muller's team that was looking into suppose the pollution between trump and the problem prior to that the clinton e-mail investigation which went nowhere and then there's lisa paige a lawyer for the department of justice who also worked for robert muller the couple came into prominence back in december when their private text conversations were released to congress girls hillary should win. i know. and maybe your mom just the way you are because your mom to protect the country from that man. trying it's absolutely true that we're very very fortunate and of course i'll try and approach it that way. these text messages proved that both struck and page were biased in favor of hillary and the messages even hint at some nefarious political activity so when they wanted to dig deeper it turned out the rest of their conversation had disappeared the f.b.i. described the dates last misconfiguration issues relates it's rollouts provisioning and so for upgrades the conflicts with the f.b.i. his collection capabilities but let's look at the time frame these text messages december fourteenth two th

muller the couple payment to prominence back in december when their private text conversations were released to congress girls hillary should win. i know. and maybe your man just the way you are because your man to protect the country from that manifest. thanks it's absolutely true that we're very very fortunate and of course i'll try and approach it that way these text messages prove that both struck and page were biased in favor of hillary and the messages even hint at some nefarious political activity so when they wanted to dig deeper it turned out the rest of their conversation had disappeared the f.b.i. ascribed the dates lost to misconfiguration issues related to rollouts provisioning and so for upgrades the conflicts with the f.b.i. has collection capabilities but let's look at the time frame of these text messages december fourteenth twenty sixteenth roommates seventeen twenty seventy and when did muller's investigation into prussian blue should start oh look may seventeenth twenty seventeen surprisingly convenient the timing is just too coincidental seems that they were try

muller's investigation into russian meddling in the u.s. elections and now if you're just joining in on this story and haven't been following every single twist and turn of what's going on it's quite difficult to see what's been going on in this case so i think it's worth stepping back and just recapping what robert miller's investigation is looking into first of all they're looking at whether there was meddling in the u.s. election in twenty sixteen the u.s. intelligence services have said that there has been donald trump himself has reluctantly admitted that there was also russian interference but the kremlin's repeatedly denied that there was any involvement so secondly they're looking at whether trump's campaign was involved in this meddling whether they were complicit in helping the russians undermine clinton's campaign and if the answer to one and two is yes then the third question that miller's looking into is was there a subsequent cover up so you can see in this context how this memo is so politically divisive and why trump might b

muller and we should point out that last year trump fire the director of the f.b.i. mr cole me a month ago the vice president there actor of the f.b.i. mr mccabe resigned so now democrats and also independent experts who are not attached to any party suggest that the white house could use this memo to fire mr rosen seen the current deputy attorney general and they could replace him with a more friendly person in order to underestimate the whole investigation the russia there and of course the one who's leading this investigation mr mohler all right so those memos just come out how are democrats responding to the allegations that are contained in this memo that the f.b.i. acted in a partisan manner. well they're saying they're the democrats that this whole process has been ignoring the rules of our democracy and in fact if there have been made changes to this memo before it went to the white house it would indeed be undemocratic this document or this document the memo was supposedly changed after it was released by the house intelligence committee and therefore the wh

and special counsel robert muller's investigation into the trump campaign's possible collusion with russia has also been a constant thorn in the president's side. donald trump has accused the f.b.i. and the justice department of skewing the russia probe in favor of democrats interests and against those of republicans on twitter he said they were politicizing the investigation. and now a controversial memo is the latest salvo in this conflict drawn up by republicans and released over the objections of the f.b.i. and justice department it alleges bias at the nation's top law enforcement agencies a committee led by republican lawmaker devan newness voted to release the memo which says the f.b.i. used improper means to spy on trump campaign aide carter page. not surprisingly democrats take another view. the top democrat on the committee had voted to release the memo says it's meant to undermine miller's investigation. the point was to selectively declassify information so that it would support a narrative favorable to the president a characterization that trump rejects he's defended his decisi

