massive corruption and new elections were announced an important nuance just three months before viktor yuschenko became a victim to a mysterious and still unsolved poisoning but it didn't prevent him from winning in the new election. though as we shall soon see there was much more than just the people's will that led to this victory this peaceful revolution and its leader world warmly welcomed by the international community but the euphoria didn't last long yuschenko as government completely failed with reforms and lost its chance to establish democracy instead descending into infighting viktor yuschenko was not reelected for a second term but a. the end of his presidency he had the time to make one last gift to his supporters from western ukraine. i. thought. she was losing the most but came. just music to stay in the room with them which is the spirit in monaco the new voice is a. small price for. a little bit some of it is just some awesome charm. but don't play a fraud has to gather some of them all to this point. i . think. snap just. seems. certain i want to do things that show t

eastern ukraine voted for young age while western ukraine chose yuschenko by the announced result viktor yuschenko lost to victory on a covert each but thousands of people didn't agree with it and they came to the central square of kiev on the twenty second of november. the situation received wide news coverage the country's election commission ignored reports of fraud declaring kremlin backed victory the winner international politicians such as former general secretary of nato. became frequent guests in kiev initiating negotiations between parties in a faltering will. be able to come to. the results of the negotiations however were often reached only on paper thus you shan't go never told the supporters to stop blocking government buildings in central kiev. and therefore these nonviolent and very orange protests lasted for a month during which time the previous election results were no marred by massive corruption and new elections were announced an important nuance just three months before viktor yuschenko became a victim to a mysterious and still unsolved poisoning but it didn't preve

massive corruption and new elections were announced an important nuance just three months before viktor yuschenko became a victim to a mysterious and still unsolved poisoning but it didn't prevent him from winning in the new election. though as we shall soon see there was much more than just the people's will that led to this victory this peaceful revolution and its leader were warmly welcomed by the international community but the euphoria didn't last long yuschenko its government completely failed with reforms and lost its chance to establish democracy instead descending into infighting viktor yuschenko was not reelected for a second term but at. the end of his presidency he had the time to make one last gift to his supporters from western ukraine. about your sudden passing i've only just learned you were a south and taken your last to bang turn. your attitude up to us we all knew it would i tell you i'm sorry for me i could so i write these last words and hopes to put to rest these things that i never got off my chest. i remember when we first met my life turned on each breath. but t

massive corruption and new elections were announced an important nuance just three months before viktor yuschenko became a victim to a mysterious and still unsolved poisoning but it didn't prevent him from winning in the new election. though as we shall soon see there was much more than just the people's will that led to this victory this peaceful revolution and its leader warmly welcomed by the international community but the euphoria didn't last long yuschenko its government completely failed with reforms and lost its chance to establish democracy instead descending into infighting viktor yuschenko was not reelected for a second term but a. the end of his presidency he had the time to make one last gift to his supporters from western ukraine. everybody i'm stephen both task hollywood guy suspects every proud american first of all i'm just george bush and r.v.'s to say this is my buddy max famous financial guru and we're just a little bit different i'm honest. though no one knows up with all the drama happening in our country and i'm shooting the brood have some fun every day americans

because manafort and gates worked for viktor yanukovych, who was the president of ukraine. what did viktor yanukovych start. he started the great revolt in ukraine against russia, why? because he wanted to veto legislation that would have put ukraine in the eu market as oppose pd to what russia wantedo go into the russian market. viktor yanukovych was a pawn for russia. >> reading for you again, this brand-new material we just got. because you're digging deeper into why this is so important. you're looking at what gates pled to, directing these companies to lobby members of congress about the quote, inpropriety of the ukraine president symbolling his rifle. >> this is fake news, because consultants are paying so called statesmen, european statesman to take the line on television shows like this, supporting viktor yanukovych in ukraine. it's utterly corrupt. i'm putting more dots on the screen, to just correct the dots, you have putin on it with a kind of puppeteer master. >> take that point out, david and then joyce how that works with another point with the case if mueller

