Money charges against Paul Manafort but a surprise revelation, George Pep Adopt Lus pleaded guilty earlier this month making a false statements to the fbi. His emails related to the arrest came out today, couple of things we did not know until now. They provided key points along a time line that Robert Mueller could possibly build a case that Team Trump Colluded with russia to win the election. Ood suggestion that george may have been wearing a wire. We have correspondents covering all the angels tonight. We begun with manu raju on george. What have you been learning . Thats true joining the campaign in march 15, george had a meeting with a london base
professor who he promised dirgt on Hillary Clintons campaign. He had multiple interactions with this professor. This professor came in around the same time that John Pa December that, Hillary Clintons former campaign manager, his emails were hacked. We do know that george lied to federal prosecutors and admitted to lying about these inte
he did not, mueller, get into this business to indict people who are under the and he did get into there business to come after someone for money laundering. when i saw this role, this guy s coming out with serious charges first. what this tells me he s now going to start rolling up. these people will talk about more significant players whether it s don junior or jared kushner, i don t know. this is just the beginning. you were also saying before we went that the time line of this is interesting. you were looking at the dates and when comey was being asked for a loyalty test from the president, you believe they already had information? yes. let s play detective here for a moment. you know that acquired data going back to last year. that s financial data, the fbi, financial data, e-mail, phone.
mueller s prosecutor said this is a small part of the larger investigation. he s let people know this guy represents just the tip of the iceberg for his broader investigation. second is which is also interesting about that it s the tip of the iceberg no one saw. usually the tip of the iceberg sts stuff the media sees. he was arrested and no one knew about it. well, that s right. and in some sorts that s testament to bob mueller s team and the way they re operating. second, plooes arrested or pleas guilty to lying. what we did when he was first involved with the fbi is try to be protective of others. so, i think that this guilty plea to lying has to tell anybody else who has or is going to be interviewed, you better think long and hard about what you re going to say to mueller. you can t protect anyone but yourself, because if you do lie
iceberg no one saw. usually the tip of the iceberg is stuff the media seize. he was arrested and nobody knew about it. in some sense that s a testament to bob mueller s team and the way they re operating. secondly, he s arrested and convicted or pleads guilty to lying. and what he did when he first was interviewed by the fbi was, i think, try to be protective of others, maybe a foolish about himself, but protective of others. so i think that this guilty plea to lying has to tell anybody else who has been interviewed or is going to be interviewed you better think long and hard about what you ve said or what you re going to say to mueller. you can t protect anyone but yourself, because if you do lie in an effort to protect somebody, a mistaken effort to protect somebody, you re going to end up with 1001 lying count against you. it s a five-year felony and it s easily proved. that s sobering. you agree with jeff toobin.
so they had the data. we know also that somebody interviews were underway. the fbi s already comparing what the interview wee is saying. what i m saying is i suspect when jim comb my walked into some of the conversations with the president he already knew some of the president s advisors had lied to the fbi, that s a federal investigation. he already knew the trump team was in trouble. remember, papadopoulos pleaded guilty of lying to the fbi on january of 27th. july. no january. he pleaded guilty in july, his statement to the fbi was in january. jim comey wasn t even named until may. this investigation had been proceeding for months. you have to give the fbi credit, they knew who and what to ask way back in january. that suggests that they had accumulated it, as phil was