Money charges against Paul Manafort but a surprise revelation, George Pep Adopt Lus pleaded guilty earlier this month making a false statements to the fbi. His emails related to the arrest came out today, couple of things we did not know until now. They provided key points along a time line that Robert Mueller could possibly build a case that Team Trump Colluded with russia to win the election. Ood suggestion that george may have been wearing a wire. We have correspondents covering all the angels tonight. We begun with manu raju on george. What have you been learning . Thats true joining the campaign in march 15, george had a meeting with a london base
professor who he promised dirgt on Hillary Clintons campaign. He had multiple interactions with this professor. This professor came in around the same time that John Pa December that, Hillary Clintons former campaign manager, his emails were hacked. We do know that george lied to federal prosecutors and admitted to lying about these inte
2017. so while they were involved in the captain, anderson. has manafort says anything? didn t say anything but his attorney spoke outside the building to reporters and said these charges are baseless. take a listen. president donald trump was correct, there is no evidence. mr. manafort on the trump campaign colluded with the russian government. again, in this indictment there is no mention of possible collusion with the russians. manafort and gates pleaded not not guilty. the bail was set for manafort and gates and both put on house arrest. and want gates? his spokesman released a statement saying he won t comment until he reviewed the indictment. his spokesperson said the
each and every one of these people on the campaign is in a voluntary capacity so that doesn t mean much. what is the white house strategy for dealing with mueller and the investigation going forward? we found out after talking to a lot of people there is a tug of war going on here if you will. there was one side of thinking the president legal advisors saying he should not go after bob and mueller. if he wants to make some attacks at the investigation he can but not directly at bob mueller. there was another side, steve bannon, he believes that the president s legal team has been too soft and misguided here. he does believe the president should go after bob mueller in an attempt to, you know, simply throw all this up in the air here. there is an internal discussion. so far, the president has not for a while gone after the special counsel here, we ll see if he does in the coming days. anderson, all this a major
in the campaign so as not to send any signals. and then in may, joj forded e-mails he wrote to russian up dates in which he said, russia has been eager to meet with mr. trump for quite sometime and has been reaching out to me to discuss. but in july, 2016, george says a meeting with senior trump officials with putin aids, quote, has been approved from our side. george was arrested july 27 and had pled guilty for knowingly and willfully making false statement. and where is he now? we simply don t know the answer to that. cnn has tried to reach out to him on multiple occasions. we have been unsuccessful if doing so. the house and intelligent committee have tried to bring him in for interviews and they have failed as well. his attorney did issue a statement earlier saying george will not have any further comment, probably some of his story would come out through the course of the campaign. and anderson, even though the
professor who he promised dirgt on hillary clinton s campaign. he had multiple interactions with this professor. this professor came in around the same time that john pa december that, hillary clinton s former campaign manager, his e-mails were hacked. we do know that george lied to federal prosecutors and admitted to lying about these interactions with with this london based professors and other russian contacts. and in these documents that were sealed today, anderson, turns out this contact was not the only one, there were several others. judgeorge admitted he lied t several authorities when he said contact with the professor occurred before joining the trump campaign. he also falsely told authorities that the professor was quote, just a guy talking up connections or something. when in fact, george knew the