there is one crime alleged that has to do during paul manafort s time with the trump campaign. basically it was manafort, he was broke, he was going loan to loan, trying to get a loan to a small bank from chicago. he wanted to give the head of a bank a position on the president s economic advisor council which he did do, and said he would have a big position in the administration which he did not get. that is the only thing that occurred at the time that manna for was with the trauma campaign. the bigger issue, of course, this so-called trump russia investigation and it has nothing to do with the collusion to influence the election. shannon: we are learning a lot, charles, we are hearing a lot of juicy, salacious details where gates is the key witness. he took a plea deal, a partner with manafort.
rationale for this investigatio investigation, he s precisely right about that, if the hacking conspiracy and there hasn t been any evidence at least that we know of that ties either the president or anyone in the trauma campaign to that. so the reason this is relevant is a prosecutor should not get to interview the president. this would be an easy one if they were trying to interview a journalist. he would say there needs to be a serious crime and there needs to be some showing that the journalist is the only repositories, the only source of the information that the prosecutor has available. can t get it from anywhere else. you don t just get to interview the president because you think it would be interesting. you have to show sandra: they are leaving the president and his legal team hanging here, as peter doocy just reported. does this happen or not? i don t think i ve never thought it should happen but as i said at the beginning, i can understand both sides because if i wer
questions about his central role in both the investigations related to hillary clinton and the investigations related to the trauma campaign and a so-called russian collusion. these are questions not about the substance of that second investigation, but about the process of his getting involved in that. and they are advising him not to answer those questions. i think that s inappropriate and certainly not helpful to our investigation in the congress. martha: it so i would surmise that the nature of those questions had something to do with the neat initiation of all of this and whether or not he authorized or initiated any informants to try to interact with members of the time campaign or to try to create a pretext for the investigation. were questions along those lines answered today? there were lots of questions like that and the fbi is instructing mr. strzok not to answer many questions. at this time i can t get into the details but it s a serious