evidence there already. the question is was he doing any of that while he was in the campaign, and it is definitely a question that goes directly to the heart of collusion of direct assistance being solicited from russia. about this whole thing,coming out now, the mumueller investig has been kept so quiet. how they describe how this came about was so interesting. according to the new york times, according to questions read by the special counsel investigators, to the president s lawyers, who compiled them into a list. that document was provided to the times by a person outside of mr. trump s legal team. so where does this come from then? a good question. the mueller team is pretty tight. i know just in having spent, you know, over a year now reporting this. exactly. but we know based on some of our reporting that when the teams met, the mueller team and the trump team met to discuss
and didn t pursue investigations so there are some major questions that are outstanding and in my humble opinion the work of the committee is incomplete. shannon: the ranking committee said in part to determine if evidence of collusion reaches the level of proof beyond reasonable doubt of conspiracy we have to wait for the report of robert mueller since the majority refuse to interview the witnesses and obtain documents necessary to find out. your reaction and the last we heard she had not been questioned by the special counsel investigators. director mueller, it will be fascinating to see what he comes to and some people were not interviewed indifference to director mueller but the committee, 75 interviews, there were countless hours, this has
to work. the investigation continues, of course, and police say they will have further updates throughout the night. we ll bring those to you here on fox news. bret? bret: claudia cowan live on scene. thank you. back to other news. a lawyer with ties to form a campaign chairman paul manafort is headed for prison. catherine herridge is live tonight with a landmark decision in the russian special counsel investigation. good evening, catherine. this morning, 33-year-old entered federal court where he was sentenced to lying to federal investigations investi. a maximum five years in prison. he got 30 days in prison, $20,000 fine and two months of supervised release. the dutch lawyer worked with rick gates, former business partner of paul manafort. gates is now cooperating with special counsel investigators. mr. van der zwaan also worked with paul manafort, who is briefly the chairman and now faces money laundering and tax fraud charges. based on court filings, special
one signal the president is going to become more aggressive in his approach to the special counsel investigators. john dowd had been taking the lead in those discussions about the terms of an interview between the president and the special counsel investigators. now that work falls largely to joseph digenova, the fox news regular who espouses conspiracy theories about how the president is victim to an fbi plot to take him down. completely unproven. don t forget marc kasowitz is still in the president s orbit. he s a tough talker who was the lead lawyer up until july when he stepped away, but we understand he s had the president s ear since then. and he can be bringing folks to the team as well. and all of this is shaking out as the trump legal team is trying to really put limits on the scope of this interview between the president and robert mueller. now you have ted olsen that has said know. you wonder, jonathan, what heavy hitter with real experience is likely to come on board?
feel he could guide the team and dowd was frustrated with the president bringing in new attorneys and it is a sign that the president is becoming more aggressive in his approach to the special counsel investigators. remember this past week the president brought in joe digenova, the lawyer who has espoused unfound conspiracy theories and mark kasowitz who stepped down in july from the legal team handling russia investigation matters but we understand kat kasowitz could come back into the fold. all of this shaking out as the president edges closer to agreeing to an interview with special counsel robert mueller. geoff, and in the shadow of this, the president announced something that we ve been expecting all week is that is the big tariffs on china. we ll talk in more details later on about what that means. but ultimately, there is even a break in the white house about