inside the court. manafort apologized and said iri m sorry for what i ve done and all the activities that have gotten us here today. for the first time he s publicly apologizing for the crimes he committed telling the judge in a courtroom in washington that he is sorry for what he s done. ken, your reaction. reporter: of course, it s easy to say that, and it would have been surprising if he didn t given all the criticism of his statement last week where he didn t have any remorse or apology. the question is does the judge believe him. let s face it, hallie, white collar defendants, college educated defendants who cam in suits tend to express remorse. they know it s in their self interest. some would argue his conduct lying to the special counsel, breaking his deal, committing crimes even after he pled guilty would suggest that he, in fact, does not feel remorse for this. and particularly the fact that his lawyer keeps saying that he
there, had a business relationship with paul manafort. the organization decided that business relationship was inappropriate and fired him. that business relationship was helping pro-russian surrogates, primarily victor yanukovych. so he s been tied to the gru, the same group accused by the mueller investigation of launching one of the hacks in the u.s. election campaign against the democratic party, and went into business with manafort, was fired by iri, and has been a constant individual circulating in the background of the mueller investigation. so the fact that today s reporting revealed that manafort misled investigators about his relations with konstantin kilimnik probably shouldn t come
whether or not paul manafort was good at his job and whether or not he had qualifications is something that konstant konstantin kilimnik would want to know. richard, maybe you can give us a reminder who konstantin kilimnik is. so according to reporting we have done, he was at one stage a translator for the gru, which is russian military intelligence. he also, somewhat embarrassingly for the organization, was the acting head of iri, the international republican institute, which was set up, still operates around the world, with the objective of spreading democracy. he was the acting head in moscow. he was also, while working
brexit deal. that idea is in the political wilderness right now. why? the concessions she needs from the european leaders and the meeting today an wiwith the iri prime minister. this is all over the irish and northern ireland border. the concessions do not go far enough to implicate all of the people in her party or the opposition in parliament. really what has happened here is theresa may survived yesterday, but that s all. the reality in a few weeks or a month s time, there will be a vote in parliament that she is very, very likely to lose. what will that mean? will it bring the government down? will it mean a general election? will britain leave the eu without a deal? that seems the most likely
war, president reagan launched a crusade to confront the soviet union, not with more nuclear weapons but with ideals. if the rest of the century is to witness the gradual growth of freedom and democratic ideals, we must take actions to assist the campaign for democracy. one action was finding the international republican institute the following year. the mission, to spread the light of democracy around the globe. by 1993 the u.s. victory in the war of ideals was sealed and the iri opened an office in moscow. but it s hard to imagine that the gipper would be proud of some of its employees. take sam patton. patton ran the iri s moscow office from 2001 to 2004. he just plead guilty to charges of illegally lobbying in the u.s. for prorussian politicians in ukraine. his business partner, one