. >> yeah, ari, the veselnitskaya development is a really interesting one. and i think it highlights a couple of potentially important things about who she is and who she was at the time she participated in that trump tower meeting. she was not only meeting with and obviously close to russian government officials and it's being reported in the documents released by the southern district of new york a senior russian prosecutor. it's one thing to be closely aligned to those kind of people, it's quite another thing to be involved in conspiring with those people to create false documents and declarations that you will then offer to a court in new york that was going after her, veselnitskaya's client, trying to get them to forfeit some properties that he had allegedly used to launder dirty russian money through. so what does it tell us? it tells us that ms. veselnitskaya was intimately involved with the russian government, with the russian prosecutor and was actually conspireing to commit crimes with them to the disadvantage of the u.s. criminal justice system. a

we also learned about the veselnitskaya detail today. is there a multipliers you use, x times what we know equals what you imagine mueller knows? >> it's exponentially greater in terms of what mueller knows than what we know, but we are seeing the puzzle come together, brian. we're seeing the degree to which those around trump were embedded, joined at the hip with russia. so let's look at -- >> veselnitskaya. >> the female russian attorney. >> happens to the best of us. >> whose name i have trouble with. thank you. indeed. what did we learn today? we learned in a completely unrelated case that she felt so emboldened, so backed up by the russian government, that she could draft a memo, draft a response, to the united states department of justice, as if it was the prosecutor, the russian prosecutor's, response. you only do that when you have the full backing and support of the russian government. so if there was any doubt in our minds that the woman at that table, at trump tower, sitting with the president's son, son-in-law, and campaign c

tonight veselnitskaya says she hasn't read >> richard engel ghnks. >>> the mother of a u.s. navy veteran says he has been imprisoned in iran on unspecified charges since july. nbc's andrea mitchell with more on that story. >> reporter: american michael white is in an iranian prison tonight, held for the last six months without any word from iran. his mother telling nbc news he is a navy veteran, and she only learned three weeks ago from the state department that he was alive. she filed a missing person's report when he went to see his iranian girlfriend and didn't make the flight home. at least three other americans have been in iranian jails for years. a fourth, former fbi agent robert levenson disappeared from iranian territory more than a decade ago. among the u.s. prisoners, former diplomat baquer namazi and his son. >> feel extremely abandoned and hope. >> reporter: getting them out could be harder because of renewed tensions after president trump pulled out of the iran nuclear deal last year, and secretary of state mike pompeo in jordan today wants to crack down furthe

nbc's richard engel has more. >> reporter: natalia veselnitskaya, the russian lawyer who met at trump tower during the 2016 campaign has been charged by federal prosecutors with obstruction of justice. the charges are not directly tr meeting. instead, center on e-mails first revealed exclusively by nbc news. >> what i wanted to ask you about are these e-mails, if you could take a look at them. >> reporter: but prosecutors said those e-mails are hers and show that in an attempt to exonerate a client, a powerful russian businessman accused of moneylaundering in new york, she helped write an official russian government document. >> she had an extraordinary level of access that was not at all consistent with her representations that she was essentially an ordinary private defense attorney. >> reporter: we asked veselnitskaya how close she is to top russian officials. you said your relationship with the prosecutor general is what? >> reporter: prosecutors said veselnitskaya was in, quote, secret cooperation with a senior russian official, a reason she and that trump tower meeting are of su

the lawyer natalia veselnitskaya is charged with obstruction of justice. this charge reveals a lot about her deep ties to the kremlin and that is what is significant here. the u.s. attorney for the southern district of no new york allegation natalia veselnitskaya secretly worked with the russian prosecutor to falsify evidence to influence the court and to benefit her client, the investment firm preveszon holding. she worked with the co-founder of fusion, simpson. she met with him before and after the trump tower meeting. since matters, his firm was also behind the anti-trump dossier. in a wide-ranging 2018 interview with fox news, veselnitskaya played down the trump tower meeting, promises of dirt on hillary clinton to secure that meeting, as well as her kremlin connections. >> translator: when i went to the trump tower everyone was saying i was a spy or agent of the kremlin. and that they could have the democratic committee and democrats could have investigating or questioning everybody. >> the trump tower meeting focused on not hillary clinton but repeal

