the conventions. and we understand that congress is looking at him, mcclatchy reported that the fbi is looking into whether he illegally funneled money into the nra and to the trump campaign. so while none of the individuals have been accused of any wrongdoing, they are now put on this sanctions list, you know, which has ties to the election and it will remain to be seen whether mueller makes any moves against them, but, you know, we see now there are some connections between at least these three individuals and several people within mueller s orbit. kara and michelle, great reporting. i want to talk more about this now with chris cillizza, our cnn politics reporter and editor at large, and former u.s. attorney michael moore. michael, included in this list is a gentleman we were just talking about, oleg deripaska, a billionaire connected to paul manafort, under indictment for money laundering allegations. did these sanctions back up the
if you add to that that they used dossier, if it is true, that was funded by a political candidate, and a political party at the dnc, the basis for the fisa, you are talking very serious allegations. now, we don t know for sure, there are other serious allegations here that should concern others. the suggestion of money laundering. martha: that s what i just wanted to ask you about. the issue of money laundering that s something that steve bannon also raised in the book. he said i think this is where the mueller investigation is going. what do you make of it? i think he may be right about that. that mueller brought on his team notably, a number of people whose specialty is to follow computer and financial lines. we know that there have been subpoenas given to foreign banks. the money laundering allegations are very, very serious, if they re proven to be true. the problem for the trump white house is that these are the types of allegations that require you to open all your books.
this president? so he s got four broad areas that i think would be of interest to me were i on the committee. first, and not necessarily in this order, would be the money laundering allegations that he made. he said all roads through manafort lead to trump, and that is money laundering and there is financial shenanigans, at least perhaps crimes, underlying that relationship between trump and others. that s one thing. second thing, he was on the board of cam bren and anayltica, that was the data and a lit particulars firm that was targeting key districts in the swing states that trump won unexpectedly. there there is a theory out there they were coordinating with the russians about that. so that s a second area. the third is trump tower meeting which he called treasonous
take the reigns and be assertive. you can t do that when he is recused. it may be time for him to step aside. that s a significant statement coming from you from the house intelligence committee. let me get a final thought. on one of the avenues being explored by robert mueller, follow the money as they used to say. money laundering allegations. is that something your committee is looking at as well? well, you can t not look at these different elements. it s probably not our focus. let s review if we could for months and months, we heard collusion and the dossier and found out that hillary clinton used a foreign agent on russian sources and no one wanted to talk about the dossier any longer and now we are talking obstruction or maybe money laundering and the other elements. we ought to let it do what we
the chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge has the breaking details in washington. catherine? thanks, trace. according to this 18-page civil complaint filed with the court, former campaign chairman paul manafort and his legal team are suing robert mueller and rod rosenstein alleging the russia probe has gone beyond the scope of the regulations. saying the investigation of mr. manafort is off of the original jurisdiction to investigate any links or coordinate between the russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of president trump. in addition as you remember in october, manafort and his business partner pled not guilty to a 12-count indictment that included money laundering allegations and making false statements in connection with their work in the ukraine based on the civil complaint filed today. manafort s legal team is asking the court to set aside those