Good morning, everybody. It is wednesday, august 2nd. Im Yasmin Vossoughian alongside louis burgdorf. All right. We start with the white house that has confirmed something the president s team has repeatedly denied ry ed denied, that he helped draft the initial response between the meeting between a russian attorney and his top campaign aide. In response, claiming the june 2016 meeting was about adoption policy and made no mention of the Broader Campaign being discussed. Emails reveal that donald trump jr. Was explicitly offered documents. Even after the president s legal team dismissed the report of having worked on, quote, fake news and of no consequence, the white house acknowledged that the president did take part, claiming that his knowledge of the full story was, quote, limited. Look, the statement that don junior issued is true. There is no inaccuracy in the statement. The president weighed in as any father would, based on the limited information that he had. This is all discuss
Now we have the tax charges. How could there not be tax evasion in a Money Laundering case. Thats the one thing federal prosecutors know how to do. Thats their strike zone, tax evasion. Ive been in courtrooms watching tax evasion, its hard to squeeze out of one of those as a defendant. Thank you, lawrence. Thank you, rachel. As of now special prosecutor Robert Mueller has charged 19 people with crime, including 13 russians who dont live here. Of the five americans who have been charged, only two of them have not pled guilty. And of those two, they found themselves loaded up with more charges, 32 to be exact. The status was signed by Andrew Wiseman, heres what steve bannon said about wiseman in Michael Wolffs fire and fury. You have the lebron james of Money Laundering investigations. The special prosecutor unsealed 32 new charges against Paul Manafort and his aide rick gates. There are 16 counts of falsifying individual income tax returns. 7 counts of failure to file reports of foreign
After me that i cant get to. But we do have the 32 indictments tonight and were both covering that. And rachel as you know, the irs is always very proud to tell the story about how they never managed to get al capone for murder but they got him on tax evasion. Thats whats in these indictments. We have been waiting since october for the tax evasion charges against manafort and gates not because we thought they might be tax frauds but because it was spelled out in the first indictment. Now we have the tax charges. How could there not be tax evasion in a Money Laundering case. Thats the one thing federal prosecutors know how to do. Thats their strike zone, tax evasion. Ive been in courtrooms watching tax evasion, its hard to squeeze out of one of those as a defendant. Thank you, lawrence. Thank you, rachel. As of now special prosecutor Robert Mueller has charged 19 people with crime, including 13 russians who dont live here. Of the five americans who have been charged, only two of them ha
Im waiting for him to ask for a cut of his income. Proving that an attack on one is an attack on all, members of the u. S. Intelligence community including 13 former intel chiefs, most of whom have served under democratic and republican president s rebuked trumps broadside against brennan in a rare statement. Writing, quote, we have never before seen the approval or removal of political clearances as was done in this case. Beyond that this action is quite clearly a signal to other former and current officials. As individuals who have cherished and helped preserve the right of americans to free speech, even when that right has been used to criticize us, that signal is inappropriate and deeply regrettable. In explaining the swell of concern about Donald Trumps conduct from former officials of all political persuasions, one of the signatories told me today, quote, you simply cant do this. The Intelligence Community doesnt function like this. Speaking today to a source familiar with then c
Because i like taking on voices like that. Ive never respected him. Ive never had a lot of respect waiting to ask for a cut of his income. An attack on one is an attack on all. Members of the u. S. Intelligence community including former intelligence chiefs most served under democratic and republican president s rebuked trumps broadside against brennan in a rare statement. Writing, quote, we have never before seen the reprofl or removal of political clearances as was done in this case. Beyond that this action is quite clearly a signal to other former and current officials. As individuals who have cherished and helped preserve the right of americans to free speech, even when that right has been used to criticize us, that signal is inappropriate and deeply regrettable. In explaining the swell of concern about Donald Trumps conduct from former officials of all political persuasions, one of the signatories told me today, quote, you simply cant do this. The Intelligence Community doesnt fun