the obstruction charge was made public against natalia veselnitskaya in a money laundering case. what the charge reveals is significant ties to the kremlin. the u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york allegation that veselnitskaya secretly worked with a russian prosecutor to falsify evidence to influence the court in new york and benefit her client, an investment firm called preazon holdings and the russian holder. veselnitskaya in 2016 tried to play down the trump tower meeting, promises of dirt on hillary clinton to secure the meeting as well as creme sin kremlin connections. a democratic event in maryland, the chairman of the house intelligence committee said veselnitskaya is part of a broad russian strategy to undercut democracy. >> it's easy to miss when you see these day-to-day developments, the much bigger picture. and the much bigger picture is this, what russia did to mess with our democracy, to interfere and undermine our democracy, new and unprecedented for us. >> the meeting focused on repealing something called the magniski act, sanctions imposed after th

why was veselnitskaya just indicted for it now? and actually a further question, it a look like she was indicted for this on skrbstruction of ju on december 200th. that indictment was filed under seal for some reason. and 19 days later today, this indictment was r unsealed and we're all now allowed to see it. why does that timing make sense, too? and then just as we were absorbing that news,an we got further word todayat that the chairs of seven major committees in congress are now challenging trump's treasury secretary over ary trump administration decisi that was announced just before congress to lift sanctions on companies associated with this man, oleg deripaska, an oligarch close to vladimir putin. he, himself, had an odd connection to paul manafort in the trump cocampaign. this is the guy to whom manafort offered private briefings during campaign. again, you know, why was the president's campaign chair offering private briefings on the campaign to a russian oligarch close tori vladimir pun who's now under u.s.lo sanction? whi

veselnitskaya. your committee has looked into her role in that now-infamous trump tower meeting. we understand that meeting to be at the beating heart of the mueller probe. i know it was of interest to you. talk about the significance in your mind to the revelation today that she's now been charged in a separate case by the doj. >> good afternoon, nicolle. i think we've all gotten a ph.d. in russian studies that none of us signed up for. but stated plainly, the president's son met with a russian spy. we now have the best evidence of that in our minority report the democrats put out that miss veselnitskaya was going all over the world and bumping into dana rohrabacher which is a sign of a spy, someone who tries to create, you know, a coincidence encounter and now we know that she was working at the behest of the russian government. the president's son, nicolle, met with a russian spy, but also at that meeting was paul manafort. so paul manafort knows he's in a meeting where he knows the premise is dirt is being offered on the campaign's opponent and he has this side relationship w

veselnitskaya files a false declaration in the case. her role as a special prosecutor in russia shows that her activities were not that far a freelancer but was a coordinated effort on behalf of russia when she met with trump at the trump tower meeting. that's the connection. she is now heart and soul part of the russian government's apparatus as it reaches out to don jr. in the trump tower meeting on june 9. >> and she has tried to minimize that relationship. >> absolutely. >> thanks so much. >>> now to politics and the president in prime time. president trump goes before the country tonight trying to convince americans that there is an immigration crisis along the southern border. he'll try to persuade them to back his border wall demands and likely blame democrats for the partial government shutdown that is now into its third week. the president faces a credibility crisis, though, over misleading claims about immigration. vice president mike pence doesn't think that's a problem. >> when the president addresses the nation tonight, he'

veselnitskaya we now know worked directly with and for corrupt public officials to falsify evidence in a case where the fraud in that case was outed by a russian lawyer who was arrested by the russians and beaten to death in 2009 which then gave rise to the magnitsky act which is the law that allows the united states to sanctions russians. sanctions are going to be a big theme that we see from mueller going forward as the motivation for why there may have been collusion to begin with. >> we will watch for it as it all continues to drip, drip, drip. thank you both so much. >>> the president meantime claims that some of his predecessors advised him to build a wall, but the problem is, all of them, all of them said they didn't. here how vice president pence struggled to answer for the president's claim. >>> plus a serious mistake, the president of turkey now blasting the trump administration shifting foreign policy on syria after john bolton contradicts the president. we're back in a moment. with expedia, i saved when i added a hotel to our flight. so even when she grows up, she'll never

