A look at breaking news, politics and reports from around the world. Manafort would send me a list of wire requests. Gates admit that had he used information provided by manafort to create invoices for fake amounts of money but the money never went to the vendors, instead it went to the banks. The purpose of this, according to gates, so that the wire transfers would not be recorded on u. S. Business records. Nonetheless, prosecutors elicited testimony from mr. Gates and from one of mr. Manaforts accountants that tied manafort more closely to russia. The accountant testified that in 2006 mr. Manafort received a 10 million loan from a Russian Oligarch close to president Vladimir Putin. She said she saw no evidence the loan was ever repaid. The crossexamination today getting very personal at times. Gates forced to admit that more than a decade ago he had an
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why are some democrats opposed to bringing in the mueller report? there are arguments for doing this and like the june 16th meeting at trump tower that are small c collusion even if they don t rise to the level of crimes. but democrats were never able to convince the republic or members of congress this was an impeachable offense, never get a narrative around why there was wrongdoing and a lot of things in the mueller report took place before president trump was president trump, he was citizen donald trump trump. you have in this case the narrative is easier to understand and the july 25th call between president trump and president zelensky and all of the events happened while trump was in office.
to, you know, him being able to defy the law even more. and of course that s a real fear. but you can t let political considerations get in the way of your duty and the truth. reporter: meantime, the house judiciary committee issuing two new subpoenas to former white house communications director hope hicks and the former white house counsel s chief of staff annie donaldson. hicks speaking to special counsel robert mueller about key conversations with president trump, including emails donald trump jr. sent to set up the june 16th meeting at trump tower. and donaldson, whose detailed notes are cited throughout the mueller report. yet, there s growing uncertainty if mueller will testify in public. a source telling cnn mueller does not want to appear political after staying silent about his two-year-long investigation. all of this comes as the washington post obtains an irs confidential draft memo that
out that answer. you re saying that because you believe don junior, you know him to be someone that the sdny is looking at. that is why robert mueller would have backed off. might have had to. key to the obstruction investigation is what happened not only in the june 16th meeting, the june meeting of 16 but also in lying to cover it up. remember he lied and said it was about adoptions after the president met with putin and they had discussion about adoptions. that s key to the obstruction question. it s hard for me to believe that mueller would not have made an effort to talk to him. so far we don t have evidence that he did. it s a mystery that needs to be solved. cynthia alksne, thank you much for that. the attorney generals at the justice department today. the president is in florida. what are the chances they ve communicated in some fashion since the mueller report was submitt submitted? that s next. submitted? that s next.
since 2012. it was removed earlier this month after the council skborsed president trump s $5.7 billion wall proposal. council president who endorsed trump during his campaign told politico it was the position of previous leaders but was taken down for causing confusion. while meeting with the top congressional leaders of both parties earlier this month president trump harshly criticized his new chief of staff over shutdown negotiations. two sources who were present tell axios it happened on the situation room on january 4th when mick mulvaney tried to compromise a sum of money for the wall. one of sources said mulvaney was saying if democrats weren t okay with $5.7 billion and the president wasn t okay with $1.3 billion the democratic offer he was saying we should find middle