now the ap said they never shared anything with weissman and that weissman denies sharing anything with the ap but now it makes sense. he was being fed information by bruce ohr the whole time and he was moving steele's information, possibly to mueller. i mean, we don't know that yet, it's alleged. but remember it was only a month after that meeting with the ap that he was appointed to the special counsel and became robert mueller's right-hand guy. >> sean: but ohr is getting messages from steele about steele asking ohr to push his information, never verified, never -- to the special counsel. let me get gregg in. andrew weissmann. >> andrew weissmann is like the detective who frames a suspect and appoints himself the investigator to determine whether the suspect he framed committed crimes. >> sean: how can you ever trust the mueller investigation? >> you can't. >> it appoints a guy, loses 9-0 in the supreme court, excoriated by the judge, holding exculpatory evidence, putting innocent people in jail, that is overturned. 9-0, fifth circuit court of appeals, how does he get a job with robe

tell me about weissman. why is this so important?> bruce ohr has now combimplic the lead lawyer in mueller's special counsel team. he was in on the russia hoax that was framing donald trump for doing things that trump never did. so weissman knew that steele, who composed the dossier, was not credible. they knew it was uncorroborated, unverified. and they knew that steele had been fired for lying. and yet the fbi and the department of justice and that guy on your screen apparently didn't care. they used it nevertheless to pursue this phony fabricated investigation of donald trump and to wiretap an american citizen without proper evidence. so this now ruins the integrity and the credibility of robert mueller's special counsel. weissman should be fired and the special counsel himself should say, "we apologize. we are terminating it." >>it's not impossible to get it through the courts. tom, where does judicial watch go next? what other things do you have brewing that the court will need to rule on and what are you pressing for? >> we sue

weissman was saying in court.time that they had several proffer sessions with mr. manafort. he said what's not in the statement of offense today is it didn't rely information obtained in his proffer sessions, plural. what does that mean? >> that's very significant. mr. manafort for some days or weeks has been sitting with prosecutors already and feeding them information. they have been able to independently corroborate and make themselves feel comfortable to accept that plea agreement and he has information that would provide assistance to the government. sometimes these kinds of deals start off with lawyers making proffers on behalf of their clients. the prosecutors hear what the lawyers say and after the deal is cut, they sit down with the client and start to hear what is straight from the horse's mouth. this is the opposite. mr. manafort has provided this information. we're already a significant step into this information and the prosecutors have credited it. >> the obvious question is if paul manafort wanted t

robert weissman is president of public citizen. last week the group issued "an analysis of judge kavanaugh's opinions in split-decision cases" and found that during his 12 years on the u.s. court of appeals for the d.c. circuit, u.s. supreme court nominee judge brett kavanaugh decided or wrote an opinion against the public interest 87% of the time in split-decision cases dealing with consumer, environmental, and worker rights. we will get to him in our next segment. at first, heidi sieck is co-founder of the national organization vote pro-choice. she was the number one member of the public to enter the kavanaugh hearings on tuesday. she was removed from the hearings after she protested. and we're joined by fred guttenberg, the father of parkland shooting victim jamie guttenberg. he attended as a guest of senator dianne feinstein. he says judge kavanaugh turned his back when he approached to shake anand certain a break.k. i'm gogoing to firirst start wih heidi sieck, member of the public number one. explain how the hearing took plac

tell me about weissman. why is this so important?> bruce ohr has now combimplic the lead lawyer in mueller's special counsel team. he was in on the russia hoax that was framing donald trump for doing things that trump never did. so weissman knew that steele, who composed the dossier, was not credible. they knew it was uncorroborated, unverified. and they knew that steele had been fired for lying. and yet the fbi and the department of justice and that guy on your screen apparently didn't care. they used it nevertheless to pursue this phony fabricated investigation of donald trump and to wiretap an american citizen without proper evidence. so this now ruins the integrity and the credibility of robert mueller's special counsel. weissman should be fired and the special counsel himself should say, "we apologize. we are terminating it." >>it's not impossible to get it through the courts. tom, where does judicial watch go next? what other things do you have brewing that the court will need to rule on and what are you pressing for? >> we sue