the case however seemingly points to evidence of natalia veselnitskaya's close relationship with the kremlin, which she has previously denied. court documents show veselnitskaya was backed by the kremlin in her denial of money laundering accusations, raising further questions about whether she was working for the kremlin when she took the trump tower meeting. the meeting, attended by donald trump jr., jared kushner, paul manafort, and others, came after she promised damaging information on hillary clinton in an attempt to help trump win the presidency. in october, reports emerged russia's government provided a memo to veselnitskaya ahead of the june 2016 meeting. in turkey, president recep tayyip erdogan condemned recent remarks by national security adviser john bolton, in which he -- bolton said turkey should protect syrian kurdish fighters as a condition for u.s. troop withdrawal from syria. turkey considers the syrian kurdish fighters to be part of a terrorist group. erdogan, after apparently refusing to meet directly with bolton during his turkey trip, said he had agreed with pre

. >> veselnitskaya, she was a defense lawyer. she is a lawyer. she was helping out with the defense of some of these russian officials that were caught up in the u.s. investigation. she submitted an affidavit saying, hey, you know, i had to move heaven and earth to get my hands on this government response by russia to the u.s. request, and it clearly absolves my clients. well, what the court documents today say is that the u.s. actually got e-mails, and this is the very interesting thing, e-mails that she wrote to the russian officials helping them draft this document that appeared to clear her clients and that she was very much involved in the drafting of it, and that she didn't have to move heaven and earth to get her hands on it, that in fact she helped to produce it. based on that they've charged her with obstruction of justice. that's the sum and substance of what the charge is. but as you say, it shows that she did have connections at least to the russian prosecutors' office because she was basically, the government claims, working with the

investigators charging natalia veselnitskaya in connection with the money laundering case. it does highlight her deep ties to the russian government. she helped organize the infamous meeting at trump tower between members of the campaign and trump's family and russians, promising dirt on hillary clinton. so there is a success of the whole prime time address, it's that the president distracted from a very bad day in the russian investigation. >>> 12 minutes past the hour. grammy awards of the sing r. kelly should be under investigation. a lifetime allegations researched abuse and pedophilia. ♪ >>> after all that christmas eve gloom, wall street is now on a winning streak. optimism about trade talks with china is the reason for right now. the dow climbed another 256 points. that's about 1.1% tuesday. the s&p 500 closed up 1%. the dow and s&p up for three straight days. and that's the longest winning streak since late november because it was kind of a terrible end of the year. the nasdaq closed up 1.1%, rallying for the eighth time in nine days. trade stock like boeing, apple

. >> and what do you see today in the indictment of natalia veselnitskaya that happened today and this was outside of the special prosecutor's jurisdiction. this was the u.s. attorney in manhattan bringing this indictment. she was the woman who helped arrange that meeting and attended that meeting at trump tower in which she was promising basically dirt on hillary clinton from the russian government. she's indicted in an unrelated case to the campaign. a case that pre-existed the campaign. but could there be some linkage here? >> well, one thing that it certainly shows, lawrence, that is relevant to the trump tower meeting and the issues at the heart of the mueller investigation, and our own work in the intelligence committee, is that this claim that she had made that she's not a government attorney, she has really little or no affiliation with the russian government, is bogus. the reason that she was indicted for obstruction of justice in that prevezan case, she put forward a pleading, she said essentially she had no part in producing, a statement of the russian government absolving t

