Wolf Blitzer looks at politics, breaking news and international stories. Alongside manafort and even stole several hundred thousand dollars from him. I want to quickly go to our justice correspondent jessica schneider, monitoring all these developments. Whats the biggest takeaway so far from todays dramatic testimony . The biggest takeaway, woman, just how elaborate this financial scheme was and how involved is Paul Manafort really seemed to be, directing the movement of money here. Rick gates has been testifying about these hundreds of emails where manafort actually signs off on transferring the money their Consulting Company earned throughout these various foreign bank accounts. Paul manafort would always write back, approving these transfers and signing it with his initial p. This is the prosecution laying out that it was, in fact, Paul Manafort in charge. Also, rick gates is talking about some of these fake invoices that he actually created. We heard about them from the accountants
A look at Breaking News, politics and reports from around the world. Its more of a custom inside the justice department. It doesnt say that there cant be an investigation 60 days out from an election. What it says is the norm is that there isnt an overt move in an investigation dealing with an elected official or somebody on the ballot at 60 days before the election. For example, a subpoena, an indictment or pushing to get an interview during that window. Thats true. But at the same time you alluded to this, wolf giuliani is conceding that if there is no resolution between now and labor day, which is effectively the september deadline hes talking about, that it might not be the worst thing in the world politically, not legally but politically to give the republicans a Rallying Point to kind of protect the president , not unlike what you heard devin nunes say on that tape. To protect the president from
democrats who may want to impeach him. Now, thats obviously a stretch, but it doesnt
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
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The days biggest political and news stories, with interviews and reporting from around the nation. Leadership criticisms for this president that we know about, lets be clear and fair. Anger, ego, incompetence, thats not enough. The higher bar here is corrupt intent in a persons mind. So mueller is saying, like any careful prosecutor, he must question trump before he can conclude his work. And tonight trumps lawyers are leaking their new ongoing negotiations with mueller to show that as of tonight, theyre not accepting this full interview yet. So theyre using two tactics. Leaking information with their new letter to mueller about a kind of a narrower counteroffer, and also talking to each other, these lawyers, in a radio callin show, an appearance that can only be described as another bizarre chapter in one of the most bizarre live action legal defenses of a president in our history. We give you the unusual scene this morning. Rudy giuliani joining trump lawyer jay sekulow on sekulows r
we spoke early yesterday evening about a variety of topics cluing the new york times op-ed and pivoted to the latest negotiations. he couldn t have been clear. one thing about giuliani he s consistently inconsistent. and he changed his story a few different times. after i spoke to him he cleaned up his remarks. when i spoke to him, it was clearly an attempt to lay down another marker in these ongoing interview negotiations in which he said the president would not talk, he would not field questions written or in person about obstruction. moreover anything that happened after he took office, that he felt the mueller probe should be confined to the period before he was sworn in. he then went on to discuss how that they were fielding the offer from mueller about written questions about the russian collusion part of this. even then the goal post shifted from giuliani we said we ll perhaps be open to that but we