished his probe late friday. his ending also marks the end of indictments on those three topics. so what's different tonight is we can draw some conclusions about what mueller found. he found election interference indicting 12 russians and exposing their tactics, and he found a lot of other crime throughout these 22 months. a whopping 37 indictments. he did not find chargeable collusion conspiracy, and he also found many actions by trump-related to the crime of obstruction which are noted in that new letter that barr wrote explaining why mueller did not exonerate trump on obstruction, an issue that is typically decide by congress. so if bob mueller released all of that, just that right there in one day at the end, if he issued 37 indictments simultaneously, one can imagine washington and much telephone country overwhelmed and melting down. by the efficacy, by the crimes, by what he

counsel robert mueller has put charges against 34 people in three companies, that includes six trump associatesd dozens of russian nationals. the question is whether mueller will bring any additional indictments before he reports his findings to attorney general william barr. joaquin castro of texas who's on the house intelligence committee said that michael cohen's closed-door testimony leads him, the congressman, to believe the president's family could be next. >> from what i heard i believe there will still be more indictments to come. i think the information leads me to believe that the president's -- members of the president's family could be in legal jeopardy. >> former cia director john brennan sitting here last night also predicted more indictments to come before the final report. here he goes. >> there is a lot that the special counsel's office has been involved in. >> what do you smell coming between now and the final report for mueller? what comes between? >> i smell more indictments. >> family members? >> i believe that there are going to be family members indicted by the special co

it was 16 trump associates that had some kind of dealings with the russians during the campaign or the transition, at least. so we have to step back and look at how much of this was brought on by the president. the president fired james comey and talked about one reason he fired comey was the russia investigation. breeding more suspicion that really propelled this investigation. i'm not saying that it's all his fault in that way. but, you know, it kind of is. he did so many things and people around him did things that caused suspicion and made this investigation even more difficult than it needed to be. he and his team and his family should feel vindicated but we had the example of the trump tower meeting that happened in the 2016 period and they talk about getting dirt on hillary clint clinton. these are things that normal campaigns don't do. >> normally a russian offering dirt on opposing candidate, you contact the fbi. you don't say let's schedule a meeting. >> they never did those things. a lot of this stuff we had to drag it out of them. they denied they happened until they were f

they are asking 81 trump associates, including the president's son and sister-in-la son-in-law, for documents. they have received the request and will respond. e president says he will cooperate. others said they will not cooperate without a subpoena. >> tracie, let's talk about the national emergency declaration. what can the president do? >> four of fothem. is all they need to send this rejection to the president. bottom line, there's some republicans who want the wall but the don't like how the president went around congress to get fundso build the wall. rand paul is one of them. mitch mcconnell is going to allow this vote to go forward with 51. they can send this rejection of the emergency topr the esident. he will veto it. he sai hewill. and it looks like neither side, the house nor the senate, have the votes to override that. symbolically, it'sme a sta that not all republicans are in lock-step with the president when he goes aroun congress to get the money. >>rae potts, live for us this morning. asylum anyone seeking the border, finding a place to stay can be difficult. for young migran

the trial of long time trump associate roger stone has been set for november 5th. he is charged with lying to congress and obstructing lawmaker's russia investigation. a pit stone against prosecutors for special counsel robert mueller. >>> the warm up his own. about 2 - 3 degrees warmer today compared to yesterday. now back to average. wait until you see what happens this weekend. some of the warmest weather we have seeing since november. >>> while we are enjoying the wild wind blows a freight train off a bridge as a cyclone paralyzes parts of the country. . >>> powerful winds, wideouts, blizzard conditions slamming parts of the country. meteorologists call it a bomb cyclone. severe weather brought traffic to a standstill in colorado. hundreds of accidents reported, winds pushing semi trucks around like toys. a big rig in texas careened off the road after it was hit by winds exceeding 80 miles per hour. check out the a wild scene in new mexico. winds strong enough to blow 26 railcars off a bridge. falling into a dry riverbed. likely no injuries reported. >>> back h