. >> and what do you see today in the indictment of natalia veselnitskaya that happened today and thisas outside of the special prosecutor's jurisdiction. this was the u.s. attorney in manhattan bringing this indictment. she was the woman who helped arrange that meeting and attended that meeting at trump tower in which she was promising basically dirt on hillary clinton from the russian government. she's indicted in an unrelated case to the campaign. a case that pre-existed the campaign. but could there be some linkage here? >> well, one thing that it certainly shows, lawrence, that is relevant to the trump tower meeting and the issues at the heart of the mueller investigation, and our own work in the intelligence committee, is that this claim that she had made that she's not a government attorney, she has really little or no affiliation with the russian government, is bogus. the reason that she was indicted for obstruction of justice in that prevezan case, she put forward a pleading, she said essentially she had no part in producing, a statement of the russian government absolving the

richard engel, you've sat down with natalia veselnitskaya and pressed her on some of her misstatementsmind us who she is again and what you've learned about her. >> so natalia veselnitskaya is a prominent russian lawyer. she's defended russian security services for years. she was at that trump tower meeting, meeting with president trump, then candidate trump's, inner circle in 2016. the question is what was she doing in new york? how did she suddenly end up at the trump tower meeting? the answer is she was in new york defending her client who was being charged with money laundering. during that case, in order to help her client, she presented to the court a document that was supposedly an official russian investigation, an investigation that exonerated her client. well, we reported exclusively in april e-mails that showed that while she was presenting that document to the court, she had actually been actively involved in writing that document. you can't present evidence to help your client that you have created or helped create yourself. and that is why today she is being charged with

federal prosecutors charged natalia veselnitskaya yesterday with obstructing justice in connection with money laundering case. the allegation in the indictment suggests that she has close ties to the kremlin. in 2016 she met with donald trump jr., jared kushner, and others at trump tower. trump jr. said that he had been promised damaging information about hillary clinton which did not pan out. >>> a navy veteran from california is being detained in iran. michael white's family reported him missing after he failed to return from a trip there last july. margaret brennan has more on why his mother says she is concerned about her son's health. >> reporter: michael white, the 46-year-old u.s. navy veteran from california, was traveling to iran to see his girlfriend, according to his mother, joann white, who found out about his arrest just three weeks ago. white had visited the country previously three or four times without issue. his mother said she is concerned for her son who suffers from asthma and is a cancer survivor. white is one of at least four american prisoners held in iran includi

natalya veselnitskaya is accused of obstructing justice by filing ading settlement on the case whichettled in 2017. three people have been killed and hundreds injured after two passenger trains collided head-on in the south african capital pretoria. pictures posted on social media showed one of the trains derailed. thcause of the collision i not yet clear. turkish media are reporting the president erdogan refused to meet security advisor in ankara. john bolton has been pushing turkey to guarantee the safety of kurdish forces in syria. onmr. b's remarks did not go down well with president erdogan, who said he serious mistake. earlier i spoke with soner cagaptay, director of the turkish research program at the washington institute, and author of the newsu book "the new an." president erdogan will not meet with president trump's national security advisor when he comes to ankara. how much of the snub is that? soner: it is a serious snub and not just about putting up appearance. there is substantial difference between the way the united states and turkey look at the kurdish group in syria

natalya veselnitskaya has been accused of fabricating evidence while working to defend a russian companys currently believed to be in russia. a man has been killed and two others are missing after a vietnamese—listed oil tanker caught fire while it was being refuelled in hong kong. 23 people were rescued from the sea, some suffering burns. fears of a potential environmental catastrophe have been dampened after no leak was detected from the vessel, which was not carrying oil at the time. and take a look at this, if you can bear it. a giant fatberg, as big as a boeing 747, has been discovered blocking a sewer in an english seaside town. made up of fat, wet wipes and grease, local authorities say it will take up to eight weeks to remove. a former north korean diplomat who defected to south korea is urging an old colleague who's gone missing in italy to defect to seoul. thae yong—ho made the suggestion following a report that he was seeking asylum in the united states. jo song—gil, north korea's former ambassador to italy, went missing with his wife in november. mr thae said life for defecto

