him to let go of what was going on with mike flynn. mike flynn leaving the investigation. the administration, excuse me, once he joined it in the blink of an eye because they said he lies to the vice president about his meetings with the ambassador. so there is a good jumping off point right there. so we have the enormous bills that these folks are paying. the president said that he would help pay for staffer's legal fees, but here are some of the familiar faces that we see right there from paul manafort to michael flynn, don jr., jared kushner, carter page, and roger stone who was banned from twitter yesterday because of an over the weekend twitter rant that he had. do you think that when it comes to the big reveal, that it may not be just one person, but there could be a larger reveal tomorrow of certain members of this team?

flynn while mike flynn was a trump campaign adviser and secretly on the payroll and went public about the meeting in march. since then, he's been in communication with the fbi and with the mueller investigation. and now, according to him, the people who had mike flynn on their payroll shopping this story to make james woolsey look bad. and we don't know why. these are very intriguing allegations from people we understand very little about. why is this happening? why now? and is there any connection to this reporting tonight from cnn that mueller has actually filed the first charges in his investigation? we don't know but it's fun weekend figuring this stuff out, right? we'll see you on monday. it's now "the last word." >> we immediately knew this girl was in trouble. >> kristina, the 23-year-old fashionista, went out on a friday night and vanished. >> they found her car. she never got in it. >> what happened that night, nobody knew police questioned everyo

so mike flynn got paid. mike flynn was talking to turkey about doing something that they badly wanted that james woolsey thought might have been illegal. >> tamara, we can't stop our brothers and sisters in the news media from speculating. i've heard david gergen say, quote, it looks like the dam is starting to break. i've heard speculation that this indictment may be targeted at flynn, maybe at manafort. we've already heard the president distancing himself from man afortunaaformanafort, the campaign a short time. flynn was a stalwart, stayed with him. those two men have different exposures. >> that's correct. flynn was very much a part of president trump's campaign. he was a trusted adviser. he spoke at rallies, and was very involved with the campaign and with the president, which is why he was the original national security adviser. and his tenure was short because he was dishonest about contacts that he had had with people involved with the russian government, including the russian ambassador to the u.s.

flynn while mike flynn was a trump campaign adviser and secretly on the payroll and went public about the meeting in march. since then, he's been in communication with the fbi and with the mueller investigation. and now, according to him, the people who had mike flynn on their payroll shopping this story to make james woolsey look bad. and we don't know why. these are very intriguing allegations from people we understand very little about. why is this happening? why now? and is there any connection to this reporting tonight from cnn that mueller has actually filed the first charges in his >> once again, we can't go in with the plans we had. it is always getting blown up by trump himself. >> if you would like to borrow my intact show -- >> i think i'll be -- >> which is not touched with the breaking news tonight, you're welcome to use it. >> i know. the one we had to import monday and lawrence can use it. >> we need to give the viewers little time machines to fit over the heads to go back to friday noon when a whole lot of other stories seemed important. >> we'll bedazzle the time mach

flynn while mike flynn was a trump campaign adviser and secretly on the payroll and went public about the meeting in march. since then, he's been in chungs with the fbi and with the mueller investigation. and now, according to him, the people who had mike flynn on their payroll shopping this story to make james woolsey look bad. and we don't know why. these are very intriguing allegations from people we understand very little about. why is this happening? why now? and is there any connection to this reporting tonight from cnn that mueller has actually filed the first charges in his investigation? we don't know but

even general flynn was a volunteer of the campaign. >> he was -- flooik min? mike finn? no. we didn't think of him as national security adviser, more of coat check boy. he was campaign volunteer. volunteered for a minute, made coffee. so national security adviser mike flynn downgrade after the fact to a volunteer for the campaign. then the chairman of the campaign, seen here with the last boss he's known to have have before he inexplicably starting working for the trump campaign for free in 2016, previous employment for pro-putin political party and dictator in the nation of ukraine. paul manafort also ended up having to retroactively register as agent of a foreign power, turned out to have had multiple communications during the campaign with russians even though for months he publicly denied having done it. and paul manafort signed up for multimillion dollar contract with russian close to putin. promote the interests of putin's government around the world. associated press published thatma march, russian billionaire sued and lost his case in federal court against the ap and

