Officials became so concerned by the president s behavior that they began investigating whether he had been working on behalf of russia against american interests, according to former Law Enforcement officials and others familiar with the investigation. So what does that actually mean . Well, according to the New York Times, counterintelligence investigators had to consider whether trumps own actions, constituted a possible threat to National Security. Agents also sought to determine whether mr. Trump was knowingly working for russia or had unwittingly fallen under moscows influence. The New York Times reports that trump caught the attention of the fbi counterintelligence agents after this moment, this moment in the 2016 president ial election. Russia, if youre listening, i hope youre able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. But even after that and other alarming incidents during the campaign, the times says that, Law Enforcement officials put off the decision to open the inves
Good choice. Good morning, everyone. Smart, smart candidate. Love her. We welcome to morning joe. We have joe, willie and me, National Affairs analyst, executive producer of showtimes the circus, john highly maeil. He doesnt watch morning even when hes on morning joe. Rick tyler is with us. Washington bureau chief for usa today, sharon page and Glenn Kirschner back on the show this morning. And what a day to have you on. What a day to have him on. Also, mickey, yesterday you had Kristin Welker asking donald trump a question, are you an agent of russia, have you ever worked for russia . The president finally after two days of brushing that question aside answered the question. But, my fwogosh, even more concs arising, especially in the National Security community and some people working with donald trump about why he basis tehave way he does toward Vladimir Putin and now word coming out he was trying to pressure aides to give Vladimir Putin what he wanted, a way out of nato. The u. S. I
Monday morning im Yasmin Vossoughian alongside Ayman Mohyeldin and Louis Burgdorf morning joe starts rig startsw is the president prepared to shut down the government in three weeks . Yes, i think he is. No one should underestimate the speaker, as donald trump has learned. Have i not been clear on the wall no, ive been clear on the wall. Any chance youll cooperate with Robert Mueller if asked thats a question ill have to determine after my attorneys have some discussion i am seriously thinking of running for president. I will run as a centrist independent outside of the twoparty system so, lets do this [ cheers and applause wow well, there we go the president is weakened, the House Speaker is empowered, the special counsel is advancing, and as you saw, the president ial race is getting interesting. Good morning and welcome to morning joe. Its monday, january 28th. We have David Ignatius, sam stein hes great. Hes great, too you knew it was coming, sam its monday, man. Try harder come on
With the north korean laddeader we get under way on a friday night. Good evening once again. Day 764 of the Trump Administration, and at the end of another consequential week what is likely the last major move in Robert Muellers long roning prosecution of Paul Manafort nap is not the last of it, where manafort leaded got two counts of conspiracy. Specifically the judge found manafort lied about sharing campaign poling data with him and discussing a peace plan for ukraine that would benefit russia. The feds said the relationship goes to the heart of what the special Councils Office is investigating. This upcoming sentencing memo could tell us more about exactly what that means. However there may be new criminal charges ahead for manafort. This is interesting, the kind of charges his fred the presideien president , cant save him from. First reported by bloomberg and the New York Times that the Manhattan District Attorneys Office is preparing a case against Paul Manafort against alleged t
Manafort. Tonight we are learning why that cooperation deal completely fell apart. This is the first time weve heard these details. Muellers investigators apparently saying manafort lied to them about how he shared polling data from 2016 with the kremlinlinked operative. So manafort was allegedly hiding his russian links, even after flipping, which makes the other news tonight even more intriguing. Federal prosecutors indicting the russian you see on the screen in the upper right, that is the russian that Paul Manafort and others met with at trump tower. Other Key Players Like don jr. And jared kushner, she is indicted for obstruction. So before we go any further, why is this all coming out tonight . The indictment of the russian lawyer is public because the feds acted today, a deliberate development. The Manafort News is different, an accident. This whole intricate story unraveling because Paul Manaforts own lawyers accidentally revealed what he was basically up to. So this was suppos