The congressmans conduct is hardly appropriate for someone chairing an investigation of trump. He acted today more like a trump staffer. The surveillance story released today may, in fact, be a decoy from todays far bigger story. The Trump Campaign chair, Paul Manafort, was once paid 10 million a year from a friend of vladimir putin. Thats 10 million a year from putins buddy. Lets start with the news that the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, devin nunes, has access information, he says, that says donald trump or someon connected to him came up under u. S. Surveillance during someone else. According to nunes who was on President Trumps transition team, the brand new information he obtained alarmed him, he said. It was so alarming, he said he rushed to tell the president at the white house and then tell the press in two separate news conferences. Lets watch. What i saw has nothing to do with russia and nothing to do with the russian investigation. Has everything to do with p
Signed a 10 million a Year Contract starting in 2006 to, quote, influence politics, business dealings and News Coverage inside the United States to benefit putins government, it was oleg deraposkov the man who paidau manafort for that work starting in 2008. And ending who knows when. After that ap story came out, oleg took out an add in the Washington Post and the wall street journal. He took out the same quarter page ad in both papers saying i demand that any and all further dissemination of these allegations by the ap or any other media outlet must cease immediately. He demanded spoiler alert, that didnt work. He is now suing the ap over that story. He and Paul Manafort deny there was anything proputin about the work they did. Oleg deripaska says that work ended in 2009 and hes upset by any indication that his payments to manafort had something to do with the Trump Campaign. The ap says it stands by its reporting. This russian aluminum oligarch paid millions to manafort who would lat
Day 131 of the Trump Administration. And when we last spoke, the president had nearly wrapped up his overseas trip and was headed home albeit overshadowed by the big story here friday night alleging Jared Kushner had proposed a Communications Work around lets call it with the russians that would allow jerad a direct line into moscow outside of u. S. Government control or communications. That was friday night. This is tuesday night. It was still the story. White house reporters wanted answers to today. And during the white house bereaving which to be candid had its ugly moments sean spicer did not deny the story. He merely went after how it was reported. Im wondering sean if you can tell us when the president knew, whether the president knew at the time that Jared Kushner was seeking to establish back Channel Communications at the Russian Embassy to the russian government. And if he didnt know at the time when did he find out. I think that assumes a lot. I would say that mr. Serbners at
The phone with details. What do you know, laura . Reporter well, thats right, don. A federal judge in hawaii has planted a request for a recall of the president s travel ban. If you remember two weeks ago, that was only a temporary aderholt. It was using something thats called a temporary restraining order which typically expires after 14 days. So they asked for it to be converted into a longerterm prelimary injunction so it could last through trial, and the judge agreed tonight. On theimators of their establishment. I know a member of that entire discussion from jauj watson just two weeks ago describing what he viewed as a violation of the constitution bhauz he used it to revise travel bans, discriminated against muslims. Its interesting again. This is another blow to the white house in this travel ban, this executive order. Laura, this is a more not permanent but a longer, i guess, stay on this order until theres actually trial. Do we know when a trial is set or how long this will ta
Criminal matter. But in terms of understanding the importance of these two big stories that broke today, i want to go back to 2015 for a second. 2015, two years ago. It was the 70th anniversary of the end of world war ii. Its not often that you celebrate the 70th anniversary of a world event. But you can see why a lot of people wanted to make a big deal out of the 70s anniversary of world war ii instead of waiting around for a more obvious milestone. People who fought in world war ii were disappearing from the earth. Even the youngest of them are old enough that with each passing year you lose the opportunity to personally pay them tribute before they pass. So the 70th anniversary, we made a really big deal about it around the world in 2015. A big deal here in the United States. A big deal anywhere that world war ii veterans were able to come out and be recognized by their countrymen. But you know what . In russia and in china, in 2015, even as everybody is making a big deal of it, rus