he did the report for the ukrainian government of viktor yanukovych and worked to justify the jailingone of yanukovych's opponents in ukraine. again, this is a wide-ranging reach by the special counsel involving paul manafort's work in ukraine. that was the initial indictment back in october. today this latest indictment against a lawyer for lying to the special counsel's office in relation to his communications with rick gates -- of course, rick gates, the deputy combine manager for the trump campaign and also indicted for lying about some of the communications he may have withheld from the special counsel. this all bit by bit, the special counsel handing down these environments, somehow becoming more of a rapid success. we saw the indictment on friday of the 13 russian nationals and now yet another indictment. so we are seeing a lot of activity in the special counsel's case, today just the latest in this indictment for false statements against an attorney at the prominent law firm scatten arps. >> joined by cnn chief legal analyst, jeffrey toobin. jessica points out correctly this i

and this group was designed, you know, to be crude about it, just to help the image of viktor yanukovych in europe. >> what does this say about the culture of washington, that this was something that was able to happen? >> it says a lot about what people will do for hard, cold cash. listen, i think you're dead on to be talking about the european aspects of this. of course, check this indictment, check mates manafort and may provide a window into possible collusive activities. but also he orchestrated this village of europeans who would sing the praises of rushy's favorite croney in kiev and that's viktor yanukovych. this may yet be an historic effort to sort of unmask what russia is doing on both sides of the atlantic. >> apologize for cutting this brief. as we continue to follow that procession of billy graham's funeral procession in western north carolina, thousands paying their respects this saturday to the reverend billy graham, evangeli evangelist's casket arriving now where graham will lie in repose and where we find my colleague, morgan radford. my father north carolini. >> report

chr viktor cha is now out of contention for the job. he raised his concerns with the national security council aimed at sending a message without sparking a war. with us tonight is governrdon change, author of "nuclear showdown" why do you think it was better that the president went in the direction of human rights and not in the direction of nuclear weapons last night? >> because the kim regime is so much more concerned about its human rights records. you have two koreas, side by side, one is free and one is enslaved. the people in the enslaved korea, north korea, are not going to accept that indefinitely. so he went to the heart of the regime, hit their weakness. and there's one only thing people don't talk about, by president trump talking about human rights, he's constraining south korea's president, what trump dy d by talking about human rights is boxed in the south korean leader. >> wasn't there something from the north about getting together as one korea, and as a subset of that question, won't it be good when the olympic games g

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nicolas connelly reporting there from ukraine for investigations in hungary have reached prime minister viktor all dance family and bury him prosecutors following a recommendation by the european anti fraud office to investigate. they suspect. e.u. funds in thirty five public lighting projects in several towns they were carried out by the company controlled by law and he also says the investigations are politically motivated ahead of a national election in april. receives billions of euros in development funds every year. i'm afraid of that whole your business if you want more you can check us out on social media facebook and twitter just search for d w business i'm on twitter at winter of business well i'll be back with more tomorrow same time same place. until then from the business team here in thank you very much for watching. the succeed in dividing us not succeeding taking the people off the streets because we're tired of trying to show. global news that matters d. w. made from minds meet the germans new and surprising aspects of license culture in germany. the us american get news of ta

nicolas connelly reporting there from ukraine for investigations in hungary have reached prime minister viktor all bands family and gary and prosecutors following a recommendation by the european anti fraud office to investigate. they suspect a fraud and valving e.u. funds in thirty five public lighting projects in several towns they were carried out by the company controlled by law and he also says the investigations are politically motivated ahead of a national election in april on great receives billions of euros in a huge development funds every year. and i'm afraid that's all your business if you want more you can check us out on a social media facebook and twitter just search for d w business i'm on twitter at winter of business well i'll be back with more tomorrow same time same place. until then for me and the business team here in berlin thank you very much for watching. sometimes you just have to pump up the volume. sounds. play. play on the top export the music magazine on t.w. . what does a football loving country need to reach its goals. we'll tell you how germany's soccer aid it

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hungary's prime minister viktor orban has called for a global alliance against migration this as his right wing party began campaigning ahead of an april election that it's expected when obama has pushed this anti immigration stance ahead of his bid for a third consecutive term. and mourners in the city of rough have attended the funerals of two seventeen year old boys shot dead in the southern gaza strip israeli forces say they also conducted air strikes against eighteen targets in gaza raids came after an explosion near the border injured four israeli soldiers. the u.s. special council has indicted thirteen russians accused of meddling in america's presidential election and that is putting kremlin backed internet propaganda in the spotlight in an exclusive report to w.'s russia correspondent yury rich chateau spoke to a former so-called troll she worked at the internet research agency in st petersburg that's a body identified by u.s. investigators as a factory for fake news. we're not allowed to disclose an exact address not even the district this young journalist could face reperc

