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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 president ial 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, heres 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 Trumps campaign chairman. According to our source, thats 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 governme
The democrats are seizing the moment demanding a delay. California College Professor i accusing nominee of Sexual Misconduct. Handful of nfl players protesting the anthem yet again. Why do we have to mix football, the season just started, with so much patriotic [bleep] hold my hand hold my hand steve live from new york city. It is monday, september the 17th. Come on, in folks. You are watching the number one cable morning news show on planet earth. Brian good to have you. Ainsley happy monday morning. Hope you and your family are doing well. Brian does it bother you at all that hooty and blot fish never officially broke up. Ainsley they are still friends they dont tour. Darius rutgers is on his own doing country music. Brian never had closure hootie the blowfish. Steve this way they can get back together for reunion tour. Ainsley this bothers him. Brian wants to know. It keeps him up at night. Steve very busy monday. We start with a fox news alert. A kansas deputy steve shot and killed
and fox news contributor katie pavlich. what do you make of this. katie: all the headlines were about paul manafort s plea deal. fair enough. buried what special counsel released about that deal was information about his ties to the podesta group, which is tony podesta s lobbiying firm. it s been around in washington, d.c. it s a huge deal for democrats. all of the people hospital to be part of high political social society on the left are involved with podesta group. tony podesta, of course, is john podesta s brief. hillary clinton s former campaign chairman. now, why is this important? because, tony podesta s group was found to have maybe violated some farrah violations because special counsel was investigating paul manafort. paul manafort was working with the john podesta group and setting up a series of commitments to ukrainian and pro-russian governments overseas and the question is now whether the podesta group actually violated fara by not telling the special
nothing shocks me when it comes to russia. i want to say that one thing with this recent story about the podesta group is that we have got to make some gains here, some improvements to the foreign agents registration act, because it s very lax. it was that with general flynn and i really think i would not be surprised if there s a problem here. i m glad that mueller it s not just a partisan investigation. he s leaving no stone unturned. i think her name will be cleared. tucker: why would you be confident that when we just discovered that one of her eighth at the state department was hired by tony podesta, one of her biggest fund-raisers to lobby her on behalf of russian, apparently. that s what our source told us. how does that exculpate or? that seems to incriminate her to me. i think that s a stretch.