a democratic issue because paul manafort was working on behalf of russian interests with the podesta group. paul manafort, the former chairman of trump s campaign was working with the podesta group founded by the chairman of hillary s campaign to influence the obama administration and hillary clinton s state department. the kind of changes the story line a little bit, wouldn t you say? i think robert mueller will leave no stone unturned. tucker: i want to know what you say about that. americans want to know exactly what s going on. they don t care about the policy partakes. they want to know what russia is doing to destabilize our democracy. tucker: let me agree with you and say, however, that what we have just discovered contravenes everything that democrats have been saying for the last 11 months, it turns out the only information that i verified is that the russians were attempting to influence the obama administration and the hillary clinton s state department and they go
but they ve also been downplaying everything every don t like having to do with uranium one story. it s been carried on no major networks except for one exception. there is no it is a fake story. a contributor to get national review online joins us tonight. i don t think i m making that up, this story has basically not appeared in any other channels. with one exception. i haven t seen it on the front page of the new york times of the washington post. how can that story be ignored? it s amazing. according to the media research center, i think between over the last ten or 11 months, the networks have spent something like 3 minutes and one second on the story. what s amazing about it, whether you think it s got legs or not, he got bribery, kickbacks, extortion, you ve got russians, you got uranium, the main ingredient for atomic bombs. this is interesting stuff, the things of which spy novels are made and yet the networks ignore this and still talking about russia, prussia, russia
contact us by the disgust he felt watching media coverage of the russia story. not only were most reporters getting it wrong, they were getting it backward. the russians were in fact deeply involved in american politics, but the real story had almost nothing to do with the 2016 presidential campaign. intrigued, we agreed to meet with at source today. he just left our offices here in washington a couple of hours ago. the story he told us is astonishing. we will be following up on it, confirming more of it and bringing you details about it this week and after. at first, here s an overview of what he told us. media reports describe paul manafort as a central figure in the russia investigation due to the several months he spent as donald trump s campaign chairman. according to our source, that s only half true. he is indeed at the center of this investigation, but not because of his ties to trump. in fact, paul manafort spent years working with the podesta group on behalf of russian govern
proceed bringing you everything went fine. if we suspect there s a lot there. brit hume joins us tonight. the fact, or the idea from our source that paul manafort was working for the podesta group on behalf of russian interests before running the trump campaign changes this story completely, it seems to me. it does to change completely. it suggests that what collusion there have been was between paul manafort and the podesta group on behalf of russian interests. the podesta group these two guys, tony and john, they lie at the heart of the democratic party and certainly of the clintons and their political endeavors. this changes the whole character and focus and it does raise also the question. you re coming around to getting at this now, that s remarkable on your part to have gotten this source to come and talk to you, how could it be that all these
the collusion story of course, but they ve also been downplaying everything every don t like having to do with uranium one story. it s been carried on no major networks except for one exception. there is no it is a fake story. a contributor to get national review online joins us tonight. i don t think i m making that up, this story has basically not appeared in any other channels. with one exception. i haven t seen it on the front page of the new york times of the washington post. how can that story be ignored? it s amazing. according to the media research center, i think between over the last ten or 11 months, the networks have spent something like 3 minutes and one second on the story. what s amazing about it, whether you think it s got legs or not, he got bribery, kickbacks, extortion, you ve got russians, you got uranium, the main ingredient for atomic bombs. this is interesting stuff, the things of which spy novels are made and yet the networks ignore this and still talkin