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concerns for at least one airport. we begin with that bombshell in the mueller investigation. what was supposed to be redacted portions of a case filing now revealing the clearest public evidence yet of possible coordination, aka collusion, between the trump campaign and the russian government. the redaction errors are part of a case filing by attorneys for former campaign chairman paul manafort and they reveal that mueller believes manafort gave internal campaign polling data to an alleged russian agent. cnn s cara skinnel has been all over this for us. explain to us why this matters and why this is so significant this feeding of sensitive data to the russians. i think as you said, this really shows for the first time a real sense of, you know, potential collusion or cooperation between the trump campaign and a russian because paul manafort is sharing internal campaign data and that s a very pro-russian argument and russia was
elected. this is not what happened my campaign rather than okay, i m president of the united states now and it s my job to ensure that democracy remains intact. well, there was one time, cara skinnel, when president trump did talk about election interference at the u.n. but it wasn t about russia. take a listen. regrettably, we found that china has been attempting to interfere in our upcoming 2018 election. they do not want me or us to win, because i am the first president ever to challenge china on trade. now, it s worth pointing out that the trump administration has not presented any evidence the chinese have been trying to interfere the election. so it s not to say they aren t. but it is interesting that he talked about that, and yet wouldn t call out russia at that same forum. that s right. and even today his own intelligence community issued a warning that there is still interference, and named russia in that. but the president hasn t embraced that and didn t even acknowle
today when asked about it, as something that is actively happening. they re saying they had a $10 million budget they spent the first six months of this year and part of that on the u.s. election. and sara, national security adviser ambassador john bolton, heading to moscow this weekend to meet with russian officials. one assumes he ll bring this up. one does assume. but who can ever say, jake? i mean, we get such little information when we ve seen members of this administration meet with the russian president about what is discussed. and, you know, when trump himself has met with putin, he comes across saying, you know, he says he s not involved in this. he says he s not involved in meddling. and so it will be interesting to see if we get a different tactic when it comes to bolton. but i m not holding my hopes up that suddenly the pot tour of this add first is going to change overnight. cara, let s talk about paul manafort for a second. president trump s former campaign chairman
many months of costly looking that there was no collusion between russia and trump. was collusion with h.c. well we re going to get to our panel now here to discuss, cnn correspondent cara skinnel, political km political comentator jack kingston and author of g gop gps, sig mond freed. and how significant is the latest investment about mueller filing the first charges. this is a major development. the special counsel investigation began in may so? just a short time period of five months, the team assemble by mueller has presented enough evidence to a grand jury they ve decided there is enough to warrant criminal charges. what we don t flow know is t nature of the charges and the special counsel has been looking