reporting has been that it was highly unusual for the trump campaign to even or excuse me, the trump legal team to even reach out to the mueller operation. so i m not so sure that we should read it in as if there is some sort of influence going on on the mueller campaign or, excuse me, on the mueller probe by the people who are associated with the trump campaign. but i do think that it does go to the gravity of what was in the buzzfeed report. and, you know, i think we re not going to find out for sure exactly how accurately or inaccurately the buzzfeed report was until mueller s report finally comes out because, frankly, you know, the statement from peter karr at the special counsel s office was so carefully worded that they sort of left the room for new things to come out.
robert mueller picked today to charge president trump s personal lawyer in the russia investigation about lying with the secret financial dealings in russia. right before trump and putin are set to bump into each other in argentina. the mueller operation is opaque in terms of what they re doing and why they re doing what they re doing. but we ve got pretty good evidence now that they seem to time some of the most provocative shots at russia and the proeft provocative evidence about what russia did to land right before trump gets a chand to see his guy, gets to see putin. we have a lot more coming up tonight on this new guilty plea from cohen and what it means from the russia investigation and what it can tell us about the new guy in charge at the d.o.j. surprising revelations about that today. stay with us.
vladimir putin. then less than an hour later he announced on twitter the meeting is cans lceled. either way president putin and president trump will be at the same summit all weekend. so like the last time, the president has been sent off on his trip with another travel gift from the announce. here is your inflatable neck pillow for this flight, sir. robert mueller picked today to charge the president s personal lawyer in the russia investigation with lying about the president s secret financial dealings in russia right before trump and putin are set to bump into each other in argentina. the mueller operation is opaque in terms of what they re doing and why they re doing what they re doing. but we ve got pretty good evidence now that they seem to time some of the most provocative shots at russia and the most provocative evidence about what russia did to land right before trump gets a chance to see his guy, gets to see putin. we ve got a lot more coming up tonight on this new guilty ple
pretty strong calculation. let me put it that way. that he very well may get a pardon. i don t want to say he s been promised one. that would be going too far. but the only thing that make sense to me, for him to give up all the potential benefits that he was facing in this plea deal, had he behaved, had he fully cooperated, you know, he could have driven this sentence down even further had he been on good behavior. he didn t. he threw all of that out the window after all of this work with the mueller operation. but not enough for him. i mean, he s going to sit in jail regardless of how much he he s going to do some time. but at his age, you know, there s a big difference between five years or ten years. and 70. and life. yeah. yeah.
had he behaved, had he fully cooperated, you know, he could have driven this sentence down even further had he been on good behavior. he didn t. he threw all of that out the window after all of this work with the mueller operation. but not enough for him. i mean, he s going to sit in jail regardless of how much he he s going to do some time. but at his age, you know, there s a big difference between five years or ten years. and 70. and life. yeah. yeah. okay. juliette, what did you want to say? no, just on the pardon issue, even if he assumes there is going to be a pardon, it is quite a calculation on his part. we all have kids. why do kids lie? because the truth is worse. so what s the truth for manafort? either implicates the trump family or it implicates a foreign government.