Ukrainian government which have links to Russian Politicians and operatives. The memo says the link compels investigators to examine russian efforts of interference in the 2016 election. The payments from ukraine to manafort is the basis for financial crimes charges he faces. Manafort wants the charges dismissed claiming beyond muellers scope because ukraine is unrelated to the campaign. The Declassified Memo was written in august by Deputy Attorney general rod rosenstein. It shows rosensteins strong backing for the special counsel despite attacks from the president. Lets discuss this with julian selzer. Good morning. Good morning. The constant attacks against the word collusion. The word he said the most in the first 14 or 15 months. How significant is this development . It doesnt seem there are any new findings here, but it shows
there is legitimacy to looking at the financial ties with officials in the trump orbit and russia. This just provides credibility for mueller looking into t
The DOJ is being sued by a watchdog for not releasing records related to the FBI's probe into ties between Trump's campaign and the Russian government.
of declassified documents from the fbi s investigation into how 9/11 happened. the declassified memo released late on the 20th anniversary of the attacks on saturday provides a more detailed look at the behavior of saudi arabian nationals connected to two of the 9/11 hijackers. wit but it does not provide any more information about the aware know of the plot at the highest levels of the saudi government or royal family. it is heavily redacted and much is a summary of an interview with an unnamed saudi national who was interviewed in 2015 by the fbi when employing for u.s. citizenship. that person the report says had worked at the saudi consulate in los angeles and was in regular contact with other saudi citizens who provided or who are suspected of providing significant logistical support to the first two hijackers to arrive in the u.s. in los angeles. one of those who provided that support was omar, a supposed student suspected of being a
into how 9/11 happened. the declassified memo released late on the 20th anniversary of the attacks on saturday, provides a more detailed look at the behavior of saudi arabia nationals connected to two of the 9/11 hijackers. it does not provide any stronger evidence of the awareness or the direction of the 9/11 plot at the highest levels of the saudi government or royal family. the 16-page document is heavily redacted and much is a summary of an interview with an named saudi national who was interviewed in 2015 by the fbi when applying for u.s. citizenship. that person, the report says, had worked at the saudi consulate in los angeles and was in regular contact with other saudi citizens who provided or or summited of providing significant logistic call support to the first two hijackers to arrive to the u.s. in los angeles. one of those who provided the support was omar. he offered travel assistance,
cnn s alex mar quarter has more on what the document says and what it doesn t. reporter: good morning. the fbi released the first of what will be a series of declassified documents their investigation into how 9/11 happened. the declassified memo released late on saturday night, the 20th anniversary of the attacks, provides more detailed look at the behavior of saudi arabia nationals connected to two of the 9/11 hijackers. but it does not provide any stronger evidence of the awareness or the direction of the 9/11 plot at the highest levels of the saudi government or royal family. there is no smoking gun. the 16-page document is heavily redacted. much is a summary of an interview the fbi did with an unnamed saudi national. his name was redacted who was interviewed in 2015 when applying for u.s. citizenship. that person, the report says, was working at the saudi