it charges the men with conspiracy, money laundering, and other crimes. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge joins us live from washington. good afternoon, catherine. will get to that in just a moment. we ve had some developments this morning that relate to the russian investigation. this letter to the president was released about an hour ago and it comes from a political operative sam clovis and he has withdrawn his nomination at the agriculture department and he writes in a letter the relentless assault on you and your team seem to be a bloodsport that only increases in intensity each day. i do not want to be a distraction or negative influence, particularly with so much work left to do for the american people. he was why that matters. fox news has learned that special counsel robert mueller s investigation brought foreign policy aide george puppet papas to the trump presidential
ukraine and the pro russian regime in ukraine at the time about money laundering and takes evasion that does not directly affect trump and the allegations of collusion of the trump complain with russia the other story the. case of george puppet though pulis the foreign policy or former policy advisor of donald trump that s a different story because this is now the second confirmed attempt that we know of members of the complain to trying to get compromising information about hillary clinton from russian sources the other case of course the infamous meeting organized by donald trump jr the president s son and other. trump allies with a russian lawyer also an attempt to get some compromising information on hillary clinton so this does not look good for donald trump but there is no clear
cooperate ing with the f.b.i. but the bottom line is is there any new evidence right now that russia tried to sway the u.s. election campaign and that the trump side knew about it. well yes and no i mean if you look at the indictment self poem manifold and richard gates these charges clearly predate the trunk i m painting as trump himself as also pointed out this is also not about russia this is about ukraine and the pro russian regime in ukraine at the time about money laundering and text evasion that does not directly affect trump and the allegations of collusion of the trump complain with russia the other story the. case of george puppet though pulis the foreign policy or former policy advisor of donald trump that s a different story because this is now the second confirmed attempt that we know of