natalia veselnitskaya is now charged with obstruction of justice, accused of attempting to block a u.s. investigation into money laundering that involved an influential russian businessman. prosecutors say to do that, she worked closely with a top kremlin prosecutor. >>> there is word tonight that a u.s. navy veteran is being held prisoner in iran. the man's mother just learning the news back here in the u.s. after he failed to return home from a visit to iran in july. abc's chief global affairs correspondent with us live tonight. martha, do we know why iran may have taken him prisoner? >> reporter: david, tonight, there is no official explanation as to why american michael white, a 46-year-old navy veteran from california, is imprisoned in iran. he went missing six months ago. his mother filing a missing persons report. but only learning he was in prison a few weeks ago. the state department does warn americans not to travel to iran, citing a very high risk of arbitrary arrest of u.s. citizens. white's mother told abc it was last july, just two months after president trump withdrew fr

natalya veselnitskaya has been accused of fabricating evidence while working to defend a russian companyy believed to be in russia. a man has been killed and two others are missing after a vietnamese—listed oil tanker caught fire while it was being refuelled in hong kong. 23 people were rescued from the sea, some suffering burns. fears of a potential environmental catastrophe have been dampened after no leak was detected from the vessel, which was not carrying oil at the time. and take a look at this — if you can bear it — a giant fatberg as big as a boeing 7a7 has been discovered blocking a sewer in an english seaside town. made up of fat, wet wipes and grease, local authorities say it will take up to eight weeks to remove. there is growing tension interior over comments by the us national security adviser calling for safety guarantees for kurdish fighters in syria after the us troops pull out. mr erdogan described john bolton's demand is a mistake. ankara saw that asa demand is a mistake. ankara saw that as a green light to attack its arch enemies in syria, the kurdish why p&g forces,

natalya veselnitskaya is accused of obstructing justice by filing a misleading statement.settled in 2017. a man has been killed and two others are missing in hong kong, where a vietnamese—listed oil tanker caught fire while it was being refuelled. 23 people were rescued from the sea, some suffering burns. there were fears of environmental disaster, but no leak has been detected from the vessel. it wasn't carrying oil at the time. in london, members of parliament have defeated the government and passed a vote that may make a no—deal brexit less likely. the house of commons has voted to limit the government's tax—raising powers if the uk leaves the european union without a formal agreement. the cross—party amendment was also intended to test the strength of parliamentary feeling. ministers say the change is minor and technical, simply an inconvenience, but the prime minister has been under more pressure, as our political correspondent alex forsyth reports. will my travel be affected when we leave the eu? you might have heard this on your radio. what about documents for drivi

. >> what about this russian lawyer veselnitskaya? she's the one that -- who helped organize that 2016 trump tower meeting, she was the one who set it up right to provide the dirt on hillary clinton and now she's the one being charged, although it is a separate investigation, you know, by federal prosecutors in new york. how -- even though it's separate, how might this play into or effect the bigger mueller investigation? >> well, again, you know, what you have is more color being added to this picture of the various ways that russia was attempting to influence the campaign in 2016 and so what we learn in these new court filings in this southern district of new york case which relates to 2015, 2014 civil money laundering investigation by the southern district federal prosecutors in manhattan is that this russian lawyer who as you said was at the center of this trump tower in june of 2016 was just months prior working hand in hand with the russian government and was closely coordinating her actions with the kremlin and so what it begin

hers name natalia veselnitskaya. today's indictment is connected to her actions during a money laundering case. she's accused of misleading u.s. prosecutors by secretly working with a senior russian government atrney tory and exonerate her client. again, the case is not directly related to the trump tower meeting but it appears to confirm her deep ties to the russian government. >>> to our weather now and a beautiful b evening tonig big changes coming for the second half of the week. >> it was tough to come in this afternoon. >> wasn' it. >> doug kammerer is back with us tonight and you brought some pretty maybe scary weather later on in the >> even later tonight. we have a system making its way in, some shower activity, montgomery county, fairfaxco ty coming to the metro area over the next hour or so. then it's all about t temperatures, right now 58 in d.c., nice and mild, but look up college.state this colder air is going to be racing in across our area after we get done with the rain. shower activity and downpours

