A look at Breaking News, politics and reports from around the world. Trump is being urged to stop tweeting about the 2016 Trump Tower Meeting between his top advisers and group of russians, including a lawyer directly tied to the kremlin. President trump breathed new life into the story with a tweet acknowledging the meeting it was to get dirt on Hillary Clinton, not adoptions as the president and his son donald trump jr. First claimed. Well talk about that and more with the top democrat on the House Armed Services committee, congressman allen smith. Former director of national intelligence, james clapper, and our correspondents and analysts are standing by. First, lets go to our chief white house correspondent, jim acosta, near the president s new Jersey Golf Club where the president is spending the week. Jim, the president continues to tweet about this Trump Tower Meeting against the wishes of his legal and political advisers. He is steering clear of the media, laying low after resur
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
known, should say alleged crimes, one of them being that rick gates admitted he stole from paul manafort hundreds of thousands of dollars. he did so by filing false expense claims. you had rick gates there, the former deputy and i should say former deputy chairman of the trump campaign in 2016 for those months saying not only that he committed crimes at paul manafort s direction but that he also stole from paul manafort to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars. so a lot of alleged wrongdoing going on in that courtroom behind me, and a number of days to go as the prosecutors make their case, wolf. pretty gross when you think about that. jim sciutto. thank you very much. how is robert mueller going to treat president trump s admission that the purpose of the trump tower meeting with the russians was to get dirt on hillary clinton? plus, the first lady forges her own course and publicly
you could still brief that individual and get the latest information? if that person determined that he or she felt i had a need for the access to information, classified information, they could do that, so as far as i know now and the same is true with the others that were named, we still have our eligibility for access. and to my knowledge, no action has been taken. raised the question because the president specifically said he wanted john brennan, former cia director s clearance removed, and sarah sanders was naming others including you. as far as you know, they haven t taken action against you yet? as far as i know. thank you for joining us. thanks, wolf. following brneaking news in the trial of paul manafort. former deputy rick gates under a plea bargain has taken the stand as star witness for the prosecution. let s go to jim sciutto at the
manafort says he s bankrupt in 2016. now, the thing is, gates was sayi gates admitted to a lot of lying. cheated manafort out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. that was an incredible admission. he admitted to lying to his own accountant. he s an admitted liar. does this help manafort s argument that gates was the mastermind, even though, of course, manafort s landscaper and ostrich coat provider and mercedes benz dealer said that he did it all himself? well, you know, it s going to come down to not just what gates says but all the other evidence admitted in the trial. whether that s through other witnesses, the other accountant who testified last week, the documents, the digital evidence, all the types of evidence that has been assembled and the prosecutors have put on. gates testimony is in addition to that. but from my perspective he is incentiveized to tell the truth