weissman. good morning, your honor. andrew weissman for the government. and with me is greg andress, lorna masher, kyle freeney, genie rhee, and josh wilen from the fbi. the judge. good morning. good morning, your honor. richard westling, thomas zehnie and kevin downling. and i note that mr. manafort is present. i understand the defendant wishes to enter a plea of guilty. is that correct? that's correct, your honor. before we can proceed, he can join you at the lech turn. the courtroom deputy says, are you paul j. manafort jr. >> paul manafort. i am. are you named in the superseding information? i am. so, this is obviously the very start. this starts with the good mornings. at this point in the breeding, everybody there in the courtroom knows at least one important part of what's going to happen. the judge said, he's here to play guilty. the reason there's superseding information what the court deputy asked of paul manafort. superseding information, what that means is the indictment, laying out the charges that manafort was about to go on trial for next w

andrew weissman using the word cooperating?i tell you, if i were in court and this was not a cooperation agreement as a prosecutor rs i would have said probably this is a non-cooperation agreement or a straight plea agreement. i'm sure mr. weissman chose his words very carefully, and when he said this is a cooperation agreement, boy, that spells some real additional trouble for trump and his associates because if they have manafort, you know, open his book, so to speak, on everything he can tell the prosecutors about his time with the campaign, each and every conversation he had with the president, with don junior, with jared kushner. as we know now, this will be yet another source of information about the trump tower meeting. boy, this -- and i will be surprised if we see another interview with mr. giuliani saying that paul manafort continues to be an honorable man. i suspect we'll see giuliani turn on him the way he turned on michael cohen. so this spells real trouble for the president. >> but, glenn, what if it suspect? the

do i want 17 angry democrats to decide -- >> sean: andrew weissman? >> give me a break. they've shown too much bias to think that they would be objective and fair. reality is, it's one on one, he said/she said, there can be no determination of truth. which is why i said what i said. you don't prove truth. you prove, have you proved guilt beyond a reasonable guilt. not all doubt. reasonable. so, somebody could be convicted beyond a reasonable doubt. somebody that's guilty may not be convicted because there isn't proof beyond a reasonable doubt. you got to be naive to think that it's a search for pure objective truth. only place they can find truth is if you go to chuck todd's little magic room and meet the press can figure out the truth. he's the one complaining about this. >> sean: there's a phrase in "the washington post" talking about this anonymous. sleeper cells have awakened in the united states. meaning the resistance within the administration. one line that caught my attention, i was talking about it earlier, is that, so we will do what we can to steer the adminis

do i want 17 angry democrats to decide -- >> sean: andrew weissman? >> give me a break. maybe they've shown too much bias to think that they would be objective and fair. reality is, it's one on one, he said/she said, there can be no determination of truth. which is why i said what i said. you don't prove truth. you prove, have you proved guilt beyond a reasonable guilt. not all doubt. reasonable. so, somebody could be convicted beyond a reasonable doubt. somebody that's guilty may not be convicted because there isn't proof beyond a reasonable doubt. you got to be naive to think that it's a search for pure objective truth. only place they can find truth is if you go to chuck todd's little magic room and meet the press can figure out the truth. he's the one complaining about this. >> sean: there's a phrase in "the washington post" talking about this anonymous. sleeper cells have awakened in the united states. meaning the resistance within the administration. one line that caught my attention, i was talking about it earlier, is that, so we will do what we can to steer the a

some of paul manafort's crimes were described by andrew weissman. he was careful to point out that nothing he publicly described in court today includes anything that paul manafort has told the special prosecutor in his first week of cooperation with the special prosecutor. so there is a lot, lot more to come from paul manafort. we know the special prosecutor wreec reached this agreement because paul manafort has already provided and will continue to provide valuable information to the special prosecutor the moment that officially changed donald trump and donald trump, jr.'s lives came after paul weissman outlined the conspiracy, obstruction of justice, conspiracy against the occupation, judge amy jacquie said are you prepared to tell me now whether you wish to plead guilty and whether you wish to go to trial? all manafort said i am and the court said what is your decision if and paul manafort said i am guilty. with that, every member of the trump campaign team charged with robert mueller pleaded guilty. every single one of them. robert mueller and

