good morning, from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters here in new york. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. the white house wanted this week to be about the republican tax plan and the president's trip to asia. washington is trying to digest the criminal charges from robert mueller criminal investigations. chair paul manafort and an associate are under house arrest. while former trump adviser george papadopoulos pled guilty, in a criminal case potentially linking the trump campaign to the kremlin. >> good morning. the white house insists this doesn't have anything to do with the president and is pointing fingers at the clinton campaign. the white house is dismissing itself from the first charges. the investigation into a possible connection between the trump campaign and russia. the president tweeted, in part, sorry, this is years before paul manafort was with the trump campaign. also, there is no collusion. manafort, along with his business partner, rick gates face money laundering and conspiracy. they both pleaded not guilty. >> there is no evidence mr. manafort or the trump campaign colluded with the russian government. >> reporter: george papadopoulos was revealed to have pleaded guilty earlier this month. he admitted to lying with dealings with the russians to the fbi. the white house insists investigators are looking in the wrong direction. >> there's clear evidence of the clinton campaign colluded. >> hillary clinton, at an event, called it a clear and present danger to western democracy and criticized the president for not coming down harder for its interference. >> trump is ignoring the intelligence community about the threat. >> reporter: lawmakers from both sides of the aisle warned against firing robert mueller. the white house suggested they have no plans to pursue either. the indictment lays out 12 counts including conspiracy with the united states and conspiracy to launder money. according to the indictment, manafort is accused of laundering more than $18 million. >> thank you, hannah. it is the indictment of george papadopoulos that may lead to the heart of the mueller investigation. did russia work with the trump campaign? despite brokering connections with russians, more senior cam pin officials knew about it. >> reporter: president trump showcased his foreign policy team for editors on march 21st, 2016. among them, a political unknown in his late 20s. >> george papadopoulos is an energy consultant, excellent guy. >> reporter: papadopoulos admits he went to work right away, setting up meetings with russian operatives who said they had dirt on then candidate, hillary clinton, including thousands of e-mails. two months passed before the democratic national committee blamed russians for hacking their computers and stealing data. according to papers, papadopoulos had been e-mailing and meeting with russian contacts regularly. a former assistant director of the fbi. what does it suggest the russians were trying to do by reaching through him to the trump campaign? >> they were dangling bait to someone who appeared to be willing to grab that bait and pull the two orbits closer. >> reporter: he met his main contact in london. he also met with a female russian national he initially believed was a relative of vladimir putin. they allege pop papadopoulos cultivated the relationships. the russians composed a high level meeting. the trump campaign rebuffed requests. on july 14th, papadopoulos told the russians a meeting has been approved from our side. that meeting never happened, but others did, including june 9th at trump tower when jared kushner and paul manafort met with them claiming they had dirt on hillary clinton. they had been ducking reporters asking about a publisher. last week, he wanted recommendations for a speaker. he won't be sentenced until the mueller investigation is over. he is already contemplating a future of books and speeches. cbs news, washington. >> the cbs news legal correspondent james crawford says the first three indictments are just the beginning of a long process. >> the lawyers say the indictment of manafort and the plea deal with papadopoulos have a common purpose. that's shake trees and get with it to cooperate with the broader investigation. papadopoulos met with government lawyers and cooperating after his arrest in july. manafort and gates so far have not. now, the threat of prosecution or jail time could cause them to flip, if they have information mueller would be interested in. it's a common approach in wide ranging investigations. they are not just one big case filed at the end, but a series of interim cases throughout. >> one former prosecutor told cbs news the investigation is going ahead. there's been fallout from the manafort/gates indictment. to tony podesta stepped down from a group. mueller is investigating work podesta did on behalf of manafort for the ukraine government. his brother, john, served as hillary clinton's campaign chairman and adviser to president barack obama. russian election activity. executives from facebook, twitter and google will testify about activity on their services surrounding the 2016 election. facebook says the russian group posted more than 80,000 times on its service reaching 126 million users. a militant suspected in the attack on the u.s. compound in benghazi, libya five years ago has been captured and is expected to be brought to the united states in two days. it's not clear how he was involved in the attack in 2012. four americans, including ambassador chris stephens was killed. he will face trial in u.s. district court in the district of columbia. bergdahl's sentencing hearing will continue today. he unexpectedly testified today, apologizing to the military personnel who were wounded searching for him. he left his post in afghanistan and held by the taliban for five years. what is left of a severe storm system is expected to exit the northeast of the united states today. strong and sometimes hurricane force winds and drenching rain hit the region yesterday. there was widespread flooding. by yesterday afternoon, 1.2 million homes and businesses were without power in a half does zen states. utility companies warned power for some could be out for days. some new england towns pushed back halloween due to safety concerns. coming up on the morning news, new problems for kevin spacey. an award is revoked and show is ending. transgender service members score a legal victory. this is the "cbs morning news." when you brush or floss you may have gum problems and could be on the journey to much worse. help stop the journey of gum disease. try parodontax toothpaste. ♪ if you have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis,... ...isn't it time to let the real you shine through? 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campaign or campaign activity. >> reporter: the white house strategy to down play connections to the three men ran into facttual problems. sarah huckabee sanders insists george papadopoulos had little interest on the campaign. >> a volunteer on a counsel that met once. >> his activities were of his invention? nobody asked him to do these things? >> he asked to do things. he was pushed back or not responded to in any way. any actions he took would have been on his own. >> reporter: the papadopoulos plea agreement says he was not rebuffed by the campaign, quite the opposite. a trump campaign supervisor told papadopoulos, quote, i would encourage you to pursue contact with russians and that he had done great work. papadopoulos attended this foreign policy meeting with candidate trump in 2016. >> paul manafort has done an amazing job. where is paul? >> reporter: the white house tried to distance themselves from him? >> he played a limited role for a limited time. >> reporter: he served as 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