but this story is about his involvement with viktor yanukovych in ukraine, forwhom involvement with viktors, in ukraine, for whom he was working fora number of years, taking millions of dollars. i have spent some millions of dollars. i have spent some time in kiev earlier this year. this man was a seriously unpleasant criminal, running a country, stealing billions of dollars, who has now fled after he was unseated. it was not a bloodless unseating. 100 were killed as a direct result of his actions. we had the war in crimea and he is now being harboured in russia. he is a seriously nasty piece of work and trump's right—hand man was working for him, getting thousands of dollars every month. he is now accused of laundering $18

but this story is about his involvement with viktor yanukovych in ukraine, forwhom involvement with viktor yanukovych in ukraine, for whom he was working for a number of years, in ukraine, for whom he was working fora number of years, taking millions of dollars. i have spent some time in kiev earlier this year. this man was a seriously unpleasant criminal, running a country, stealing billions of dollars, who has now fled after he was unseated. it was not a bloodless unseating. 100 were killed as a direct result of his actions. we had the war in crimea and he is now being harboured in russia. he is a seriously nasty piece of work and trump's right—hand man was working for him, getting thousands of dollars every month. he is now accused of laundering $18 million. i think that shows you the type of man he is and we should not underestimate the influence of ukraine and russia on this story and how entwined it all is. but what is difficult for people to understand is how everything is linked. robert mueller is meant... if you listen to donald trump, it has nothing to do with him. then when he h

does not mention the election instead it's their lobbying work for ukraine's former president viktor yanukovych that prosecutors attention the twelve count indictment accuses metaphor and gates of conspiracy against the us money laundering and making false statements president trump has dismissed any allegations of collusion between his campaign and russia as a political witch hunt spearheaded by the f.b.i. and democrats following news of the indictment trump was quick to distance himself from his former campaign manager tweeting sorry but this is years ago before man a foot was part of the trump campaign but crooked hillary and the dems the focus in another tweet to trump added also there's no collusion. no trump remains in the clear but many in washington a confident man afoot and gates are only the first dominoes to fall the question is who's next. and we want to go to washington now to our correspondent. phil evening to you carlino so what more do we know tonight about these twelve charges against. hello fellow well everyone here in washington is citing this document the indictment of charg

ukrainian president viktor yanukovych, eventually fled his own country to russia and to the safety ofend, vladimir putin, in february of 2014. all the while continuing to be advised by paul manafort. manafort first hit the fbi's radar when the agency began looking into possible corruption and money laundering involving yanukovych. federal agents also discovered paul manafort and two other consulting groups working with the ukrainians failing to register that work with the u.s. government, a violation of the u.s. foreign agents registration act. manafort did eventually file the paperwork in june. and it showed his company was paid more than $17 million in just two years by the ukrainian political party. >> known donald since the 1980's. and we talked about it and he felt i could help him, as i felt, and he made the changes. >> reporter: in march of 2016, donald trump brought his long-time acquaintance, paul manafort onto the campaign, soon promoting him to campaign chair. but within months, manafort was gone. political infighting along with renewed charges of secret payments from ukrai

man in the campaign, rick gates, earned more than $75 million from 2006 to 2015 lobbying for viktor yanukovych, the former president of the ukraine, vladimir putin's man in that position but put the money in banks on island nations outside the u.s. to hide from it the government. but the indictment says nothing about manafort's role in the trump campaign. his lawyer angrily calls the charges ridiculous. >> i think you all saw it today that president donald trump was correct, there is no evidence that mr. manafort or the trump campaign colluded with the russian government. >> reporter: manafort and gates pleaded not guilty during a brief court appearance today. the judge set their bail and ordered them to remain in home detention. prosecutors say manafort spent some of his millions on four homes in manhattan, brooklyn, long island, as well as in suburban washington, d.c. and accused him of spending 900,000 for antique rugs, nearly 1.4 million on clothes and more than 7.6 million in home improvements. legal experts say the charges could persuade both men to help with mueller's investigation of r

