yet to be seen. i think the other thing worth looking at and that i m waiting for a shoe to drop in the mueller investigation is, the plank in the republican party platform for lethal aid to the ukrainian army against the russians and the change that manafort made as trump s political director to the republican party platform against the wishes of a lot of hawkish republicans. and it seems improbable to me that that change pro russia, in the party platform by manafort would not be, should we say, a matter for mueller s scrutiny. so, until some shoe has dropped on that, i think there s another open thread and again, too early to say that this investigation is coming to a conclusion. and look, and just for people who did not take the time to google you yet, you understand prosecution and how cases are made. the idea that manafort had nothing to do with changing the
report was the president s daughter, ivanka trump. finally donald trump s former attorney michael cohen after being sentenced to three years in prison he says mr. trump directed him to pay hush money to two whom say they had affairs with mr. trump. and another target of the mueller investigation is general michael flynn. he s the former national security adviser who quit just days into mr. trump s term. michael flynn admitted he lied to the fbi about communications with russia s ambassador to the united states. since then he s been cooperating with the special counsel and on friday robert mueller issued a surprising memo on flynn. our pamela brown has this story. reporter: the special counsel is pushing back at michael flynn s lawyers assertion that the former national security adviser wasn t appropriately warned about the repercussions about lying to the fbi. in this new filing mueller s team said flynn chose to lie weeks before the fbi interviewed
it oven bfuscates it. they haven t had miss steps along the way. they have. you have to look at both sides. even democrats would admit some of those mistakes have been made. are you going to admit mistakes have been made in the mueller investigation? where we are in the mueller investigation is mueller. it s hard to make a decision on if the investigation is real or not without really knowing what s going on. absolutely. what we re hearing and the things we talk about, it s only the tip of the iceberg. mueller has the information. so that s where i say to that, look, what donald trump is doing is so typical. it s typical trump. the greatest hits, witch hunt, attacking the media, right, saying, hey, you know, fake news, enemy of the people. he goes after democrats. it s all the same. what s happening is the walls are closing in on him. if you look at where we were a month ago, on july 27, kennedy retired, right? it was this big upswing for republicans. they had their second oppo
the indictment is incredibly meaningful. tieing together the statement that the, then candidate trump made that morning, and the action of the russian intelligence people who were undertaking this intrusion into the campaign. the linkage of those two things is not in there by any accident. i will say by the way, for as sophisticated and diligent andfer sis talent an effort submit hone described opponen tr of the russians one of the things that come through how determined the mueller investigation is, in terms of faring out all of the actors involved here. if there were any americans who were part of this conspiracy, we ll know about it. aside from the question about why the president is only calling vladimir putin the worse
tieing together the statement that the, then candidate trump made that morning, and the action of the russian intelligence people who were undertaking this intrusion into the campaign. the linkage of those two things is not in there by any accident. i will say by the way, for as sophisticated and diligent andfer sis talent an effort submit hone described on the par of the russians one of the things that come through how determined the mueller investigation is, in terms of ferreting out all of the actors involved here. if there were any americans who were part of this conspiracy, we ll know about it. aside from the question about why the president is only calling vladimir putin the worse