enforcement and other serious inquiries and did so on this occasion as well. the day before the raid manafort had met with senate intelligence committee staffers and turned over his notes from the june, 2016 trump tower meeting with russians. later that day manafort submitted documents to the senate judiciary committee which dropped the subpoena for manafort to testify the following morning. the raid took place a few hours later. the search warrant requested documents related to tax, banking and other matters. citing people familiar with the search the paper said agents left with a trove of material including binders prepared ahead of manafort s congressional testimony. the post reports the search warrant indicates investigators may have argued to a federal judge they had reason to think manafort could not be trusted to turn over all records in response to a grand jury subpoena. clint watts sifting through the details of the story. what new does it tell you about
federal courthouse, and there was considerably more activity than usual involving the mueller team. we saw andrew weissman, the lead prosecutor on the manafort case and one of mueller s top deputies, coming into the courthouse. there was comings and goings by another mueller prosecutor by the name of kyle freeney, as well as several fbi agents. and there were signals with them going back and forth into the clerk s office that perhaps the grand jury was preparing to return an indictment. and indeed by the early afternoon, there was a notice posted outside one of the courtrooms that just that had happened, that there had been a session where an indictment had been handed up although it was not immediately clear who was being indicted or why. it certainly seemed like manafort was a live possibility for what would be the second superseding indictment, the third indictment total in washington, d.c., given the very serious tampering allegations that mueller leveled earlier in the week. and
as the president and rudy giuliani continue to paint the russia investigation as a witch hunt and a hoax, philip bump of the washington post points out that today s news, quote, brings the investigation by mueller to a total of 20 inviduals d three businesses that have either been indicted or admitted guilt and a total of 75 charges filed by the year-old probe. one-third of the counts included in mueller s indictments, 25 of them target manafort. let s bring in our leadoff panel for a friday night. the aforementioned josh gerstein, senior white house reporter for politico. jeremy bash, former chief of staff at both cia and the pentagon. and jill wine-banks, here in new york with us, veteran attorney and former assistant watergate special counsel. welcome to you all. josh, i want to begin with you because you were present for part of this today, even at a point before which you knew what you were witnessing. tell us what you saw. well, i was down at the
kilimnik knowingly and intentionally conspired to corruptly persuade another person with intent to influence, delay, and prevent the testimony of any person in an official proceeding. josh gerstein of politicho joins us in just a moment, reports today, quote, a source familiar with the case called the indictment brutal for manafort. paul s problem is he doesn t actually have anything to trade, the source added. cooperating isn t an option because he really didn t collude with the russians at the trump campaign s request. paul manafort s team had no immediate comment on today s indictment, but earlier this week, a spokesperson said manafort is innocent and nothing about the allegations changes his defense. ken vogel over at the new york times reports that manafort s associate, this konstantin kilimnik, quote, has studied as a linguist at the military institute of the ministry of defense in moscow. he initially worked as a translator in ukraine for
new charges against the former trump campaign chairman. it is even more clear tonight that paul manafort is in a world of trouble. earlier day manafort was indicted on charges of obstruction of justice and conspiracy to obstruct justice for allegedly trying to tamper with witnesses in his case. as we reported, mueller s team is seeking to have manafort s bail revised or taken away entirely over these allegations. late tonight, manafort responded to mueller s bail filing, saying the accusations of attempted witness tampering are based, quote, on the thinnest of evidence. manafort is due in court on june 15 to find out if he will immediately head to jail. the same obstruction charges were also brought today against manafort s longtime russian associate, konstantin kilimnik. today s indictment says that around february and april of this year, quote, the defendants paul manafort and konstantin