julian assigned to the us. the former trump campaign manager met with the incoming president of ecuador in 2017. the report claims manafort promised financial incentives in exchange for the wikileaks founder. assange was granted asylum by the london embassy in 2012, manafort faces 10 years in prison on unrelated fraud charges. more legal troubles tied to wikileaks, jerome corsi saying the special counsel tried to force him to lie as they looked at whether he and roger stone knew about wikileaks s plan to release clinton emails. he just filed a formal complaint against robert mueller. they want me to be the key link between me, roger stone to julian assange and they would have their collusion together, to donald trump, coordination with assange. i never talked to him and had no
tourn district of new york, an msnbc nbc legal analyst daniel goldman and host of ckdc on msnbc nbc kasie hunt. joe and mika have the morning off. dan, the breaking news concerning paul manafort and robert mueller s russia probe. according to new reporting from the new york times, manafort s attorney has been briefing president trump s lawyers about his meetings with the special counsel s team. the report claims manafort s lawyer repeatedly briefed trump s legal team on his discussions with federal investigators even after manafort agreed to cooperate with the special counsel. that is according to one of mr. trump s lawyers and two people familiar with the conversations. according to the report ruddy skrul yaen acknowledged the arrangement on tuesday and defended it as a source of valuable insight into the special counsel s inquiry and where it was headed. giuliani said in one example that manafort s lawyer had told them prosecutors hammered away
be separated at the border. and our own mark preston reported the republican party platform is the best situation for children is to have two parents. we have an american government separates children. it should be noted paul ryan said i don t want kids to be separated from their parents. so we shall see where this heads. michael cohen wants stormy daniels lawyers silenced. seeking a restraining order to get michael avenatti to stop speaking to the media. the actions are driven by the thirst for publicity. paul manafort s freedom on the line today. a special counsel robert mueller claims manafort tainted the
if a journalist doesn t know the difference between the secretary of state and the department of defense, they should hand in their credentials. okay. a new report details the pressure on former trump campaign chair paul manafort. bloomberg news shows that bob mueller recently sent subpoenas to global banks for account information and records of transactions involving manafort and some of his companies, but even though manafort spokesman said he is not a cooperating witness, the report says manafort has been helping, citing people familiar with the matter. bloomberg claims manafort had alerted authorities to the controversial meeting on june 9th, 2016, involving trump s son and other campaign representatives and a russian lawyer promising damaging information on hillary clinton. the report says manafort has closed the meeting to lawmakers about three months ago in response to a congressional request for any information related to russia during his time on the campaign. he also provid
he no longer had access to emails from the campaign. on may 22nd nbc news reported that manafort turned over documents in response to a state intel committee request. yahoo news reported that kushner s lawyers discovered the meeting while doing a review during a third week in june and disclosed it on his security clearance form on june 21st. less than two months ago. yesterday president trump was asked about the early morning raid of manafort s apartment by fbi investigators last month. mr. president, was it appropriate for the fbi to raid the home of paul manafort predawn? i thought it was a very, very strong signal or whatever. i know mr. manafort i haven t spoken to him for a long time, but i know him. he was with the campaign for a very short period of time. relatively short period of time. i have alleges known him tore a good man. i thought it was a very, you know they do that very