A look at the days top news and headlines. The nation outline the Trump Interference in upcoming mid terms voicing concerns about threats and saying our democracy is in the crosshairs. Election infrastructure is not a destination. It requires aggressive and ongoing vigilance. Everyone must play their role to ensure that every vote is counted. Dana unprecedented briefing from all of those intelligence officials at the highest level coming to the briefing room, making a show of United Support and coordination at the highest levels of our government with Sarah Sanders explaining that the goal of this is to protect the 2018 elections, the 2020 elections and those in the future. They have their work cut out for them. We are less than 100 days away from the 2018 election. And joining me now is chief White House Correspondent john roberts live with more. Im just going to turn it over to you, john there was a lot there. I have a couple of questions that i want to talk about aside from the elec
A news and interview program, anchored by Erin Burnett. Admitted to lying about and cheating. It doesnt get more clear than that. Is manaforts bet at this Point Go For Pardon from the president . Or is it what, have people think gates is a worse liar . Whats the strategy . I mean, the pardon play is a lot of moves out here. So i think the strategy seems to be to run down gates to say, you know, i was just a patsy. I wasnt that hands on, which was contradicted by his own bookkeeper and i was the victim of gates nefarious activity. The problem is here, first of all, everybodys dirty. This is only the best people, erin. As we say. Only the best people. But it also really does show the way that the International Political consultant class really has become a grift. These folks, really, they talk about populism, they use it as a political strategy, but they are making more money than most working folks will ever see in their life in a year and still go broke. Thats how corrupt and incompete
ranking member of the house intelligence the house intelligence committee rehashing the same bizarre debunked conspiracy theory about the 2016 election interference that donald trump apparently believes, that it was ukraine and not russia who attacked our 2016 election. not surprisingly the source of that theory from the upside downturns out to be russia. specifically the russian intelligence service. what we now know is that now jailed former trump campaign chairman paul manafort got this idea, the blame ukraine fixation from yukranian businessman who manafort used to do work for and who has tie to russian intelligence. ambassador yovanovitch repeatedly reminded congress and the american public why this false idea plays right into russia s hands. now, how would this theory of ukraine interference in the 2016 election be in vladimir putin s interest? well, i mean, president putin
simple. and then this is the what s emerging out of the investigation into it. what makes this all so nuts, what may make this particularly galling and upsetting to the white house to learn that there s a live and professional counterintelligence investigation into what happened here, is that this cast of characters is really familiar. we didn t know lev and igor before but we kind of knew everybody else. when then-candidate donald trump picked paul manafort to be his campaign chairman back in 2016, we soon learned that manafort had gigantic outstanding financial obligations to a couple of pro-putin billionaires in the part of the world where he used to work before trump brought him onboard to run his own campaign. one of the guys who manafort appeared to have a large financial obligations to is this guy, dmytro firtash. firtash was one of the major funders of the pro-putin political party that paid paul manafort all those millions of dollars that paul manafort received while he was
i mean, what makes what makes this all so nuts, right, i mean, impeachment thing is very simple. and then this is the what s emerging out of the investigation into it. what makes this all so nuts, what may make this particularly galling and upsetting to the white house to learn that there s a live and professional counterintelligence investigation into what happened here, is that this cast of characters is really familiar. we didn t know lev and igor before but we kind of knew everybody else. when then-candidate donald trump picked paul manafort to be his campaign chairman back in 2016, we soon learned that manafort had gigantic outstanding financial obligations to a couple of pro-putin billionaires in the part of the world where he used to work before trump brought him onboard to run his own campaign. one of the guys who manafort appeared to have a large financial obligations to is this guy dmitry firtash.