acted in part on a referral from special counsel robert muller miller's conducting an investigation of course into russia's alleged meddling in the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential campaign. the documents seized at michael cohen's manhattan office contain what his lawyer said are privileged communications between cohen and his clients those clients include u.s. president donald trump the f.b.i. xrayed prompted a furious response from the president so i just heard that they broke at the office of one of my personal attorneys but man. it's a disgraceful situation it's a total which is an attack on our country the. attack or what we all stand for michael cohen came under scrutiny after he admitted to making it one hundred thirty thousand dollars payment to adult film actress stephanie clifford. clifford who goes by the name stormy daniels alleges she had a sexual relationship with donald trump in two thousand and six. clifford said cohen made the payment in return for her silence trump has denied all its the payment was made it is unclear if the raid is directly linked to the motor invest

acted in part on a referral from special counsel robert muller muller's of course conducting the investigation into russia's alleged meddling in the u.s. presidential election in two thousand and sixteen. president trump was blindsided by news of the raid on his longtime attorney's office and he didn't hesitate in publicly venting his anger because he accused the f.b.i. of unlawfully entering michael cohen's office despite having a warrant. so i just heard that they broke into the office of one of my personal attorneys a good man. it's a disgraceful situation it's a total witch hunt it's an attack on our country in the true sense of the attacker and what we all stand for trump says the so-called witch hunt is distracting him from more urgent matters as president and he has made no secret of his disdain for robert muller who is heading the f.b.i. inquiry and was involved in the raid miller is investigating trump on allegations of misconduct including collusion between the trump campaign and russia during the two thousand and sixteen election and trump's lawyer michael cohen is now in miller's c

muller who is heading the f.b.i. inquiry and was involved in the raid miller is investigating trump on allegations of misconduct including collusion between the trump campaign and russia during the two thousand and sixteen election and trump's lawyer michael cohen is now in miller's crosshairs after he admitted to making a one hundred thirty thousand dollars payment to adult film actress stormy daniels just days before the election daniels alleges she had a sexual relationship with donald trump in two thousand and six and was paid hush money for her silence trump has denied the affair and knowledge of the payment trance reaction to the raid prompted renewed speculation that the president may have miller removed from the investigation. why don't i just fireballer well i think it's a disgrace what's going on we'll see what happens but i think it's really a sad situation where you look at lawmakers on capitol hill have warned the president to allow the investigation to go ahead without political interference. and we hav

the raid was based in part on a referral from robert muller who is heading a separate investigation into suspected russian meddling in the u.s. presidential election it's unclear if there's a direct link to muller but that didn't stop trump from also attacking the special counsel's inquiry. and say an attack for our country of the true sense of the terror court and what we all stand for. why don't i just fireballer well i think it's a disgrace what's going on and we'll see what happens but i think it's really a sad situation when you look at it while lawmakers on capitol hill warn the president to allow the miller investigation to go ahead without political interference the latest f.b.i. raid suggests there could be more legal trouble in store yet for donald trump what we do with respect to the. following the story for us and she joins us in our studio this is such a complex story explain to us what the stormy daniels investigation has to do with the miller investigation so if you've heard the name michael cohen in the past however many weeks in the media it's because he is donald trump'

muller he's heading a separate investigation into suspected russian meddling in the u.s. election it's not clear whether the radius directly linked to malice proved but that didn't stop trump on monday from railing against the inquiry an attack. country that. we all stand for. why don't i just fire moment where i think it's a disgrace what's going on and we'll see what happens but i think it's really a sad situation lawmakers on capitol hill a warning the president to allow the investigation to go ahead without political interference and the latest f.b.i. raid suggests that for donald trump they could be more legal trouble ahead. let's talk about this what with the top news how much weight has been following the story you know for so welcome so draw a liar in between. trust the president of the united states investigation into russia's meddling toward the sixty eight election there's actually a lot of lines that have to sort of come together to make this story make any sense so if you have heard the name of bill cohen in the media recently it's because he is donald trump'

