tuesday. and lawyers for former trump campaign chairman paul manafort say they may not challenge claims their client violated his plea deal by lying to prosecutors. last week robert mueller s team claimed manafort lied about five major issues including his contact with administration officials. in a court hearing tuesday, a judge said the mueller memo was too much of a summary and doesn t provide sufficient information to make factual findings. a hearing on the disputes over the plea agreement scheduled for january 25th. president trump claims he s not concerned about being impeached. in an interview with reuters, he defends the hush-money payments made to two women by michael cohen claiming they do not violate campaign finance laws. he goes on to say it s hard to impeach somebody who hasn t done anything wrong and created the greatest economy in the history of our country. i m not concerned, no. i think that the people would revolt if that happened. the president was asked about a
deal by lying to prosecutors. last week robert mueller s team claimed manafort lied about five major issues including his contact with administration officials. in a court hearing tuesday, a judge said the mueller memo was too much of a summary and doesn t provide sufficient information to make factual findings. a hearing on the disputes over the plea agreement scheduled for january 25th. president trump claims he s not concerned about being impeached. in an interview with reuters, he defends the hush-money payments made to two women by michael cohen claiming they do not violate campaign finance laws. the president goes on to say it s hard to impeach somebody who hasn t done anything wrong and created the greatest economy in the history of our country. i m not concerned, nope. i think that the people would revote if that happened. he was asked about all of his staffers who took meetings with russians before and during the 2016 campaign and replied, the stuff you re talking about is,
the agents would not warn flynn that it was a crime to lie during an fbi interview because they wanted him to be relaxed and were concerned that giving the warnings might adversely affect the rapport. special counsel robert mueller told the court flynn provided substantial assistance to the investigation and should be spared from going to prison. the judge overseeing his sentencing makes that final call on tuesday. lawyers for former trump campaign chairman paul manafort say he didn t break a plea deal by lying to prosecutors after agreeing to cooperate with the special counsel s russia probe. last week robert mueller s team claimed manafort lied about five major issues including his contact with administration officials. in a court hearing tuesday, a judge said the mueller memo was too much of a summary and doesn t provide sufficient information to make factual findings. a hearing on the disputes over the plea agreement scheduled for january 25th. president trump claims he is not
e-mail, eventually distributing them publicly. manafort was the campaign manager when they back off the stance to provide information. now with the deal called off, prosecutors are taking off the gloves and manafort could even face more criminal charges. manafort s lawyers plan to hold more talks with the special counsel in the next few weeks to negotiate what happens next. both sides will be back in court on january 25th for a hearing, at which point it is possible that mueller s team could call witnesses and even present evidence about how paul manafort allegedly lied. but, of course, until then we will be left wondering about the exact details of manafort s alleged lies. wolf. good point. jessica, thanks very much. jessica schneider reporting. let s bring in our senior justice correspondent evan perez. evan, manafort s attorneys can t say whether he lied or not. explain what is going on. how significant is that? what is going on behind the scenes, wolf, is paul manafort
expected today and not until january 25th for a hearing, the court is giving the parties a little bit of time maybe to see if they can talk out their differences. barbara, thanks as always for your analysis, barbara mcquade, contributor former u.s. attorney and tom winters and julia ainsley for us at the courthouse. we have an update on the breaking news situation in strasbourg france. a gunman killed one person, at least six others are injured in the city center. earlier i reported it was in the christmas market. it is not. there s a world famous christmas market in strasbourg. this is in the city center nearby. police are calling it a serious public security event. the mayor has told everyone to stay inside. strasbourg is the official seat of the european parliament. a danish politician and member of the european parliament from denmark spoke to euro news and said parliament is in lockdown. this is, of course, what we all sort of fear and somewhat anticipated because you have to