Contact us by the disgust he felt watching Media Coverage of the russia story. Not only were most reporters getting it wrong, they were getting it backward. The russians were in fact deeply involved in american politics, but the real story had almost nothing to do with the 2016 president ial campaign. Intrigued, we agreed to meet with at source today. He just left our offices here in washington a couple of hours ago. The story he told us is astonishing. We will be following up on it, confirming more of it and bringing you details about it this week and after. At first, heres an overview of what he told us. Media reports describe Paul Manafort as a central figure in the russia investigation due to the several months he spent as Donald Trumps campaign chairman. According to our source, thats only half true. He is indeed at the center of this investigation, but not because of his ties to trump. In fact, Paul Manafort spent years working with the Podesta Group on behalf of russian governme
Money charges against Paul Manafort but a surprise revelation, George Pep Adopt Lus pleaded guilty earlier this month making a false statements to the fbi. His emails related to the arrest came out today, couple of things we did not know until now. They provided key points along a time line that Robert Mueller could possibly build a case that Team Trump Colluded with russia to win the election. Ood suggestion that george may have been wearing a wire. We have correspondents covering all the angels tonight. We begun with manu raju on george. What have you been learning . Thats true joining the campaign in march 15, george had a meeting with a london base
professor who he promised dirgt on Hillary Clintons campaign. He had multiple interactions with this professor. This professor came in around the same time that John Pa December that, Hillary Clintons former campaign manager, his emails were hacked. We do know that george lied to federal prosecutors and admitted to lying about these inte
Assistant to george w. Bush. Scott, let me start with you, were there echos of the axis of evil speech that president bush spoke about before the war against Saddam Hussein in 2003 . This definitely had shades of that remark and im glad to see that because during the campaign, donald trump ran as something of an isolationist and if you watched todays speech, he took you on a World Tour Of American Priorities and american engagement. If you were expecting donald trump the isolationist you did not get that today. It was a firm and measured speech today, he spoke in clear terms. I was proud to see him call out the programs on petfar and malaria that the United States has invested in. I think he hit all the right notes for his american audience. I think his base will love it. I think a lot of americans agree with his message on reforming the u. N. And some gallup polling conducted earlier this year, only 37 of americans felt the u. N. Was doing a good job and
60 thought it was doing a bad
In the world, and it can happen. For more, go to malarianomore. Org. Here is our the story. Well see you. Tucker good evening, welcome to Tucker Carlson tonight. For more than half a century, hollywood liberals and americas Foreign Policy establishment eye at each other with suspicion, from vietnam to iraq, actors were often the harshest critics of whatever wars washington was pushing at the time. A lot has changed though. The rise of donald trump has caused elites from across the spectrum to realize they have a lot more in common with each other than they do with the american middle class. Suddenly, liberals in l. A. Are warming to the idea of pointless foreign wars. Rob reiner is an actor, a director, a liberal. He now has a group designed to investigate russian interference
in the last election. He has joined forces with all kinds of prowar conservatives in washington. Here is their latest ad. Listen carefully. We have been attacked. We are at war. The free ward is world is counting
Reporter the white house defending the governments response. The federal response has been anything but slow. In fact, theres been an unprecedented push through of billions of dollars of federal assistance. Reporter but the president has spent the last three days tweeting repeatedly about nfl players who kneel during the national anthem. Mr. Trump, continuing to fan the flames on twitter monday night. Sources tell cnn that the president appears pleased with the firestorm he has created, telling a private dinner of conservative leaders its really caught on. I said what millions of americans were thinking. Administration officials tell cnn that Chief Of Staff john kelly is not happy with the public feud but the retired military general, who lost a son in the afghanistan war, agrees with the president on the substance of the debate. Meanwhile, nfl teams continue to show solidarity against President Trumps comments. The entire Dallas Cowboys team and team owner, jerry jones, taking a knee