foreign policy advisor to the trump campaign pleaded guilty on october 5 to making false statements to the fbi about his contacts to russian. and according to records unsealed monday the fbi alleges he falsely described his interactions with a certain foreign contact who discuss issed dirt related e-mails concerning hillary clinton. one of the court documents describes an e-mail sent to a high ranking official. and the e-mail had the subject line request from russia to meet mr. trump. it went on to say russia was eager to meet with the candidate and had been reaching out. the documents allege that that manafort forwarded them to another. we need someone to communicate, someone low level in the campaign so as not to send any signal. in another e-mail a campaign
was arrested more than three months ago on july 27 and pled guilty on october 5. a court filing says that papadopoulos told the fbi that he had communicated with an overseas professor whom he understood to have substantial ties to russian government officials before he became a foreign policy adviser to the trump campaign. that papadopoulos acknowledged that the professor had told him about things possessing, quote, dirt on then candidate hillary clinton in the form of thousands of e-mails all before joining the campaign. in truth, papadopoulos learned he would be an adviser to the campaign in early march of 2016. and met the professor later. due to his status with the campaign. the filing says the professor told papadopoulos about the thousands of e-mails on or about april 26, 2016 after he had been a foreign policy adviser to the
the second part today was about george papadopoulos, who was by all accounts a volunteer on the trump campaign. there you see in a national security meeting a couple pictures from the trump instagram account. he pled guilty. october 5. misleading statements to the fbi in this investigation. i guess those were the eyebrow-raising developments today because we don t know what he s done since he was arrested in july. let s bring in the panel. steve hayes, editor-in-chief of the weekly standard, mollie hemingway, senior editor at the federalist and moa lisi, executive director of the georgetown institute of politic politics. for people who have long reported on paul manafort s financial dealings that includes everyone from the weekly standard to the new york times, today s news is mostly surprising forages being on count of money laundering and the associated violations of paperwork to go with it.
this moment when he could probably have done so at any moment since october 5 to unsealed his guilty plea by mr. papadopoulos as if to say to the public without saying in so many words look at what we are doing, not just far afield and looking at the tax reference from ten years ago. also looking at the russia collusion angle and it s ironic that mr. papadopoulos didn t do anything wrong in all those emails on those contacts with people he believed to have dirt on hillary clinton but he did by his own admission live to lie i officers and the circumstances in which they occurred. david: this is david as men, about previous special prosecutors in the way they leak information the parties that they think will be somewhat sympathetic to their cause. i was working for the wall street journal when ken starr was investigating whitewater and president clinton of course led to an impeachment. they knew the prosecutor s
version of benghazi. you remember there were requests for assistance that were turned down as well. some people trying to make political hay out of this from that standpoint. it will be until we get that time line from the department of defense as to exactly what happened that we ll be able to put together the pieces of this. again, i was reporting just before he went back to peter doocy in the early going between october 4 and october 5 when the white house came out and announced what had happened to some degree in niger, there was a lot of confusion in the conversation and communication back and forth between the white house and the department of defense of what happened. there was a reporting that there was an incident in niger but the department of defense wasn t forthcoming on the details. there was a statement that the president might give when the details became more clear.