as well as crimes committed before the campaign. george papadoupolos, a former foreign policy advisor to the trump campaign pleaded guilty on october 5. according to records, unsealed monday, the fbi alleged papadoupolos falsely described his interactions with a certain foreign contact who discussed dirt-related e-mails concerning president trump s opponent, hillary clinton. one of the court documents describes an e-mail sent by papadoupolos to a high-ranking campaign open official who a source says is paul manafort and the e-mail had the subject line request from russia to meet mr. trump. went on to say russia was eg toer meet with the candidate and had been reaching out. he forwarded to another official, rick gates. that e-mail said we need someone to commune ca that td is not doing these trips. it should be someone low level in the campaign so as not to
the fbi is heightening the unne unneu unease. good morning, christine and alec. monday s charges show the mueller investigation is zeroing in on collusion. george papadoupolos, a former foreign policy adviser to the trump campaign pleaded guilty on october 5 to making fault statements to the fbi about his contacts with russia, and according to records undealed monday, the fbi alleges he falsely described his interactions with a certain foreign contact who discussed dirt related e-mails concerning hillary clinton. one. court documents describes an emt sent by papadoupolos to a high-ranking campaign official who a source says is paul manafort. request for it went on to say russia was eager to meet with the candidate and had been
monday s charges show the mueller investigation is zeroing in on collusion with russian in the 2016 campaign as well as crimes committed even before the campaign. george papadoupolos, a former foreign policy adviser to the trump campaign pleaded guilty on october 5 to making false statements to the fbi about his contacts to russia. according to records unsealed monday the fbi alleged papadoupolos falsely described his interactions with a certain foreign contact who discussed dirt we h. related e-mails concerning hillary clinton. one of the court documents described an e-mail sent by papadoupolos to a high ranking campaign official who a sauourc says is paul manafort. it went on to say russian was eager to meet with the candidate and had been reaching out. the documents allege that campaign official forwarded it to another official rick gates. we need someone to commune kica
there was one other interview with his lawyers. it s unclear if he lied again or if he repeated what he said or if he tried to tell the truth. didn t change the fbi s mind on a couple things. one that in fact he lied to them in january. two, he was a worthy government witness that they wanted to work with. three, they were going to offer a deal to the lawyers right then and there. your guy helps us out and obstruction of justice goes away. shepard: when he pleaded guilty on october 5, earlier this month, this is halloween, when he pleaded guilty october 5, he was still a cooperating witness and he s a cooperating witness to this day and must reminute such. correct. the only thing he s probably not doing today is wearing a wire. nobody will talk to him. he was probably was wearing the wear between october 5, reason for the secret guilty plea and the revelation of the guilty plea yesterday. shepard: on january 26, sally yates went to the white house and said flynn is vulnerable a
offer to investigate. number one, anyone who thinks they know where the investigation is going, you should ask them where were they in predicting the charges and the guilty plea with gorge papadopoulos. nobody saw that coming. clearly what mueller is trying to do here i think yesterday was to make a point putting the two document s o documents out. grand jury on friday. under seal. the guilty plea that george papadopoulos. october 5. why put it out yesterday. one reason why may have been to make a point here. george papadopoulos cooperated with investigators and is apparently going to get a good deal. he s charged with lying twice to the fbi, but in the sentencing memorandum that companied the guilty plea.