an october 2017 special counsel robert muller issues his 1st indictments against people close to the president. meant for trump's campaign director and gates deputy director of the campaign are both charged for breaking a series of laws papadopoulos foreign affairs advisor to the campaign is charged for having lied to the f.b.i. . robert motion festive season and 0 d. and on his 1st targets to the. right here by the f.b.i. . about his contacts with foreign nationals and a series of people in d.c. suddenly in deep deep trouble with those charged by muller become fair game for the press even if they're not directly linked to the russian. ference and in 2016 election. when the initial indictments were issued by mueller people rightfully said wait a minute this is supposed to be about russia so what's going on and a lot of people have said none of this is collusion who cares why is moller charging these crimes if it's not clues you know collusion or you know collusion that seems to be the focus don't pollute you know of drugs you know nothing no please no proof whatsoever present trumps

we now know negotiated not to read sections of his report so they're not going to have robert muller like at you know somebody doing an audio version of their book providing written you know reading certain segments of that which would have been very powerful for t.v. and so all of that is gone and so what we've had is a somewhat bumbling occasionally lost. person testifying in congress rapid fire questions from committee members sometimes confusing and it's been sort of messy and i think in that i think the objectives that the democrats have had of creating a moment of theater that would explicate and show really outrageous behavior from the white house is just not turned out to be the kind of storytelling that they had hoped for and we're going to see is it more of the same in the hearing this just got under way how does this one differ from the house judiciary committee. well adam adam schiff whom i talk to many times about this is very obsessed with the russia dimensions what they did the malfeasance of the russian involvement and the really the shrug of the shoulders that that d

muller with his excellent reputation really laying out the case against the president they didn't get that and democrats were really hoping that they would get that because they need the leadership needs to see the country move in one and impeach the president before they'll bring that up so the democrats on the job.

special counsel robert muller is about to go before congress to answer questions about his investigation into russian interference in the 2016 presidential election let's take you to these live pictures coming in from capitol hill you can see there robert mala the former special investigator. making his way to his seat where he will shortly we understand after some introductory speeches be addressing members of the congress then the house judiciary committee he's got 2 hearings today well this all comes about 3 months since he handed in. his report on the nearly 2 year probe ended with moloch concluding russia did interfere in the 2016 u.s. presidential election during a may press conference maher added that while the report does not conclude president donald trump committed a crime it also does not exonerate him president trump is tweeting meanwhile about mother's testimony even before it begins here's a little bit of what he's been saying so far so democrats and others can illegally fabricate a crime trying pinning it on a very innocent president and when he fights back against this il

well i think seeing muller himself and getting a chance to see the man himself speak to what he found i think is potentially extremely powerful because there are lots of cover and little corners of his report that in very precise legal language say words to the effect of we were not able to find this double trump refused to sit for an interview with us and so there are all kinds of incriminating details in the report in fact there's a pile of evidence of what could and should be called collusion there where you have the trunk campaign aware that a hostile foreign powers trying to interfere in our election and in fact encouraging that concealing that facilitating that in a variety of different not provably criminal ways but nevertheless enthusiastic ways and i think to see robert muller who has been held up even before this assignment as sort of a paragon of rectitude and right thinking and right behavior in our country to see him react in the moment so what he found i think could be politically explosive ok john f. ing or thank you so much for joining us. you better show here secretar

well bill barr is placing the blame with the media he is seeing that robert mueller was upset at the interpretation that the media was putting on what came out is a four page summary and bill bonde is saying that it actually wasn't a summary of the four page summary that he came out with and said no collusion which remember is not what robert miller was investigating he was investigating whether or not there was a conspiracy between the russians and the trump campaign so he said there was no collusion nor struction of justice robert miller itemized ten places where he believed there could be a case made for obstruction of justice and he left it to robert mueller to bill barr and the justice department to make a decision and bill barr decided that there was no obstruction this is been a very informative couple of hours a lot of it is quite dense but there are so it appears very polite on the surface but there are a number of spiky exchanges particularly between the democrats and bill by the democrats believe that bill barr in the four page letter that he put out which is what robert m