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 komi to be a man of integrity and i think that many americans do they believe that 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 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 just call me 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 c

and trying to derail an investigation well coney's firing triggered robert muller's special investigation into possible collusion between russia and trump's election campaign so far miller has indicted several of the president's campaign staffers now komi is releasing a book ahead of it he's given his first interview since his firing he told us network a.b.c. why he thinks trump is unsuitable for the office of president but i don't buy the stuff about him being mentally incompetent through early stages of dementia strikes me as a person of above average intelligence who's tracking conversations and knows what's going on i don't think he's medically unfit to be president i think he's morally unfit to be president who talks about and treats women like they're pieces of meat who lives constantly about matters big and small and insists the american people believe the person is not fit to be president or united states on moral grounds. former f.b.i. director james comey there will joining us now is us political analyst tyson barker from the aspen institute here in berlin good morning tyson mor

muller's investigation into possible illegal links between the truck campaign and russia was believed and that sentencing is about to take place just moments from now in the meantime joining us from washington is. major good evening my remind us briefly just who is michael flynn and why is this case so significant. you know it's easy to lose track of who's who in this ever changing play that is the trump administration but michael flynn was one of the first people in the trump administration not only to join the administration but also to exit the administration way back in january twenty seventh he was fired for what the president at the time said was lying to the vice president about this very same topic and that then set off this cascade that we've seen in the almost two year sense then of people seemingly regularly being fired or resigning from the administration but flynn was also one of the the first people to be served with papers to be indicated in this special counsel investigation and it was flynn's involvement with the russians his allegedly connections his talks with the r

the case is linked to special counsel robert muller's investigation into possible illegal winds between the trump campaign and russia. all right as we hate and as we wait to hear what the verdict will be we can now talk or to our correspondent in washington you. schrader my o'flynn is the man we know him who led donald trump supporters in chance of lock her up about hillary clinton what else can you tell us about michael flynn who is the where does this case matter what's interesting to note is michael flynn actually used to be a democrat speaking of him leaving the chance of laugher up he was one of the first trump surrogates of her and one of the first time surrogates to do that he was also a three star general who served trump adviser to be fired or have to leave the administration now at the time the president said that he was being fired for supposedly lying to the vice president but what has come out in the almost two years now since then is a series of encounters that clinton had them with the russian ambassador during the campaign and why this matters is this was this is part of

year prison sentence the judge has postponed said to say now the case is linked to special counsel robert muller's investigation into possible illegal links between the trump campaign and russia already conducted by a room supporter all right these are breaking developments the let's get more of from washington where w.'s schrader is standing by. this was supposed to be a cut and dry sentencing instead sentencing has now been postponed what's changed the mood within the courtroom. yeah definitely a lot change not only within the courtroom but between yesterday and today when the the buzz around town shall we say was that flynn was more or less going to walk free after we saw another high profile sentencing just a few days ago where that defendant got three years people were expecting a much more lenient situation for flynn but as the hearing went on reports from inside said that the judge was really not having it and the lawyers involved despite presenting evidence that flynn had been very cooperative with the investigation had provided a lot of assistance and recommending no jail time bu

muller's investigation into links between trump's election campaign and russia are joining us now from washington is our correspondent swager my it's good to see you have this was supposed to be a cut and dry sentence and instead it's been postponed what changed the mood within the court room i understand there was a lot of drama. andy and not just in the courtroom but even just between yesterday and today when the the buzz around town shall we say was that when might get zero jail time given that prosecutors are saying he had been extremely cooperative with the mauler investigation and maybe even perhaps wanted to keep him around for more help and they were recommending zero jail time people were expecting that that was going to be the case and now we see this change in the courtroom with the judge some harsh words for flynn stopping short of accusing him outright of treason but really a judge who seem not sympathetic to the cause that flynn and his lawyers are trying to put forward which is that he was contrite about his crimes he wanted to plead guilty he was trying to help do the r