but what we do snow know is is was several people, even natalia veselnitskaya in that trump meeting that got don jr., jared kushner and paul manafort to arrive is because they promised information from the crown prosecutor in russia. now we know from yesterday's hearing and yesterday's obstruction of justice charge against that adoption lawyer that she not only had ties but she worked in cahoots in her new pleading involving a money laundering scheme working in connection with sbhob womebody s a prosecutor in russia. so every time somebody has denied this false amnesia about their connection with people in russia it always turns out to be false and mueller and the team has evidence. >> these mueller bread crumbs are starting to turn into a sandwich. >> a mueller sandwich coming down the pike? >> that's right. >> someone's ordered a mueller sandwich. >> thank you very much. in just hours, president trump will once again meet with congressional leaders in the situation room to resume those negotiations over funding for his proposed border wall. and reopening the federal government, which o

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federal prosecutors in new york city have charged natalia veselnitskaya with obstruction. the attorney, you may remember, was also the person that met with candidate trump's inner circle, including don jr. i'm joined on the phone by nbc investigative reporter tom winter. richard engel also joins me from london. he has interviewed this woman. on the phone, danny cevellos. >> so, craig, the bottom line on this, is this relates to a filing that she made in statements she made in court as part of her legal representation. basically she said, no, i went through this legal process and was able to get certain documents and they show a whole series of facts that disputes what the government had pursued what federal prosecutors in new york had pursued in a civil case. this is all tied to a much larger money laundering and the m -- a whole host of other charges that were brought. this specificallyeralti relates assertions she had made in court documents. it turns out the information she put in court documents and the things she said and the documents she provided were actually draft

you've got at the same time this lower that we learned more about, veselnitskaya, who was indicted thisk setting up this meeting in trump tower, having this close relationship with the russian government, offering dirt, the president's son saying they would love to get that dirt, and the president seeking this deal in trump tower and seeking kremlin help to put it together while lying about it to the american people. all of that is going on in a matter of the same months. it is a situation rife with conflict, a hornet's nest of compromise, and it's no wonder that the special counsel is concerned about this, as we are. >> congressman, mr. chairman, those -- that list of things that you just described, now that you are chairman of the intelligence committee, there are a number of questions that i have about how the division of labor works and how you understand the division of labor between yourself and your committee and robert mueller and the special counsel's office and the justice department more broadly. if you can stick around with us for just one more segment, i'd love to talk with

working with that office today, but then you have this new indictment of russian lawyer natalia veselnitskayae aefs of investigation that tee off the mueller probe and may serve his ultimate conclusions. at times this office may be mueller's queen in a chess game that spans from washington to moscow. there's even talk among some legal experts that while mueller has extracted what he needed from michael cohen it was the new york prosecutors that squeezed him, took the big risk of raiding a president's lawyer's office and got results. cohen's own legal adviser told me it was the southern district that prevented cohen from even getting a chance to come plead his case in advance and he questioned their judgment. >> they didn't tell the media. we did not allow michael cohen to come in and talk with us. i talked it a lack of proportionality and poor judgment. >> proponents of the office are aggressive meaning cohen got it rough just like past bankers, mobsters, politicians or martha stewart who have all objected to this office's approach. it's known to apply the same principles to all. just ask rud

federal prosecutors say natalia veselnitskaya attempted to block a u.s.ved an influential russian businessman. she's based in russia and is unlikely to ever appear in a u.s. court. >>> a rare january tornado in ohio is just a taste of the bad weather now hitting the northeast. >> its winds reached 100 miles an hour about 50 miles east of cleveland. the tornado, however, is just the leading edge of a storm system barreling into the northeast. >> let's get the details from accuweather's paul williams. paul, good morning. >> good morning, janai, gio. you know the same storm that caused problems in ohio, now it's leaning its way toward the northeast, combining with cold air, having a chapter two to this same system. snow showers throughout pennsylvania, new york, vermont, new hampshire as well as maine for the southeast. much colder with gusty winds accelerating beyond 25 miles per hour. waterlogged along i-5 from seattle down toward medford and the rain continues all the way into sacramento and as far south as los angeles. gio, janai. >> all right, paul, tha