robert muller support is out but the controversy over donald trump's ties to russia is far from over this attorney general the senate is boss on thursday that democrats and many journalists accuse him of misleading the public to protect the president this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm richelle carey yes president on this declaring total victory after the release of a censored version of robert mahler's report on collusion between his two thousand and sixteen campaign and russia but outside trump's inner circle many are reacting very differently and again with al-jazeera and jordan on what the long awaited mullah report does and does not tell us. donald trump's two thousand and sixteen campaign team was dogged by charges it was working with russia to throw the election his way but when robert muller was chosen to investigate those allegations this was trump's reaction oh my god this is terrible this is the end of my presidency now bowler's investigation is done and the four hundred forty eight page report with many sections blacked out is now public the special

muller it reveals trump tried multiple times to impede an investigation into his campaign's links with russia not us says it is up to congress to address if he violated the law well document was officially released by attorney general william bob he received a copy of it last month and has been criticized for drawing his own conclusions over whether trump had obstructed justice the report recounts ten episodes involving the president and discusses potential legal theories for connecting those activities to the elements of an obstruction offense after carefully reviewing the facts and legal theories outlined in the report and in consultation with the office of legal counsel and other department lawyers the deputy attorney general and i concluded that the evidence developed by the special counsel is not sufficient to establish that the president committed an obstruction of justice offense. democrats and accused of protecting tom they want to testify before the house judiciary committee even it is incomplete form however the mother report outlines disturbing evidence the president krumpin

special counsel robert muller into alleged russian interference and the two thousand us press two thousand and sixteen that is u.s. presidential election their best occasion is two years in the making and edited version of the four hundred page report is expected to be released let's go now to mike hanna who is live at the department of justice in washington so mike the order of this is there is a bit unusual the attorney general bob barr is going to address the media about his edited version of a report that the journalists in the room would have read by this point the release for his report is actually going to come after so what do we understand is actually going to happen with this. as conference today. well it's certainly unusual and very very controversial opposition democrats arguing very strongly that it is completely just for the head of the department of justice to be talking about a public report which the public have not yet seen not even members of congress will see it until a few hours time when it is put on floppy disks we are told and delivered to capitol hill there's going

later tonight join us for our special, "the muller report." re's a short preview. democrats and republicans demanding the full release of threreport. >> ionse to conclusions from the special counsel's report -- >> woodruff: specialel robert mueller has delivered his final report to the department of justice. >> a ground-breaking collaboration between "frontline" and "pbs newshour." >> there are no further indictments beinthrecommended. 's a big deal. >> analysis and a potential im tct. >> i thihere will be evidence described in the report th we don't yet know. >> and the dramatic events that led the country to this moment. >> the attorney atneral looked e and said we've had to fire the director of the f.b.i. i immediately sensed everything had changed. >> the mueller report. ou was anned as special counsel, and i just go, oh, my god because this is a y tha doesn't leave any stone unturned. >> tonight at 8:00, 7:00 central, only on pbs. >> woodruff: we hope you wil watch and online our coverage and analysis of the mueller report continues. coverage and analysis on t

muller's conclusions with respect to robert muller's role as a prosecutor which means that he doesn't necessarily deal in exoneration he deals in what can he prove in a court of law and that is something that is very difficult to do in cases where it requires a guilty conscience and guilty understanding where men stray requirements so the fact that mahler could not did not believe that he could prove true or jury beyond a reasonable doubt that trump is guilty is so far and away from evidence that he was in fact not guilty all it means is that he cannot be charged that's what it means it should be taken to mean no more or no less than that and yet you see people in the mainstream media as well as the president weeping to the conclusion that trump has been exonerated it's worrisome it's ignorance of the law and it is kind of really just it's a problem for america. jeff hauser obviously this is going to have lots of political as well as the eagle implications for the moment jeff houser thank you for sharing your expertise with us. and we're just going to take a short break do stay with u

