contact us by the disgust he felt watching media coverage of the russia story. not only were most reporters getting it wrong, they were getting it backward. the russians were in fact deeply involved in american politics, but the real story had almost nothing to do with the 2016 presidential campaign. intrigued, we agreed to meet with at source today. he just left our offices here in washington a couple of hours ago. the story he told us is astonishing. we will be following up on it, confirming more of it and bringing you details about it this week and after. at first, here s an overview of what he told us. media reports describe paul manafort as a central figure in the russia investigation due to the several months he spent as donald trump s campaign chairman. according to our source, that s only half true. he is indeed at the center of this investigation, but not because of his ties to trump. in fact, paul manafort spent years working with the podesta group on behalf of russian gove
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in the russia probe. s your head is nodding. do you adopt the same position? absolutely. the question here as mentioned was the nature of his communications with the russian hackers. this indictment against the 12 officers mentioned. this was more about passing statement. there could be more behind it that these russian hackers were in contact with the person reported to be roger stone in terms of soliciting feedback and that roger stone boasted he had contact with wikileaks alleged in this indictment coordinated with the russian hacker. this is a big problem for roger stone if he helped them in any way he could be a part of that. one thing i do want to note
an agreement to the objective of the bigger enterprise. in this case to hack into these e-mails and use it and to do one overt act in furtherance of that. you don t have to know everything about the conspiracy or be a part of everything
it will be at the law school at nyu. are you familiar with the idea of senioritis, like what happens to you when you have already figured out what you are going to do over the summer, maybe even next year and, yeah, you are still at school but you kind of have checked out? today the eagle eyed cnn robert mueller s office stakeout team caught andrew weissman showing up to work today in something unexpe unexpected. seen wearing a tan suit to work today. the new york times then tweeted this photo of andrew wi weissman picking up lunch today in washington, d.c. looks pretty close to a tan suit. it is possible that andrew weissman was just celebrating the first day of spring today. it is also possible that this is senioritis. but in any case, you do you, andrew weissman.
i know that people get upset about tan suits. i think that looks nice on you. now it is time for the last word! they don t just get upset about it. do you remember when this was a week long scandal when barack obama wo
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the shutdown meeting when he walked out. exactly, that s according to two democratic sources with knowledge of that meeting. we ll hear from senator schumer and speaker pelosi any moment now. but that s it for me. andrea mitchell picking things up right now. i ll see you tomorrow morning. what a day. craig melvin, thank you. good day. i m andrea mitchell in washington. we are awaiting comments at any moment from house speaker nancy pelosi and senate democratic leader chuck schumer. moments after president trump suddenly appeared in the rose garden to lash out at them, pouncing on comments pelosi had made this morning, that the president had engaged in a cover-up, comments she made in part to slow her own caucus march to impeachment. the president walking out of that pre-arranged meeting over infrastructure and trade with pelosi and schumer, and leading democrats on capitol hill. here s part of it. instead of walking in happily into a meefg, i walk into look at people that had ju