Tsirkin on the capitol hill, and our brian chungs here with me in new york, and with us, lindsey gorman, Senior Fellow for emerging technologies, alliance for securing democracy, and also Senior Adviser in the biden white house. Julie, this could be a rare bipartisan vote, why the urgency now and what does this bill do . Reporter yeah, its rare indeed, ana, every time we talk about, we talk about how things arent going well here on capitol hill. But here you have overwhelming support from republicans and democrats to pass forward this crackdown of tiktok essentially, this bill, as you laid out, would force the Parent Company of tiktok to divest to an american company, not only tiktok, this bill would force any app, any Company Owned by a foreign adversary to do the same or else tiktok is banned from the app store, from any platform here in the u. S. If that doesnt happen within six months here. Not everybody is on board, right, you did have a small percentage of young House Democrats h
that the president did not commit any crime, it only means that mueller may have followed the long-standing protocol that prohibits the justice department from indicting a sitting president. everyone is back with me now. caroline, trump s former national security adviser michael flynn still hasn t been sentenced. we know roger stone s case continues. and mueller s team told a court that manafort s right-hand guy rick gates was still cooperating in several ongoing investigations. now we re learning today that gates case has been handed over to the dc just attorney s office but why would mueller bring his investigation to a close with all of the loose ends still out will? one reason, like the behavior throughout the entire of the process, he is very keen on farming out those instances of potential criminal conduct that he sees that fall outside of his core mandate. so if it falls outside of the russia collusion and the potential interaction between the campaign and russians, that, he
welcome back. the breaking news we re following, attorney general william barr could deliver the principal conclusions of the mueller report to congress this weekend. although we don t know just when that is going to happen. we learned it won t be today. the mueller report was submitted yesterday, after a nearly two-year investigation that included charges against 37 people and entities, search guilty pleas, and one conviction at trial. paul manafort of course. now a d.o.j. source tells cnn there will be no further indictments from robert mueller. but it may not be the last we hear from him either. joining us now, cnn evan perez, crime and justice reporter shimon prokupecz, cnn legal analyst ross garber, with expertise in political investigations and impeachment law, and federal criminal defense attorney caroline
ultimately would be the big fish in all of this. remember, this was an investigation into russian interference, relationship with the russians was a key part of this investigation, and that is what paul manafort was partially, they wanted him for that cooperation, because remember, it was he who shared campaign polling data, remember the special counsel s office said that was at the heart of their investigation, that relationship, that manafort had with this russian intelligence official. so that is what i think people need not forget. that is still going on. that is going to keep going on. and if the government, if the fbi could get people to cooperate, in these investigations, they re going to do it. and i think that s ultimately, is where paul manafort s help is what the fbi wanted. they wanted his help in that part of this investigation. quickly, caroline. yes, also, hindsight is 20/20, so it could have been that maybe yes, they were looking for a bigger fish besides the russia
welcome back. i m stephanie ruhle. president trump says it s very sad that his former campaign chairman paul manafort will be spending the next six-plus years of his life in jail on charges of fraud and conspiracy. but within hours of his sentencing in d.c., manafort was hit with state charges in new york. the indictment is seen as a strategy for preventing a presidential pardon which would not excuse manafort from state felonies. i want to bring in nbc s intelligence and national security reporter, ken dilanian. caroline polici, a federal and white collar criminal defense attorney, robert beyanke. ken, walk me through these new charges. it s a 16-count indictment, stephanie, involving mortgage