it basically sends the message to them, look, you guys can get away with all sorts of bad things to include trying to mess with our elections, getting guys like deripaska, being in contact with senior members of the trump team, guys like manafort, and you can get away with all that kind of stuff and you really won t have to pay much of a price for. but again, why our government doesn t do something about that, why this president who claims he s extremely strong against russia, this is an opportunity to really come down hard on one of putin s key lieutenants, and he hasn t done it. he s let him off the hook. steve hall, thank you very much. will congress do anything to get the truth behind rudy giuliani s ever-changing stories? i m going ask congressman raja krishnamoorthi next. i m alex trebek here to tell you
president s son and the head of the president s campaign and the president s son-in-law, all of those people were soliciting help, not just from some random russian but from the kremlin. as far as the manafort revelation today is concerned, what that shows is that the head of the president s campaign, almost certainly with the president s knowledge, was offering information about secret polling data in the united states to the kremlin. now, it s not that the kremlin makes a hobby of following american politics. the only point of giving them that data would have been to facilitate their intervention in our campaign. it was a quid pro quo because the other thing we learned from that inadvertent revelation was that part of this was involved with helping russia vis-a-vis ukraine. mmm-hmm. so all that s all that s
with them to the disadvantage of the u.s. criminal justice system. and the other thing, ari, is we learned that the prosecutors have some of her e-mail traffic between veselnitskaya and the russian prosecutor, and when i saw that i thought to myself, boy, we re going to be hearing a lot more moving forward about veselnitskaya s e-mails, i suspect. professor tribe, how do you view this in the larger context of these multiple investigations? ari, i view it as quite a bombshell. the veselnitskaya part is probably less profound than the manafort part, but i agree with glenn that veselnitskaya is now clearly exposed as an agent of the kremlin so that when an offer was made at that infamous trump tower meeting of e-mails from hillary clinton, the offer that donald jr. said he would
manafort. tonight we are learning why that cooperation deal completely fell apart. this is the first time we ve heard these details. mueller s investigators apparently saying manafort lied to them about how he shared polling data from 2016 with the kremlin-linked operative. so manafort was allegedly hiding his russian links, even after flipping, which makes the other news tonight even more intriguing. federal prosecutors indicting the russian you see on the screen in the upper right, that is the russian that paul manafort and others met with at trump tower. other key players like don jr. and jared kushner, she is indicted for obstruction. so before we go any further, why is this all coming out tonight? the indictment of the russian lawyer is public because the feds acted today, a deliberate development. the manafort news is different, an accident. this whole intricate story unraveling because paul manafort s own lawyers accidentally revealed what he was basically up to. so this was sup
redacted. we ll show it to you. in manafort s response to mueller accusing him of breaking that cooperation deal, we see manafort met with criminal-linked operative const konstantin kilimnik in madrid. that s not all. this was during the 2016 campaign. paul manafort forking over polling data. not only did manafort allegedly hand off political intel to this russian operative, well, that sounds a little suspicious, right? but according to bob mueller, manafort would then try to cover it up. now prosecutors bear down on that kind of lying because it suggests the defendant has decided it s better to risk committing a new crime of lying to the feds than coughing up the truth. the crime of obstruction is also exactly what the new york feds are using here as i mentioned the russian lawyer from the trump tower meeting. they allege she was intentionally misleading and fabricating evidence from the russian government in secret cooperation with a senior