A look at breaking news, politics and reports from around the world. Manafort would send me a list of wire requests. Gates admit that had he used information provided by manafort to create invoices for fake amounts of money but the money never went to the vendors, instead it went to the banks. The purpose of this, according to gates, so that the wire transfers would not be recorded on u. S. Business records. Nonetheless, prosecutors elicited testimony from mr. Gates and from one of mr. Manaforts accountants that tied manafort more closely to russia. The accountant testified that in 2006 mr. Manafort received a 10 million loan from a Russian Oligarch close to president Vladimir Putin. She said she saw no evidence the loan was ever repaid. The crossexamination today getting very personal at times. Gates forced to admit that more than a decade ago he had an
affair, that he financed this affair First Class Travel To London and an apartment in london but he insisted he did not use stolen money to finance the affair. The Defense Attorney pressing him to know about this secret life as the Defense Attorney described it, whether his wife knew about it. Gates said he did and throughout wolf gates saying that now, he is doing his best to take responsibility for all these things, that in a sense in essence is his argument to the jury as to why he should be believed now as the accounts what he says are Paul Manaforts alleged crime. Jim sciutto, thanks so much for that report. President trump meanwhile is hosting a group of ceos at his new Jersey Golf Club later tonight while his lawyers weigh whether he should talk to the Special CounselRobert Mueller. Lets go to our chief White House Correspondent jim acosta, hes in new jersey for us. The Washington Post now reporting that giulianis lawyer is reluctant to let the president be questioned about Obstruction Of Justice. Reporter thats right, wolf. A lot of concerns insides the president s legal team as to what questions could be asked. The president is expected to draegs those ceos at that dinner at his golf club within the next hour or so. That event has just been opened up to the cameras so we may get to see a bit of what the president has to say. We can expect him to talk up the economy, of course. Wolf, hes not been talking to reporters as hes been holed up in his golf course in new jersey. The president , though, is tweeting his support to some of his favorite candidates on the ballot today. An early test on whether hell help or hurt the republicans in upcoming midterms. As President Trump is taking shelter inside his new jersey golf course away from the president , an unmakeable president from the man overseeing the russian investigation, rod rosenstein, who told a group of Law Enforcement officials their job is to uphold the law regardless
of politics. Its our duty to enforce the laws and follow the facts wherever they may lead and we need to ensure that our decisions are never influenced by political considerations. Reporter the president s legal team says its nearing a decision on whether President Trump will sit down with Robert Mueller. Senator Lindsey Graham who just played golf with the president advised him to ride out the probe. Did trump ask that question . He mustve mentioned that about 20 times. I want to win in november. If we stop the Mueller Probe tomorrow, you wouldnt be able to talk about anything else. I would basically say, mr. President , were not going to let you anywhere near Robert Mueller. He knows a lot more about this this case, hes interviewed a lot more witnesses reporter a conservative judge was hardly reading from white house Talking Points when he suggested donald trump jr. Esmeeting with the russians in 2016 could amount to a criminal conspiracy. A meeting the president admits
was aimed at obtaining dirt on hillary clinton. There are federal statutes that prohibit receiving something of value from a foreign national, foreign entity or foreign government, so was the purpose of this meeting to receive something of value . Thats something Robert Mueller will have to look at. Laura ingraham tried to ask don jr. About the meeting the call was cut off. Do you want any comments on that, donnie . Theyre hitting you on that for contradictions, theyre calling it worse than contradictions. Hello . What is your reaction to all that . Well see if we can reconnect with donald trump jr. On this because we cant seem to hear him. He was back on the line to say his russian encounter didnt amount to much. 20 minutes meeting, it ended up being about essentially nothing that was relevant to any of these things and thats all it is and thats all theyve got. Reporter if thats the case, other trump allies argue there is no need to worry. What has them riled up is they feel cornered and its not clear to me theyre necessarily cornered as much as theres a fact finding expedition. Reporter the president has turned his attention to special elections across the country, from kansas where a fellow hard liner on immigration is running for governor to ohio where the gop candidate appears vulnerable in a district mr. Trump himself won by 11 points. We must elect more republicans and we must elect