A precursor to Fox Newss morning show, featuring the news and first looks at the other stories of the day. The mueller campaign, sara makes a great point and the point is there is nobody looking at this any way. Are we just engaging in an unnecessary effort . No, you know this is how cover ups work. The truth is slow to emerge. It takes a long time to do it. We know enough now that it was a says pool of corruption. Christopher steele who fabricated the dossier that drove the russia hoax, the collusion narrative, this is a guy who admitted in court documents, i dug them up out of a British Court proceeding, i put it in the book, he basically said that his document wasnt worth the paper it was written on. It was written on. Right. He said its unverifiable. Principally because it was based on Anonymous Sources and triple and quad drup hearsay. The fbi knew this. They didnt care. They wanted so much to stop donald trump that they were willing to break the law to do it to abuse their power
Homes in the keys are destroyed. Well have an update in a minute. Now to the russian probe with and a body of evidence thats growing by the week, the investigation is going to cast a net over the president s advisers and associates. Theres a new sign that the probe is honing in on the Trump Campaign for the search of potential evidence with russian. The daily beast reports today the Trump Campaign has began handing document over to bob mueller, a coop collusion that the probe may not be all that near. T its still soon for mueller to reveal any findings, ann apple balm makes the case that substantial evidence with his campaign is already available and direct evidence is getting very very close. Amid multiple new reports about the astounding reach of the Russian Campaign on social media, they raise cue questions that confront mueller. How did the russians behind the fake american accounts know which americans would be most excited to read about conspiracy theories on facebook. How did tr
Trump campaign adviser, carter page. The president s own hand picked fbi director today issues a rare public warning, saying, that that memo leaves out important facts, raising, quote, grave concerns about accuracy. That after the Justice Department warned earlier this week that releasing the memo would be, quote, extraordinarily reckless and that the doj is unaware of any evidence of wrongdoing. Now this, in the last few moments. Congressman adam schiff, the top democrat on the House Intelligence Committee charging tonight that chairman nunes sent a different version of the memo to the white house, different than what the committee voted on and approved. Also tonight, more breaking news. Robert muellers team zeroing in on the cover story for donald trump juniors Infamous Trump tower meeting with russians promising dirt on hillary clinton. Mark coral o a former spokesman for the trump team. Reportedly telling mueller about an undisclosed conference equal with the president and hope hic
Theyre basically charged with earning millions of dollars, 75 million at least in lobbying fees consulting fees they charge the government of ukraine, but the government says the u. S. Government, mr. Muellers prosecutors say manafort and gates hid most of that from federal regulators and the tax man by putting it in offshore accounts. They say they did this so they wouldnt have to pay taxes on it, and so they wouldnt have to register as foreign agents. It also says that the Justice Department actually started investigating whether they had an improper relationship with ukraine, at least one they werent reporting, as much as a year ago. They denied then doing any work inside the u. S. , but the indictment says they were actually lobbying members of congress, trying to persuade them about sanctions against ukraine. Youre looking at pictures this morning when they manafort left his house in that black suv. He was not actually arrested by federal agents but worked out an agreement where h
Good evening. Im Chris Matthews in washington. With precious few legislative days this year and a white house agenda crammed with tax cuts, health care, and other priorities, the headlines today were all about President Trumps handling of a phone call with the family of a fallen soldier. One reason is because President Trump decided to engage in this fight, showing once again hes unwilling to let any perceived slight go, no matter how sensitive the topic. It began with this statement by that florida congresswoman, who was with the family of sergeant la david johnson, when the president called. Johnson was one of four soldiers killed in niger earlier this month. Heres what the congresswoman said the president said. He was almost like joking. He said, well, i guess you knew he sign something to the fact that, he knew what he was getting into when he signed up, but i guess it hurts anyway. You know, just matteroffactly, that this is what happens. She was in tears. She was in tears. And sh