Correct. You found in your investigation july 27th, candidate trump called on russia to hack Hillary Clintons email for the first time they did about five hours later, correct . Thats correct. You found august 2 that mr. Manafort met with a person tied to russian intelligence, mr. Kilimnik, gave him internal Campaign Strategy where russia was intending to do a misinformation campaign. Im not certain of the tie. The fact of the meeting yes, that is accurate. Your investigation as i understand it also found that in late summer of 2016, the Trump Campaign in fact devised its strategy and messaging around Wikileaks Releases of materials that were stolen from the Democratic National committee, correct . Is that from the report . Yes. According to mr. Gates. Yes. Thank you. You also talked earlier about the finding in your investigation in september and october of 2016, donald trump jr. Had email communications with wikileaks now indicted about releasing information damaging to the clinton c
Furious this morning with just hours to go until a debate and vote on the rules for president Trumps Senate impeachment trial. Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell released his rules proposal last night, and democrats are calling it deeply unfair. Senate democratic leader Chuck Schumer says the mcconnell resolution shows he is, quote, going along with trumps coverup hook, line and sinker. When you look at his resolution its no wonder he delayed it until the last minute. He didnt want people to study it or know about it. After reading mcconnells resolution its clear mcconnell is hell bent on making it much more difficult to get witnesses and documents and intent on rushing the trial through. Senior Congressional Correspondent manu raju has the latest from capitol hill. Good morning, laura and ryan. Now just hours before the senate trial is officially set to begin, Mitch Mcconnell unveiled the resolution detailing the parameters of how the trial would actually take shape. And under the
So grateful to have you with us. Thank you for being here. Im christi paul. Im Martin Savidge in for victor blackwell. Big day today. House democrats have until 5 00 pm to file their impeachment trial brief. Theyre expected to send over the legal arguments ahead of the president s trial in the senate, of course. Late last night, democrats released new documents and Text Messages from indicted Rudolph Giuliani associate lev parnas. They appear to show possible surveillance of marie yovanovitch, the former u. S. Ambassador to ukraine who was fired by President Trump. All of this as the president s beefed up legal team filled with what many are calling madefortv lawyers who are prepared to defend him. At the end of the day, there is a pretty great team here. It is, indeed. Lets begin with the new documents that the house released last night. Cnn has details. Reporter House Democrats released new documents on friday night as part of their push to have the president removed from office ahea
See a broader expansion on what were going to see them lay out when they get to the senate floor. Thats going to be interesting to watch. If you want to know what is going behind the scenes from the preparation perspective, top lawyers from the House Judiciary Committee walked behind me, going into speaker pelosis office now, were expecting at 11 00 a. M. The house managers get a tour of the senate floor, looking at the lay of the land, where they spend the next couple of weeks. A lot of behind the scenes going on now, important filings, but still not totally clear as you noted what the actual rules will be when the trial starts tomorrow. You told me mcconnell will hold the rules until he starts tomorrow, play his cards close to his chest. Schumer telegraphing hes going to push for a vote to immediately call for witnesses in this process. What is going to happen if he pushes for that vote . Thats exactly right this is going to get interesting early there is misconception about when vot
Tomorrow minnesota will resume Retail Shopping with social distancing. In south florida, many businesses in miami dade and broward counties will begin reopening. In West Virginia gyms will reopen. Health officials continue to warn that this is all quite risky. The cdcs director dr. Robert redfield says his agency is tracking 12 different forecast models for coronavirus deaths. As of last monday, all the models predict a rising death toll topping 100,000 by june. Meanwhile, President Trump faces more criticism for his handling of the pandemic. This time from his predecessor. Former president obama slid a notatall thinly veiled critique into a Virtual High School commencement speech that aired here last night. More than anything, this pandemic has fully finally torn back the can you remember ton on the idea that so many of the folks in charge know what theyre doing. A lot of them arent even pretending to be in charge. All those adults, they used to think were in charge and knew what they