they were trying to bolster viktor yanukovych who was in power in kiev at the time.n you have those ties to rick gates and paul manafort and i think that's something that's probably even more important as far as the russia investigation is concerned. of course paul manafort with some close ties to very important russian oligarchs, including the man very close to vladimir putin so many things investigators will want to learn from van der zwaan. and then also he is the son of a powerful oligarch himself. that's something i think the investigators will be looking at but it's something that will make the russians as well because they see the investigation by the special counsel is gaining steam over the past couple days with those indictments we saw at the end of last week and now this wolf. >> fred, russian media now recording that someone allegedly working at a russian troll factory was arrested after talking to a member of the foreign media. what do you know about that? >> this is coming up on several russian media outlets that we've been looking at. it's a former emp

they see manafort's work for viktor yanukovych and anyone else who manafort may have sub contracted,out from van covich to including podesta's group, mercury, public affairs, these are all firms that we've seen have some interest or generate some interest from the mueller folks, but they -- but the white house sees this as all totally peripheral to what they -- what is the core of the russia investigation and mueller's investigation, which is meddling by russia in the u.s. presidential election, and any potential collusion between the trump folks and russia, they see this indictment today as completely unrelated to that. but what it does do, as betsy suggested, and pete suggested, from the courthouse there, is it puts pressure on paul manafort and it put pressure on rick gates, who we saw some reporting that we haven't confirmed suggesting that rick gates might be considering a plea deal. what that does is put more pressure on manafort to potentially give up something about the trump campaign that we haven't seen mueller really getting at, the connection between manafort and any pote

you see it in europe, and viktor orban in hungary, there are questions about poland as well. - those who won the cold war believe that their model had triumph and it just turned out that others didn't agree. they liked parts of it, they liked the capitalist part, they liked the trade part, they liked the technology part, they don't necessarily like the democratic part. they may not like the migration part. - i think the biggest rejection of the post world war world order is actually within america itself. - [narrator] the election of president trump came amid a rise of global populism that saw a surge of enthusiasm for far right nationalist leaders. - you take these four things together, economic stagnation, large scale immigration, unmediated social media, and creaky old sclerotic governants and what you have is a recipe for populism on a world stage. - one of the things that has been striking about the last 10 years is the rise of identity politics in the western liberal democratic world. nationalism. ethnicity, religion. nationalism was an atavism to us and now it's in our own pol

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dismissal of president viktor young a call that's on saturday and they removed be an acoa bitch not following the constitutional procedures for impeachment but. let go of those who would but only because it's all is so if the whole is sold. to those rich throughout the year put up the parliament of ukraine consists of four hundred fifty deputies the constitution of ukraine requires at least a three fourths majority to vote in other words three hundred thirty eight votes in favor of the impeachment but only three hundred twenty eight deputies voted yes. the u.s. state department i mean almost immediately said this was a legitimate government and that was part of this effort to get regime change instead of trying to find some way to revive the for going twenty first agreement where maybe you could bring back in a coalition some titular way that became not a possibility anymore then you had eastern ukraine resisting crimea wanting to break away and things rapidly escalating. voters will decide sunday whether they'll leave ukraine and join russia to campaign with the slogan together with russia h

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trump goes well what space ok joe thinks if the polls are to be believed hungary in prime minister viktor orban could win his third consecutive election this april and should that happen the media there will have played a large part ever since coming to power for the second time in two thousand and ten the all about government has devoted considerable energy and resources to restructuring the domestic media landscape in its favor the closure of hungary's most influential opposition newspaper in october of two thousand and sixteen made headlines but it was just one example of many government linked buyouts most of hungary's private media is now in the hands of businessmen allied to the prime minister and his party dash those news outlets alongside numerous stayed on channel strongly support or bans anti immigration paul. and tend to amplify the muslim message according to two whistleblowers working at state owned media the m t v eight that's because the government is directing their output and those news outlets deviously following the law listening post flow phillips now from budapest on

