fbi knew about contacts between the transition team and the russian government, as have been documented previously. they obviously were concerned about possible leaks of information from the trump transition team to the russians and contacts by flynn, which are now part of the charging documents and official files with the court show that, in fact, high-level members of the trump transition were knowledgeable about flynn s contacts. and the question really now is, what did they know and when did they know it? not only flynn but also jared kushner and even the vice president because he played a critical part in that campaign. and hope hicks may be a source of information about it. well, the new york times is also reporting, senator, that hope hicks, and she s the white
seized. the particular focus on financial information has caused some people for say, is mueller now getting into that red line territory, you know that trump said you re allowed to look at the collusion issue but not anything else? you know, i think the thing that is important to keep in mind here is that the people who determine the appropriate jurisdiction is going to be mueller and deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. there is a process at doj for requesting additional jurisdiction when needed. there is even a process for whenner rosenstein disagrees with mueller, notifying congress about any kind of disagreement. whatever the president says here about whether or not mueller has gotten beyond his own jurisdiction, that really is just talk and there is no evidence that there is any kind of conflict at the doj level about what mueller s looking into. and as far as george papadopoulos is concerned, pamela, he s the foreign policy adviser who worked for the trump campaign. he s pl
saying exactly what that means, but depositions, of course, they re out of court sworn testimony that can be used to discovery purposes or potentially at trial. so we know that paul manafort, rick gates giving those depositions. now, the government we know has also handed over certain brady material, that s exculpatory evidence that could be beneficial to manafort s or gates defense. the government has also released all of this information, all the documents to both defendants as manafort and gates, they prepare for a court appearance monday morning. both of them, of course, pleaded not guilty to money laundering and foreign lobbying among other federal criminal charges. and, wolf, we know that this case is moving forward steadily and it s likely that this case will go to trial in the spring of 2018. wolf? all right. very good reporting, jessica, thank you very much. jessica schneider reporting for us. also tonight, new revelations about george papadopoulos, the former trump campa
interview with mueller s team was going to happen. the fact it happened over the course of two days clearly shows there was a lot of ground to cover here. now in terms of what the new york times is reporting, regarding the fbi warning her about these russian attempts to reach out to her, we do know that the fbi did meet with white house officials earlier in the year to warn them about the possibility of this happening but the times is reporting that, in fact, it did happen. which is certainly very interesting, even after all of this news about the russia probe has been out there, they re still making attempts to make inroads with trump associates. very important, indeed. very interesting. susan, we re also learning about the massive amount of information, documents that mueller s team has already collected from paul manafort and his associate rick gates, 400,000 documents, 36 laptops and other electronic devices all collected through 15 search warrants. what does that tell you?
interview he did with interfacts. her thought was why would you let a low-level coffee boy represent to the russian media with the campaign? isn t that asking for potential trouble? this is all about creating distance between whoever that individual is and the campaign for the public consumption. they did it with manafort. they did it to a lesser extent with flynn. flynn is a harder one to do because he was in the white house and a very senior adviser to the president. this is one we didn t know about until this information came out. so the further the more distance they can put between themselves and this person, at least in the public eye, the better. everyone stand by. there is more information coming into the situation room. we ll take a quick break. resume our coverage right after this. if you have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis,. .isn t it time to let the real you shine through? maybe it s time for otezla (apremilast).