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 got pretty far in that effort with
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 got pretty far in that effort with
members. are you aware of that, did you see that? i never saw that, no i didn t. it s pretty clear manafort was involved in eastern european politics, russian politics. that i think is why all the smokers come out about tron. i don t think it has anything to do with drum. i think a lot of this predates the campaign and i think that s what the special counsel tucker: were you aware that paul manafort was working with the podestas on behalf of russia? no. tucker: amazing, amazing story. congressman, thank you. thank you. tucker: kathy griffin is at it again, this time she s targeting hollywood super attorney and ersatz feminist lisa bloom. strange turn of events. we ve got it for you next. i no longer live with the uncertainties of hep c. wondering, what if? i let go of all those feelings. because i am cured with harvoni. harvoni is a revolutionary treatment for the most common type of chronic hepatitis c. it s been prescribed to more than a quarter million people. and is p
one might also open journalistic terms. tucker: kind of brazen though. one of your chief fund-raisers and the guy who s running your campaign is in effect working with paul manafort, it s a little brazen for you to run around claiming that paul manafort when he worked for donald trump was working with the russians, no? what does it take to clean something like that? brazen might be the right word. one hardly knows what to say about that, but it certainly reveals another side of the story that may be bigger and more important than these allegations, which have so far remained virtually without evidence. the allegations of collusion between the trump campaign itself and the president, the man who is now president, and the russians, is virtually nonexistent. after all these months. now we hear about all this other stuff. as i suggest tucker, the tide
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