president close ally roger stone has been arrested as part of special counsel robert muller's investigation into possible russian collusion in the twenty six thousand election stunt was taken into custody in florida after a grand jury indictment he's facing seven charges including obstructing official proceedings making false statements and witness tampering stone says he will fight the charges. i would not give to these charges i will defeat them or i believe this is a politically motivated investigation i have trouble by the political motivations of the prosecutor. and as i have said previously there is no circumstances whatsoever under which. will bear witness against the president nor will i make that. for myself so i knew you were listening in to that press conference and he seemed to be very defiant in saying that the charges are all politically motivated yes that's pretty much typical roger stone he told the president a lot of you knows it as the last guest just mentioned when the president gets hit he hits back harder that's what you see roger stone do and i think it's important to

muller's investigation into possible russian collusion in the twenty six thousand election stone was taken into custody in florida after a grand jury indictment he's facing seven charges including obstructing official proceedings making false statements and witness tampering the white house had little to say about his arrest what i do know is that this has nothing to do with the president has nothing to do with the white house. beyond that i'm not going to get into your vocabulary learned about political hay and joining us from washington one wonders what the president himself thinks of this seeing as roger stone is a close ally of. it credibly close they have been for decades in fact there's a documentary where paul mann a fourth who also now is in prison was trying to campaign manager said that you are so intertwined it's hard to tell what's roger and what's donald so yes the white house is basically trying to push back saying this is no collusion this is sara sanders actually saying this is ridiculous and insulting to even bring up and of course if you have a twitter account you k

muller who's investigating the truck campaigns alleged links to moscow has cast doubt on the report by by. as fate publications has it standing by the story i can reports. the claims made against president trump are explosive and if true could lead directly to impeachment for suborning perjury that's the precise phrase that was used in the impeachment of president bill clinton the report by two u.s. journalists says trump allegedly directed his longtime attorney michael cohen to lie in testimony before congress according to the report trump wanted cohen to tell congress that negotiations over a trump tower project to moscow during the twenty sixteen presidential campaign happened months earlier than they actually did look that's absolutely ridiculous i think that the president's outside counsel addressed this best and said in a statement earlier today this categorically false report also says trump directed cohen to set up a meeting with russian president vladimir putin to discuss the project a claim he's repeatedly denied there is absolutely no collusion no collusion no collusion n

muller the special counsel something that we would expect that james comey would deny if asked about it later on saturday and he's also talked again about the ongoing refusal of the justice department and of the f.b.i. to actually look at the behavior of the former presidential candidate hillary clinton even though there's been considerable discussion about that in this in in washington has i'm about whether or not that's really the issue whether in fact the president is simply trying to deflect from his own alleged behavior rosalyn thank you rosalynn jordan in line for saying washington. now the twenty day shutdown of the u.s. government is now longest in history with no end in sight eight hundred thousand federal employees are missing their paychecks donald trump is urging democrats to give up their weekend and vote for his five billion dollar border war with mexico he's backed away from his threat to declare a national emergency over the impasse i'd rather not do it because this is something that congress should easily to this is something that the democrats should do and i don't

muller steen which is investigating suspected russian interference in that campaign says moscow contacted donald trump's then personal lawyer michael cohen as far back as two thousand and fifteen mahler's team also says trump's former campaign manager paul man afore violated a plea deal by lying to them on five different matters including his contacts with the russian associate but the white house says appear to be worried at least saying that none of this reveals anything new or damaging about donald trump there are several strands to this story share bhutanese breaks it down for us from washington d.c. . shortly after the release of some of the prosecution documents the u.s. president expressed his lack of concern totally clears the president he wrote thank you it's not clear exactly what he was referring to but some believe the contents of the latest memos should provide some cause for concern for donald trump michael cohen was trump's long time lawyer and fix up he's pled guilty to tax evasion and campaign finance violations and it's this latter charge that now directly implicates the