instead it's their lobbying work for ukraine's former president viktor yanukovych that caught prosecutor's attention. it accused them of conspiracy against the u.s., money laundering and making false statements. president trump has dismissed any allegations of collusion between his campaign and russia as a political witch hunt spearheaded by the f.b.i. and democrats following news of the indictment, trump was quick to distance himself from his former campaign manager tweeting sorry, but this is years ago before manafort was part of the trump campaign, but aren't crooked hillary and the dems the focus in another treat, he added also there is no collusion. for now trump remains in the clear, but many in washington are confident manafort and gates are only the first dominos to fall, the question is who is next. >> and we go now to washington to our correspondent. good evening to you. so what more do we know about the charges that have been levied against paul manafort? >> hello, brent, well, manafort and his associate and right hand richard gates were put under house arrest because they're se

you may recall, take a look at this video cnbc was there when viktor yanukovych abandoned the countrynd of assassinations that occurred during all of the protests in the uprising against the yanukovych government. this was where he abandoned, it was loaded with extravagant materials, landscaping i don't know, a dozen coats hanging in the closet. all kinds of stuff, and it had been taken over by militants, young kids who were acting as, you know, random military equipment to protect the institution and to try to save it for the ukrainian people. but this was some video that really astounded the world to the degree that yanukovych was living quite well as the head of a very, very poor country in ukraine while paul manafort was working for him. >> interesting color added to all of this. joining us this morning at post nine, former assistant u.s. attorney for the eastern district of new york, tom laurel, now principal at the laurel law firm. make some sense of the indictment as written. how would you characterize the scopef it? >> very aggressive it has nothing to do with the campaign let

as an unregistered foreign agent for the then pro russian government of ukraine of president viktor yanukovych who the country until two thousand and fourteen when he had to flee to russia after the euro ma done pro vest uprising and metaphor actually worked for this government for an agent here is a technical term which means you work as a lobbyist or advisor or propagandist for a foreign entity and then there's money laundering and tx evasion for that money that he and his associates richard gates earned from the ukrainian government and we're not talking about a few thousand dollars here we're talking about tens of millions of dollars that have been. those two tried apparently according to these indictments to hide from the american states we have to say once again he had these only charges he's innocent until proven guilty but it certainly doesn't look good for manifold and gates have very long list of charges they're cast and how close does this actually come to the president tell us more about metaphoric at the former campaign manager and his connection to donald trump. well donald trump

. >> viktor yanukovych denies embezzling state funds or hiding millions of dollars in bank accounts.ht of the shootings, left kiev, never to return. following attacks on convoy, russian president sent special forces to bring him to safety in russia. >> manafort's client when he began offering services to trump for tree, insisting never worked for other clients and always careful. >> going to make a promise in the future if he's president you'll be careful what clients you take? >> i'm always careful what clients i take. >> that looks more suspect today. alleging that manafort was laundering money to hide his ukrainian client and alleging manafort and gates working for foreign power. deny it and presumed innocent. other story breaking is confession from a trump adviser who admits he lied to feds about meetings with russians offering dirt on clinton. george papadopoulos didn't get most attention but trump cited him as excellent foreign policy adviser when he joined march 2017. >> i could give you some of the names. george papadopoulos, he's energy consultant, excellent guy. >> he was a

the ones of interest had to do with the former president of ukraine, a pro-russian candidate viktor yanukovycht was in his dealings with yanukovych when he ended up under surveillance. there were questions whether his associates helped him launder money. paul manafort was under surveillance by the fbi both in 2014 and then again in 2016 as we saw the allegations of russian meddling in the election come to light. >> and as we heard from the manafort attorney, pleading not guilty to all that is facing them and saying all of this is just entirely ridiculous. brianna keilar with the rundown on these two. thank you so much. president trump is trying to shift this conversation to hillary clinton. he's saying there's no collusion on his end, trying to shift it to the democrats as three people tied to his campaign face serious legal trouble. we're going to talk about the president's reaction to this next. you might take something for your heart... or joints. but do you take something for your brain. with an ingredient originally found in jellyfish, prevagen is the number one selling brain-health suppl

day when much of the news has been dominated by the mueller probe and tony podesta's work with viktor yanukovychnter of his lobbying work and his probe. i want to read you a statement that we got from the podesta group, they stood by their position that all of their work was in accordance with lobbying regulations. as the podesta group's work by the european center for a modern ukraine, a non-profit think tank was in support of ukraine's admission for the eu and a position supported by the experts at the time. the cfmnu was not directed by a government or political party. they stand by that statement and that tony podesta is working with and cooperating with the mueller probe, but obviously, all of the news and the fact that mueller is even into looking this work seems too much for the podesta group to maintain their founder tony podesta. brooke? >> dan, thank you. dan merica at the white house for us. >> former contributor of the government ethics. welcome. as a democrat, what's your reaction to that? >> i'm hearing about this at the same time as you are. recall owe i took a look at doj's regul

