name and what s known about him? consta tin worked with paul manafort and gates for years in their work as part of the pro-russian government there. he was a business associate, he kept ties with manafort and gates really up to the end. and the question has been exactly how directly is he tied to russian intelligence? there was always suspicions of that, his background, that he may have had past ties. but the significance of the document today is that mueller and the fbi believes that these ties are pretty current. and to go to something that mieke said, if you go to the papadopoulos case, you go to the famous trump tower incident with the russians meeting don jr. and senior officials. these it doesn t look like random coincidences anymore. it looks like not only were there eager attempts by the russians to make contact with
most of us the unpronounceable name and what s known about him? consta tin worked with paul manafort and gates for years in their work as part of the pro-russian government there. he was a business associate, he kept ties with manafort and gates really up to the end. and the question has been exactly how directly is he tied to russian intelligence? there was always suspicions of that, his background, that he may have had past ties. but the significance of the document today is that mueller and the fbi believes that these ties are pretty current. and to go to something that mika said, if you go to the papadopoulos case, you go to the famous trump tower incident with the russians meeting don jr. and senior officials. these it doesn t look like random coincidences anymore. it looks like not only were there eager attempts by the russians to make contact with
pro-russian government there. he was a business associate, he kept ties with manafort and gates really up to the end. and the question has been exactly how directly is he tied to russian intelligence? there was always suspicions of that, his background, that he may have had past ties. but the significance of the document today is that mueller and the fbi believes that these ties are pretty current. and to go to something that mieke said, if you go to the papadopoulos case, you go to the famous trump tower incident with the russians meeting don jr. and senior officials, these it doesn t look like random coincidences anymore. it looks like not only were there eager attempts by the russians to make contact with the trump campaign, but the trump campaign was certainly eager to reciprocate. and i do have to say that in february of last year, the times wrote the first story about contacts with russian intelligence and we took some heat for it. but we ve only seen case after case that hav
before the house intelligence committee tomorrow 10 a.m. hope hicks was, to coin a phrase, present at the creation. she traveled with donald trump from the very start of the campaign. she has seen and heard and participated in a lot, including that air force i flight home from europe, the meeting on board that resulted in the drafting of a cover story for the meeting don jr. had with the russians in trump tower. she plays a critical role for this president on a daily basis still. the new york times reporting that s her handwriting on those so-called empathy cards the president brought into the room with him to the listening session on gun violence last week. it s unknown if the white house has put any kind of restrictions on the questions hope hicks can or cannot be asked. tonight on this network, democratic congressman adam
new york. day 403 of the trump administration and we re just hours away now from one of this president s closest aids testifying in the russia investigation. a source tells nbc news that hope hicks, the former ralph lauren model, who is now the white house communications director, is slated to appear before the house intelligence hope hicks was, to coin a phrase, present at the creation. she traveled with donald trump from the very start of the campaign. she has seen and heard and participated in a lot, including that air force i flight home from europe, the meeting on board that resulted in the drafting of a cover story for the meeting don jr. had with the russians in trump tower. she plays a critical role for this president on a daily basis still. the new york times reporting that s her handwriting on those so-called empathy cards the president brought into the room with him to the listening session on gun violence last