do, right, an editorial, public statement i was going to say, he was on the verge of being allowed to travel from west virginia to florida to new york to d.c. all of that in exchange for the $11 million that he was going to put up, collateral bail in order to do so. but all of that seems gone. that s exactly ride. freed from house arrest and gps monitoring. giving him a bit of freedom to travel to his homes, perhaps do some business, but now he writes this public statement on issues of national security with a russian known to u.s. intelligence and the prosecutors arguing that bail agreement should therefore be rescinded. sounds like it was a pretty dumb thing for him to do in a sensitive moment like this. thanks very much. jim sciutto reporting. let s bring back democratic senator chris coons of delaware. he s a member of the judiciary and foreign relations committees. does it look to you, senator, like paul manafort was attempting to influence public. a opinion to help his le
and there s another breaking story, gloria, that we re following involving paul manafort that was the trump campaign chairman who was charged, pleading not guilty, but he s out on bail. but all of a sudden we re now learning that contrary to that bail agreement, he s actually helping draft an op-ed for ukrainians and russians with ties to russian intelligence, a potential violation of that agreement. i think you have to ask what was he thinking, and i think what he was probably thinking is that he s trying to earn a living, to be honest. and this is what he does for a living. and, you know, the attorney the special counsel s office is making the case that it s a violation of their agreement. only in washington, d.c., is the only possibility of making a living doing vladimir putin s bidding. you know, there are people who make a living doing other things and maybe mr. manafort should explore those.
the president s personal lawyer, john dowd, says he wrote that tweet, that controversial tweet for the president. it went out in the president s name. do you believe that? you know, it doesn t matter. we have to take responsibility for anything that goes out under our name. so he either wrote it himself, the president, or he approved it. and to me it makes no difference who wrote the tweet. there s more breaking news, congresswoman, that we re following. i want to get your reaction to the news that paul manafort, who was the trump campaign chairman, was working on ghost writing an article for ukrainians and russians, especially a russian with ties to russian intelligence as recently as last thursday, was working on that article. an apparent violation of his bail agreement that he was not supposed to deal with the media. stunningly stupid. stunningly stupid. i think that the that all of
russia with ties to russian intelligence service. just got that. manafort was trying to secretly ghost write op-ed to defend his past work in ukraine. reading this filing from mueller, says that paul manafort was working with long time russian colleague currently based in russia and assessed to have ties to a russian intelligence service. this is a breaking story. going to speak to senator sheldon whitehouse about this and other items. but former ethics chief richard painter. i just got this as i know you did. your view of what bob mueller is saying in this document, which is signed by him. not all documents are. and whether you see this as grounds to adjust paul manafort s bail agreement. i secertainly do see it as grounds, put him back in jail or
what we can see, it appears that paul manafort will be let off house arrest, he ll be allowed to travel within the united states but not internationally. it appears that he will also get to drop his ankle bracelet in exchange for that freedom. the trump campaign chairman has listed over $10 million in florida and new york real estate that apparently would be forfeited oh, and virginia real estate, as well, all real estate that would be forfeited to the government if manafort decided to rabbit and not show up to court. so again, paul manafort apparently reaching a bail agreement with the government today. in other robert mueller investigation news, multiple news organizations, including nbc, have now confirmed that white house senior adviser and presidential son-in-law jared kushner has been interviewed by robert mueller s prosecutors. now, there are still conflicting reports as to what mueller s prosecutors interviewed jared kushner about, some reports say he was only interviewed abo