Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. The cleanup was after the Helsinki Summit saying he meant to say wouldnt instead of would although in that cleanup the president said it could be others meddling and since then calling the russia story a hoax and investigation rigged. The difference between the president s reluctance to call out russia and the security teams willingness to was noticeable. Striking enough to call out this question from dni coats. In the runup to the Helsinki Summit,s u. S. Officials, nato ambassadors to russia said the president would raise the issue of maligned activity with the president. He didnt address that. You said to make the issue of meddling a priority. How do you explain the disconnect between what you are
speech and his officials were so clear in the russia involvement. I think the fact the president continues to acknowledge this is exactly why the intel chiefs had to do this. When you have a threat
Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. Do it. As you said, he defended his summit with Putin In Helsinki and said the russians are unhappy hes the president of the United States when Vladamir Putin admitted at the summit he wanted donald trump to win. Theres this huge disconnect. We could all feel it in the Briefing Room earlier today and why you saw so many reporters asking that question. Yes, im sure it was very assuring to a lot of americans out there to hear the director of National Intelligence, fbi director, of Homeland Security to say theyre on the case. Looming over everything in the room is the fact the president has said all sorts of things to diminish the russian threat in the past. He just said it could be other countries, not just russia. Thats so opposite what we heard from his top officials at that briefing. And it was just yesterday sarah palin called the investigation into russia a hoax, wasnt it . Thats right. She
breaking news tonight, day three of the paul manafort trial over. a witness said manafort was in trouble in 2016 after his lobbying business dried up. that was his long-time bookkeeper full of details. manafort was basically broke when he took the job on the trump campaign. that s interesting. he was. he was in serious financial trouble according to the testimony of his bookkeeper. she was on the stand for several hours. she talked about how strapped for cash he was after his lobbying business in ukraine dried up. it was so bad he was in danger of losing his health insurance. in one e-mail said he needed $120,000 urgently to pay some personal bills. we ve been talking about this. it was stunning change of fortune for the man buying $15,000 ostrich coats now scrambling for money in 2016. this was also right at the time he joined the trump campaign to work for free and also at a time
it was dominated by a prosecution witness that told the jury manafort was in serious financial trouble in 2016 after his lobbying business dried up. that was his long-time bookkeeper full of details. manafort was basically broke when he took the job on the trump campaign. that s interesting. he was. he was in serious financial trouble according to the testimony of his bookkeeper. she was on the stand for several hours. she talked about how strapped for cash he was after his lobbying business in ukraine dried up. it was so bad he was in danger of losing his health insurance. in one e-mail said he needed $120,000 urgently to pay some personal bills. we ve been talking about this. it was stunning change of fortune for the man buying $15,000 ostrich coats now scrambling for money in 2016. this was also right at the time he joined the trump campaign to work for free and also at a time he helped a bank executive at bank who gave him a loan to get a job with the trump campaign,
very unusual and disturbing and worrisome given the unique vulnerability of donald trump to russian pressure. thanks very much. next, the revelation of manafort s trial, not how little money he had but how little he had when he went to work for donald trump, riches to rags tail. and you ll hear it when we come back about. also breaking news on alleged spy maria butina. what it might say about how russian intelligence operates in the u.s. but just one can behr through it all.