and mike flynn had to retroactively register as agent of foreign power. and after that learned about further meetings between flynn and russian officials during the transition he never disclosed. so mike flynn turns out not to be awesome choice to be advising the president of the united states on national security matters. he was allowed to resign in february. but by march the white house was insisting, honestly, they never really even heard of the guy. >> has anyone from the white house -- can i just amend? obviously just to be clear, trying to think through this for a second. obviously general flynn -- >> in the campaign before the election. >> and i'm not aware of any at this time. even general flynn was a volunteer of the campaign. >> he was -- like mynn? mike finn? no. we didn't think of him as the national security adviser, more of coat check boy. he was campaign volunteer. volunteered for a minute, made coffee. so national security adviser mike flynn downgrade after the fact to a volunteer for the campaign. then the chairman of the campaign, seen h

mike flynn. if mike flynn were to charge, would that necessarily be about the trump campaign? >> not at all. this is a wide-ranging investigation. certainly both flynn and manafort have been investigated in terms of their relationship with other countries. michael flynn was involved regarding turkey. if the charges relate to that, that does not relate to the russia investigation. however, the pressure used because of that case, you get him to talk about russia alternatively. mike flynn, paul manafort may have nothing to say about higher ups. we need not assume there are nefarious activities. >> i'm relieved about the curiosity of who it is. the action in and of itself is a good play by the mueller team, for two reasons. people say we want some action. it's been a long time. now you have the ball starting to roll, the first set of indictments. it's not that long. he started present anything july. this progress matters. that's enough for me right now. gentlemen, appreciate it. >> thank you both very much. how will president trump respond about the first charges in the mueller pr

named former national security adviser mike flynn and former trump chair paul manafort as targets of the investigation into alleged russian interference and possible collusion in the presidential election. both deny it. the president exploded on twitter calling this a witch hunt. >> much speculation about whether or not donald trump will use the pardon power to get out of power. >> reporter: an indictment will provide information for congressional committees conducting their own investigation. >> we continue the hard work of getting to the bottom of what happened. >> i have not yet seen definitive evidence of collusion. >> reporter: the president's pleading, do something. today, the special counsel will. here, lawmakers are concerned that all of this is going to distract from what they have really been working on and trying to get it done quickly, tax reform. >> a lot of people paying attention to that as well.

jane, i have to ask you if the mike pence/mike flynn connection and the story about what evolved between them and the way that pence's talked about flynn since the investigation has broken over whether that is well understood or whether there's more to learn there. >> i don't think it is well understood. i mean, i certainly didn't realize until i did this reporting that basically there was a red flag that was being thrown when -- around flynn by christie when he ran the transition and that when pence took over what happened was actually it was -- ivanka trump turned to mike flynn in a meeting and christie was chairing it and didn't understand that flynn was even going to be there and suddenly ivanka trump turned to him when he walked into the room and said, "general, what job would you like?" and flynn just basically said, well, you know, i'd like to be secretary of defense or secretary of state but if i can't have that i'll take national security adviser which is, of course, what he got. so the -- all of the warning signs were ignored and ivanka trump, i think, was acting out of loyalty

. >> the two people and press reporting that it's likely to be mike flynn or paul manafort. i don't think it's been appropriate for paul manafort to tell us. cheryl: president trump unleashing it power storm of three services. never seen such unity and anger over this fake dossier now 12 million. urania to russian deal. the comey fixes so much more instead they look at phony transgression of pollution which doesn't exist. dems are usually the witchhunt for evil politics. but now fighting back like never before. so much kill by democrats. we are going to take a closer look at the developing story with david bruno in just a few moments. >> investigators want answers after learning hillary clinton in the democratic committee. calling on john podesta, former dnc chair debbie wasserman schultz and others to testify before the senate intelligence committee. >> it is difficult to imagine that a campaign chairman, and the head the dnc would not know of an expenditure of this magnitude in significant, but perhaps there's something more going on here. >> clinton's campaign used fusion

