Reporting starts now. Our reporting begins with a lot of news about President Trumps former Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort including accusations he violated his plea deal. That is confirmed. And today the unconfirmed report that he held secret meetings with wikileaks founder Julia Juliana Julian Assange and white house president secretary Sarah Sanders was asked about it and wouldnt comment on manafort during the afternoons briefing but said she is quote, certainly confident, unquote, President Trump was not part of collusion. A source close to manafort tells fox news the report is totally false. Wikileaks also denies it and offered this twitter response. Remember this day when the guardians permitted a serial fabricator to destroy the papers reputation. Wikileaks is willing to bet the guardian 1 million and its editors head that manafort never met assange but manafort is facing new troubles now anyway because last night the special counsel, Robert Mueller, said he repeatedly lied to
Now, in normal times not being explicitly charged with a crime would be a pretty low bar to clear for a president in a given week. But these are not normal times, and the president and his supporters one week ago were reveling in his not being recommended for indictment. He was claiming total exoneration by the report from special counsel robert mueller. His complaints that it was all a witch hunt had been vindicated in fact, his allies said that now the tables were going to turn. All the people that had wronged him, now they were going to be at the receiving end of investigations. But the past week has maybe not gone how trump planned. The cracks first started to show a week ago tonight when attorney general william barr sent a third letter to congress about the report delivered to him by mueller. Only the first letter he sent was actually required. The second letter in which barr offered his own gloss on muellers findings is what the president used all week last week to claim vindica
Explicitly charged with a crime like those from buddy. Because stuffed animals would be a pretty low bar to are clearly no substitute for real ones. Clear for a president in a given feel the clarity. And live claritin clear. Week, but these are not normal times and the president and his supporters one week ago were reveling in his not being recommended for indictment. He was claiming total exoneration by the report from special counsel robert mueller. His complaints that it was all a witch hunt had been vindicated. In fact, his allies said that now the tables were going to turn. All the people who had wronged him, well, now they were going to be at the receiving end of investigations. But the past week has maybe not gone how trump planned. The cracks first started to show a week ago tonight when attorney general william barr sent a third letter to congress about the report delivered to him by mueller. Only the first letter he sent was actually required. The second letter in which barr
The Mueller Report, and in the next few weeks its going to come out, but by what is he doing, i mean is he working to try to protect the president . Are his redactions designed to protect the president . Is the delay designed to protect the president . We have reason to wonder about that. It might not be the case at all. And the, you know, the in that letter that went from the democratic chairman to the attorney general within the last 24 hours, they had one line in there which i think was supposed to be important for all of us, which was they said that nadler in his call with barr was led to believe by barrs comments that these grand jury redactions that hes making are substantial redactions. Meaning hes cutting a ton out of the report based on the fact that its grand jury information. That immediately calls to question as to whether or not that grand jury information is being properly withheld from congress or whether somebody should be asking a court to allow congress to see that st
The president . We have reason to wonder about that. It might not be the case at all. And the, you know, the in that letter that went from the democratic chairman to the attorney general within the last 24 hours, they had one line in there which i think was supposed to be important for all of us, which was they said that nadler in his call with barr was led to believe by barrs comments that these grand jury redactions that hes making are substantial redactions. Meaning hes cutting a ton out of the report based on the fact that its grand jury information. That immediately calls to question as to whether or not that grand jury information is being properly withheld from congress or whether somebody should be asking a court to allow congress to see that stuff. William barr could do that himself as attorney general. Conceivably Robert Mueller could do that as special counsel. Conceivably jerry nadler and the democrats could make that request themselves to the court. That seems like thats t