has been going on television, has been going in the media saying that manafort was not giving up anything on the president, that he was essentially not cooperating fully. and so that, i think, might have upset the special counsel robert mueller. evan, i want to talk to you about your new reporting tonight about a blowup between the president s legal team and the special counsel. well, yeah. right. it has to do with those e-mails that you were just talking about, jerome corsi. part of what happened here was the president s legal team learned about this potential plea deal with jerome corsi with the special counsel, and they learned that some of these documents that jerome corsi was going to essentially sign, don, really had a reference to the president, in which they said that someone was in touch with the president. and just the fact that it mentioned the president by name when no one else was mentioned in the document really upset the president and his legal team.
campaign, right wing conspiracy theorist jerome corsi sent an e-mail to former trump campaign adviser roger stone anticipating the document dump. according to the documents he wrote on august 2nd, 2016, this is what he wrote. word is friend in embassy plans two more dumps. one shortly after i m back. second in october. impact planned to be very damaging. wikileaks released john podesta s e-mails in october. just a coincidence? also tonight, new information that paul manafort was keeping the president s legal team updated with developments on the special counsel? evan perez here to break it all down for us. evan, wow, this is a lot. good evening to you. how unusual is it that a witness cooperating with the special counsel investigation be allowed to go back, talk to the lawyers of a key player, in this case the president? is that basically like having an inside track on the investigation? something s wrong here. well, it kind of is. but i think in this case, the
it has to do with those e-mails that you were just talking about, jerome corsi. part of what happened here was the president s legal team learned about this potential plea deal with jerome corsi with the special counsel, and they learned that some of these documents that jerome corsi was going to essentially sign, don, really had a reference to the president, in which they said that someone was in touch with the president. and just the fact that it mentioned the president by name when no one else was mentioned in the document really upset the president and his legal team. keep in mind they were working on this take-home test, remember the answers, the written answers to the mueller questions that they were getting ready to respond to. this is just before thanksgiving, so they learned about this jerome corsi documents that sara murray got her hands on today, so they put a stop to it. they said, we are not going to respond. we are not going to send back the written questions to the
the judge today actually revoke his bail and sent him to jail. also, we are learning new details on whether president trump also done with special counsel robert mueller. joining us live from the white house with more on these stories, fox news correspondent kristin fisher. hey, judge. things just got very uncomfortable for paul manafort. tonight, he is in federal custody, on his way to jail, where he will spend the nexts several months until his trial in september. i the president is calling it a very tough sentence for someone who s represented ronald reagan, bob dole, and very unfair. the reason a federal judge did this, revoke his bail and put them in jail is because he s just been accused of attempting to tamper withh witnesses in his federal tax and money laundering case. the special counsel robert mueller accused manafort of trying to contact witnesses by phone and through an encrypted messaging program. mueller asked the judge to either revise the terms of his bail or send hi
and sent him to jail. also new details on whether president trump will sit down with special counsel robert mueller. joini joining us live. things got uncomfortable for paul manafort tonight. he is in federal custody on his way to jail where he will spend the next several months until his trial in september. the president calls is a tough sentence for someone who represented ronald reagan. the reason he was put in jail is because he was accused of attempting to tamper with witnesses in his federal tax and money laundering case. last week robert mueller accused manafort of trying to contact witnesses by phone and an