russia on the trump campaign. is that still how you would characterize your time with the campaign given what we know today? absolutely, no question in my mind. i would also add there s no collusion between the trump campaign and the kremlin. you know that 100% without a shadow of doubt that nobody within the trump campaign tried to collude in any way, shape or form, minor way, major way, with a foreign power with russia? i stayed with the campaign until the 20th of june in 2016. i can speak until that date. in addition to that i can speak to the character of my friends who i ve known for 30 years, paul manafort and rick gates and many of the other people on the campaign would never under any circumstances collude with russia to mess with our election. in addition, i know the character of donald trump, someone longer than just this election. he would never tolerate that
court filing almost all of the money came into the u.s. yes it was held in foreign banks for a while but eventually came here and they have nothing or very little in them. and secondly his lawyer said the government makes it out that paul manafort was trying to do this to avoid taxes but kevin downing says there s no tax evasion charge in the indictment. kristen, what s the white house saying today about news that jeff sessions isn t remembering something that is in court documents, isn t remembering a conference that he had at the very least a conversation that he dismissed with george papadopoulos, the foreign policy meeting? reporter: they are not commenting on the record about that, katy. but they are downplaying the significance of that meeting all together doing exactly what you heard president trump do today, which is to say there s nothing to see here. sarah huckabee sander has a number of days in a row said george papadopoulos was a low
and if it was, then it s in the normal rules what the federal government specifies for when you can serve a search warrant. the federal rules say it can plain vanilla search warrant between 6:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m. if they arrived before 6:00 and went up there at 6:00, it would be within normal rules. the investigation of manafort is covering a number of bases. the work he did for ukrainian officials and work he did in cyprus, investments overseas and from overseas people into real estate holdings here and much of this was already under way before robert mueller became the special counsel. it started with the fbi in new york and so manafort has been under the federal lens for many months. now, you may well ask, what does have this to do with russia meddling in the election? the answer is we simply don t know. we don t know whether at this point they are looking at the
theory that somehow the connection to the russians played a role and made it easier to meddle or as you all were suggesting that the tactic here is to turn up the heat on paul n manafort and hope to get his cooperation in the investigation as an insider into whatever light he can shed on any possible connections. which all of the campaign officials are saying there wasn t any. pete, thanks very much. justice correspondent pete williams. coming up next, money and fear. the so-called fear gauge is spiking. more drama at goiogle after the ceo canceled an all hands meelting about diversity. marks 44 years since the birth of hip hop, started at a house in a bronch when an 18-year-old through a party. this is an invite to the party
fbi to raid the home of paul manafort. i thought it was a very, very strong signal or whatever. i know mr. manafort. haven t spoken in a long time. i know him, he was with the campaign for a relatively short period of time but i know him as a good man. i thought it was a very, you know, they do that very seldom. so i was surprised to see it. i was very, very surprised to see it. we haven t been involved. we haven t been involved, haven t been in touch, only with the campaign for a short time. for the orphans. it was remarkable. is it surprising that this happened? let s talk about all of the investigations going on. robert mueller and the fbi are not the only ones turning up the heat. let s look at the growing list of government agencies investigating donald trump associates and ties to the kreml kremlin. this is the special counsel,