muller he is due to submit a court filing. how the former campaign chair for donald trump's presidential campaign paul manna fort violated his plea deal in other words how he lied to the f.b.i. why is this important this could lay out the direction of the russia probe something that's been somewhat of a mystery and certainly tell us the direction of the investigation but that's not the only news that could come out today as well we have george papadopoulos now out of prison he has been very comfortable speaking to reporters in the past and he was a trump advisor certainly that will be of interest as well in new york new york judge there has ordered the special counsel to provide sentencing memos for michael cohen this could also provide some important details given the fact michael cohen a long time donald term confident and his attorney and finally as well we have happening on capitol hill the former f.b.i. director james comey fired by donald trump testifying on capitol hill on the house side by hine closed doors but there w

muller accusing him of being best friends with the former f.b.i. director that he has conflicts of interest donald trump going on to say pointing the finger at angry democrats crooked hillary clinton things we've all heard before but the fact that there were five tweets in just a matter of a couple of hours shows this president is feeling not only the pressure but potentially worried about what could come to light on friday being today in the next twelve hours that's almost like rage tweeting if you will really help it live for us in washington and really. president trump is expected to pick heather nauert to be his new ambassador to the united nations now is the spokeswoman for the u.s. state department or nomination we need to be endorsed by the republican controlled senate if she is approved she will replace nikki haley who leaves at the end of this month. germany's ruling christian democrat party has set select a new leader to replace chance along the merkel she has given her last speech as party leader and the head of the second ballots one th

special counsel robert muller continues his probe into russian meddling in the twenty sixteen u.s. election. pence reiterated president tribes claim made last week at the united nations about china and the upcoming elections to put it bluntly president trump's leadership is working and china wants a different american president hence accuse china of election meddling in the twenty eight teen u.s. midterm elections and the twenty twenty presidential vote with an elaborate december mation campaign to influence u.s. voters pence says the trumpet ministration remains hopeful china will come around until then he says it will continue to address what it calls chinese aggression already there are terror of some place and more than two hundred fifty billion in chinese goods and more are at the ready and could be implemented as early as next year can really help at al-jazeera the white house or let's talk to adrian brown who is live for us in beijing and so what was the chinese been saying in response to mike pence a speech. well daryn china had a pretty good idea what mike pence was going

special counsel robert muller continues his probe into russian meddling in the twenty sixteen u.s. election. pants reiterated president trogs claim made last week at the united nations about china and the upcoming elections to put it bluntly president trumps leadership is working and china wants a different american president hence accuse china of election meddling in the twenty eight team u.s. midterm elections and the twenty twenty presidential vote within a labyrinth december mation campaign to influence u.s. voters hence says the trumpet ministration remains hopeful china will come around until then he says it will continue to address what it calls chinese aggression already there are tariffs employees are more than two hundred fifty billion in chinese goods and more are at the ready and could be implemented this early as next year kimberly health at al-jazeera the white house the been signs of life under the rubble of a hotel a week after an earthquake and tsunami ripped through the indonesian island of sin away is that despite the clamor of hope the death toll keeps rising mo

muller in exchange for his testimony and then of course he's also been attacked by donald trump for being essentially a supporter of james comey the former f.b.i. director that of course toronto famously fired so these two men have certainly not a lot of love lost between the two in fact just the opposite but most recently of course are those reports that have surfaced that rod rosen science suggested possibly invoking the twenty fifth amendment wearing a wire potentially to secretly record donald trump because of concerns of chaos in the white house something that he has said is factually incorrect but that others have said that they can corroborate that he at least sarcastically suggested this that may be the tipping point that may have prompted the president to to be mulling the actions we think are unfolding and we are watching very carefully to see all right kimberly i think that's enough for now because i know we're going to be talking to you more as the day progresses clearly how it gets in washington d.c. reminder that breaking news that was the u.s. deputy attorney general

