joining us from washington, axios editor in chief. talk about our 1 big thing today. it s trump s 2019 foretold. we pulled all the subject matters to get a sense of what might be in the nustate of the union in 2020. some of the ones that scrum ed out on me on technical regulation, this is going to be a big year for privacy regulation, moving in congress as lawmakers learn more and more about what these giant tech companies know about us and what they re not telling us they know about us. also on big business, a big sweeping growth across the world, not ju the united statno states, about anti-trust regulation and find out if they need to be broken up.
weeks that in a number of the pleadings that mr. mueller s office has filed in court there have been significant redactions from those pleadings. presumably, those are there in order to protect the integrity of the investigation and not compromise further investigation. those same factors may be present at the time a final report is written because there may be investigations that will be ongoing and referred to other parts of the department of justice. paul: and even if the attorney general decided not to release the full report, presumably congress, the house of representatives could subpoena it, and knowing washington as you do, i mean, that s going to leak. the whole thing s going to leak. [laughter] that would be my conclusion. well, i you re probably right [laughter] based on empirical evidence of history. i would hope that would not be the case given the subject matters and rather that we would follow a process of law including concerning congressional access to
confirmed today that memo also will be made public, and it will layout in detail this is according to language of roberts mueller manafort s alleged crimes and lies about a variety of subject matters. okay. if you re donald trump, that is not good. remember, trump has already submitted written answers to mueller. he can t take those back. today after attacking michael cohen, trump then praised his former campaign advisor roger stone whose mueller team is investigating as it looks into possible trump/russia collusion. stone has vowed not to testify against trump, prompting trump to tweet, nice to know that some people still have guts. that s one way of putting it. earlier this year, stone wrote a book called stone s rules in which he laid out the maxims that have guided his eventful career. here s one of them. quote, admit nothing, deny everything, launch counterattack. admit nothing, deny everything, well, sounds familiar, doesn t it? during the campaign stone bragged about his c
according to language of roberts mueller manafort s alleged crimes and lies about a variety of subject matters. okay. if you re donald trump, that is not good. remember, trump has already submitted written answers to mueller. he can t take those back. today after attacking michael cohen, trump then praised his former campaign advisor roger stone whose mueller team is investigating as it looks into possible trump/russia collusion. stone has vowed not to testify against trump, prompting trump to tweet, nice to know that some people still have guts. that s one way of putting it. earlier this year, stone wrote a book called stone s rules in which he laid out the maxims that have guided his eventful career. here s one of them. quote, admit nothing, deny everything, launch counterattack. admit nothing, deny everything, well, sounds familiar, doesn t it? during the campaign stone bragged about his contacts with julian assange of wikileaks which of course released the e-mails that russia s
clinton campaign chairman john podesta. three months later in june of 2016, wikileaks communicated with russian hackers and began releasing stolen e-mails in july. manafort released a statement today through his spokesman saying this story is totally false and deliberately libelous. i have never met julian assange or anyone connected to him. i have reached out to assange or wikileaks on any matter. we are considering all legal options. likewise wikileaks tweeted they are, quote, willing to bet the guardian $1 million and the editor s head that manafort never met assange. well, this comes on the heels of last night s bombshell news that manafort s deal with the special counsel is kaput. incorporates say that despite agreeing to cooperate in change for a lighter sentence, manafort violated his plea grammy by lying to the fbi on a variety of subject matters. i m joined by betsy woodruff.