muller has revealed the first charges against former campaign officials and monday morning president donald trump's former campaign manager paul man a ford seen here on the left surrender to federal authorities the indictment of men afford a lot of time business partner richard gate does not mention the election instead it's your lobbying work for ukraine's former prime minister got a cold bitch that's caught prosecutors attention among the charges conspiracy against the u.s. money laundering and making false statements. for his part president trump says allegations his campaign colluded with russia is a political witch hunt spearheaded by the f.b.i. and democrats following news of the indictment from was quick to distance himself from his former campaign manager he tweeted sorry but this is years ago before man afore it was a part of the trump campaign but why on crooked hillary and the dems focus in another tweet he added also there's no collusion for now trump remains in the clear but many in washington are confident man affording gates are only the first dominoes to fall so the q

muller the special counsel if congress has passed sanctions and just a day or two before the state of the union this president pretty much said he's not going to enact them mention that either he didn't mention that either of course so i think the strategy is clear the republicans are trying to muddy the waters and clearly drag down the f.b.i. and the confidence in the f.b.i. and the federal government in order to make sure that it's just you know so muddy down that people not going to be able to differentiate and who's right and who's not in the co how do you explain to people here in europe when they're looking at the leader of the united states who in one of his most important speeches does not even mention the reality of the russian threat be it cyber or be it to nato whatever how do you explain this well he talked about all kinds of other things and the talk he gave basically focused mainly on an audience in the united states is not and so by focusing on his success for example in the economic sphere even though not all the facts that arrives he very much take the impression off

muller who was the special counsel actually conducting the law enforcement investigation why is he going after his former boss in this way. well that's a good question and one perhaps is to protect his own reputation the president was very critical of call me on the way out the door i think another aspect to it if you believe coleman to be a man of integrity and i think that many americans do they believe that he is partly doing what he sees as a public service which is saying hey i have kind of a unique perspective on this administration and i have a story to tell and people ought to know the way of this guy operated and so it's sort of a combination of those two things of course there's a commercial element to this as well only a certain to an awful lot of books and he is going to be on virtually every t.v. channel in the next week and a half year promoting the book as well what's going to surprise people most about the revelations in this book. well i think that one thing that really will stand out is the way the james comey recounts conversations that he had with individuals who can

happened in may of twenty seventeen just a few days later the man who would replace call me appointed robert muller as special counsel to lead the russia investigation the fallout from that fateful decision continues to this very day one of the main reasons komi writes that he is convinced that donald trump is not morally fit to sit in the oval office more on comments about the president and hillary clinton and others in just a moment our washington bureau chief went to downtown washington d.c. today to find out what people are saying about a higher loyalty. that he's talking a lot and getting a lot of press the same point people to hear what he has to say going to be interesting and okami has a lot of. he has a battle the pixels trump basically kicked in the matter in the way it was so i can understand it is a growing frustration so much the same with what's in the book i strongly disagree with everything that comey did that i believe that she is watching create tragedy. a walking greek tragedy well i'm glad my next guest is not one of those tyson parker joins know he's program director of

muller as he investigates possible collusion between trump's campaign and russia flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the f.b.i. about his contacts with russia's u.s. ambassador in the days just before donald trump became u.s. president clinton originally said that he had not met the ambassador when in fact he had today a federal judge lambasted flynn saying he quote arguably sold out his country are joining us now from washington is our very own minus where you are on the story for us tonight good evening to you my at ok the irony here it cannot be overlooked michael flynn during the republican national convention in two thousand and sixteen led the crowd chanting about hillary clinton lock her up today when flint entered the courthouse people were shouting about michael flynn lock him up. oh and it should also be noted that michael flynn used to be a democrat pretty much up until the twenty sixteen campaign if i recall correctly. a couple of also circle moments happening today in washington d.c. it. really was a surprise turn of events that. what we saw today happen the way it did not i