two statements one on manafort and one on cohen on manafort the government s filing in mr. manafort s case says nothing about the president even let s about collusion and devoted almost entirely to lobbying related issues. once again, the media is trying to create a story where there isn t one. and on cohen she says the government filings in mr. cohen s case tell us nothing of value that wasn t already known. mr. cohen has repeatedly lied and as the prosecution has pointed out to the court, mr. cohen is no hero. now the office of special counsel though says manafort lied to them repeatedly about his business dealings though the president s lawyer rudy giuliani told fox news last night manafort never lied to mueller s team about the president specifically. he also emphasized the contrast between manafort and cohen saying while manafort has nothing to lie about, cohen doesn t even know what to lie about. now, giuliani is also not worried about information still under seal, perhaps unsurp
stone knew about wiki leaks. i think it is really troubling to him because he doesn t know how this is going to spin out because nobody does. it is interesting, the 24 hours since mueller revoked the plea deal saying that manafort is a liar, the president hasn t thrown manafort under the bus at this point? he hasn t. a lot of speculation about whether he is thinking about pardoning him t. was interesting in the washington post interview here, josh dossy asked that question, are you planning to do anything to help paul manafort. trump says let me go off the record. he speaks off the record. he says is there any version of that you are willing to give us on the record? trump said i would rather not. at some point i will talk on the record about it, but i would rather not. who knows what he is saying off the record? what we do know on the record from what trump has said about
the russian investigation and the corresponding lack of answers from the white house. the latest developments center on paul manafort and julian assange. when we left you last night manafort had just been accused in a court filing of repeatedly lying to investigators there by breaching his plea deal with the special counsel. today this, britain s guardian newspaper reporting manafort met secretly with assange several times in london. according to the guardian one such meeting took place around march 2017 weeks before wiki leaks released democratic e-mails. the guardian says it is unclear why manafort saw assange and what was discussed and should point out that both strongly deny the meeting ever took place at all. manafort says he doesn t know assange. separately cnn has learned team
manafort to cooperate. she avoided recommending that paul manafort cooperate with the mueller investigation. she went on to say that the white house is cooperating and producing documents and answers and so on in the investigation. no question about it, a cynic out there could look at that answer and say not only is she not recommending that manafort cooperate with the mueller investigation, she could be sending the signal that he should not cooperate with the mueller investigation and that is the reason why there is so much speculation and conversation here in washington that a pardon offer has been dangled over paul manafort s head in some way, shape or form. when sarah sanders was asked about that she said she knew of no conversations about pardons going on inside the white house. we have breaking news on all of this, here is what the president s tv lawyer rudy giuliani told the wall street
we have denials and reporting. it is verifiable and some point when the public will know whether or not this took place. if it took place it is significant. the government does seem to be fuming at a high volume. very much so. i just spoke with somebody who spoke with the president recently and said he noticed that he is acting more scattered these days and i think it s all related to the mueller investigation. how much the president knows about it and what is going on internally in that investigation, we do not know. we know he and his attorneys finished writing this round of answers to mueller questions. he didn t like the questions. i think that was difficult for him. now he sees what is going on with manafort. he sees what is going on with roger stone. he sees this whole negotiatioti roger stones and wiki leaks and the questions being raised about what he knew about what roger