did he offer you those private briefings to try and repay some of that debt to you? is that why he offered them? get lost, please. thank you. he told cnn the oligarch was never offered briefings by manafort. manafort has denied that he was in debt to him during the trump campaign and afterwards but he has admitted that manafort offered the briefings. manafort was also at the trump tower meeting with the russians in june 2016. mr. kushner, will you sign my russian flag? please, sign my russian flag. and so was the president s son-in-law, jared kushner. do you have any comment, mr. kushner? kushner hasn t been charged with any crimes but troubling questions have been raised about his connections to russia. jared kushner is incredibly important for several reasons. he s a witness to virtually all the central issues in this
months ago. breaking and stunning news, the release of an e-mail chain from last june. that the world first learned about the trump tower meeting. e-mails revealed that donald trump jr. went into a meeting with a russian lawyer. the president s son had a secret meeting with russians. clearly told she was working for the kremlin and that she had damaging information on hillary clinton. and it wasn t just don jr. paul manafort and jared kushner were there, too. the subject line of the e-mail chain, russia-clinton, private and confidential. i thought it might have been fake. russia-clinton private and confidential? who follows them down that rat hole? not very smart people. what? seriously, what? some of the e-mails read like a script for a bond movie, but they were written by rob
appointment of a special counsel. this is huge. this is a significant step. we re learning that the deputy attorney general rod rose nstei robert mueller to oversee the investigation of. hat would not have happened had president trump not fired james comey. still ahead, chasing an oligarch. is it true that mr. manafort owed you millions of dollars when he was the head of the trump campaign? to chase down the real story. did he offer those private briefings to you as a way to try and repay that debt? on all the president s men. will you sign my russian flag? please, sign my russian flag.
coordinated with trump s transition team. the white house cannot argue this was michael flynn going off as a loose cannon here. a white house lawyer claimed that flynn s guilty plea didn t implicate anyone else. but mueller only charged him with one count. so it possible that mueller has an even bigger story to tell. paul manafort, the president s former campaign chairman is also facing possible jail time. he s charged with money laundering millions of dollars, concealing his work for a foreign government and conspiring against the united states. he has pleaded not guilty. the special counsel makes a very aggressive argument that this is someone who can t be trusted. manafort made a lot of his money working for this man,
putin s ally, victor jarn covism, the former president of ukraine. he was a strong man who presided over a deadly crackdown against pro tessetesters in the streets kiev. he left his country in disgrace. manafort had helped bring him to power. paul manafort has for decades been the washington lobbyist and influence peddler around the world for a lot of the most vicious dictators we ve seen. the question is was manafort also linked to russia s strong man, vladimir putin? are there any ties between mr. trump, you and your campaign and putin and his regime? no, there are not. it absurd and there s no basis to it. but u.s. intelligence saw a different story. agents intercepted