interim government by tuesday for these latest developments out follow the dismissal of president viktor again the corvette's on saturday and they remove unico bitch not following the constitutional procedures for impeachment but. let go of those a little bit but only because it's all is so if the whole is sold the other one is the yellow so much for the lime into those three issue of the deposit up of the parliament of ukraine consists of four hundred fifty deputies the constitution of ukraine requires at least a three fourths majority to vote in other words three hundred thirty eight votes in favor of the impeachment but only three hundred twenty eight deputies voted yes there is sure to take. the u.s. state department i mean almost immediately said this was a legitimate government and that was part of this effort to get regime change in. trying to find some way to revive the for going twenty first agreement where maybe you could bring back in a coma in some titular way that became not a possibility anymore then you had eastern ukraine resisting crimea wanting to break away and things

retreat xenophobes in racists in europe are casting off any sense of embarrassment like hungary's viktor orban who earlier this month said and i quote we do not want our color to be mixed in with others and quote do they not know what happens to minorities in societies where leaders seek ethnic national racial purity when an elected leader blames the jews for having perpetrated the holocaust as was recently done in poland and we give this disgraceful columnar so little attention the question must be asked have we all gone completely mad mr president perhaps we have gone mad when families grieve in too many parts of the world for those lost to brutal terrorism. while the others suffer because their loved ones are arrested arbitrarily tortured and killed at a black site and were called terrorists for simply having criticized the government and others await execution for crimes committed when they were children while still more can be killed by police with impunity because they are poor or one young girls in el salvador are sentenced to thirty years imprisonment for miscarriages when transg

at home in his newly adopted country he is best of friends with fellow color revolutionary leader viktor yuschenko who is the godfather of his son. and another mother school bus and a lesson in lucia but insufficient as opposed to when you walk scot to being it's just sad and he sees them the if someone is going to. even though there's a double chooses to show. it when used to the but they still do straight is if they did it with you but i suppose then that in the. void there business do a little bit of that of this almost just in your youth but how they should have seen that in the special behoof only is that they were able to contain such. a war once launched doesn't choose its victims we are just learning at this hour that malaysian airlines has now confirmed that it has lost contact with one of its planes plane was indeed shot down by a missile while flying at a high altitude over eastern ukraine near the russian border two hundred ninety eight revised number of souls on board all feared dead it was a murder it was a crime there's been this odd nonchalance about pursuing the answers

looking back at the mysterious poisoning of viktor yuschenko right before the orange revolution of two thousand and four we see now that he became a sacred victim himself. most political analysts believe the compassion of the ukrainian people at that moment tilted the scales giving him the presidency. the number of victims among the protesters during your oh my done totalled over one hundred they are called to the heavenly hundred all the sacred victims were immediately mythologized. the beating of students on november thirtieth two thousand and thirteen was the obvious trigger of your own my done those who sent trained provocateurs to the square very well realised that peaceful protesters were the ones who would get hurt the most. it's hard to keep protests going for months on end tension subside and people inevitably get tired. holidays are also a big danger for revolutionary masterminds people want to be home with their families and friends and one needs to get inventive to keep people in a cold tent city. on christmas day of two thousand and thirteen tabloid journalist and politica

dismissal of president viktor young a call that's on saturday and they removed be an acoa bitch not following the constitutional procedures for impeachment but. let go of those who but only because it's all is so if the whole is sold. to those rich through up to their put up though the parliament of ukraine consists of four hundred fifty deputies the constitution of ukraine requires at least a three fourths majority to vote in other words three hundred thirty eight votes in favor of the impeachment but only three hundred twenty eight deputies voted yes. the u.s. state department i mean almost immediately said this was a legitimate government and that was part of this effort to get regime change instead of trying to find some way to revive the for going twenty first agreement where maybe you could bring back into some titular way that became not a possibility anymore then you had eastern ukraine resisting crimea wanting to break away and things rapidly escalating. voters will decide sunday whether they'll leave ukraine enjoying russia to campaign with the slogan together with russia has the ba

implementing russian as a second state language was one of the main campaign promises of president viktor going to fulfill in two thousand and twelve the un a covert government passed a law making it the second official language in the southern and eastern parts of ukraine the areas where the russian population speaking. elation makes up a majority ukrainian nationalist groups initiated massive protests opposing the law and observing viewer might see some familiar faces there on the front. part of our march. on february twenty third two thousand and fourteen the very next day after the regime change the new government voted for an a no meant of the official status of the russian language and even though later this decision was vetoed by the acting president alexander turchynov it still sent a message and a powerful one this alarmed the russian speaking cities of eastern ukraine and people took to the streets to show their disagreement. in response. is conducted their own demonstrations when the two parties would meet it was always tense and eventually it led to tragedy. one person died an

