and the holidays about r about to arrive in new york city. here s a live look at 30 rock where the rockefeller center tree will be growing bright in just a few hours so the prelude, your appetizer, is the white house. the main course is rockefeller center. that s at 8:00 p.m. eastern on your nbc network. that s all we have for tonight, back with more mpt daily. the beat starts right now. bob mueller s information hitting a fever pitch. trump talking about a pardon for manafort. jerome corsi leaking the draft plea deal in statement offense he was offered by mueller and he joins me live tonight. we also later have news on manafort s alleged lies to mueller and how they may backfire. we begin with this breaking news in the russia probe. washington on edge right now over this truly unusual news. convicted felon paul manafort busted for feeding information back to trump while claiming to
new york times, is with us now. peter, to borrow from a bumper sticker phrase, today is the first day of the rest of his presidency. but put a final point on it. how did president trump s life change as of today. well, you played the clip earlier much john kelly saying how distracting this is. now we have in fact a possible trial of his former campaign chairman. now that we have the knowledge that witnesses are in fact talking to robert mueller and they re telling him things that we didn t know publicly before. you ve already said on your show already tonight george papadopoulos s indictment and guilty plea, you know, came as a shock. a shock to most of washington and certainly the white house, which had thought that they were going to get off today with just these financial charges against paul manafort and they d be able to say this has nothing to do with the president. what george papadopoulos admit today in that statement offense
first day of the rest of his presidency. but put a finer point on that. how did president trump s life change as of today? well, you played the clip earlier of john kelly, his chief of staff, saying how distracting this was for him. imagine how much more distracting it s going to be now that we have indictments. now that we have, in fact, a possible trial of his former campaign chairman. now that we have the knowledge that witnesses are in fact talking to robert mueller and they re telling him things we didn t know publicly before. you ve already said on your show tonight that george papadopoulos indictment and guilty plea, you know, came as a shock, a shock to most of washington and certainly even to the white house, which had thought that they were going to get off today with just these financial charges against paul manafort and they d be able to say, well, this has nothing to to with the president. what george papadopoulos admitted today in that statement offense that he signed
now that we have the knowledge that witnesses are in fact talking to robert mueller and they re telling him things we didn t know publicly before. you ve already said on your show tonight that george papadopoulos indictment and guilty plea, you know, came as a shock, a shock to most of washington and certainly even to the white house, which had thought that they were going to get off today with just these financial charges against paul manafort and they d be able to say, well, this has nothing to to with the president. what george papadopoulos admitted today in that statement offense that he signed is, in fact, he did make an effort on behalf of the campaign to get dirt on hillary clinton and kept top campaign people advised his of his progress.