is the smoking gun about paul manafort, there s another thing dropping. we the first reported on tony podesta over a week ago, on october 24th. he s the brother of the clinton s former campaign manager, john podesta. tony podesta is now stepping down from his lobbying group because he is being investigated by the special counsel. as we have been reporting the probe into tony podesta and his lobbying group came about after mueller started looking into manafort s finances. nbc even pointed out podesta s group worked with manafort on a campaign, and nbc news even adds that mueller could be looking into whether podesta and his company violated fera. and poll lit at this co. is reporting that tony and john and blumenthal were all conveniently
about paul manafort, there is another major shoe dropping in these major democratic scandals. now, we first reported on tony podesta over a week ago october the 24th. he is the brother of former clinton campaign manager john poo desattachment according to politico john podesta is stepping down by from his lobbying group because is he being investigated by the special counsel. as we have been reporting the probe into podesta came about after mueller started looking into manafort s. they even european center for modern ukraine. and nbc news even adds that mueller could be looking into whether podesta and his company violated what s known as fara, the foreign agent s registration act. and politico is reporting that both tony and, yeah, john poo destax hillary s campaign manager and even said vicious blumenthal, they were all conveniently together this weekend at
podesta s company violated the foreign registration act after working on a ukrainian public relations campaign that was run by paul manafort. in a statement to nbc news, the spokesperson for the podesta firm is cooperating fully with the special counsel s office and is taking every possible step to provide documentation that confirms a timely compliance. the spokesperson for mueller s office declined to comment. and we ve got some news coming in just the last couple minutes here. army sergeant beau bergdahl s sentencing hearing is being delayed. it was set to happen today and is pushed until wednesday morning. bergdahl was expected to face a military judge just within the last couple of minutes here for endangering his come raptd rrad afghanistan. morgan radford is live for us. why did the judge delay the sentencing? tell us what is going on there. reporter: well, it s all based on emotion that was filed
jump-starting the second term with executive actions. it s the president s best shot of governing, making an impact, given the increasingly dim chance of a congress in the coming years. i will say full disclosure, i ve known john podesta for a very long time. he s a family friend of ours us. fascinating mover and shaker, powerful in washington but remains behind the scenes in terms of exerting his power in the way many other things in washington are more extroverted. analyzing what podesta s role will be, wants him to maximize use of executive authority to respond to the scale of the climate change challenge. whether podesta can get president obama to do this is a separate question but the fact podesta sees that as the goal itself is important. how influential you ve worked with john. you know him. how influential do you think he can be in terms of moving president obama measurably on