Papadopoulos exchanged numerous messages on facebook with foreign contacts, one of whom he believed to be a russian national with connections to the russian ministry of foreign affairs. in february papadopoulos shut down his facebook account a day after speaking with fbi agents in a follow-up interview, an action the fbi believe demonstrated intent to obstruct and impede the fbi s ongoing investigation. papadopoulos attorney declined to officially decline stating we will have the opportunity to comment on george s involvement when called upon by the court at a later date. we look forward to presenting all the facts that led to the events that resulted in this charge. papadopoulos joined the trump campaign in march of 2016 after briefly serving as an adviser on ben carson s campaign. according to his linkedin page papadopoulos graduated from depaul university in 2009 before earning his masters in securities studies in london. a former trump campaign official described papadopoulos as h
Police found no gun. anyway, that s between them, i guess. martha: all right, well, a bombshell new report claims the united states cannot actually prove that syrian president bashar al assad directly ordered last month s chemical weapons attack on his own people, and jim walsh is with the securities studies program at the massachusetts institute of technology. he joins me now. good to see you again. good to see you, martha. martha: so what do you make of this report? well, at one level it makes sense. you re not going to have, quote, absolute proof until assad is toppled. then you might get some written records or eyewitness testimony, but you don t need that for policy making. as head of his military, he is responsible. the government is responsible. he s head of the government. so when bad things happen, he s one that has to answer for it. and i might add, martha, these aren t just chemical weapons aren t just any sort of weapon. when you look at the history of folks who have