continue. brooke, if i can just add one point. go for it. let s start to put all of the evidence together. sure. think about the june 9th meeting at trump tower with with donald trump jr. and jared kushner where he receives an e-mail that says the russian government has got dirt and wants to share it with you. he doesn t say what do you mean? why would i be interested in that? i never heard anything like that. he says great. love it. it s because, it seems, they were getting other overtures of the russian government that we re seeing in these e-mails today. it is all part of a continuing relationship between the trump campaign and people affiliated with russia. that s what we are learning today. the papadopoulos indictment is specific on this and it keeps saying each time that
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unclear if that s going to change moving forward with moves on trying to get tax reform done which is the big the big legislative accomplishment, really the only one that republicans on capitol hill said that they care about at this point, but certainly not a good sign for this white house to see those numbers. that s how sarah sanders led the briefing with talk about tax reform and knowa analogy acknowledging beer and taxes and we re all talking about the big news from today. what did you make of how she tried to downplay the massive news this afternoon? i mean, somewhat predictable, brooke. they ve been downplaying paul manafort s role for months long before we knew an indictment was coming down saying he was someone who did a specific thing for mr. trump regarding the delegate process and once that was over he left. not totally accurate, candidly.
matters and is much more problematic for donald trump and his administration than what we know of the manafort indictment. dana, close this out. they got him and flipped him, papadopoulos and that s what happened and it is continuing to happen and that new rick gates statement that you just read, brooke, is also interesting because they re saying he s going to take a breath and figure things out and that cryptic note about him not having the proper counsel there at the time. rick gates again, certainly not a household name, but from our reporting real time and our knowledge real time of the trump campaign, he was there and around at critical times from the convention through when he went to the republican national committee and then back in and out of the white house and certainly he was not supposed to be there officially and he was there several times and he worked on the pac. so the question is whether he has anything to offer the feds. specially given the fact that
information from the u.s. treasury, from federal investigators looking into whether or not he was a lawful register, foreign agent and this is someone who built his entire career in corruption, working for an oligarch in the ukraine who was ousted based in part of allegations of corruption. so it s not surprising, really, that the prosecutors would treat him as seriously and the bail is representative of the seriousness of the charges that are against him and mr. gates. we don t know. this could be the beginning or not of other dominos to fall, but jennifer, what what signal does this send? you re an expert on white-collar crime here. we know mueller s team has brought in these experts on white-collar crime that speaks volumes. what signal does this send? thanks, brooke. i really do think that the sleeper story here today is the