restructuring and governance changes that severed his control. democrats are mulling over whether to push back against the sanctions relief for the russian companies that was announced last month. one of the oligarchs denies receiving polling data from manafort. the revelations raise questions about why manafort shared that sensitive internal data from the campaign with pro-russian ukrainians. you are getting significant information, pamela, that the president s lawyers are concerned that his public statements over the past year or two, his tweets, his various lies, could be used by the special counsel robert mueller and his team potentially as evidence of obstruction of justice or witness tampering. that s right, wochlf. it could be seen as an effort to influence witnesses and obstruct justice. according to multiple people familiar with this
counsel. and it s time now for our sunday group. gop strategist karl rove, former democratic congresswoman jane harman, julie pace, washington bureau chief for the associated press and author of the deep congressman jason chaffetz. well, julie, paul manafort has long ties to pro-russian ukrainians, he was one of the people who attended that trump tower meeting in june 20616. 2016. how significant, potentially, is his decision to cooperate with the special come, and how concerned are they in the white house by manafort s decision? i think there are a lot of unknowns here still. we don t know the extent of what paul manafort is going to be telling bob mueller. paul manafort be, but it s that unknown that s unnerving the white house. despite what the president and
armageddon. paul manafort close to a plea deal with prosecutors to avoid a second criminal trial. it s not clear if it would include cooperation in the russia investigation. he has a pretrial hearing today and a separate trial related to his lobbying for pro-russian ukrainians. jury selection in that trial is scheduled to begin monday. he easily beat actor and activist cynthia nixon who tried to position herself as a more progressive alternative. cuomo s win sets up a battle for the republican nomfly for ginee governor. that wraps it up for here in the studio. we got a heck of a gust, and i almost couldn t hear you, which is hard to do. thank you very, very much. this is hurricane florence.
and the way this has all unfolded, there is at least some basis to be paranoid. look, paul manafort is finishing his jury is in the third day of deliberation. if there was going to be a colluder within the trump campaign, it was going to be the guy who for years worked with the pro-russian ukrainians, paul manafort. they ve gone all the way through. they threatened him with everything they had, and there are no charges related in any way to the election, nothing. and papadopoulos, who we just saw the sentencing documents, you know, that came out from the prosecutor again. he s a big nothing-burger. listen, i get you. that s never been my bar as you know, ken. it s never been my bar is if you can t catch trump, then this probe is a waste. that s never been my bar. i m saying, bakari, we re dealing with a guy in the man of
i think remember in flynn s case, you had his son involved, and they were holding threats over his son over his head. that s a pretty common tactic. we ll drop all this stuff on all the people you care about if you just take the bullet. and, you know, that kind of tactic is not appropriate prosecution, but it is used. and from a prosecutor s standpoint, i ve worked with prosecutors. i ve managed prosecutors. sometimes they think that looks appropriate. and the way this has all unfolded, there is at least some basis to be paranoid. look, paul manafort is fini finishing his jury is in the third day of deliberation. if there was going to be a colluder within the trump campaign, it was going to be the guy who for years worked with the pro-russian ukrainians, paul manafort. they ve gone all the way through. they threatened him with everything they had, and there are no charges related in any way to the election, nothing.