guil guilty. but does any of this have anything to do with russian collusion. joining us now, white house correspondent. so what does all of this mean today, this deal with gates and now the new charges against manafort? what does it add up to for the white house? it doesn t seem like it adds up to much of anything. it was really back when the two were initially brought under charges by mueller. but now the perception that the two of them were engaged in shady business practices before they were connected with the trump campaign is sort of baked into the cake. so make mueller is filing new charges against them, maybe particularly in the case of manafort there s no legal jeopardy. when it comes to president trump, i think the damage has been done and there s not a whole lot more that mueller can do there.
guil guilty. but does any of this have anything to do with russian collusion. joining us now, white house correspondent. so what does all of this mean today, this deal with gates and now the new charges against manafort? what does it add up to for the white house? it doesn t seem like it adds up to much of anything. it was really back when the two were initially brought under charges by mueller. but now the perception that the two of them were engaged in shady business practices before they were connected with the trump campaign is sort of baked into the cake. so make mueller is filing new charges against them, maybe particularly in the case of manafort there s no legal jeopardy. when it comes to president trump, i think the damage has been done and there s not a whole lot more that mueller can do there.
but no indictments related to collusion. we have tax invasion, those kinds of things, and lying to garrett investigators. right, mueller has unveiled no evidence so far of collusion. and if anything, if indictments he s handed down so far have worked to weaken the case of collusion. you look at the 13 indictments against russians last week hand down on friday and you see that mueller is claiming not only did he find no evidence of collusion but any contact between russians and associated of president trump. no americans were willing participants in this scheme. so i think that as we go along, we re seeing more and more that mueller has nothing that resemblings collusion. they show a large-scale criminal enterprise. if true, they also show
but no indictments related to collusion. we have tax invasion, those kinds of things, and lying to garrett investigators. right, mueller has unveiled no evidence so far of collusion. and if anything, if indictments he s handed down so far have worked to weaken the case of collusion. you look at the 13 indictments against russians last week hand down on friday and you see that mueller is claiming not only did he find no evidence of collusion but any contact between russians and associated of president trump. no americans were willing participants in this scheme. so i think that as we go along, we re seeing more and more that mueller has nothing that resemblings collusion. they show a large-scale criminal enterprise. if true, they also show