someone to a very big sentence unless you can show they intended to do so. there are 30 pages in this. another 70 or 80 pages of vario various appendixes. he was still in touch after he left and no longer the campaign chairman and he was also involved after both of them were formally indicted by the federal prosecutors. i think there are a couple of take aways here. you put a match and you ll get a blow torch response. this is about fbi evidence. it includes interviews with rick gates, financial information, telephone calls, e-mail records, trafrl records. manafortd manafort is trying to get off the hook. he has already been burned bay wide margin. they crushed him lie a bug and
christmas eve. merry christmas. starting things off on this case. we see the fiance arrested not just for murder, but all solicitation. what can we read into that charge? well, molly, the fact that they are charging solicitation means that they suspect that he was the person who hired someone or asked someone to do the actual killing and that there is at least one other person involved. from this we can i think safely dedeuce that they re looking for somebody else and that that somebody else, along with the boyfriend, are both possibly facing charges. when they re looking for someone else, what are they looking for? are they looking at bank records to see if he perhaps pulled out a large amount of money, 5,000, 10,000, 15,000, e-mails to see if he contacted anyone? yes. bank records, phone records. e-mail records. witnesses. anybody in the neighborhood that saw people coming and going. any kind of connection to
tactics that were demonstrated today. wolf, as my colleague is just saying a few seconds ago, i think it s safe to say that the mueller team is just warming up. this investigation is getting really interesting and we re starting to learn more and more every single day. investigating a matter like this, these investigators are doing their homework every single day. they have access to text messages, e-mail records, phone call logs, travel records, meetings with people in different buildings in different spaces, and what they re doing is then sitting down with these targets and asking them these targeted questions. they already know the answers to the questions they re asking. they want to read the person they re interviewing and interrogating. they want to watch their body language and how they move. if an fbi agent asks you a question twice, you better think long and hard before you answer, especially if they go and ask you a third time, because they re on to something, and they prob
by the justice department. now, historically, there has been a policy of restraint on the part of the justice department that in deference to the constitutional role of journalists, they don t investigate us like anyone else. that s begun to change. it began to change under the obama administration. the obama administration did start investigating leaks in a way that also touched on investigating journalists. this appears to be a significant step up in terms of aggressive investigating of leaks and thus investigating of reporters. and, you know, it is constitutional. there is no doubt that the justice department has the right to subpoena or obtain our phone records, our e-mail records. but if that starts to be routine, that will have a tremendous chilling effect on how we do our jobs.
case. right. yeah, every time that paul manafort has tried to engage anywhere outside of just the normal defense, robert mueller s staff has been there. they have either had phone records, they have had e-mail records, they have had something that has been able to be put into a court filing or in this case hit him with another indictment. the other thing it is important to note, paul manafort is scheduled to go on trial in a separate case in the eastern district of virginia in july. if his bail is revoked it s for the dc case. even if he was acquitted of those charge this is summer he would still have to stay in jail for the conclusion of the d.c. case. paul manafort is looking at some serious stuff. thank you for your reporting. up next, with president trump negotiating trade deals at the g7 summit in canada, potato farmers here in the united states watch and worry as they wait for their summer crop in the shadow of the new 20% tariff on frozen potatoes that leave