white house and work as a special counsel to the president to handle all of these issues that come up related to the russia investigation. by that i mean congress is making inquiries, they want to talk to those who are involved, they want to get records, they want to get information, in addition to media inquiries about it. so sort of beefing up the internal legal strategy at the white house. that s separate from the president s own lawyers who are working for him privately. so there are some developments from the white house, but they are trying to avoid talking about it directly. of course, as you pointed out, donald trump jr. talked about his meeting, saying it was just about russian adoptions when he first brought this up and acknowledged it one week ago. we have seen through the course of that week the stories changing. the number of people involved changing. and we learned the identities that do raise questions in the minds of many who are looking at this about what was the role
to manafort had something to do with the trump campaign. the ap says it stands by its reporting. this russian aluminum oligarch paid millions to manafort who would later go on to chair donald trump s campaign. bank accounts that raised repeated red flags for money laundering investigations and were quickly closed when those investigators stopped making inquiries. started making inquiries. so oleg deripaska is one of the names we know. another name in the trump/russia investigation. and here is why he s really important to this story. in that ad, he took out in march, objecting to the ap reporting of his past dealings with manafort, deripaska said he was ready to take part in any
short term the biggest thing to clear up is what did vice president pence know and when did he know it? and at this point, when did he know it? reporter: we have new reporting, just in the last couple of minutes, i can share with you, this has been a question that nbc has confirmed via two sources here that vice president pence learned about this warning from the justice department, learned that mike flynn had been inconsistent or inaccurate with him thursday night. just before the media reports about this began to emerge. i am told that vice president then began making inquiries into what happened. obviously you know thousand unfolded over the next 72 hours. this leads to another question, of course, which is why was the vice president who was frankly the public face of this, right, going on a television, defending mike flynn very publicly, why wasn t he informed 11 days prior when president trump knew? particularly given how central the vice president has been to not just the adm