Money charges against Paul Manafort but a surprise revelation, George Pep Adopt Lus pleaded guilty earlier this month making a false statements to the fbi. His emails related to the arrest came out today, couple of things we did not know until now. They provided key points along a time line that Robert Mueller could possibly build a case that Team Trump Colluded with russia to win the election. Ood suggestion that george may have been wearing a wire. We have correspondents covering all the angels tonight. We begun with manu raju on george. What have you been learning . Thats true joining the campaign in march 15, george had a meeting with a london base
professor who he promised dirgt on Hillary Clintons campaign. He had multiple interactions with this professor. This professor came in around the same time that John Pa December that, Hillary Clintons former campaign manager, his emails were hacked. We do know that george lied to federal prosecutors and admitted to lying about these inte
one, the government has found a way to charge him for something publishing plus, maybe conspiring to violate hacking laws or acting as a foreign intelligence agent if these charges relate to the russian hacking or it s possible the trump administration just isn t worried about the precedent of charging someone for publishing only and not worried about the court challenge and potentially losing the case. these are all possibilities we re looking at right now. what do you think, frank? well, this is spot on discussion. boy, there was great debate over whether wikileaks was a journalistic entity or a foreign adversary. it appears that something has happened and that it may, may be linked to mueller. there s recent reporting, chris, as recent as this afternoon, we may be talking about a complaint as opposed to an indictment. what does that mean? complaints are done in a hurry. complaints are done when you ve got information and you need to act on it quickly and you don t want to get to
set and the bad law that you don t want to make and also the fact that, you know, bringing charges that don t survive a court challenge doesn t do anything for the justice department. a couple possibilities here. one, the kbogovernment has foun way to charge him for something publishing plus, maybe conspiring to violate hacking laws or acting as a foreign intelligence agent if these charges relate to the russian hacking or it s possible the trump administration just isn t worried about the precedent of charging someone for publishing only and not worried about the court challenge and potentially losing the case. these are all possibilities we re looking at right now. what do you think, frank? well, this is spot on discussion. boy, there was great debate over whether wikileaks was a journalistic entity or a foreign adversary. it appears that something has happened and that it may, may be linked to mueller. there s recent reporting, chris, as recent as this afternoon, we may be talki
doing things like soliciting classified information, also something reporters do all the time. it s not because julian assange is a journalist, he s not and never has been. the first amendment protections of the constitution don t only say they apply to journalists. you have to think, both, about the precedent you re trying to set and the bad law that you don t want to make and also the fact that, you know, bringing charges that don t survive a court challenge doesn t do anything for the justice department. a couple possibilities here. one, the government has found a way to charge him for something publishing plus, maybe conspiring to violate hacking laws or acting as a foreign intelligence agent if these charges relate to the russian hacking or it s possible the trump administration just isn t worried about the precedent of charging someone for publishing only and not worried about the court challenge and potentially losing the case. these are all possibilities we re looking at right