offshore account, according to the affidavit, much of which came from the party and government of viktor yanukovych who has been referred to by critics as a ukrainian puppet of vladimir putin. in the last hour, a federal judge ordered house arrest for manafort and gates with bond set at $10 million and $5 million respectively. joining me this hour to discuss this is leon panetta and congressman adam schiff, the top democrat on the house intelligence committee also conducting its own russia investigation and starting right next to me with cnn's pamela brown, one of the team breaking the story of the pending indictment and this story is taking on a whole new focus with george papadopoulos and the guilty plea. >> the white house is trying to distance itself saying look, with rick gate, manafort, these charges have nothing to do with us, but with papadopoulos the claims, the allegations from the fbi have to do with the campaign, jake, and in these court documents there are all of these e-mails that show these communications between papadopoulos and russians trying to set up a meeting between the campai

he also made millions consulting overseas, including ukraine, and for ukrainian leader viktor yanukovychnafort is credited with his political makeover. as ukrainian president in 2014, yanukovych's pro-russian moves led to unrest and he is now in exile in russia. in 2015, manafort bought an apartment in trump tower. a year later, he was working for the trump campaign. republican leaders like house speaker paul ryan today acknowledged but downplayed the charges. >> it's big news but this is >> desjardins: rick gates is manafort's longtime number two. i need to mention here that i have personally known gates since we were students in college together. the indictments today allege that both manafort and gates hid millions coming in from overseas to avoid taxes and secretly acted as agents of foreign governments. also today, democratic lobbyist tony podesta resigned from his namesake firm, following news that his ties to manafort, and work on ukraine issues, is also under investigation. a potentially more revealing case involves george papadoupolos who now appears to be a cooperating witness

it does have to do with russia because viktor yanukovych, the politician on whose behalf these two menet lobbying, is a russian-backed, putin-backed figure, who now resides in moscow. so there was a split within ukrainian pot tilitics. one side wanted to gravitate towards nato and the other side was pro-russian. manafort engaged with the pro-russian guys. >> then how can the trump administration possibly go back to the argument that they made several months ago when they had this meeting at trump tower that jared was at, that don jr. was at that oops, we didn't know, we're new to this politics game and we thought this was here to orphans? it was president trump who dictated that was going to be the white house's statement. how now that we know who manafort is, who he was paid by year after year, how can that argument hold any water? >> well, they can't say that, stephanie. and then point of fact, they couldn't say that before the election either. because there was a lot of reporting, including by nbc news, before the election about paul manafort's questionable ties to russia. in fact,i

worked for a pro-russian political party in ukraine, and ukrainian president, then president, viktor yanukovychwho fled the country in 2014. the manafort p. and less crucial, helped manage day-to-day operations of the campaign and worked as liaison between the rnc and the campaign after manafort left. amp the election, gates worked to advance the president's agenda, left in april amid questions around russian interference in the election. both gates and manafort have worked together for decades. lobbying for dictators like ferdinand marcos from the philippines. the "new york times" reports gates was the one who met with dare posca associates in moscow while manafort was working in ukraine. gates' name is the one on shell company documents allegedly used by manafort to receive payments from eastern european business people. now, like manafort, gates retroactively registered as a foreign agent. both have now pled not guilty to the charges. more on this, the duo duos's rio power, legal investigative reporter cynthia mcfadden digging into this situation for a while. cynthia? >> reporter: a really g

political corruption had seized at the political operatives council of the cuts trees ousted leader, viktor yanukovychtens of millions of dollars working for describing leaders and their allies in countries such as the philippines and congo. caughtk in one country up with him on monday in a criminal indictment describing the listed earnings, offshore bank accounts and lavish expenditures funded in part by nearly a decade of work for ukraine's party of regions and you covet who fled to russia after his regime was toppled by protesters in 2014. georgetown, massachusetts. line for independence. go ahead. good morning. thanks for having me on. i just want to give my opinion about this whole thing. i try to look at things logically here. it seems as though we got one deep set inside the displaying a really long game. and you have regular american working day byre day trying to do things. we are on two different playing fields. i think what we are witnessing government which we should be responsible for as american citizens is we are looking at the results of years citizens, let's say power they have with t