interest. they are not calling the individual a suspect but it s somebody they want to bring in and somebody they want to talk to to see what they could have seen. they have brought in a couple individuals that could be that person. no information to bear there. they continue to work for the person in that video, chris. that is a frightening set of facts they are dealing with down there. another big headline for you. the podesta group says it s cooperating with bob mueller s investigation, and tony podesta is chairman of the firm. nbc news reports mueller s interests in podesta escalated into a criminal inquiry. cnn has been told the inquiry was always criminal this nature, and the podesta criminal investigation has grew to the manafort investigation.
hostile power to disrupt american democracy appears to be dwindling. this comes as nbc news reports mueller has expanded his investigation to include this man, veteran washington lobbyist tony podesta and his firm the podesta group for business conducted in ukraine. podesta is the brother of the clinton campaign manager john podesta who is not a part of this. according to the report, the investigation into tony podesta and his company began as a fact finding mission into a ukrainian nonprofit and paul manafort s role in the campaign. quote, this has now morphed into a criminal inquiry into whether the firm violated the foreign agents registration act. this is just one front of the russia story. and here to talk about all of it tonight, one of the coauthors of that report we just cited, nbc news national security and justice reporter julia anzly, also wall street attorney jill
and that tony podesta has been caught up with this means what about the mueller investigation? well, you know, i was just thinking brian about this new york city times piece talking about how it s become political on the hill. if anyone is concerned that mueller s investigation is politically motivated they need look no further than this probe into tony podesta. his brother worked as hillary clinton s campaign manager. he s been trumpeted liberal democratic causes for his whole career. it will ties to a pro russia political party and mueller is looking at his releases which he did not disclose until after it was publicly reported last august that he had worked for this organization and their ties. so as he started to look at manafort and he wanted to do more fact finding this came to light and now could lead to
this comes as nbc news reports mueller has expanded his investigation to include this man, veteran washington lobbyist tony podesta and his firm the podesta group for business conducted in ukraine. podesta is the brother of the clinton campaign manager john podesta, who is not a part of this. according to the report the investigation into him and his company began as a fact finding mission into a ukrainian non-profit and paul manafort s role into the campaign. this has now morphed into a criminal inquiry into whether the firm violated the foreign agent s registration act. here to talk about all of it tonight one of the coauthors of that report. so, julia, let s talk about this
mason analogy, hamilton berger who is the district attorney wouldn t even have to ask a question. right. just let the guy talk. he s talking himself special counsel s office made a request from the white house, donald trump jr. is meeting with russian lawyer in the summer of 2016 the washington post reports mueller asked the white house for any e-mail do you means that relates to paul manafort, according to two sources briefed open the q. the paper says less than two weeks before trump accepted the republican presidential nomination, his campaign chairman offered to provide briefings on the race to russian billionaire oleg deripaska, who is closely aligned with the kremlin. get this. go he s closely aligned. that s the first thing ronal reagan did.