muelleret al, let s remember he was present at the trump tower meeting with the visiting russians. having done business in that part of the world for years and worked for a number of powerful russians himself. he s been in business with roger stone, a key figure in all of this who has not been called in yet. tonight nbc news is reporting manafort has already home run initial conversations with the mueller team. it s a lot to talk about at the end of a long week. let s bring in our leadoff panel. michael schmidt this washington correspondent, yosh ger steen, senior white house reporter for politico, barbara mcquade, former u.s. attorney for the eastern district of michigan and jeremy bash, former chief of staff at cia and pentagon and former chief counsel for the house intel committee. josh, you were in court for the entire first manafort trial. you were in the courthouse for what happened today. put this in perspective. how big of a development is this? it is a pretty significant dev
representing other clients that mr. manafort, quote, has no info on president or campaign. we should be crystal clear here. no one has any idea what john dowd is basing that on. earlier on this network harvard law professor who while not working for trump has been accused of being a cable news water carrier for the president of late says the white house should be alarmed about the manafort plea deal and adds that any possibility of a pardon now seems remote. he would have been much better off pardoning early rather than waiting. i don t think we will see any kind of a pardon at this point. as to what manafort can offer mueller at all. let s remember he was present at the trump tower meeting with the visiting russians. having done business in that part of the world for years and worked for a number of pow r er
the guardian. how much is the press being spun by the president and the republicans. i m howard kurtz. this is reliable sources. the murdoch media empire is in all-out damage control mode as the scandal at the british papers continues to spread on this side of the atlantic, the fbi opened a preliminary investigation on whether phone hacking took place in the u.s. and the dizzies pace of developments has made headlines around the world. mps finally forced murdoch to withdraw his bskyb bid. his empire has cracked, but is it broken. following breaking news in london where the embattled chief executive of murdoch s newspaper has resigned. news international will issue a statement to say that rebekah brooks has resigned as the chief executive of news international. more damaging details are emerging in the phone hacking scandal. other news corp properties are being implicated in the growing scandal. rebekah brooks resigned leaving the fight for news international s