Expensive suits in the closet. According to another new report, manafort was under Government Surveillance before and after the election. Cnn reporting he was wiretapped under fisa warrants. According to that report, the government snooping continued into early this year, including a period when manafort was known to talk to president donald trump. Sharon lafraniere is a reporter who broke the story tonight. She joins me by phone. Your reporting is they told manafort they planned to indict him. How common is that . Thats not that uncommon that a prosecutor would say we dont believe your story, youre not really cooperating with us. Were going to indict you. The difference here, i think,
might be, as my colleagues found out is that they threatened an imminent indictment and this was in the summer and we havent seen it. One of the themes of the piece is the approach of mueller and how it differs particularly in white color investigations. The report says its more like that mafia investiga
another matter and i want to under score i m one of the people that supported some of trump s other administration official appointments on the national security team in a way i was criticized for supporting secretary mattias and a big fan of mcmaster. this is a different appointment and fred makes an important point. first, he has extreme views when it comes to iran and north korea in that he advocates both for disarmament and regime change but the second point fred makes, which i totally agree with is unlike other appointments, these views are known, they are known by the president. so he is choosing this national security adviser knowing what he believes in, and what he believes in is very scary. that decision resulted in mr. bolton getting the appointment as a recess appointment. he couldn t get through the senate. there were concerns about hawkishness and views.
trump s other administration official appointments on the national sex cucurity team in a i was criticized for supporting secretary mattias and a big fan of mcmaster. this is a different appointment and fred makes an important point. first, he has extreme views when it comes to iran and torte korea in that he advocates both for disarmament and regime change but the second point fred makes, which i totally agree with is unlike other appointments, these views are known, they are known by the president so he is choosing this national securi securitiedsecurity advisor knowing what he believes in and what we believes in is very scary.
of the night saturday warning him. there are two explanations for this. the warning was not explicit or in fact, tillerson just thought this was another frequent warning that the president wanted him out and he is constantly been saying for months now that if he wants me out, he has to fire he to my face. i m not going to quit. this man wanted to stay on the job. in fact, those with him including my colleague abigail williams and gardener harris from the new york times and josh letterman from a.p. said he was on the tail end of this trip, flying home monday night he was in fact, briefing the press which he doesn t always do. he was in a very good mood and talked about what he intended to do in north korea and in the meetings the point person, he was anointing himself and with secretary mattias for diplomacy over rocket man and my button is
go back to defending the president as they so often do? i want to prevent this from having to come to that point. that s why i push this legislation with lindsey graham. let s prevent the crisis from coming within our republic. it would be a disaster should donald trump do this. we know he has inclinations. you hear all the time people talking about thank god there are adults in the room whether it s secretary mattias, whether it s now white house counsel stopping this president from doing things that most people agree would be disastrous. that should give us all cause for a larm thlarm that we have president willing to trample on ideas and the rule of law and democratic norms. so wein times where we need to reserve and make sure we don t get to disaster moments. thank you for joining us to