trump but let s not also forget there was a second criminal conspiracy that aided the president s election that the president himself has been named unindicted co-constpirators and spun out of this mueller investigation. mueller we re sort of sitting here saying oh, this might be great news for donald trump s presidency. bob mueller in two years pulled together information that there were two separate criminal conspiracies that helped elect donald trump president of the united states. i mean, douglas brinkley last hour was talking about an asterisks presidency, this is what we re talking about when we talk about an asterisks presidency. a president who won only with the help of criminal conspiracies. there are still many unanswered questions, garrett. cnn has previously reported
no collusion with russia, you know that better than anybody, and there s no obstruction. even before robert mueller s appointment, it was clear what donald trump thought of the russia investigation and those responsible for it. the entire thing has been a witch hunt. january, 2017 he has become more famous than me. classified documents are presented to president elect donald trump at trump tower by then fbi director james comey. the documents include allegations that russian operatives claimed to have compromising information about trump, from that explosive beginning came an early setback for the new administration, as questions are raised about attorney general jeff sessions and contacts he had with a russian official during the 2016 press detection presidential i did not have communications with the russians. turns out he did have communications with the russian ambassador to the united states. it is good to be with you.
will sit for it and i don t think the public will sit for it. interesting. thank you don, if i can jump in go on. so david raises a really interesting point here, which is mueller has never actually told us about this polling data hand off to ckonstantin kilimnik. we know this because paul manafort s lawyers can t refact properly. this is obviously something mueller raised in court filings mueller considers serious and yet has never come out publicly in way that mueller has been willing to make it part of the narrative that he s told us here. one of the things we should be looking for in the report is presumably mueller explaining why that polling data matters. i mean, david sort of made the point that there was this big russian criminal conspiracy that mueller helped uncover that aided the election of donald
chairman, rick gates, are indicted on charges of conspiracy, and money laundering. gates later pleaded guilty to two counts, and became a cooperating witness in the investigation. manafort was tried. convicted. and sentenced to a total of seven and a half years in prison. trouble for trump reached his most inner circle. donald trump, as the next president of the united states of america. december 2017, former national security adviser michael flynn pleads guilty to lying to the fbi regarding his conversations with kisliak. flynn also agrees to cooperate with the mueller probe. i feel badly for general flynn. i feel very badly. he s led a very strong life. and i feel very badly. february, 2018. mueller indicts 13 russian nationals, and three russian companies for interfering with the election through social media. april, 2018, things took a
march, 201. sessions recused himself from overseeing the investigation. they said that since i had involvement with the campaign, i should not be involved in any campaign investigation. may 9, 2017, a startling development. a bombshell at the white house. trump fired fbi director james comb y, the man charged with overseeing the investigation. what s more, trump told nbc news he was considering the russia investigation when he was deciding whether to fire comey. i said, you know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a mad made-up story. may 17, deputy attorney general rod rosenstein announces the appointment of robert mueller as the special counsel. and with each passing month, the investigation moved closer to trump associates. october, 2017, paul manafort, and his business partner, and former trump deputy campaign