taking place in 2018, does this lay ground work, add another layer to any investigation of the obstruction of justice? or does it depend who the communication was with? sure. if it proves out based on what we know so far from the special counsel investigation that there were communications that were lied about, and if information was being passed back and forth between senior white house officials and manafort, that might suggest, we don t know yet, dots still have to be connected, that there was communication about potentially being pardoned that might suggest that manafort might have wanted someone else to know what he was and was not telling the special counsel team. remember, at some point he has been under indictment, more recently in jail, and lastly there s other information related to manafort, related to a potential collusion case that hasn t been established with regard to the president, but mueller is slowly but surely
former fbi director james comey s closed door session with the house. after the hearing, he was clearly disappointed what was being discussed, saying house republicans chose to focus on the clinton e-mail investigation. in a tweet, he said today wasn t a search for truth but a desperate attempt to find anything to be used to attack institutions of justice investigating this president. they came up empty today but will try again. in the long run, it will make no difference because facts are stubborn things. here is manu raju. reporter: for more than six hours, james comey fielded questions from democrats and republicans from capitol hill. grilling him about a range of issues. republican concerns he mishandled that investigation, that hillary clinton should be prosecuted, and concerns how the russia investigation into the trump campaign started to begin
written form or face to face with the president, is the door shut on that or is that still possible? so i am not a lawyer but i know that it is certainly the case that mueller can certainly go back to president trump s attorneys, he can go back to the team and say we have additional questions to have you answer. just like before, there was a long negotiation leading up to the president answering the questions, or his attorneys answering the questions that they did, so that could start another lengthy process, and we don t know where it would end up. at this point when you look at the documents and look at redactions, it appears that mueller has a substantial amount of information that s going to allow him to go ahead and wrap up the investigation soon. david, as it pertains to manafort you ve got perjury, lying, and then violating the plea deal, the conversations indeed with the white house were
outlienou outlined how they believe he lied in quote multiple ways, on multiple occasions. manafort they say lied to the special counsel s office regarding his contact with the trump administration this year, even after his indictment last october, he said he didn t talk to anyone or convey messages to them, but mueller says that s not true. his team says manafort told a person to talk to a trump administration official in may and had contact with administration officials, including a senior administration official in february and may this year. so the new and damaging information for the white house comes at a time when every move by mueller appears to bring his investigation deeper into the white house and trump s inner circle, and shows it has expanded well beyond what may or may not have happened in the 2016 campaign. these revelations in mueller s filings raises questions about why paul manafort may have been lying about these contacts and
attempt by donald trump to do anything possible to keep that story off the front page of the newspaper. i think you re exactly right. there is disaster that is the stormy daniels story and the on going mueller investigation as he closes in on donald trump and what we see in sbrersing sointes of ways. politics trumps the pursuit of truth. we live in a post fact world. joyce said last night that you can debate the interpretation of the facts but you can t really debate the facts and what we see here is that in a post fact world, partisan commitments reign and i want to echo what representative castro said as well. nunes brings him home and that means getting stormy daniels off