muller's investigators about his contacts with russians in the two thousand and sixteen presidential campaign. the front runner in brazil's presidential election is unlikely to return to the campaign trail after next until after next month's first round vote because of being stabbed he has stab wounds that doctors say a.j. or boston are lost forty percent of his blood when he was attacked at a rally on thursday a lot america newman reports. just when it seemed brazil's presidential election campaign couldn't get more and predictable to bush a leading candidate was stabbed in the stomach during the street crowd. were two conservative evangelicals i.e. the device of law and order candidate sent this message to hospital. is meant council of never home to anyone. but many brazilians disagree well so now too is facing the supreme court trial charged with making inflammatory anti gay and t. black and massaging the statements which promote hatred and condone rape. all of bulls are not as rivals strongly condemn the attack against the former army captain even former president rousseff whom h

muller's investigators about his contacts with russians during the two thousand and sixteen presidential campaign. front runner and brazil's presidential election is unlikely to return to campaigning until after next round next month's rather first round vote because of severe stab wounds doctors say hairball sanaa rose lost forty percent of his blood when he was attacked at a rally on thursday a lot america reports. just when it seemed brazil's presidential election campaign couldn't get one predictable time to push a leading candidate was stabbed in the stomach during the street. were two conservative evangelicals. the device of law and order candidate sent dismissed the true hospital. is meant. of no. home anyone. but many brazilians disagree also nat'l is facing a supreme court trial charged with making inflammatory anti gay and he black and massaging the statements which promote hatred and condone rape all of balsa novels rivals strongly condemned the attack against the former army captain even former president rousseff whom he once said deserved to have been tortured during brazil'

muller the special counsel now looking into trump's campaign associates possible colluding with russia in the can in the elections as well as a possible obstruction of justice by the president himself with a republican strategist joe watkins is a former white house aide to president george h. w. bush and he thinks that donald trump doesn't have much to gain by discrediting the memos. this is rather unprecedented we haven't had u.s. presidents in the past attack these institutions within government so only these investigate investigative institutions have not ever been attacked by a sitting u.s. president so this is something new for our country at the same time i'm not sure that everybody is buying it despite the fact that there are these almost daily attacks on the integrity of the f.b.i. and others leadership in the department of justice i think americans for the most part still have a great deal of confidence in those institutions i don't think it'll change the mind of the president trumps base i think president obama's base will think that it's just another attack on the president'

muller for truck campaign officials have already been charged. the latest allegations come at a tense time in syria trump is deciding whether to retaliate for an alleged chemical attack there has got so much on his mind right now that he in the best of times doesn't seem to be making good decisions i think his decision making in foreign policy could be even worse because of all these so-called distractions the book could also overshadow another key policy decision next week donald trump will sit down with japanese prime minister shinzo abbay to discuss his upcoming meeting with north korean leader kim jong un and his nuclear program b. of a meeting is scheduled to begin the same day james comey is book is released can really help at al-jazeera at the white house and staying in washington a u.s. prosecutor has dismissed a claim by president trump's personal lawyer the materials seized by the f.b.i. from his home and office should remain private prosecutors also confirm that michael cohen has been on the criminal investigation for months cohen is a

muller's team appears to tighten its focus on the president himself trump's latest tweet storm made clear his open hostility towards the probe why he said as the moeller team have thirteen hardened democrats some big crooked hillary supporters and zero republicans another dam recently added does anyone think this is fair and yet there is no collusion on saturday trump's personal lawyer john dowd called for a shutdown of moaners investigation at first saying he was speaking for the president but later backtracking he spoke after former f.b.i. acting director andrew mccabe was fired for what government investigators said were an authorized media contacts and a lack of candor about alleged disclosure of classified information we gave disputed the allegations and said his dismissal was an attempt to undermine his credibility because he could corroborate former f.b.i. director jim commies own firing by trump who's admitted it was intended to and the russia investigation amid reports that muller has presented the white house with questions he wants to ask the president even under threat o