he made his way right into special counsel mueller's office, andrew weissman. he got the contents from the dossier from hillary through steel to robert mueller's office in an effort to take down the president you elected. we have a lot more throughout the show tonight. we have other top breaking news tonight. for a week, the republicans have tried to accommodate in every way imaginable judge kavanaugh's accuser, professor christine ford. clearly, one of her liberal lawyers, debra katz, and senator dianne feinstein are playing politics. this is such a serious accusations. it should be handled in a nonpartisan way, pursued just for the sake of pursuing truth and justice and as susan collins has said, and she is absolutely right, it is unfair what dianne feinstein and others have been doing. i have sources telling me that p professor ford's attorney keeps moving the bar. no deal has been struck to testify. senator grassley has had to extend the deadline. it is now 10:00 p.m. tonight. senator grassley released a statement earlier. this is what it reads. quote, desp

he made his way right into special counsel mueller's office, andrew weissman. he got the contents from the dossier from hillary through steel to robert mueller's office in an effort to take down the president you elected. we have a lot more throughout the show tonight. we have other top breaking news tonight. for a week, the republicans have tried to accommodate in every way imaginable judge kavanaugh's accuser, professor christine ford. clearly, one of her liberal lawyers, debra katz, and senator dianne feinstein are playing politics. this is such a serious accusations. it should be handled in a nonpartisan way, pursued just for the sake of pursuing truth and justice and as susan collins has said, and she is absolutely right, it is unfair what dianne feinstein and others have been doing. i have sources telling me that p professor ford's attorney keeps moving the bar. no deal has been struck to testify. senator grassley has had to extend the deadline. it is now 10:00 p.m. tonight. senator grassley released a statement earlier. this is what it reads. quote, desp

and andy mccabe knew, peter strzok knew and andrew weissman knew as well.e one that was mark meadows calling for the declassification of russian documents that could reveal big-time corruption at the doj. joining me now, the aforementioned congressman themselves. welcome to both of you. congressman jordan, the more we learn about bruce ohr's contact with christopher steele that predates what we believe -- we talked about months ago. now the time line has been pushed earlier. and yet, and his wife worked for the fusion gps firm. did they not know this at the justice department? >> they did. >> laura: why is this conflict not blaring across every media outlet tonight given what we learned? >> it should be but you have a top justice official hired to work for the firm, and everyone at the fbi knew about it. andy mccabe, peter strzok and now we know that andrew weissman, the key player on mueller's team knew about it as well. they knew about it before they went to the fisa court. they knew about the involvement and who paid for it and they knew what bruce or to

according to one of mueller's prosecutors, andrew weissman in court today, manafort has already sat down with the special counsel multiple times to tell them what he knows. to help understand this major breakthrough in the mueller probe, i'm joined by nick akerman, former watergate prosecutor, natasha bertrand, and msnbc legal analyst benjamin wittis. and ben, i will start with you. how significant are today's developments? >> potentially enormously significant. but we honestly don't know and we won't know until we see the fruits of this, whatever they may be. one of the things about the mueller investigation is that they give away very little. and what we know is that manafort is obliged to cooperate. what we don't know is what the -- what his capacity for cooperation is. and there's -- you know, you can make a case that this could be the keys to the kingdom. you can also make a case that this is a guy who, you know, is -- didn't -- may not know that much and who chiefly what he's giving mueller is saving him the time and expense of going through another trial. and so i -- you know, my

