government in election interference activities and the evidence does not establish that the president was involved in the underlying crime related to russian election interference, aka collusion. then it leaves unresolved what special counsel mueller views as difficult issues of the obstruction. while it did not conclude that the president committed a crime it does not exonerate him. that is in this letter. that is an open question. for you, for the congress, for anyone who understands that after 22 months mueller clearly looks pretty fair, a lot of smoke about russian collusion but no fire. and yet, while barr could have stopped there and let you or the congress or the country deal with this, he goes much further tonight. this is important i want to bring in my experts in a moment. he says that he decided that while mueller did not try to
coordination as an agreement, can be tacit or expressed between the trump campaign and the russian government on interference. we know that number one that there was a meeting at trump tower between a russian government delegation and the high command of the trump campaign. if we look at the full report we may see bob mueller say, i interviewed the witnesses and they didn t appreciate that veselnitskaya was a government but you accept this outcome? yes. if that s the witnesses that s the proper conclusion as far as the footnote goes. we re in breaking coverage mode. i believe we have a congressman from the democratic side standing by. do we have him? hi congressman. hi, ari. this feels like a big sunday night. we have discussed some of the
russian collusion. this started as russian collusion and this has absolutely nothing to do. this is a witch hunt and it is a disgrace. this has nothing to do with what they started out looking for russians involved in our campaign. there were none. i feel very badly for paul manafort. all right. now court papers have revealed that manafort shared sensitive, internal polling data from the trump campaign about the 2016 election with russian-linked a russian-linked operative and his name is konstantin kilimnik. joining us is ted deutsch, a member of the house judiciary committee. sir, you have been through many election cycles and you know the sensitivity of internal polling data like this especially at the presidential level and what s your reaction to learning that paul manafort shared that with russians? this is an extraordinary revelation, brianna, in this investigation that s been full of extraordinary pieces of
concerns for at least one airport. we begin with that bombshell in the mueller investigation. what was supposed to be redacted portions of a case filing now revealing the clearest public evidence yet of possible coordination, aka collusion, between the trump campaign and the russian government. the redaction errors are part of a case filing by attorneys for former campaign chairman paul manafort and they reveal that mueller believes manafort gave internal campaign polling data to an alleged russian agent. cnn s cara skinnel has been all over this for us. explain to us why this matters and why this is so significant this feeding of sensitive data to the russians. i think as you said, this really shows for the first time a real sense of, you know, potential collusion or cooperation between the trump campaign and a russian because paul manafort is sharing internal campaign data and that s a very pro-russian argument and russia was
we really have to think about the people of our country. this is not a fight i wanted. i didn t want this fight. we have to think about the people of our country. i am proud to shut down the government for border security. as the president tries to cut a new funding deal with democrats, he is facing this new bombshell from his campaign that puts his familiar twitter mantra, no russian collusion, to the test. new court documents filed by paul manafort s legal team accidentally revealed that he allegedly gave sensitive information to a russian operative with ties to the kremlin while he was trump s campaign chairman. the most significant sign yet of possible coordination, aka collusion between the trump campaign and russia. we ll dive on in to that in just a hot minute. to the exit plan of the trump official who oversees the russian investigation, we re talking about deputy attorney general rod rosenstein, a source says rosenstein plans to leave the justice department shortly