will be at least twenty years now he's likely to get far more jail time that any other of the trump associates who are all being investigated what does this indicate with regard to the mueller investigation. well i think it sends a signal to others that they one must honor their promises i do believe that the greatest concern that the moeller investigation has is with the reaction of roger stone who's not yet been tried and they want to send a signal a given mr stone in fact the one time a partner of mr mann of ford and they both are rather unsavory characters that if he tries to imitate mr mann afore he can spin maybe the rest of his life in prison as well now the one element that we've not had broached is the possibility that president trump could pardon or commute the sentence of mr mann to four which would be another way to send a signal to mr stone maybe resist any cooperation and come to your rescue afterwards so we have a lot of other cards to play in addition to this sentence of judge ellis and we also need to remember that next week there'll be a second sentencing of mr mann a fourth

about hush money payments, and potentially interview one former trump associate about the trump towercow project. the white house also faces a monday deadline for memos related to jared kushner's security clearance. president trump also directly slammed special counsel robert mueller, saying he is surrounded by conflicts of interest and is obstructing his presidency. reena, mueller is expected to submit his final report to the department of justice in the near future. >> ninan: errol, the president also touched on his failed talks with north korea. what did he have to say? >> reporter: that's right. the president mentioned the family of otto warmbier. he is the american who died after spending more than a year in north korean custody. the ens in horrible position in striking a delicate balance between negotiating with kim jong-un and expressing his love for the warmbier family. >> ninan: errol barnett at the white house. thank you errol. bernie sanders kicked off his second presidential campaign today with a rally where he grew up, brooklyn, new york. sanders said that he would win th

this is former trump associate.ore the same judge as paul manafort yesterday where he received an additional prison sentence, roger stone entering the court. what is the president saying about this? >> nothing. we've had a lot of conversations in the last few days and i haven't heard him mention roger stone one time. this has nothing to do with the president. another attempt by the left and many in the mainstream media to tether donald trump to someone who has done something wrong on their own time with no connection to donald trump. the president has done nothing wrong but trying to link these two together is ridiculous. >> the trial date is november 5th to begin is what we expected in the fall. do you have any hunch that the mueller report is about to be made public? >> i do not and i would not. we've been 100% cooperative with that investigation. given over millions of pieces of paper, countless hours in cooperation. but we expect what happens with the result is the same thing the president has said. this is a wi

over the past 22 months, mueller secured seven guilty pleas or convictions of trump associates including his former campaign manager paul manafort, former national security advisor mike flynn, and trump's former personal attorney michael cohen. mueller also indicted 13 russiansns tied to the i internt research agency for meddling in the 2016 election and 12 russian military intelligence officers for allegedly hacking into the computer systems of the democratic national committee and the clinton presidential campaign. while the mueller probe is now over, trump and his associates still face a number of investigations, including ones led by the u.s. attorneys office in the southern district of new york, the attorney general of new york, and congressional democrats. to talk more about the mueller report, we will be joined by two to pulitzer prize-winning journalists, glenn greenwald as well as david cay johnston. we will be back with thehem in a minute. ♪ [music break] amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. to talk momore about the mueller r

the special counsel's russia investigation has already led to criminal charges against some trump associates. >> we think that there's a real threat to the character of american government because all of this criminality is taking place. >> reporter: yesterday, three other house democratic chairmen sent letters to the white house and state department, asking for documents related to the president's conversations with russian president vladimir putin. those requests are for details about trump's and putin's phone including the one in finland last summer. anne-marie. >> all right, laura, thank you so much. >>> hillary clinton says she's not running for president in 2020. the former secretary of state and first lady made the announcement in a tv interview yesterday in new york. clinton says there are things in the country that are troubling here and she plans to continue to speak out. >>> at least 80 people were arrested in sacramento last night after protests of police shooting of unarmed black man stephon clark. >> black lives matter. demonstrators protested a decision not to prosecute the of