trump tower and whether or not his father knew or did not know about the meeting with natalia veselnitskaya. how does mueller prove that, that he intentionally lied? >> the best way is you get as much testimony as you can in statements of what people say, and you look at the inconsistencies. and you look at how that compares to documents, how that compares to the testimony of others, documents are good, how it compares with tape recordings, for example, and then you judge that if a person is making a false statement you can contradict, it's that evidence of consciousness of guilt. so what is their motive? what are they hiding? and perjury is a vrp interesting crime. if you are testifying consistently under oath, that's perjury, if it's material. because two inconsistent statements can't both be true. and so that's one way to look at it. but what they've done with michael cohen, for instance, they've done everything they could to corroborate him, and they've said so with witnesses and tapes and exhibits and documents and evidence that i believe is not yet been made public that they have sitt

and now the very serious charge against natalia veselnitskaya working with the russians to fabricate money laundering and tax fraud in the united states, sandra. >> sandra: keeping track of it all for us. >> it's a big one. >> sandra: it is. thank you. >> you are welcome. >> bill: fox news alert now. apparently the turkish president erdogan snubbing ambassador bolton today. he was in turkey to secure the safety of u.s. kurdish fighters but left without a meeting. turkish president said this in a statement. john bolton has made a very serious mistake. whoever thinks this way is also mistaken. we cannot make any concessions in this regard, end quote. adam kinzinger, republican from illinois member of the house public affairs. trying to make sense of this. perhaps can you for us. there is a lot 6 questions about u.s. involvement in the middle east. john bolton on a tour right now first in israel and then turkey where he left earlier today and mike pompeo is in jordan and then cairo, egypt. so he is making the rounds among 8 countries also. what do we need to understand what's happening

head of fusion gps in summer of 2016 he had been hired by russians government, play in the talia veselnitskaya trusted for anything. >> thanks so much. >> thank you. >> coming up next, hitting the rich senator elizabeth warren proposing annual wealth tax as she makes 2020 push stuart varney has a thing or two to say about that back in a moment. ♪ pretty woman, don't walk on by, pretty woman don't make me cry, pretty woman ♪ ♪ then went beyond. beyond chasing down network problems. to knowing when and where there's an issue. beyond network complexity. to a zero-touch, one-box world. optimizing performance and budget. beyond having questions. to getting answers. "activecore, how's my network?" "all sites are green." all of which helps you do more than your customers thought possible. comcast business. beyond fast. maria: elizabeth warren to 20 vision includes a plan for additional tax on wealth americans joining me host of "varney & company" stuart varney to weigh in on this so one-upping aoc stu. >> i guess so won what senator warren is talking about a wealth tax not on high incomes a tax on hi

at the trump tower, natalia veselnitskaya, the lawyer at that now infamous trump meeting, now chargedth obstruction of justice in a federal civil case in manhattan, accused of an intentionally misleading statement to the court as part of money laundering allegations that involved a russian businessman and his investment firm. according to prosecutors, what she said were findings by the russian government that exonerate her client when she actually helped draft the findings in secret cooperation with a russian prosecutor. again, this new indictment is not directly related to the trump tower meeting. >>> meanwhile, gabe sherman in "vanity fair" said all of this has pushed the trump investigation out of the spotlight for the moment but hasn't gone away. rudy guiliani recently told a friend he expects mueller's report to be horrific. guiliani did not respond to a request for comment but guiliani said to a friend, you're already hearing people speculate trump could do a deal and resign. the white house did not respond to a request for comment. mike, you were around during watergate, obviou