A newscast reviewing and analyzing top stories of the day as they happen. Said yes. We expect more detail. Shepard its my understanding there was testimony about a time when Paul Manafort essentially ran out of money. He did. Theyre saying in 2014, when his former top client, who the mueller team described as manaforts golden goose, ukrainian president victor yanukovych. Gates testified when he left it decreased the Income Stream. Heres how much the Income Stream was down. Gates testified that in 2016, manafort paid between 200,000 and 225,000 for yankees season tickets. But then, manafort asked gates to write a letter to the yankees saying that gates actually just borrowed manaforts credit card to make that huge purchase. This case that started with a lot of testimony and a lot of exhibits and ed showing that manafort lived a lavish lifestyle for several years has now evolved into a case about a former lobbyist and campaign
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There was substantial evidence of criminal intent by the president , in his view. Were going to see bob mueller walk out and were going to be watching for is he alone, is mr. Barr behind him or in the room, what are the first words that bob mueller wants to publicly utter . A man who is reticent, sometimes to a fault his supporters say. He clearly has something to say. Does he in any way elude to or cite what we know to be major disagreements with mr. Barr about what mueller found in his investigation and about evidence about sitting the president. Here we have for the first time publicly in more than two years Robert Mueller. Thank you for being here. Two years ago the Acting Attorney General asked me to sv as Special Counsel. And he created the special
counsels office. The appointed directed the office to investigate russian interference in the 2016 president ial election. This included investigating any links or coordination between the russian government and individuals associated
One of the sources i spoke to said now the president and his lawyers are still very much opposed to any interview. We know, john, the president s legal team has resumed some discussion with special counsel, with the special counsel in the weeks since the president responded to written questions. Mostly regarding collusion and the time period before the inauguration. The two sides had agreed to hold off on discussing any interview while the president wrote responses to those questions which were returned, as youll recall, just before thanksgiving. That was seen as a first step to concluding more than a year of back and forth between the two sides. And the president s lawyers had hoped would bring mueller closer to finishing his probe. But were learning that muellers interest in talking with the president continues, and it includes an interest in asking questions about the president s state of mind in regards to actions under scrutiny in the obstruction probe. Now we should note there ha
Legal team has resumed some discussion with special counsel, with the special counsel in the weeks since the president responded to written questions. Mostly regarding collusion and the time period before the inauguration. The two sides had agreed to hold off on discussing any interview while the president wrote responses to those questions which were returned, as youll recall, just before thanksgiving. That was seen as a first step to concluding more than a year of back and forth between the two sides. And the president s lawyers had hoped would bring mueller closer to finishing his probe. But were learning that muellers interest in talking with the president continues, and it includes an interest in asking questions about the president s state of mind in regards to actions under scrutiny in the obstruction probe. Now we should note there has been no indication mueller is moving to subpoena the president. Youll recall there was a threat to do so by muellers Team Last Year according to