Now know the cause of at least one that turned deadly. Its all happening now. We begin with a fox news alert. Top republicans beginning to question whether donald trump is leading them off a cliff as they say, theyre looking to sit down for an intervention of sorts. John roberts has this story. Welcome to the second half of happening now. Imogen awe lee. And i am jon scott. In response to what many call inflammatory behavior of mr. Trump, in the last half hour i asked Paul Manafort if he lost control of his candidate. First of all, the candidate is in control of his campaign. Thats number one. The turmoil, another clinton error put out there. And that the media is picking up on. In the last week, we announced 50 state chair men in the states, we announced record money we raised in july. Mr. Trump appeared this week in front of crowds overflowing onto the streets. So the campaign is in very good shape. That said, fox news confirming a group of trump supporters, including Rudy Giuliani a
White house revealed the clovis nomination was withdrawn. Yeah. I will still be here tomorrow night. Good. I will definitely be here tomorrow night. So viewers of the hour of television of course knew this on tuesday. America found out today that, of course, sam clovis will not be having a confirmation hearing to answer questions about the dealings with the special prosecutor. The sam clovis story, something about the fact he is a talk radio show host from iowa and makes you think that like maybe this is kind of low level story. Hes still a Current Administration official. He spoke to the grand jury without notifying the white house. He started to speak with muellers investigators without telling the white house. We have no idea of an immunity agreement with the discussions and brought carter page and George Papadopoulos on the Trump Campaign and oversaw this National Security group that involved them thats now posing such difficulty for the attorney general. I mean, sam clovis is list
Nomination was withdrawn. Yeah. I will still be here tomorrow night. Good. I will definitely be here tomorrow night. So viewers of the hour of television of course knew this on tuesday. America found out today that, of course, sam clovis will not be having a confirmation hearing to answer questions about the dealings with the special prosecutor. The sam clovis story, something about the fact he is a talk radio show host from iowa and makes you think that like maybe this is kind of low level story. Hes still a Current Administration official. He spoke to the grand jury without notifying the white house. S he started to speak with muellers investigators without telling the white house. We have no idea of an immunity agreement with the discussions and brought carter page and George Papadopoulos on the Trump Campaign and oversaw this National Security group that involved them thats now posing such difficulty for the attorney general. I mean, sam clovis is listed in the reports of contactin
Before running mate mike pence denied the campaign was in cahoots with wikileaks, donald trump jr. Was absolutely in touch with wick he leaks. The u. S. Intelligence community believes it was chosen to spread damaging information. Whats fascinating is how the communications meshed with certain points on the Campaign Timeline that we already know quite well. For instance, october 2nd trump friend and former adviser roger stone tweets that damaging material is coming from wikileaks. The next day, october 3rd, trump jr. Messages them and asks them whats coming. On the 5th stone says theres a pay load coming from wicks i leaks. On the 12th of october wicks i leaks messages trump junior asking him to link to one of their items. Two days later he tweets it out. And on that same day mike pence denies any collusion with wikileaks. It is to say the least fascinating and not just to us. Congressional investigators are also interested. In a moment youll hear from Richard Blumenthal but first pame
Clinton. October 2nd, for example, trump friend roger stone tweets the damaging material is coming from wikileaks. The next day, october 3rd, trump junior asks them whats coming, they dont respond. On the 5th they say theres a payload coming from wikileaks. On the 7th, u. S. Intelligence Community Says it believes russia is behind the hacks and wikileaks begins releasing the Podesta Emails. Then on the 12th of october, wikileaks messages trump junior asking him to link to one of their items. The president mentions wikileaks 15 minutes later, and two days later, trump junior tweets out the link. On that same day, 14th, mike pence denies collusion with wikileaks. It is to say, the least, fascinating and not just to us. Congressional investigators are certainly interested. Our justice correspondent, pamela brown joins us. What are you learning, pam . Donald trump jr. Released a string of is these during the president ial campaign. This follows a report about these exchanges. Though most o