A look at Breaking News, politics and reports from around the world. A look at Breaking News, politics and reports from around the world. Paid 27 million for instance from ukraine. And also identified some of the offshore Bank Accounts. And they also made clear that the defense will put rick gates, Paul Manaforts former deputy, on trial. They called him the star witness and they called out the government for barely mentioning rick gates in their opening. Rick gates obviously also served on the Trump Campaign, as a matter of fact he stayed the Trump Campaign even after Paul Manafort was fired from the campaign. One of the things we wont hear in court and weve talked about it a little bit is we wont hear much about President Trump. The prosecute are tore ors and l try to make it only about the financial instruments, the taxes and Bank Accounts that according to the government Paul Manafort was lying about. They want to make sure that russia and the Collusion Question never enter into thi
was to arrange a possible back channel communication between the u.s. and russia. but the uae connection could expand humanlmueller s investig. nader has been cooperating with investigators. perhaps the biggest question is what if anything mueller has in store for president trump. including whether he obstructed justice. i think that really that obstruction piece will be the final element of this. and that what we ll more likely see is sort of these dots being connected. reporter: looming large is whether the special counsel will demand a sitdown interview with president trump himself. i ve always wanted to do an interview because, look, there has been no collusion. reporter: for now mr. trump s attorney rudy giuliani says any interview is still under negotiation. i think he shouldn t. i know how convinced he is that he didn t do anything wrong and wants to explain it and i ve
$20,000 fine for lying to officials in humanlmueller s investigation. and the warning from the special counsel team that this should serve as an example for what happens when you lie to investigators. all of this coming today as we get the bombshell from the special counsel himself, this memo, this is back last august, but attached to a brand new court filing, it shows mueller was explicitly authorized despite all this redacting here to investigate whether paul manafort colluded with the russians to interfere in the 2016 election. the green light coming directly from the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. so with me now, former federal prosecutor elyse wheel, also an anchor at law and crime.com. nice to see you. getting right into it, why is it significant that we re getting the information out of the court docs or the attachment and not from sourcing? not from sourcing because of the special counsel has to file this memo and the attachments can be filed with the memo