sandra: congressman, i know your community and the communities north of you are still reeling this morning. thank you for sharing your views on all this. thank you. thank you. bill: an update. breaking news from washington now. robert mueller special counsel office announcing new charges against a man accused of lying to investigators in the russia matter. alex vander swan is his name. charged in federal court for lying about interactions with former trump aide rick gates. department of justice remember announcing last friday 13 russians indicted for their involvement as well as three russian businesses and catherine herridge is working the story and we ll talk to her what we re learning coming up in a matter of moments from washington in the meantime this update. checking into the winter games in south korea. a victory for the u.s. men s hockey team defeating slovakia. they face off with the czech
and, you know, we re sort of still sorting through exactly what his role in all this was, but the bottom line i think is don t lie to the fbi or the special counsel, they will come after you. this also sort of underscores, you know, how little we know about some of robert mueller s dealings. we ve not heard of this person but, again, alex vander swan charged with making false statements to federal authorities. please keep reading on this, i want you to come back with more details later in the show. this is interesting, you know, joe scarborough ended his show saying whether you re a liberal or a company, no one knows what robert mueller is truly working on. and that is certainly the truth. that is absolutely right. i want to bring in malcolm nance, executive director of the terror asymmetrics project. michael allen, beacon global strategies, specializing in intelligence and cybersecurity. michael, i want to start of course with the trump tweet where he said just moments ago, i ha
remember how mitt romney and his industry got annihilated for carrying interest, and here we are still there. it s still in there. guys like steve chors man stands next to donald trump smiling for pictures. the president likes to be behind winners. going out and endorse k mitt romney earlier ks he s like oh look i got behind mitt romney right there. it was like in alabama. okay so he gets behind him because he likes to get behind winners. what happens when mitt romney is elected and he guess after the president then what does he do? probably like he s doing with everybody else. mitt romney is a good man, a seasoned individual, he s got experience in politics in business. a legitimate businessman, i
they chose not to act. overnight, the president lashed out at his predecessor, barack obama, tweeting, quote, obama was president up to and beyond the 2016 election so why didn t he do something about russian meddling? here s the thing, he did. in late december 2016, obama issue ed sanctions against russ, expelled nearly 3 dozen russian diplomats and shut down russian compounds. trump s response when it happened, he said it was, quote, time for our country to move on to bigger and better things. but first, we ve got some breaking mueller news. i want to bring in ken dilanian. you re back just moments ago, i was chatting with you, and now you have more news for us. yes, stephanie, we have new charges by special counsel robert mueller against an individual, alex vanderswan, and he s accused of making false statements to the special counsel s office and the fbi. and apparently, he was an attorney representing a ukrainian ministry.
this indictment. s that constantine kalemnick, who has ties to russian intelligence. that s a new person that we see named. but in the past he has been referred to under a pseudohim in in previous indictments or court filings. now we see him named on the record. the reason you will remember his name, he was connected to alex vander swan, who is finishing his jail sentence. that s correct. also a long time business partner with paul manafort. he was in ukraine doing the work with paul manafort when he was representing the regime. this is tied to what we saw earlier this week, when there were allegations of went tampering. these two working together to try the guide people according to the government filings, trying to guide people as far as hey this is how thing worked, remember? right. they were trying to guide their testimony in the charges he was hit with today directly reflect that. danny, people could lose