troy balderson. We have to elect troy. So get your friends, get your neighbors, get your family and get out and vote for troy on tuesday. Reporter democrats smell an upset so former Vice President joe biden has entered the fray with a last minute robocall. Electing danny to Congress Puts us one step closer to taking back the house and making sure we have leaders in washington who will fight for our values, ohio values. Reporter now some disappointing results for the president on this Election Night could begin to change the calculus in washington that mr. Trumps negatives are weighing down their chances of gaining control. That could be magnified further if the Mueller Probe moves closer to the white house. The president seems to be sounding out people as he talks to them over at his golf course about what he should do about the mueller investigation. Itll be interesting to see if he does indeed do more of that later on this evening when he meets with those ceos at his golf course, wolf . Thank you. Lets get some more on all of this. Jerry nadler of new york is joining us. Hes the top democrat, the Ranking Member of the house judiciary committee. Thank you so much for joining us. Thank you. Do you believe Robert Mueller should agree to an interview with the president without questions, specific questions, being asked about Obstruction Of Justice . I think mueller should insist
on asking the president any questions that he thinks relevant to his investigation, only he knows where the investigation is leading, only he knows what the evidence he already has is and only he can make that decision and the president is duty bound to answer any questions that the special prosecutor, Special Counsel, may ask. The president could drag this all out past the midterm elections in november, theres a good chance that democrats, they could win back the majority in the House Of Representatives which would make you the chairman of the house judiciary committee. As chairman, what actions would you take if the president refuses to comply with muellers request for an interview . If the president refuses to comply with muellers request for an interview, i would presume mueller would issue a subpoena. Theres well defined case law from the nixon case that paula jones case with clinton that he would get the subpoena and he would answer. Now, its beyond imagination that the president would defy a
subpoena from the court. He could appeal it, but if the court makes a final decision then he must comply with the subpoena. He would have to. That could go all the way to the Supreme Court for a decision, right . It could, although i think its a fairly open and shut case that would go very rapidly, i would think. Your colleague told me yesterday he fears that the makeup, the current makeup of the Supreme Court could bode well for the president. Thats speculation. It might. The fact is the nixon case was an 80 decision with four republican appointees, the case with bill clinton, the paula jones was pretty unanimous decision as i recall. Unless the court is really changed to where it wants to be and wants to say the president s above the law, i dont see that as likely that they Wouldnt Grant the subpoena. Some members of your party, the democratic party, they want to impeachment to be on the
at this point. We dont know a lot of the testimony, et cetera. Its certainly conceivable that cohen who is very close to the president in many ways for a long time could be a key witness. And particular, for example, as i recall, there is a statement or evidence or tape or something that cohen said that he was present, along with others, unnamed others, when the president agreed to that June 16th Meeting in trump tower and that would be key testimony if thats the case. As far as we know, mueller hasnt yet interviewed Michael Cohen, do you think mueller needs cohens testimony . That i dont know, because we dont know what he has already. Well, let me ask you a final question while i have you. The election tonight the special election in ohio, how do you think the democrats are going to do . Well, i think, you know, this is i think this is a district
that trump carried by 13 or 14 points. Its a district thats been republicans since 1982 and heavily so and the very fact that Danny Oconnor the democratic candidate is depending on the poll 1 point up or down is extraordinary. It shows that the democrats are way overperforming and if he wins itll be a tremendous victory. If he comes close, that will be a tremendous victory, an indication of that were likely to carry the house. The president carried that district by 11 points, but its been about 30 years since a democrat represented that congressional district. If we if the democratic candidate comes close or wins, that shows a massive shift in the republican district toward the democrats and it would be right in line with what weve seen in other special elections some of which weve lost, but in all of which weve way overperformed in prior years and if we do that with the same percentages in november, well
