putin, of russian intelligence. he appears to be a key player in the mueller probe. and this is crucial. because kilimnik is reportedly the go-between between manafort, right, trump s campaign chairman, and the russian oligarch, oleg deripaska, a close putin ally. a putin ally that team trump is trying to ease sanctions on right now. and that is proving to be too much for some republicans to stomach. today in a stunning rebuke, republicans telling president trump he is wrong when he went on fox news to claim this. i can tell you this. if you ask the folks in russian, i ve been tougher on russia than anybody else, any other probably any other president, period. but certainly, the last three or four presidents, modern-day presidents, nobody s been as tough as i have. from any standpoint. not the toughest to republicans. ten of them breaking with president trump on russia. joining senate democrats to advance a measure that would block a move by trump s treasury department to ease sa
paul manafort, lied to investigators. now, all in, it s 188 pages. obviously, i m holding up the summary here of these lies. despite some of the heavy redactions, which do continue on page after page, pages of blacked out text in some places, we are able to make some sense of this, via some of the places that are a bit less black. mueller accusing manafort of lying about his communications with the trump administration. communications that continued well into 2018. that s the year that just ended, what, 14, 15 days ago? just to reiterate the obvious, because it s really important, communications well into 2018 is communications well into trump s presidency. and manafort who was at the center of the mueller probe under investigation was talking about getting jobs for people in the trump administration. also in, this filing tonight. we see mueller s focus on manafort s longtime russian associate, constantine kilimnik. now, kilimnik is an important name. mueller says he s an agent of
tangible results, there will be a lot of egg on a lot of people s faces. will ripley reporting for us, good information. thanks very much for your excellent reporting. that s it. thanks very much for watching. i m wolf blitzer in the situation room. erin burnett outfront starts right now. outfront next, robert mueller with a scathing response to paul manafort detailing lies pant contacts with the trump administration until just recently, as the republican party tonight hands trump a stunning rebuke on russia. plus, william barr, trump s pick for attorney general says mueller s prone is not a witch hunt. doesn t believe in this lock her up stuff. did trump know this is the man he nominated? and the only member of congress who didn t vote to rebuke steve king for racist comments, but it s not why you think. let s go outfront. and good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, the breaking news. list of lies. robert mueller tonight filing this court document, laying
saying, commit to releasing it. and he said, look, the decision is ultimately mine. i don t know what i can release under the law, under the regulation. and he left it very much open. i would like to see what s in the report, but it s going to be up to this person to decide. all right. thank you both very much. and next, president trump says the new democrats in congress are on his side when it comes to his wall. democrats in congress, especially the new ones coming in are starting to say, wait a minute, we can t win this battle with trump. is that what they re saying? well, an incoming new democratic congresswoman is outfront next. and only one member of congress deciding not to support a resolution rejecting white supremacy today. only because he says that resolution was a complete copout. he s the only one who stood up to it. and he s outfront tonight.
a source tells the journal cohen s going to talk about what a madman trump is, continuing to say, he s going to tell the story of what it s like to work for a madman. he s going to say things that will give you chills. john, what do you say? i think that s his strong suit. he s worked for this man for a decade plus. i think he was probably hopeful of going to the white house. we can see now why trump probably had trouble with that idea. but i don t think trump ever expected that this man would turn on him. and they re at odds now. th they re in an open fight. and i think that michael cohen is going to be able to probably embarrass the president deeply before he finishes. and of course, the question is, how influential that would be, among, especially republicans in congress. all right, thank you all very much. and next, the breaking news. you heard david mention barr. well, the president s pick for attorney general testifying all