prosecution. unlike in the manafort, gates, flynn, some of the other convictions here, papadopoulos, those convictions were intended to get somebody s cooperation. there s no cooperation agreement here. doesn t seem that he has anything to tell the special counsel that they don t already know. so, this was a purely, if you ll pardon the expression, a punitive sentence and punitive prosecution to send the message that you can t lie to the special counsel. the judge, in fact, said, that s one of the reasons for the sentence. thank you for your great reporting and analysis on this, pete. we will continue to cover this event through the course of the day. pete williams for us at the court in washington, d.c. how about my analysis? amazing. i don t buy like a skadden arps attorney, the son of a russian oligarch, is the type with nerves. he s a skadden arps attorney, so he knew he would be in trouble. the minute the special prosecutor asked him the questions, he knew he d be out of
in custody. daca protections only apply to people who have lived in the united states continuously since june 15th, 2007. no matter how hard you try, you cannot jump on the daca bandwagon. it is nonsense. it is a lie. and yesterday the president fumed, quote, daca is dead because the democrats didn t care or act and now everyone wants to get on to the daca bandwagon. no longer works, must build sorry, wrong page no longer works, must build wall and secure our borders with proper border legislation. democrats want no borders, hence drugs and crime. for fact sake, members of both parties have proposed daca. it is dead only because president trump ended it. not the democrats so there s pretty much nothing in those tweets that made no sense. for more, we re joined by our friend, raul reyes, an attorney and nbc news
huge. this morning, special counsel s office got its first sentencing. ending at least one line of the russia probe. alexander vanderswan, former attorney, learning his fate after withholding e-mails he had with former trump campaign aide rick gates and person a, identified only as a former officer in the soviet gru russian military intelligence. joining us now is nbc s ken dilanian. we just got new details about what s been happening inside the courtroom. what can you tell us? reporter: i m outside the courthouse. our own pete williams is inside. he reports the judge has taken a break to privately consider the sentence, which is expected soon. before that happened, vand der van der zwaanzwaan apologiz
quote, committed a crime or crimes by colluding with russian government officials, with respect to the efforts to interfere with the 2016 election for president of the united states and violation of united states law. and allegations la paul manafort, who has pleaded not guilty, is one of 19 people facing criminal charges from the investigation. another attorney alexander vanderswan is expected to be sentenced today for hiding documents and lying about conversations with manafort s former deputy, rick gates. back at the white house, the white house is now confirming that president trump and russian president putin discussed the idea of meeting at the white house during a phone call two weeks ago. the kremlin s foreign policy adviser revealed yesterday that trump made the suggestion during
mueller is detailing this person a about the lie regarding person a to highlight the significance of the crime that alexander vanderswan s lie, as it relates to kilemnik is itself significant. again, person a, person a who we believe to be kilemnik, that s why the details about person a are so important. we know now that mueller is interested specifically in person a, that s looking for specific details about person s a relationship to the administration and to russian intelligence. mueller believes that person a has that russian connection. and the way and the time it s coming out means mueller is casting a wide net. and they could showm manafor