win a great victory. Lets see what happens. The polls close at 7 30 p. M. Eastern in ohio. Thank you for joining us. Thank you. Well have more on the possible trump mueller interview if negotiations were to fall apart, though, could it wind up before the Supreme Court . Well have more on the president s former lawyer and fixer, the Wall Street Journal now reporting that Michael Cohen is being investigated for tax fraud. To get your windshield fixed. With safelite, you can see exactly when well be there. Saving you time for what you love most. Kids whoa kids vo safelite repair, safelite replace
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lawyer Rudy Giuliani is reluctant to allow questions about Obstruction Of Justice should the president be interviewed by the Special CounselRobert Mueller. The president s legal team says it will have a decision on a possible interview soon. Lets get some more from lisa monaco, shes the former Homeland Security and counterterrorism adviser to president obama. Thank you very much for coming in. Youre now a Cnn National Security analyst. If they cant ask the president questions about Obstruction Of Justice, should there still be an interview . Should mueller agree to that . What youre seeing on the president s lawyers part is some posturing about these negotiations. Theyve now been going on if reports are accurate for months and what youre seeing from Director Mueller and his team is an effort to proceed in good faith to try and get information about the events that took place, both before and during the initial part of the president s term. So i think both sides are engaging in this. I think Director Muellers
looking to do this in good faith and trying to get as full a picture and set of facts as he can. But if the Interview Negotiations fall apart, this could potentially, if theres a subpoena, wind up before the u. S. Supreme court, what happens then . It could and thats the 50,000 question, right . Theres a number of variables, one of which is the confirmation of the nominee judge Brett Kavanaugh to go up to the Supreme Court. I think, you know, Congressman Nadler had it right. Theres pretty clear precedent here, notably with president clinton, a sitting president having to honor a subpoena. Now that was in a civil case where the governments interests are actually less significant than in a criminal case. So i think what youll see here is this play out and Robert Mueller and his team will proceed in good faith to try and assemble all the facts. What if the Supreme Court were to rule in the president s favor . I think its too soon to speculate on that. I think Robert Mueller and his team will put together certainly a report, thats what the Special Counsel regulations call for, then it will be up to Deputy Attorney general rod rosenstein, acting attorney general in this matter because of Jeff Sessionss recusal and itll be up to him to determine how much of that report to make public. I want to get your thoughts on current u. S. Efforts to make sure theres no russian meddling in the midterm elections coming up in november. We saw a big show of force over at the white house the other day. The president wasnt there but he authorized it. He gave the green light. Is enough being done right now . Look, i think that show of force last week was necessary, it was important and it was overdue. I think its also notable, wolf, that you saw included in that assembly in the Briefing Room was fbi director chris wray and it is exceptionally rare for an fbi director to appear in the Briefing Room and to do anything in front of a podium thats
other than the Department Of Justice or the fbi. So that was i think quite notable and it was a real show of force and it was important. Is the administration doing enough . In my view, no. I think there needs to be a unified voice. The president needs to lend his voice to this to make sure that theres no schism between him and his team. There should be a cybersecurity coordinator, they should restore that position in the white house so theres somebody in the white house who is coordinating all of this, a whole of government effort. There needs to be more funding for the state to sure up their Election Security and systems and, frankly, there needs to be a unified view and more work and information exchanged with the social media companies. We heard the director of National Intelligence dan coats say at that briefing that he wasnt in a position to, quote, understand fully what happened at the summit in helsinki between President Trump and Vladimir Putin. Shouldnt the top intelligence
officer in the u. S. Government be fully aware of everything that happened during that meeting . Yeah. Wolf, this is a real head snapper. This the statement from dan coats last week that he did not understand, was not in a position to know what transpired in that nearly two hour meeting between President Trump and our main adversary Vladimir Putin is really astonishing and, frankly, what it also says to me is, it was a real missed opportunity. Normally what you would see is first of all, there would be other officials in that room, people who can record Whats Going On, who can take notes, who can feed that back to our intelligence community, to our russia analyst and incorporate that in our plans and our thinking going fo