muller. we have top sports stories including chelsea fight took place in the english f.a. cup semifinals where they'll meet southampton i'll have the full troll for the last full coming up in the program. well in the last hour of law jim a putin has celebrated his victory in russia's presidential election with thousands of supporters in moscow and a promise of success in the future for what he called that great country is the latest on the exit poll so far with fifty percent of the vote counted putin is projected to take seventy five percent of the vote is nearest rival is communist candidate who didn't who is sitting on thirteen point three percent who didn't is a multimillionaire tycoon who's been critical of the government but not of person. just behind him on six point three percent is ultranationalist right to measure an all ski former reality t.v. star sub jack was one of the most high profile candidates but she's in fourth position with just one point four percent of the vote lawrence

i don't believe he's going to fire robert muller but i can tell you this there's a lot of pressure on the congress on the attorney general to put an end to this fishing expedition not one shred of evidence has connected the president of the united states when he was a candidate and now that he is president any connection to russia there has been no russian coalition that has been uncovered thus far attorney general jeff sessions says mccabe was fired at the recommendation of disciplinary officers for misleading investigators about the bureau's handling of the hillary clinton investigation for months trump has painted mccabe as a stooge for democrats because his wife received campaign money from a clinton ally the fake news is beside themselves that mccabe was caught called out and fired trump tweeted how many hundreds of thousands of dollars was given to wife's campaign by crooked age friend terry m. who was also under investigation how many lies how many leaks komi knew it all and much more. komi responded with a tweet of his own mr president the american people will hear my story ve

muller what do you think is in those notes and how damaging could they be. well to begin with we wouldn't be surprised because that's what f.b.i. people do they take notes when they're having conversations with people but let's get back to james komi stating that the american people will hear his story because this is where it all began we already heard the american people already heard james komi story when he was before the congressional committee. giving them information about hillary clinton if you remember he gave a complete lie injury list of why hillary clinton should be indicted and then he exceeded his authority and recommended she not be indicted that was when he politicized and weaponized the f.b.i. and that was probably the first step towards his downfall ok but now we also get paid same similar situation now it's not so but let me ask you though stephen because a lot of people in the u.s. think that trump is putting the pieces into place to file a robot do you think he'll do that and should he do that one i don't believe he's going to fire rober

said that mccabe's contemporaneous notes and memos are now in the possession of the special counsel robert muller and presumably as indicated by mccabe's comments and reaction to his firing that they could corroborate james cole music out of his interactions with the fired f.b.i. director james comey who himself has just recently emailed in his reaction to tweeted his reaction saying the american people will have my story very soon and they can judge for themselves who is honorable and who is not mccomb account is being highly touted in advance of his of his book which is due to come out under high secrecy guarantees or about months from now and i believe that they've been advanced the publication date from that. lawrence korb is a former assistant secretary of defense he says there are unprecedented levels of tension between the white house and the f.b.i. . the fact that you fired a direct hit ironically it was colby coming out a week before the all action and reopening the investigation into secretary clinton's e-mails that really slung the election to trump because before that secretary

muller everything he knows about any russian links to the trump presidential campaign and that could mean the trumpet ministration might now have a much bigger problem on its and rosalyn jordan al-jazeera washington well let's cross across to washington d.c. where our correspondent tom ackerman is waiting to talk to us that tom we're hearing just lately that these memos he's nuts of being kept is a significant. it's highly significant the various sources have said that mccabe's contemporaneous notes and memos are now in the possession of the special counsel robert muller and presumably as indicated by mccabe's comments and reaction to his firing that they could corroborate james cole music out of his interactions with the fired f.b.i. director james comey who himself has just recently emailed in his reaction to tweeted his reaction saying the american people will have my story very soon and they can judge for themselves who is honorable and who is not mccomb account is being highly touted in advance of his of his book which is due to come out under high secrecy guarantees or about mo

and the efforts of the special counsel atala say robert muller who is the special counsel will want to talk to mckay but now aides now will be testifying in front of mahler and he knows a lot now what happened. during the campaign and during the investigation mr mccain can talk about the fact that when president drama fired your rector call me that was an attempt to call me when i'm actually going ahead with the investigation i'm not could be considered a structure in the justice being fired means andrew mccabe might lose his retirement and health care benefits but mccabe might also have much more to gain by telling robert muller everything he knows about any russian links to the trump presidential campaign and that could mean the trumpet ministration might now have a much bigger problem on its hands rosalyn shorten al-jazeera washington. eric hamm is a political analyst and author of the book the g.o.p. civil war he joins us live from washington thanks so much for being with us mccabe is this is one of a long list of people who've either been fired or resigned and in this administrati

