president trump s inauguration. as the washington post reports, mueller has been probing whether foreign money flowed into the coffers of trump s inaugural committee that raised more than $100 million. patton s plea offers the first evidence that it occurred. this revelation comes on the last business day before labor day as many in washington braced for the possibility of more indictments stemming from the russia probe. this is the deadline that donald trump s lawyer rudy giuliani set for mueller to be finished with his investigation or wait until the midterm elections. i think if it isn t over by september, then we have a very, very serious violation of the justice department rules that you shouldn t be conducting one of these investigations in the 60-day period. with the midterms only 67 days away, it is possible we may not hear from mueller until november. but giuliani says the trump legal team is working on a
number of possible findings from special counsel robert mueller. it s slated to include sections on everything from collusion with russia in the 2016 election to fired national security adviser michael flynn to obstruction of justice. the report, all part of giuliani s strategy to dull the blow of whatever mueller makes public. i ll be here with my version of the report and they ll have their version of the report and the american people, in that sense, are going to decide it. reporter: once adamant that mueller must wrap up his investigation well before the 2018 midterms. if it isn t over by september, then we have a very, very serious violation of the justice department rules that you shouldn t be conducting one of these investigations in the 60-day period. reporter: giuliani now admitting to cnn he has no idea what mueller s time line is. it s customary for the justice department prosecutors to go quiet for 60 days before an election, but it s up to u.s. attorneys to ensure
i hope you re able to find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing. i think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press. okay. there is no disputing the fact that russians were caught working to hurt hillary clinton s campaign and help donald trump s campaign in the 2016 presidential election. that s not really up for dispute. and donald trump still never criticizes vladimir putin, which leaves robert mueller wondering whether vladimir putin has something on donald trump. it is a question the entire world has been wondering about, especially after helsinki. everything that came before it, years before it, decades before it, is explored in jack brian s new documentary called active measures which takes viewers through a multidecade plot to get donald trump under the
percentage say bad. with independents it breaks two-thirds in favor of nafta. even in canada not everybody likes canada. not everybody thought it was a great deal. but it is imperative for these two countries who have the second largest trade relationship after china and america. it is imperative for these two countries to figure something out. is it going to happen? i can t say. we don t know for sure. i think, you know, canada s ideal outcome might be dragging this on as long as possible and having trump not terminate the existing nafta. but the risk there in not making a deal is the longer you don t make a deal, the longer you risk this president who we know is impulsive or erratic, terminating it. following through on his threats, which is deliberate since 2015 and saying, you know, to heck with all this. we re not doing a free trade agreement at all. that i think would be a very
foreign agent while lobbying on behalf of a ukrainian political party launched by manafort. patton is cooperating as part of his plea deal. he also admits to helping two foreign nationals make an illegal $50,000 donation to president trump s inauguration. as the washington post reports, mueller has been probing whether foreign money flowed into the coffers of trump s inaugural committee that raised more than $100 million. the first evidence that it occurred. this revelation comes on the last business day before labor day as many in washington braced for the possibility of more indictments stemming from the russia probe. this is the deadline that donald trump s lawyer rudy giuliani set for mueller to be finished with his investigation or wait until the midterm elections. i think if it isn t over by september, then we have a very, very serious violation of the justice department rules that