but we also know that mueller is also looking into former national security adviser mike flynn's lobbying payments to turkey. >> ninan: and what exactly are the next steps in the investigation? >> reporter: well, this is not the end or the culmination of the mueller's investigation. sources who have worked on this case told me at the beginning that something of this scale and scope, this could take years. mueller has the power to investigate any matters that arise from the russia investigation, but that's also extended across this broad set of parallel investigations, into mike flynn, into paul manafort, and, also, into this question of possible obstruction of justice. so, reena, i would expect this to last well into next year. >> ninan: paula reid, thank you, paula. and so far this weekend, no word about any of this from the white house. errol barnett is there. >> reporter: president trump spent time at his virginia golf course today, refraining from directly responding to news special counsel robert mueller has obtained his first indictment, choosing instead to tweet about the g.d.p. an

flynn while mike flynn was a trump campaign adviser and secretly on the payroll and went public about the meeting in march. since then, he's been in chungs with the fbi and with the mueller investigation. and now, according to him, the people who had mike flynn on their payroll shopping this story to make james woolsey look bad. and we don't know why. these are very intriguing allegations from people we understand very little about. why is this happening? why now? and is there any connection to this reporting tonight from cnn that mueller has actually filed the first charges in his investigation? we don't know but it's fun weekend figuring this stuff out, right? it's now "the last word." >> once again, we can't go in with the plans we had. it is always getting blown up by trump himself. >> if you would like to borrow my intact show -- >> i think i'll be -- >> which is not touched with the breaking news tonight, you're welcome to use it. >> i know. the one we had to import monday and lawrence can use it. >> we need to give the viewers little time machines to fit over the heads to go ba

. >> there are two people i think just from press reporting that it is likely to be either mike flynn or paul manafort. i don't know it would be appropriate for bob mueller to tell us. >> reporter: it is entirely possible that the person charged could be somebody perhaps we've never even heard of before and what we understand here live at u.s. district court is that after those charges are filed, an arrest could come soon after. melanie alnwick, fox5 local news. back to you. >> time right now is it 4:32. let's talk about the latest in the russia investigation. this comes as president trump's job approval rating is at its lowest level yet. a new nbc news "wall street journal" poll shows only 38 percent of americans approve of the job the president is doing. 58 percent disapprove and the 38 percent rating is the lowest in modern times for a president at this stage of his presidency. >> 4:32 right now. we're turning your focus to the latest on the governor's race in virginia. a rally is planned outside of sterling virginia. florida center marco rubio will campaign for the gop candidate.

and again, i mean you've seen so many different connections with mike flynn and with others in the campaign that there is a lot of smoke there. but, you know, i think we'll have to see what's going on. what i'm very interested in seeing is what the congressional committees are looking at too, because keep in mind that mueller is looking mostly for criminal violations, which would be the americans involved in this. but the other part of the equation is what were the russians doing and how are we going to find out what they were doing and hold them accountable for it. >> it's a good point that you make, personal gain versus overall gain in all of this. >>> there was a report published yesterday saying special counsel mueller interviewed reince priebus. is there any sense that the president needs to worry about priebus talking? >> boy, i couldn't say whether he has concern for that. you don't know whether any of the people who have been questioned who had been in the white house and no longer are, whether any of those people, a, have information that would be incriminating or condemnatory of d

when you look at the landscape of this investigation, it begins with paul manafort and mike flynn. paul manafort who is briefly donald trump's campaign manager before he was fired has been paid as much as $60 million according to some reports by a russian oli' lig gark. his home was searched by mueller's agents. every legal expert we talked to believes he has some exposure. mike flynn, former national security advisor, on the hook for not telling the truth according to the attorney general about his conversations with the russian ambassador. also retroactively register the foreign lobbyist for the government of turkey also believed to have criminal exposure. there's also the possibility if someone is charged it's an ancillary figure, some tangential person we haven't heard of as a way for mueller to send a message to the main defendants in the case, this is what happens, this is what putting handcuffs on somebody looks like. >> i'm going to throw three other names in there as folks who have spoken with members on capitol hill, carter page, jared kushner, donald trump, junior as wel

flynn. here's what ty cobb said in an interview for "the new york times" podcast thursday, but was posted last night. >> i think he would be sad for them, as a friend, and a former colleague, if process results in punishment or indictments but to the extent that that happens, that's beyond his control. and obviously he's not trying to influence that in any way. but, the president has no concerns in terms of any impact as to what happens to them on his campaign, or on the white house. >> politico says cobb and the president's other lawyers are scrambling to prepare for this new stage of the investigation. sources close to the attorneys say the legal team wouldn't be surprised if the charges were also targeting flynn or manafort's family members, or even a longtime accountant or lawyer. no official word from the white house, and said press secretary sarah huckabee sanders is turning to twitter to ramp up their renewed focus on hillary clinton and the uranium one deal. >>> for more on tomorrow'

