the russian investigation and the corresponding lack of answers from the white house. the latest developments center on paul manafort and julian assange. when we left you last night manafort had just been accused in a court filing of repeatedly lying to investigators there by breaching his plea deal with the special counsel. today this, britain s guardian newspaper reporting manafort met secretly with assange several times in london. according to the guardian one such meeting took place around march 2017 weeks before wiki leaks released democratic e-mails. the guardian says it is unclear why manafort saw assange and what was discussed and should point out that both strongly deny the meeting ever took place at all. manafort says he doesn t know assange. separately cnn has learned team
my sense of it all day long during that briefing was that sarah sanders was being very careful, perhaps more careful than i have seen her before in answering the questions. sarah sanders says they are ready for the mueller investigation to wrap up. she didn t say whether the president would encourage paul manafort to cooperate. that s right, i asked that question. she very studiously avoided recommending that paul manafort cooperate with the mueller investigation. she went on to say that the white house is cooperating and feel like they re cooperating in producing documents and answers and so on in this investigation. but no question about it, anderson, a cynic out there could look at that answer and say, okay, not only is she not recommending that manafort cooperate with the mueller investigation, she could be sending the signal that he should not cooperate with the mueller investigation and that is the reason why there is so much speculation and conversation here in washington th
head in some way, shape or form. when sarah sanders was asked about that she said she knew of no conversations about pardons going on inside the white house. jim acosta, thanks very much. we have breaking news on all of this, here is what the president s tv lawyer rudy giuliani, told the wall street journal. he said, i m quoting, right now would not be the time. it s my job as his private lawyer to tell him he should not consider it now because it would be misunderstood. it doesn t mean you give away your presidential prerogative to do it at the right time. manafort, he said, should get the same consideration as anyone else. we ve got quite a group to talk about this. carrie cordero is here, malik henderson, former senator rick santorum, jen sakki. nonlegal term. is this a non-sketchy reason paul manafort would have had meetings? this is guardian reporting, we
whoever wins will claim victory after a campaign that saw shadows of mississippi s segregationist past resurface, most recently in the form of nooses hanging from trees. we ll bring you live updates as the totals start coming in. president trump has given a new interview. he has made news doing that. first, keeping them honest. potentially big new questions in the russian investigation and the corresponding lack of answers from the white house. the latest developments center on former trump campaign chairman paul manafort and wikileaks founder julian assange, who is still holed up in ecuador s embassy in london where he s been hiding for years. when we left you last night manafort had just been accused in a court filing of repeatedly lying to investigators thereby breaching his plea deal with the special counsel. britain s guardian newspaper reporting manafort met secretly with assange several times in london. according to the guardian one such meeting took place around march 2016,
wikileaks released democratic e-mails believed stolen by russian intelligence officers. the guardian says it s unclear why manafort saw assange or what was discussed. both wikileaks and manafort strongly, strongly deny the meeting ever took place at all. manafort says he doesn t know assange. separately cnn has learned team mueller has been looking into a meeting manafort had last year with ecuador s president. a source with personal knowledge of the matter telling us investigators specifically asked manafort whether they discussed assange or wikileaks. clearly any possible connections between the trump campaign and wikileaks appear to be a focus for the special counsel. we already know what the president thought about wikileaks during the campaign. in short, he was kind of a vocal fan. this just came out. wikileaks, i love wikileaks. this wikileaks stuff is unbelievable. another one came in today. this wikileaks is like a treasure trove. getting off the plane they were just announ