federal trial and reduced his time in prison. he said he would cooperate napt should have really helped him. he only said he would cooperate. he didn t actually go on to really cooperate with prosecutors. prosecutors would soon be back telling the court that manafort, despite this plea agreement, despite his cooperation pledge, he repeatedly lied to those prosecutors he was supposed to be cooperating with. he didn t give them any useful information they could use for other prosecutions or for the broader mueller inquiry. in fact, those prosecutors told the court that manafort used his supposed cooperation agreement to help other subjects of the inquiry who were possibly in prosecutors cross hairs. specifically, they said he back channeled to the trump white house information about what mueller s investigators were asked. what they were looking for. what they were zeroing in on in their investigation that might be particularly relevant to the fate of president trump. because of manafor
possesses. to which the president replied, i don t care. i believe putin. if that is the case, and this is one man s read out of the meeting, how concerning is that to you? i think this has been a concern of mine and many folks in the national security space on both sides of the aisle that the president has both publicly attacked our intelligence services and publicly basically said i don t believe them overseas in front of vladimir putin and in this case if that were one more extension of napt so it s very, very concerning. they have to fix this. the best place you can go to get that kind of information, remember, intelligence isn t a perfect picture. sometimes they don t get it right. but they have all kinds of sources of collection that they cull together and then analyze to give policymakers like the president of the united states the best understanding of what the security threat or
investigation part of it, meaning the grand jury is winding done, all the sentencing is what happens to that report? and if that takes many more months after rosenstein is gone, how does barr handle that? i think that s the big questions senators are asking? because where does the report go? ultimately this becomes a political process if there s every going to be impeachment. that s an irve fssue for the ho and snapt. and the personover seeing it can make the decision about what gets into a report, what is ultimately sent up to congress, what becomes public. and that s why his opinions about whether obstruction of justice is a fair game in this investigation, whether this has become a witch-hunt, the hopeful sign is just that, is that rosenstein has said well, he doesn t know everything and then he faullls into line once he kns the whole line of investigation. the other big thing that has come out, paul manafort, the former campaign chair of the trump campaign, his lawyers
again. that s right. and according to our reporting, this, as much as there are certainly overtones here, tactical overtones, the decision to fire sessions was almost instinctual move by the president who has wanted to do this for months. he was tired of having the guy around. so upset by sessions decision to recuse himself napt was the original sin he could never forgive. as you know, for months, he wanted to do it and was talked out of it by his closest aides inside and outside of the white house. rudy giuliani told me he had to repeatedly tell him, don t do it. it s the worst thing you can do for this probe. and trump agreed begrudgingly to hold off for a little bit. the votes were still being counted in the midterms and he agreed to hold off until then and then decided enough is enough. now it has this repercussion effect and this went into the thinking as to what now for the mueller probe. and there are people around him alarmed by this decision to do
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