so i think they'll distance themselves if it's paul manafort or mike flynn indicted. if it's an indictment relating to russia and the campaign, that could be even more explosive. but any indictment is going to be damaging. >> so off of josh's point, so a single indictment, though, while damning, this could include and wrap up multiple people. so it doesn't have to necessarily be interpreted that there's only one person that's going to be charged in all of this, correct? >> that's right. but i think to pick up on something josh was saying as well, i would be surprised, of course this is all speculation by everyone at this point, but i would be surprised if this indictment is going to be squarely about trump/russia in any respect. it's too early. mueller is still pursuing that investigation. he's still interviewing people in the white house. he's not done yet. the indictments that are on that issue you would expect if there are any, would come at the end of that. whereas we've heard for quite some time that the peripheral issues surrounding paul manafort or michael flyn

we now believe to be paul manafort, mike flynn, maybe others talking with russian intelligence sources or people connected to russian intelligence during the campaign itself. that didn't come from the dossier. there were a number of concerning signs that led to this investigation to begin. and then the investigation was expanded and given to bob mueller because the president himself reached into the justice department and fired the fbi director because he was not happy with how it was handled. so, very little of this actually comes -- actually stems from the dossier itself at the beginning. >> one of the issues that the republicans are mentioning as well as the president there is the so-called uranium one deal. i want to play for you guys how hillary clinton described the story recently. i'll get your reactions afterwards. >> i would say it's the same baloney they've been pedaling for years. and there's been no, no credible evidence by anyone. in fact it's been debunked repeatedly and will continue to be debunked. >> the claim that hillary in some way approved the deal by herself or in

it could be folks like mike flynn, there you see the former national security advisor or paul manafort, the campaign chairman. whoever it is congressman trey gowdy former prosecutor himself says is he frustrated that this has leaked out. >> we don't know who is being charged. we don't know what they are being charged for. the only conversation i had with robert mueller it was stressing to him the importance of cutting out the leaks with respect to serious investigation. make no mistake, disclosing grand jury material is violation of the law. >> congressman gowdy who also chairs the government oversight, government reform committee says he would like to know more also about that dossier and ties to both between russia and hillary clinton and the democrats. heather? heather: specifically. so people sitting on mueller's team. we talked about that just a short time ago. over $66,000 amongst nightbeat nine of them for the dnc for hillary clinton and president obama and his campaign as well. so, what is the reaction so far from the white house? >> well, this may surprise you, but the preside

we'll give you stuff but we want the relief of sanctions we know mike flynn left because of a a conversation with the russian ambassador potentially about relief of sanctions. so this is intelligence 101. >> papadopoulos is pleading guilty to making a false statement to the fbi. we saw these documents, read them all today. he's cooperating after pleading guilty and he's being described as a proactive cooperator. you're a former u.s. attorney explain what that means, a proactive cooperator. >> the only thing it can mean to me, especially given the timing here, he was arrested in july, but he didn't plead guilty until the beginning of october. it certainly suggests that during those months of july, august, september, in the beginning of october he may have been wearing a wire. he may have been talking to his former colleagues. that is what proactive cooperation means to me. and if he is, or if he did do that, you know, the mind reels at the possibilities. i don't know if he did that and i don't know who he spoke to, if he did. but that is the kind of gold prosecutors look for which is admissio

mike flynn, jr. just a crazy story, right? first details reporting about literally about collusion, about an american trying to contact russian government hackers to collude with them, work with them in their government's attack on our election with the goal of helping donald trump and the american admitted he was doing that to a reporter, bragging about it, yeah, i did this thing. the other really strange thing about the story, which was down in the ninth paragraph of the story, a shock when you got there, the detail that the american who admitted to all of that was no longer alive. peter smith died ten days after recounting his story to the wall street journal. hometown paper reports that the 81-year-old killed himself in a minnesota hotel room. found with a bag over his head with a source of helium attached in a suicide note recovered at the scene, smith wrote, quote, all caps, no foul play whatsoever, all self-inflicted, no party had knowledge before the fact, all caps. a worker at the hotel said

