hours delay that pushed everything back. cnn correspondent athena jones tells us what to look forward as this case moves forward. ro reporter: this after a week of damaging revelations. many of them coming from rick gates. the government s star weakness from the trial. manafort ple gates is cooperating with the government as he s trying to convict his former boss on 18 counts. this is the first of two trials his former campaign chairman faces in virginia and washington, d.c. the virginia case presenting the first big test for special counsel robert mueller. he is investigating the russian meddling of the 2016.
the united states, things are going well right now as north korea reaffirms with allies like china and russia. will ripley live in hong kong. thank you. president trump is now ended up where he started a week ago. he is back to questioning whether russia interfered in the u.s. elections. he spent much of the last week trying to convince everyone he believed the intel as he stood alongside vladimir putin in helsinki and questioned the intelligence community and sided with putin. now the president is again scoffing at the conclusion of the u.s. intelligence. the conclusion he just said he accepted. so obama knew about the meddling with russia? why didn t he tell the campaign? he thought it was a hoax. he thought crooked hillary would win. and cnn reported that the president was briefed about it in august of 2016. before his rally last night, gop
first of all, what is behind the presidents tweet? look, the key thing to point out is that apparently, from the indictment we know that the obama administration discovered this in 2016.before the election. the real question here is, why didn t they take immediate action and a counterintelligence operation to not only warn everyone involved in the political campaign and what was going on but take steps to prevent this from happening. there has really been no explanation. arthel: well, i will move on. there was an estimation but we will keep going. is there anything in this report that can be denied or dismissed of inconsequential, incorrect, overblown or somehow politically driven? we do not really know because remember, it is an indictment. it charges leveled by the government. they don t have to produce any evidence. these folks will never be indicted so we will never get a
person. the other key thing here is that the special counsel goes out of their way here in these court documents and didn t need to put this in there. this is how they communicate about their investigation and where things stand. and this makes it clear that the russian investigation is very much alive, very much ongoing and it shows us how this attorney, how this even relates to the russian investigation. the other thing is, they went out of their way to talk about 2016 and the court documents. because that was the campaign that was the election and that rick gates was having these conversations with this person in october of 2016. before the election. thanks so much. really appreciate the report. so who is going to take pore the president s border wall? if you asked him during the campaign it was mexico, right? now he s suggesting that the u.s. military foot the bill. well, like most of you, i just bought a house. -oh! -very nice. now i m turning into my dad. i text in full sentenc
what is it doing? but kudlow says it is not going to go up. it ll go up, but kudlow says it is not going to. he made the argument with the president that the president uses. economic growth will go up, and we will grow ourselves out of the deficit. then this will be the challenge for larry kudlow. in the position that he s in now, he has to stand there and represent real data. right. but the fear is he may stand there and represent the president in the face of real data. well, as larry kudlow says, it s god s will. coming up next, nbc news exclusive report about one of america s allies. we ll tell you why the crown prince of saudi arabia is reportedly hiding his own mother from his father, the king. i mean, that s stunning. whack. now, it is time for science. this one involves two very special friends of the show. identical twin ace tstronauts. mark kelly spent a year in space from 2015 to 2016.