and the efforts of the special counsel analysts say robert muller who is the special counsel will want to talk to mckay but now aides now will be testifying in front of mahler and he knows a lot now what happened. during the campaign and during the investigation mr mccain can talk about the fact that when president drama fired your rector call me that was an attempt to call me from actually going ahead with the investigation and not could be considered a structure of justice being fired means andrew mccabe might lose his retirement and health care benefits but mccabe might also have much more to gain by telling robert muller everything he knows about any russian links to the trump presidential campaign and that could mean the trumpet ministration might now have a much bigger problem on its hands rosalyn jordan al-jazeera washington. one of the chinese president's close political allies has been voted in as vice president xi jinping himself has been confirmed for a second term in office with unanimous support scott higher than up from beijing. for the first time in history the president

muller is he going to be feeling exposed at the moment. i think this is going to backfire on president trump in a big way mr mccain is obviously going to feel much very free to talk to the special counsel and he's clearly going to be cooperating with bob mueller it seems that he may know i have information about jim cole he's firing as f.b.i. director he was a witness to all of those events and i think we're going to see more to come about this mr mccabe is already given one interview to politico and i'm sure he'll be talking more in the days ahead and he may well also file a lawsuit to try and regain his pension because while he may be fired from his government job he can't be fired for an improper reason and if it looks like there was a political attack on him which it certainly it's almost impossible to believe there wasn't this is an unprecedented move by the president of the united states to force the attorney general to fire. the deputy director of the f.b.i. just twenty four hours before he was set to take a pension it's all a very

muller confessed to count indictment includes a tax and bank fraud charges in october metaphors and gates were charged with conspiracy to launder money both have paid not guilty well is investigating possible collusion between the trunk campaign and russia during the twenty sixteen election castro has more from washington d.c. . it is important to point out that the name donald trump is not anywhere mention in these new charges are filed these thirty two counts account for money laundering of about thirty million dollars as well as filing false income tax statements they predate the time that these two men accused of these crimes rick gates and paul mann afford had joined on to the trump campaign however the significant part is the timing of filing these charges were kate's have been reportedly been ingo in negotiations with investigators to possibly flip and cooperate with the investigation for c ably it's in exchange for a lighter sentence to give investigators more information that could help them bring down bigger fish the fact that these charges were filed against him is an ind

election by special counsel robert muller and whether there was collusion between donald trump's campaign and russia is being felt by more people on tuesday the u.s. justice department again made headlines and now saying the latest person to be criminally charged in the probe alex vander swan a lawyer is accused of lying to f.b.i. agents about conversations between himself and a former trump advisor regain. gates made news last year when he was indicted along with president trump's former campaign chair paul mad afford for acting as a registered agent of the cranium government allegedly laundering millions of payments from ukraine and abating u.s. taxes both pled not guilty to the charges the latest indictment alleges vendors one also worked for the ukrainians and that he deleted and out. the wise did not produce e-mail stopped by the special counsel's office at least one e-mail involved gates well he was working for the trump campaign according to the court documents these latest charges follow an indictment by the u.s. justice department against thirteen russian nationals accused of int

muller has indicted thirteen russian citizens and three companies for allegedly interfering in the two thousand and sixteen elections according to the unsealed indictment the accused allegedly conspired from two thousand and fourteen until now to interfere with the u.s. political and electoral processes including the two thousand and sixteen election the special counsel alleges that the group posed as americans and controlled social media accounts focusing on divisive social and political issues one important point the indictment does not allege that anyone in the donald trump campaign colluded actively with the russians the u.s. national security advisor h r mcmaster told conference delegates the rumors of russian interference are now fact the united states will expose and act against those who use cyberspace social media and other means to advance campaigns of the. formation subversion and espionage the former russian ambassador to the united states long accused of using his post to interfere in u.s. affairs told delegates the indictments are nothing more than fear mongering and what

