On Paul Manafort. A harsh spotlight just got brighter after a major bombshell report from the guardian yts. Manafort held secret talks with Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian Embassy during the president ial campaign. Quote, a well placed sourced has told the guardian that manafort went to see assange around march 2016. That would be the month manafort joined the campaign. The guardian says months later wi wikileaks release add stash of stolen emails. Manafort has previously denied involvement in the hack, this news coming a day after the special counsels office said it is seeking to break its plea deal with manafort. Bob muellers team says the onetime Campaign Chairman lied to them and the fbi quote, on a variety of subject matters. Manaforts team insists that he was truthful. The result speculation of a president ial pardon. Today the president attacked mueller in a series of three tweets. He put quotation marks around justice in one of those tweets, around justice department. He said
Breaking his plea deal on a variety of subject matters. Last hour the white house denied the president did anything wrong. I dont think the president has any concerns about the reports because he knows there was no wrongdoing by him and there was no collusion. The president has voiced his unhappiness from the beginning this has gone on, this ridiculous witchhunt, more than two years. Still nothing that ties anything to the president. Wed like to see it come to a conclusion. Theres a lot there. To get the latest lets start the hour with nbc news justice correspondent pete williams. Pete, good afternoon. Good afternoon to you. So the guardian somewhat softened the account of the meeting. Now saying it was apparent meetings between assange and manafort in london. But it also says it has no idea what the two men talked about. The timing here is interesting, 2013 and 2015, well before the Trump Campaign, times when Paul Manafort was actively lobbying on behalf of the russianbacked governmen
Laura i think it is. Sean, you might have pointed it out. Poor mia love. Sean i like her. I wish she would have held her seat. Laura the president probably shouldnt have said the no love thing. She shouldnt have criticized him. Sean i think shell be back. She brings a lot to the Republican Party. That was a tough loss. I wanted her to win. Laura hannity, great night. We wait for the final call. Thanks so much. Have a great show. Im laura ingraham. This is the ingraham angle from washington tonight. As you just heard us talking about, were still awaiting the final results in the Mississippi Senate race. At this time cindy hydesmith has a lead over mike espy. Victory by hydesmith would expand the gop lead in the senate 5347. Were going to have a live report from the ground as soon as we get the final cha. Also between the Mueller Investigation and ongoing crisis at the border, my angle is going to explain why the president must pick a new attorney general like yesterday to quote one of m
Three years on from the explosive Julian Assange/Paul Manafort story, we question whether the Guardian has honored its stated commitment to the truth. In 1921, the Manchester Guardian's editor, Charles Prestwich Scott, marked the newspaper's.
Three years on from the explosive Julian Assange / Paul Manafort story, we question whether the Guardian has honored its stated commitment to the truth.…