Wolf Blitzer looks at politics, Breaking News and international stories. I had an aide next to my ear nearly screaming within the last several minutes when the president was with the italian president in the oval office but its an example of just how hard they are trying to keep reporters from asking the president questions. Obviously they cant be do that in the News Conference coming p up. You may see the president with the investigation, the president may be tempted to call on somebody in the friendly conservative media to lob a softball at him. Weve seen him try to do that before, wolf. Its one of these q a questions. Two questions from american questions, two questions from italian journalists, is that right . Thats right. Obviously the president at some of these two plus twos, one thing that weve noticed is at the very end of it, this happened at checkers with
mueller and the Special Counsel calling him out by name. There are some glaring factual errors in his tweets. Lets go to a
Wolf Blitzer looks at politics, breaking news and international stories. Trump Campaign Manager facing off against the Russia Investigation special counsel robert mueller. You cannot understate just how big this is, no matter which way it goes. On one hand, if, for example, mr. Manafort is found guilty, that makes it a real problem for the president of the United States to continue to call this a witch hunt. Now, what about this case . We have 18 charges in the indictment, Something Like three dozen witnesses. The former partner of Paul Manafort, rick gates, could testify. The trial could last up to three weeks. At the end of the day, though, a big deal for Paul Manafort himself, who was a huge power broker in washington, d. C. He has another trial scheduled later this year, wolf. And theyre accusing him of taking about 60 million from prorussian politicians in
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News, analysis and interviews with politicians and observers. Its something that i think the president and his lawyers know, the Special Counsel will be looking at. So interesting. Im really glad that you pointed out the similarity and language there, particularly since there are reports that the Special Counsel is looking at whether tweets can be used as obstruction of justice. Lets look at the trial. Whats happening in the manafort trial as we speak, shimon . Todays really been so two witnesses so far that have testified. One of them, i think, the important witness here, the fbi agent who entered manaforts home. They did a Search Warrant at his home in alexandria, virginia. Theyre talking about some of the documents that they found. And this really goes to the meat of the prosecutions case. These are documents about his loans, bank records, things they found with his name on it. Wire transfers. Goes to the meat, to the heart of the case and the evidence that the fbi has gathered and
The days top stories from around the world, from politics and money, to sports and pop culture. On matters that have nothing to do with the campaign. I think that even mr. Manafort as i read it had requested that there be no mention of his brief tenure at the Trump Campaign several years ago. This has nothing to do with collusion, russia, nothing to come with the Trump Campaign. Reporter the case centers around his past lobbying work for the pro Putin Ukranian government for which prosecutors say he received 60 million. The government alleges manafort hid millions and failed to pay taxes while still spending the money on real estate and luxury purchases, including homes in manhattan, virginia and the hamptons, expensive suits, and baseball tickets. And prosecutors will present hundreds of emails, photos and financial records to prove it. Prosecutors say manafort also lied to banks about his income to secure more than 20 million in loans. And this trial now underway, it is expected to l
Chris Cuomo asks the tough questions to newsmakers in Washington and around the world. Rosenstein look, Jeff Sessions he recused himself. Had to have recused himself because theres a regulation in place that says if you work on a campaign and theres a criminal investigation relating to that campaign the president says it was a bum move and he should have told him about it and it was a total hoodwink. Wrong, wrong, wrong. As far as it being a hoodwink, sessions would have had to have had the gift of prophecy along with the president in order to believe at the time he was ainterest poed, there was was going to be to an investigation thats why i was confused by your initial writings on this one because of my respect for your mind and that rosenstein the only thing he could do is get a prophylactic in play, get somebody who had one layer away from the president , which technically a Special Counsel does, because otherwise he could have been fired like that if he were running it. The questi