us know. we never hear from robert mueller s team. the only time we hear from them are through the court filings. you have the president trying to go out and tear down their credibility saying spygate, et cetera, giuliani, who is basically acting as the president s spokesperson now saying they are trying to frame him. we are talking about the messages that the president could be sending to others about pardons. could this be a message from mueller to the president? don t obstruct justice? this event combined today with everything that happened this week, one of course we don t know where the probe is going. every other week it seems like there is something coming down and we see the president react this real time. this event combined with what we saw from trump s lawyers and the controversy over the statement that the president made at the time, that the white house made at the time of the donald trump jr. letter in trump tower with what his lawyers said, that he actually did dicta
it. it began with the leak of trump s letter, the legal letter to robert mueller s team saying that yes, he did dictate the letter about trump jr. s statement. paul ryan joining trey gouty to say no there was no. in the president s campaign. giuliani alleging that manafort is trying or that robert mueller is trying to frame the president. and now manafort being indicted. i enmomean that s a lot to happn just one week. the manafort story is bizarre. here s why. there are a bunch of charges against manafort. the least of them is that he was an unregistered foreign lobbyist, something on which only six people have been tried in close to 50 years. there s a money laundering charge, which is much more serious than other charges. this superseding indictment involves him trying to witness tamper on the question of whether he was an unregistered foreign lobbyist. he is trying to tell these two people who are unnamed, send
if we want to look at it from a domestic political prospective this is a classic problem of coheerns that parties have when it comes to mid terms. they say the other guys were doing everything terribly but thing are going great under us even though we haven t changed anything. jeremy bash, thank you for joining us. we spresh your expertise. panel stay with us. ahead, environmental protection. even though the negative headlines keep piling up, president trump is still standing by his trump used mattress man scott pruitt. my day starts well before i m even in the kitchen. i need my blood sugar to stay in control. so i asked about tresiba®. tresiba® ready tresiba® is a once-daily, long-acting insulin that lasts even longer than 24 hours. i need to shave my a1c. tresiba® ready tresiba® works like my body s insulin. releases slow and steady. providing powerful a1c reduction. my week? hectic. my weekends? my time.
friends. now it seems like it s going to be a g 6. it looks like we are on the verge of getting kicked out of the g7. this is mtp daily, and it starts right now. good evening imi m katy tur in new york in for chuck todd. welcome to mtp daily. we begin tonight with breaking news. president trump s former campaign chief, paul manafort has been hit with new charges involving witness tampering and obstruction of justice. special counsel robert mueller filed a third superseding indictment against manafort, which also charges one of manafort s longtime business associates. according to these new court documents, manafort and his associate conspired to influence two potential witnesses in the case. guys, to stay that mueller is turning up the heat on manafort
intelligence officer. so this puts manafort really booep deep in it. this is whatever c word you want to use, collusion, conspiracy, this is it. manafort is in it. and now the real question is what is he going to do? is he going to cooperate? if he does, what will he say about trump s knowledge or involvement or other people in the campaign about these activities. i want to talk to you about witness sampering specifically, what the new charges are around. knowingly and intentionally attempted to persuade another one with respect to testimony in an official proceeding. could you make the argument that the president has attempted to persuade witnesses himself? he has been going offer jeff sessions recently tweeting about him just three days ago, and sessions is somebody who has been interviewed by the special counsel. look, i mean, that s certainly the one of the things that mueller is looking at. are trump s repeated sort of