investigation into former trump foreign policy advisor and groomsman offering you ecstasy at the koer moan. george papadoupolos. he tried to arrange a meeting. you can t do that. that s don jr. s job. steven colbert having way too much fun. the fbi is looking into a $300 million contract whitefish energy struck with puerto rico s power authority to rebuild the island s power grid after hurricane maria. concern was raised how it was awarded. turns out the company has ties to the trump administration. cnn s leyla santiago has more. reporter: the fbi now wants more answers on this. they have opened a preliminary inquiry to find out more about that $300 million deal between
to agents about the timing of his contacts with the russians. the complaint outlines a meeting he had with a russian-linked professor. it also lays out his attempts to set up a meeting between campaign and russian officials. despite white house attempts to down play, he was e-mailing with paul manafort and also another campaign manager, cory lieu an do you ski. revelation he is cooperating. our coverage begins with cnn s pamela brown in washington. reporter: good morning. monday s charges show the mu mueller investigation is zeroing in on the collusion as well as crimes committed before the campaign. george papadoupolos, a former
essentially dismiss not only the indictment, but essentially all of yesterday s findings. that s what we expect to see from the kremlin. at the charges and guilty plea from papadoupolos doesn t have him meeting or speaking with russian officials, just trying to. the idea any sort of collusion will still dismiss. what could give us more insight is when we find out who the unnamed contacts are in the indictments and in the guilty plea from papadoupolos. if they have keks to roupgs officials, that may change the story, but for now, it s more of what we re seeing which is a continued russian denial of any sort of russian meddling despite u.s. intelligence agreeing there was and any sort of denial of collusion. thanks. it will truly be a busy day over there as well. democrats also feeling the ripple effects of the first criminal charges.
as familiar la mentioned sources say they discuss the e-mails encouraging outreach to russians. the west wing is quickly distancing itself from all of these vmts. a source says these were bad guys when they started, they were bad guys when they left. the president also tweeting sorry, but this is years ago, before paul manafort wars part of the trump campaign. but why aren t crooked hillary and the dems the focus. that is five question marks there. three minutes later adding also, there is no collusion. that was before the news of george papadoupolos s guilty plea. since then a rare day-long stretch of silence on the trump twitter account. the president s lawyer says there s no response because he doesn t know them. he says the two men may have been together, one time. that was at a nation security meeting at the campaign.
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