mike flynn and questions about possible obstruction of justice in the firing of james comey. democrat adam shif believes manafort has information that could be useful to mueller. we know the russian government was reaching out to the trump campaign. paul manafort and others offering information on hillary clinton they thought would help the trump campaign. that the campaign was willing and accepted that idea. >> former u.s. attorney, says the first arrest is likely to be some one who has information that can advance the overall investigation. >> prosecutors like those in my former office and those that work in bob mueller's office now try to see who they can bring charges against first. see if they have information asome someone else. >> threat of indictment can provide incentive to cooperate, if the person charged works with special counsel it is possible charges could remain under seal and won't see any arrests this week. elaine. >> paula, thank you. >>> republican senator susan collins of maine sits on the intelligence committee which is conducting its own russia investiga

he's married to michael ladean who wrote a book with mike flynn who is now the subject of many of the parallel criminal investigations as to who what went on with the trump campaign and russia. turns up to the leadup of the campaign, barbara ladean like peter smith, barbara ladean, she too launched her own private investigation into trying to get hillary clinton's e-mails. and the reason we know that is because her quest ended up in redacted fbi files, and this month a source told the guardian newspaper that yes, the person behind that private investigation described in the fbi files, that private investigation into the e-mail server, that person is barbara ledean. that's newsworthy. and that's something that somebody in congress ought to explain. in addition to the trump russia investigation, we have russia investigations going on for months in three places. barbara ledeen works for the senate judiciary committee. she works for the chair of that committee for republican senator chuckgrassley. she was a senate judiciary staffer not just while her husband was writing a back with mike f

he claimed to be in touch with general flynn and his son mike flynn, jr., just a crazy story, right? the first detailed reporting literally about collusion, about an american trying to contact russian government hackers, explicitly to collude with them torque work with them in their government's attack on our collection with the gel of helping donald trump. and this american admittedly was doing that to a reporter, braging about it. yeah, this thing. the other really strange thing about that story which was down in the ninth paragraph of the story and came as a shock when you got there was the detail that the american who had mitted to all that was no longer arrive, peter smith died ten days of rt roing his story the hometown paper would later report the 81-year-old mr. smith killed himself in a minnesota hole room, he was found with a bag over his head and helium attached and in a suicide note, mr. smith wrote there was all caps no foul play whatsoever, all sell ifr inflicted. no party assisted or had knowledge as a fact. all caps the worker said he noticed smith pacing in the lobby

. >> i am lieutenant general retired mike flynn. >> reporter: who became president trump's top national security adviser and is now at the center of the russian investigation, was also interviewed about bergdahl. >> for the first 24 to 72 hours, we were in crisis operations, and we were -- i was personally diverting every single capability, human intelligence wise, to signals intelligence, to unmanned aerial vehicles, to space-based systems. i mean, we really turned on, to find this soldier. >> so you believe, sir, that he did walk off the base, with the intention of meeting the taliban? >> absolutely. absolutely. >> reporter: bergdahl disputes that he ever planned to join the taliban. claiming in the serial podcast that he walked off post in an attempt to report that his platoon commander was a bad leader. >> he was out of control, from what i could see. he was unfit for what he was doing. >> reporter: a military judge found bergdahl's observations about his commander to be unreasonable and incorrect. whatever bergdahl's reasons for deserting, president obama said, they were not a fact

flynn. joining me now john fas so far new york. i want to get your reaction to this milestone of the investigation regardless of who the target turns out to be. won't you agree just how serious robert mueller is taking this investigation? >> i think director mueller, former director mueller is a very serious lawyer. he wouldn't be in this position if he were not. i just say we shouldn't speculate. we don't know what will happen tomorrow and what shoe may drop. let's wait and see what happens. >> in terms of preparation, sir, i'm sure you expect and other republicans will be asked about this tomorrow. what will your reaction be if it is a big fish such as manafort or flynn? >> we don't know the anything other than speculation and i'm just going to react when i see what the indictment, if there is one, occurs. and then i'll have a statement on it. but at this point, i really think it's way too premature to speculate since we have no facts. >> all right. what would happen if the president is no