unaccountable because they -- r to a man who is in mueller and with weissman and the original russia investigation. end up with ia 20-plus percent of our uranium, knowing they were acquiring it illegally, the obama council on foreign investments in the u.s. voted to let them go. sure, because mueller and rosenstein, weissman, they made sure that their guy behind the scenes wasn't talking. they kept the information quiet bout russia's illegal actions. and that ended up leading to $145 million in contributions to the clinton foundation. a lot of money changed hands. pay to play, some people call t. that know for certain hillary clinton's private server was hacked. current act that the f.b.i. director, director way, would allow a statement to go ut last week, fraudulently deceptive, says the f.b.i. has not cleaned itself up yet. yeah, there have been some people fired, some people demoted, some people moved over, but it is still fraudulently deceptive and dishonoring the hard, honest work of thousands and thousands of f.b.i. agents .cross this country the intel community inspector gener

>> we know from our own reporter that in fact andrew weissman who's one involved in the man na for with the u.s. attorney's office in washington, d.c. -- i'm sorry, cooperate the second part. yeah, they're definitely a part of this. >> let me bring you in. i know you've written extensively on this topic. i think these names may not be new two and the inug gurl committee? >> we do know federal prosecutors have been interested in contrabugss on -- from the cousin of a russian oligarch who run it? '744 and this is turning into legal matters, criminal prosecutions. the other big thing that tom didn't 34e7ks is that in this plea deal sam patten admitted to lying to congress. he came before the senate intelligence committee and he lied. now this is key because adam ship and other democrats will have it. lying to congress, which is a crime whether you've sworn or not. they've raised questions about donald trump jr.'s testimony, eric prince's testimony and others. if we're going to get them looking at the testimony given to these committees. lying could open up a whole new horiz horizon. a pa t

certainly when bob mueller came in and took over this investigation, his team, andrew weissman, one of the lead prosecutors, stood up and announced paul manafort is now cooperating, this is something they wanted for quite some time. something seemed to change, perhaps because paul manafort spent all of this time in jail and the prospect of facing the rest of his life in jail now perhaps led him to cooperate. what's significant here also is that the government has agreed that based on his cooperation, if it is a successful cooperation and he does everything that he's supposed to do, they're going to write a letter to the judge essentially downgrading sentencing, which could mean he will be a free man and be able to move on, live his life. his cooperation is substantial obviously because he was in on a lot of meetings, had a lot of overseas contacts with russians, with ukrainians, with other countries, people associated with other countries. the other thing that's important in all of this, his cooperation is not limited to the special counsel. it has to do with the department of justice,

were described in court today by andrew weissmann of the special counsel's office, but prosecutor weissman was careful to point out that nothing that he publicly described in court today includes anything that paul manafort has told the special prosecutor in his first week of cooperation with the special prosecutor. so there is a lot, lot more to come from paul manafort. and we know that the special prosecutor reached this plea bargain agreement with paul manafort today because paul manafort has already provided and will continue to provide valuable information to the special prosecutor. the moment that officially changed donald trump and donald trump jr.'s lives came after andrew weissmann outlined the crimes that paul manafort confessed to this week -- conspiracy, obstruction of justice, conspiracy against the united states. judge amy berman jackson said to paul manafort, so are you prepared to tell me now whether you wish to plead guilty or whether you wish to go to trial? and paul manafort said, i am -- and the judge said, what is your decision? and paul manafort said, "i plead guilty.

director mueller and a guy names weissman that's currently working for mueller who made sure that their undercover guy that was gathering information to show how illegally russia was acting, make sure he signs a nondisclosure agreement. they threatened, we're told, that he doesn't sign it they would -- he signs it because they did not want anybody talking about illegally -- how illegally russia was acting because if they had, then the committee that had to approve foreign investments in the united states, cfius, they could not have voted to allow russia to get hold of 20 or so percent of american uranium and if they were not allowed to get hold of that much uranium, then, of course, there would not have been 145 million or so that went into the clinton foundation. but i see my good friend, chairman frelinghuysen. should i yield time or -- you ok? all right. thank you. and then we get this report that's out. this reported from fox news. john kerry slammed for shameful diplomacy after admitted to meetings with iran. i think there's a word for it, ut when someone goes and tries undermine t