looking back at the mysterious poisoning of viktor yuschenko right before the orange revolution of two thousand and four we see now that he became a sacred victim himself. most political analysts believe the compassion of the ukrainian people at that moment tilted the scales giving him the presidency. the number of victims among the protesters during your own my done totaled over one hundred they are called to the heavenly hundred all the sacred victims were immediately mythologized. the beating of students on november thirtieth two thousand and thirteen was the obvious trigger of your own my done those who sent trained provocateurs to the square who very well realised that peaceful protesters were the ones who would get hurt the most. it's hard to keep protests going for months on end tension subside and people inevitably get tired. holidays are also a big danger for revolutionary masterminds people want to be home with their families and friends and one needs to get inventive to keep people in a cold tent city. on christmas day of two thousand and thirteen tabloid journalist and poli

hungary's prime minister viktor orbán has called for a global alliance against migration this as hisright wing party began campaigning ahead of an april election that it's expected to win or bonn has pushed this anti immigrant anti immigration stance ahead of his bid for a third consecutive term. five women have been killed in a shooting at a christian church in the city of kissee that in russia's republic of dagestan a twenty two year old man fired at people leaving an evening service he was shot and killed at the scene so-called islamic state group said it was behind the attack . the u.s. special council has indicted thirteen russians accused of meddling in america's presidential election and that is putting kremlin backed internet propaganda in the spotlight in an exclusive report russia correspondent yury rich châteaux spoke to a former so-called troll she worked at the internet research agency in st petersburg that's a body identified by u.s. investigators as a factory for fake news. we're not allowed to disclose an exact address not even the district this young journalist could

now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world today hungary's prime minister viktor orban has called for a global alliance against migration this as his right wing party began campaigning ahead of an april election that's expected to win or been has pushed this anti immigration stance ahead of his bid for third consecutive term. search and rescue efforts in central around are due to resume on monday crews are still searching for the site of a plane crash in which sixty five people are feared dead and weather forced rescue workers to break off their efforts on sunday. and mourners in the city of russia have attended the funerals of two seventeen year old boys shot dead in the southern gaza strip israeli forces say they also conducted air strikes against eighteen targets in gaza the raids came after an explosion near the border injured four israeli soldiers. even a special council has indicted thirteen russians accused of meddling in america's presidential election and that is putting kremlin backed internet propaganda in the spotlight in an exclusive report russia cor

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viktor and amaliija knavs are legal permanent residents and close to obtaining their citizenship. their attorney declined to say how or when they gained their green cards. it's likely melania sponsored her parents which she can do under, wait for it, america's family reunification policy or trump calls it is chain migration. a past president of the american immigration association says her sponsorship of the parents appears to have been the only way they could have obtained green cards which means if they're here because of chain migration, this isn't a nice way to talk about your in-laws in public. >> chain migration is bringing in many many people with one, and often it doesn't work out well. those people are not doing us right. >>> you need people that are truly, truly capable. we have to get the best people. i want the best people. we're going to have the best people in the world. you see the people we're getting. >> time yet again for the latest in our ongoing series where we collect on the president's best people. david shulkin, an obama administration holdover who is viewed

they got upwards of $30 representing the pro russian regime of viktor yanukovych in the ukraine.so got 10 li tens of millions from russian oligarchs. and it was those connections, it appears to be clear -- and we think it's clear to mueller as well -- that it's those connection he is that -- with the russian oligarchs, with russian and ukrainian money, that attracted donald trump and his campaign to hire manafort and gates as their campaign leadership. it not only had to do with the political campaign but also the trump organization at that time was looking to solidify and expand its financial base. the finances for the various projects. and even while the campaign was going on mr. trump and his team were still looking to build that i wi losive hotel in moscow. and manafort and gates opened up a whole new world of contacts for them. so gates and manafort have significant information. eventually they will, injury -- even if it's after a conviction -- have to cooperate. and talk about the financial dealings which they are aware of between the trump organization, trump and this russ

