Michael flynn. End the investigation. Im joined noud by ken dilanian with nbc news it, Natasha Bertrand who covers is the russia probe with the atlantic and jill winebanks, all three of you, i want to know what you make of these two witnesses being called, comey already and sessions very soon. And then the president. Chris, what i think this shows is mueller is accelerating sat ob struskz justice aspect of the probe. The three pillars of this investigation, it looks like the Obstruction Case is going down the track further and faster than the collusion and Money Laundering. Theres a lot we dont see but the obstruction witnesses we know who they are and what stories they have to tell. Its not a surprise that comey is a key witness. Whats surprising to me is its happening now and seems like its speeding up. Natasha, explain how you see what kind of a case mueller is going to make here with these hot witnesses now. It seems like ken said hes moving more quickly along the obstruction path.
Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. And cause significant negative economic consequences for iran. And from intern to loyal deputy to arch nemesis, Rick Gates Set to face the heat from the lawyers it had as they crossexamine the former Campaign Aide one day after his testimony. He sat in the alex andrea, virginia courtroom on monday. Manafort glared at him from the defense table. Theyll likely paint him as an untrust worthy testify interested character. Take a look at just what rick gates did and what he said about manaforts crimes and his own. Remember that, and his own. Hes no good guy. He said he had a total of 15 Foreign Companies owned by manafort from the United States government. Companies gates said z Russian Oligarchs paid millions into,
was asked about a meeting between manafort and members of congress that took place years earlier. A meeting gates falsely claimed never actually happened. In his testimony, he admitted to the lie, but point
on hillary with the russian representatives when he walked behind his dad s desk that day and that mr. trump knew that was the meeting don junior was talking about when he said, that s good, let me know. over the past year or so, i have done some real soul searching and i see now that my ambition and the intoxication of trump power had much to do with the bad decisions in part that i made. and to you, chairman cummings and ranking member jordan and the other members of this committee, the members of the house and senate, i am sorry for my lies and for lying to congress and to our nation, i am sorry for actively working to hide from you the truth about mr. trump when you needed it most. for those who question my
he s carry the out within that state. chuck, what s the fate of the mueller investigation, if manafort gets off here? well, he has another trial in the district of columbia later this year. first of all, i don t expect him to get off here. this is an exceedingly strong case. but, stephanie, to your question, if he does, continue it is. acquittals happen. i ve probably tried 40 or 50 cases. i ve had an acquittal or too. all good prosecutors, i think have. politically i mean that with a small p. it would be a setback. legally rather meaningless. i want to ask you guys with hope hicks. hope hicks left the administration. she resigned a day after she testified to the house intel committee, and i m sure she was asked about that trump tower meeting, because remember, she was on air force one with the president when he misrepresented what that meeting don junior had
clinton, don junior said he did not. however, shortly after arranging the meeting don junior made an 11 minute phone call to a blocked number. asked in he remembers who that call was with, trump junior said i don t. democrats note that former trump campaign aide cory testified before house members that candidate trump s primary residence has a blocked number. a full year later after the new york times first broke the existence of the meeting, the white house initially lamed the meeting was about adoptions. an explanation disproved when an e-mail surfaced showing don junior accepted the meeting on the premise the russians he did not know his father was involved in drafting the misleading statement. i never spoke to my father about