muller for a total of twenty hours. or so civil room opposer has become the south africa's new president pushing a message of clean government and inclusiveness the trade union leader turned multimillionaire replaces jacob zuma has years in power were tainted by multiple corruption scandals also mourners have gathered in parkland in the u.s. state of florida to remember seventeen students who were killed the jury in a school shooting on wednesday it's now merge the f.b.i. had a prior warning about the shooting suspect nicholas cruz holley dexter is co-chair of the women against gun violence activist group she joins me now from burbank california good to have you with us live on al-jazeera on what is really a very sad subject to talk about i mean we might have expected the same political statements that there's no bad guns just bad gun owners but no mention of gun control from the president it really is a topic that's off the table as far as the white house is concerned. well i can tell you that the n.r.a. paid thirty mi

muller who is in charge of the russian investigation and you've got president trump on saturday morning tweeting out that this whole thing is a hoax once again it's not the first time he's done that but things aren't strictly along party lines so you do have some republicans you saw one there talking about the fact that this dossier some republicans have such a problem with because it was paid for by the democrats has no bearing on the overall big picture of the investigation we know that the russians interfered in the election we know that they're probably going to do the same thing again in the midterm elections and they're looking at the bigger picture saying any blocks to obstruct this could cause a constitutional crisis president trump of course it's widely been reported that he wanted to fire about mahler back in july that didn't happen because senior members of his staff threatened to resign and the whole thing keeps rumbling on but the thing to watch for is monday evening and that vote whether that goes ahead then is entirely up to the president himself and if the president as w

it's all part of a plan to distract americans from the russia investigation led by special counsel robert muller and alleged campaign ties to president vladimir putin's government in a statement she said president trump has surrendered his constitutional responsibility as commander in chief by releasing highly classified and distorted intelligence by not protecting intelligence sources and methods he just sent his friend putin a bouquet of trump himself made the argument on twitter prior to the memos release that leadership at the f.b.i. and justice department are out to get him some analysts believe that's more evidence trump is actively obstructing the investigation if you look at the words out of mr trump's own mouth the very incriminating he said repeatedly i need somebody in the justice department who will protect me it's doubtful the memos released will change public opinion about the russia investigation still there is now an effort by some democrats and republicans to literally protect the russia probe from what many believe is a white house effort to derail the justice process ki

well i think they're getting increasingly frightened about what robert muller is up to there have been other stories this week about bob muller honing in on the pattern of the administration in trying to engage in a cover up we saw stories about the president's spokesperson hope picks saying that e-mails would never come out and we saw that in a previous spokesperson mark carollo had resigned because of his concern about obstruction of justice so i think that the white house is has that's all going on on one side so they'd much rather distract all of us with discussions about this memo which people who hadn't seen it said it would be one hundred times worse than watergate but yet as jim comey pointed out really there's nothing in it there's nothing new or particularly in lightning in it and so by the same token i think people will now say the people who support trump well see we've got this memo and this memo shows us how corrupt it is and i think a lot of people will never have looked at the memo or have no understanding about what's in it the democrats are going to vote to push a vot

muller into alleged links between the campaign and russia what are likely what are we likely to see happen with that now. well democrats are outraged because what they essentially saying is that this is just been one well orchestrated and what they're saying is a shameful effort to discredit the robert mueller investigation into accusations of not only russian meddling in the twenty six u.s. election but also whether or not there was collusion between the presidential campaign and russia the top democrat on the house intelligence committee points to the fact that they two democrats on that committee authored their own intelligence memo and that it was not permitted to be released by republicans on the house intelligence committee so they're saying when you're talking about bias what about the bias at the committee level they say that this is a transparent effort to suppress the full truth of highly classified information so reaction to this maryam has been very much partisan but democrat or other republicans are arguing that this is a legitimate national security concern the fact th