incredible pressure to flip and till prosecutors whatever he knows. imagine the president or an ally of the president wanted to send paul manafort a little help. a little keep the faith help. you re the former trump campaign chair, you re holding the line and awaiting trial. pressure must be incredible to flip. how about we give you a little cash. could this mysterious new fund be a vehicle for even the president himself to pass paul manafort a big chunk of change? remember, they ll keep all donations secret. there s not even an indication that all this money will actually go towards paul manafort s legal bills. the site says a gift by you will help paul and his team. who s paul s team? is it his wife who gets mail at that p.o. box where the checks are going? what s the money for? where will it come from? based on the information we have, we can t answer any of those basic questions. the website jezebel talked to
a little keep the faith help. you re the former trump campaign chair, you re holding the line and awaiting trial. pressure must be incredible to flip. how about we give you a little cash? could this mysterious new fund be a vehicle for even the president himself to pass paul manafort a big chunk of change? remember, they ll keep all donations secret. there s not even an indication that all this money will actually go towards paul manafort s legal bills. the site says a gift by you will help paul and his team. who s paul s team? is it his wife who gets mail at that p.o. box where the checks are going? what s the money for? where will it come from? based on the information we have, we can t answer any of those basic questions. the website jezebel talked to p. mfsht s spokesperson about this yesterday. he told them this fund-raising website is legitimate but that paul manafort is not behind it. we asked the same spokesperson for comment and he told us no comment. but we did then figure ou
on camera today though another staffer, kellyanne conway, wouldn t go quite that far. is the president sending that message? the president is not sending that message. what message is he sending, i guess? why is he pardoning scooter libby zbh. i can t confirm that. but many people think that scooter libby was a victory of a special counsel gone amok. a special counsel gone amok. the denial might be there but the parallels are pretty clear. michael flynn, former campaign advisor, george papadopoulos and former aide rick gates are all charged are lying to federal investigator and it is also the charge sending gates lawyer alex van der zwaan to jail for 30 days. another member of trump s team is still taking charges, former trump campaign chair, paul manafort.
inner workings at a senior level. and gates could prove a key source of information on these and other issues. joining us now is the top democratic on the intelligence committee, congressman adam schiff. thank you for being with us tonight. i really appreciate it. thank you. why do you think that gates could be a key source of information on the central matter at hand here? well, you have paul manafort who was the campaign chair for a period of time and cory lewandowski who was the trump campaign chair for a period of time. and rick gates also played a role in the transition and thereafter. so he s in a position to see the whole length and breadth of what was taking place during the campaign. he traveled on the presidential plane for a period of time. and he s obviously facing extraordinary liability.
this all happened before he was the trump campaign chair. the question is, does he play a role in the larger investigation into possible collusion, if you want to put that word in quotation marks. any of your reporting, any sense that he may overlap these two areas? well, clearly the stuff we know in public view suggests that there is some overlap. he was at that famous trump tower meeting that donald trump jr. organized and we know there was this moment where as chair of the campaign, the republicans changed the platform position on arming ukrainians in a way that suited the russians and his old clients in ukraine, but we really don t know how everything fits together and what we do know is that robert mueller has a careful strategy where he s got all these different pieces, all these different characters, and he s trying to leverage one indictment to secure the next indictment.