their client then viktor yanukovych jailed the former prime minister minister amid charges her imprisonment was politically motivated they enlists a high powered law firm effectively clearing their client of wrongdoing. that firm was scadden and van der zwaan was a member of the team. the firm has been cooperating with authorities. in a strange twist, van der zwaan's father-in-law is a russian oligarch connected to the kremlin whose name is mentioned in the steele dossier. van der zwaan's father-in-law is right now suing buzzfeed for publishing the dossier last year. not sure what to make of that. mueller's latest move is another sign he's ramping up pressure on manafort after reports that gates, manafort's deputy may be on the verge of a guilty plea, as well. meanwhile, the white house today struggled to explain why in the days since mueller indicted 13 russians for conspireing to disrupt the 20916 election through information warfare, the president of the united states has attacked just about everyone except russia or putin. the first briefing in a week, president secretary sarah huckabee

. >> manafort made a lot of his money working for this man, putin's ally, viktor yanukovych, the formerdent of ukraine. >> yanukovych was a strong man who presided over a deadly crackdown against protesters in the streets of kiev. he left his country in disgrace. manafort had helped bring him to power. >> paul manafort has for decades been the washington lobbyist and influence peddler around the world for a lot of the most vicious dictators we've seen. >> the question is was manafort also linked to russia's strong man, vladimir putin? >> are there any ties between mr. trump, you or your campaign, and putin and his regime? >> no, there are not. it's absurd and there's no basis to it. >> but u.s. intelligence saw a different story. agents intercepted communications from suspected russian operatives indicating that manafort appeared to be asking them pore help. >> they describe hip essentially encouraging help, encouraging the russians to provide assistance to trump's campaign. >> manafort's ties to russia go way back. he worked for a close associate of putin. >> oleg deripaska, one of a f

legal experts say the program likely benefited melania trump's parents amalija and viktor , immigrants from slovenia who've been living in the u.s. on green cards. a spokesperson fororelania trurp refused to commement. a wealthy son-in-law of a russia-based billionaire has struck a plea agreement with special counsel robert mueller, pleading guilty to a charge of lying to federal investigators probing allegations of russian meddling in the 2016 u.s. election. alex van der zwaan, son of russian oligarch german khan, admitted tuesday he lied to fbi agents about his contacts with former trump campaign official rick gates. this comes as the "l.a. times" reports gates has agreed to plead guilty to charges of money laundering and illegal foreign lobbying, and will testify against paul manafort, trump's former campaign manager, who also faces charges of illegal lobbying and money laundering. back in the u.s., unusual weather patterns have seen record low temperatures in rocky mountain states and parts of the pacific northwest, while temperatures spiked to record highs along much of the easter

lobbying work for the pro russian ukrainian government, also the president of ukraine at the time, viktorul manafort also charged with money laund ering as well. now we have this other attorney who happened to have some communications with rick gates, and paul manafort, he's now been charged with lying to the special counsel, specifically about his communications with rick gates at the time of the campaign when rick gates was acting as a deputy campaign manager. so the question is now, how does this all factor into this larger mueller investigation. well, this could in fact put some pressure on paul manafort, who, again, has held fast to that not guilty plea. so, brianna, the question here is how exactly will this attorney alex van der zwaan, a name we haven't really heard before, how will this play into mueller's investigation. van der zwaan will be here at the district courthouse at 2:30 for a plea hearing. we are expecting he will plead guilty and potentially cooperate in this mueller probe. >> very interesting. we'll see if some dominos fall from that. jessica schneider at the d.c. di

not guilty to a range of charges that relate to his work doing lobbying for ukrainian government, viktor yanukovych and alleged money laundering. though this lawyer, who is now charged in this two-page information, though he seems to be related, he has ties to paul manafort and rick gates. we know this information was handed down this morning. we expect this attorney will appear in court for a plea hearing this afternoon at 2:30. it is expected that he will plead guilty. but the broader picture of this is it really does show how mueller's probe has expanded here and it also raises the question does this further put the pressure on paul manafort. of course, we know that that alex van der zwaan, connected to paul manafort, and over the past month or so, rick gates has been involved in plea negotiations. so the question is, if rick gates eventually pleads guilty, if alex van der zwaan pleads guilty this afternoon, as we're expecting, what kind of pressure does this put on paul manafort and this could be a real boon for the special counsel's probe here. john? >> jessica schneider, thanks ver