Operation is underway in northern iran. After a Helicopter Crash involving iranian president ebrahim raisi. The aircraft went down early this morning after the president and other officials attended a ceremony for the opening of a new near the border with azure by john. At this time, raisis condition is unknown and rescuers are having difficulty reaching the crash shite because of the heavy fog and the bad weather russia, a close ally to iran, has announced it will send to advanced aircrafts and 50 additional Mountain Rescuers to help with those search efforts. Thats according to Iranian State news, seen as nic robertson, ies tracking the story closely, he is joining us now with the latest nick. It seems like were entering about our 13 now. Since this chopper went down, what more do you know . Yeah. And a couple of hours since we had conflicting information from the Islamic Revolutionary guard corps in East Azerbaijan province there in the very northwest of iran. They said that they re
it makes sense. both paul manafort and michael cohen were in touch with a twes. what the nature of that contact was and what they were trying to do with the white house. was the white house trying to shape their testimony with respect to cohen as he testifieds before the hill and manafort as he cooperated in quotes with mueller and if there is evidence, a big word if, the he was present said his. his part. and that s the most legally problematic thing you will face, far more so than collusion allegations. this wds be witness fachlering.
it is clear that s between the line oz of what mueller s saying. with respect to cohen and manafort, that their lie thing to public. they re lie thing to public so distracted the investigators from their core mission and that interfered with their investigation and that could give rise to obstruction. ken starr said the same thing during bill clinton. so it s not clear to me that mueller will not take the same view, that all of these lies trying to divert the attention of the american people and make the job more difficult for investigators isn t part of the mosaic of what he will look at as obstruction. in the cohen documents, it says
no collusion. we should clarify what was filed yesterday was a sentencing dox kbrmt stens manafort and cohen. thoseige no way are the frinl reort we re expecting him to put out. that is thought the final verdict whether if anyone cucluded with with russians. i did want to pountd out that sharau daegz sanders in manafort, she seng ezs that s because of toys cohen engthes. the continuing danformation. and she goes on to suggest that
and we also learned manafort has ben unfrontf oa flep? we know from the filings in this case, cohen and manafort and flynn that this is an ongoing criminal investigations. we don t know where in the justice department is hd take eng. the fact he s testifying in front of charged jury. it s leakly to result in annen entitlement. this is a very live, criminal investigation and a lot of people would and quickly before we go, what about congressional republicans. where is the red line for them, do you think?