flynn. >> i have not yet seen any definitive evidence of collusion. i've seen lots of evidence that the russians were very active in trying to influence the election. >> some of the republicans like new jersey's governor chris christie wants to know how the indictment was leaked. >> there are certain laws. president himself are not under investigation. and some are calling on mueller to resign. >> anne-marie? >> hena doba here in new york. thanks so much, hena. >>> ahead we'll hear from amy klobuch klobuchar, democrat. >>> actor kevin spacey apologized following allegations that he made sexual advances on a 14-year-old boy. actor anthony rapp now 46 years old says he attended a party in 1986. he said spacey got him on top of the bed and got on top making a sexual advance but he was able to leave. spacecy replied if i did it, i apologize. he added publicly he is gay and he wants to deal with this honestly. >>> more than half the east lost electricity as a powerful storm moved up the coast with damaging winds and torrential rains. the storm came five da

>> and daniel, we know that mike flynn's lawyer had originally said he's got one heck of a story to tell in all of this. he was the one who allegedly lied to vice president pence. that's the reason that they gave for his departure of this administration, on his meetings with the russian ambassador, sergey kislyak, and this is all off-the-record information that's come from the administration's mouldths, if that's the real story. >> and it will be interesting to see has he told that story to anyone? and it's also interesting to watch the hill committees investigating the same thing as mueller to some extent. politico had a story a few days ago about how those committees, led by republicans, have basically said we haven't found anything collusion-related, let's wrap up the investigations, and democrats are saying that we haven't interviewed everyone, and so, we should keep investigating or keep looking. but for flynn, you know, his son is under real scrutiny. and so, if you charge his son, then maybe the father thinks, well, i should really tell my story now. >> hey, jeremy, real quickly,

flynn, who, of course is now the subject of many of the similar parallel criminal investigations as to what went on with the trump campaign in russia. turns out that during the lead up to the 2016 presidential campaign, barbara ledine, like old peter smith, barbara ledine, she, too, launched her own private investigation into trying to get hillary clinton's e-mails. and the reason we know that is because her quest ended up in redacted fbi files and this month, a source told "the guardian" newspaper that, yes, the person behind that private investigation described in these fbi files, this private investigation into the e-mail server, that person is bashr ledine. and that's newsworthy and that's the part that somebody in congress really ought to explain. because in addition to the special counsel's trump/russia investigation, we've got these three committees on capitol hill that have their own russia investigations going on now for months, right, house intelligence, senate intelligence, senate judiciary. barbara ledine works for the senate judiciary committee. she works for the chair

flynn. so i think all of these men and the people who are involved here are all men do know where they stand with regards to this investigation. >> how significant of a development is this in the russia investigation, evan? >> this is huge. look, this is something that we've obviously mueller has been at this for -- since may, but the fbi started this more than a year ago. and as you've been hearing from the president in the last few days and certainly from republicans more vocally recently, they're kind of sick of it. they think that it has gone on long enough. look, i'm not saying that robert mueller is necessarily moved by those complaints, but i do think that mueller given his history, you know, given the experience that he has is very well aware that you cannot, you know, take this too far along because it does, you know, have an impact on the president of the united states. so it's affecting the way the white house does its business. so i think he knows that there is a finite amount of

paul manafort and mike flynn, two people bob mueller is putting great pressure under. they have no interest to talk and you presume they'd take the fifth amendment but being forced to face down the barrel of criminal charges and a long jail sentence has a way of changing people's minds. that's a tool that mueller has to get to the bottom of what actually happened. those congressional committees just don't have. at the end of this, it's always been and continues to be bob mueller that's going to tell us what really happened in the course of the campaign. and not just in the course of the campaign but also to answer this obstruction of justice question which we know he's looking into. >> let's leave the campaign behind for a minute and talk a little bit more about how obstruction of justice might have taken place after inauguration and who might be involved in that. we know bob mueller sent over a list of five or six white house aides to whom he wishes to speak. are all of those aides going to be forced to speak under threat of, if they don't tell the truth they will per

. >> a lwhat a lot of people were looking at is what about mike flynn? is he the dog that hasn't bar barked? nothing particularly is known about when mike flynn might be brought into this, but he had a similar fara problem, potentially, not registering as a foreign agent. >> yes, there is nothing in yesterday's material that suggests what will happen on that front. but you're right, the foreign registration agency act is certainly coming to the fore of public disclosure. >> what we're seeing in this filing is anything that happened out of that, any work that involved that ukranian contract, any of those millions and millions of dollars, is considered illegal because it stems from an illegal act, which is not registering as a foreign agent. >> right, and as we disclosed yesterday, companies a and b in the manafort indictment are in fact the podesta group and mercury who we know worked with manafort and were subpoenaed in a fact-finding mission. but it looks as though the podesta group and tony podesta are under a bit more trouble than what a fact-finding

ensnared, jared kushner ensnared, mike flynn and mike flynn jr. ensnared. >> the trump campaign turns out to not be a very big family builder, and one of the troubles they face now is once you have a special counsel investigation, even more than the senate intelligence committee investigations and the other inquiries on capitol hill, it goes on and on. it goes wherever it leads. it seeks to turn allies against one another, father against son. campaign aide against candidate. and you cannot tell where it goes. just ask bill clinton about what's happens once a special counsel is unleashed. i think that's biggest single threat to president trump and he knows it. >> we're going to sneak in a quick break, but we'll be right back. don't go anywhere. fibromyalgia may be invisible to others, but my pain is real. fibromyalgia is thought to be caused by overactive nerves. lyrica is believed to calm these nerves. i'm glad my doctor prescribed lyrica. for some, lyrica delivers effective relief for moderate to even severe fibromyalgia pain. and improves functi

. >> so are you interpreting his confidence there as a signal that whatever paul manafort or mike flynn possibly did can't be traced back to president trump? >> that's not how i interpret it at all. both that statement as well as today's statement shows that ty cobb is doing everything he can to make sure that donald trump doesn't keep engaging in obstruction of justice. that's why he's so freaked out about any attempt from the president to influence this investigation. it's why he keeps talking about the president not doing it. when in fact the president is trying to do that. if you look at the firing of the fbi director and the reasons for doing it, that's straight up obstruction of justice. i'm a former prosecutor. that's a really broad statute. and it meets every element of that statute. >> regardless who ends up being the focus of this sealed document here, what are you looking for once the indictment is revealed? >> look at the underlying facts. there are republicans who are calling for special counsel mueller to resign, which is completely ridiculous. i want people to wait and se

former national security advisor mike flynn or paul manafort. we have not been informed and it would not be appropriate. >> reporter: earlier this summer fbi agents raided the home of paul manafort. his attorneys tell us they have not been informed of any charges being filed against the client. that is something that would typically happen following an indictment. president trump's former national security adviser michael flynn is a target. his attorneys have not responded to our request for comment. it is possible that the person being charged is someone we have never heard of. on fox news sunday congressman gaudi said at this point it is impossible to say how big of a deal these charges are. >> it will be really important whether or not this indictment involves 15-year-old business transactions or 15-day-old conversations with russia. it is important what the charge is. it is important who the person being charged is. >> reporter: those facts will determine what we are able to learn from the indictment and what it means to the investigation as

flynn. susan collins, sits on the senate intelligence committee which is investigating whether russians. >> the interpreter: feared with the us election. >> i've not yet seen any definitive evidence of collusion, i've seen lots of evidence that the russians were very active in trying to influence the election. >> some republicans including new jersey governor, and former united states attorney, chris christie, are focusing more on how the information about today's indictment was revealed early. >> there are strict laws against any of this type of leaking every grand jury activity. >> christie in the same interview also maintains something we've heard re pediatric ethically from the trump administration, and insist the president himself is not under investigation. live in the sat center. henry rossoffer, cbs-3, " eyewitness news." >> more to come here. thank you, henry. >> time now 5:36n business news this morning, hat worn by record at auction. >> shop remembers already thinking about the ho

flynn and questioned about possible obstruction of justice in the firing of james comey. democrat adam schiff believes manafort has information that could be especially useful to mueller. >> we know that the russian government through intermediaries was reaching out to the trump campaign, reaching out to paul manafort and others and offering information on hillary clinton they thought with help the trump campaign and that the campaign was willing and accepted that idea. >> reporter: former u.s. attorney creed merarra says the first arrest is likely to be someone who has information who can advance the overall investigation. >> prosecutors like those of my e rmer office and those who work in bob mueller's office now try to see who they can bring charges against first. and see if they have information about someone else. >> reporter: the threat of an indictment can certainly provide an incentive to cooperate with investigators. so if the person who it is possible if it is possible the charges could remain under seal and we want see any arrests this and we want see any arres

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