powerful democrat iic lobbyist tony podesta stepping down from his own lobbying group. robert mueller investigating if he cooperated. he said he's cooperating with the team. his brother, john podesta, served as hillary clinton's campaign manager. >>> also breaking tonight, major storm damage across the northeast. millions reaming from heavy rains and hurricane-strength winds. floodwaters sweeping a home down the river, right there in warren, new hampshire. at its peak, more than 1 million customers in seven states without electricity. that system has now moved off the coast tonight. glad about that. >>> there is still much more ahead on "world news tonight" this monday. the allegations against kevin spacey. an actor accusing him of a sexual advance when he was just a teenager. tonight, kevin spacey's response, and that response is now igniting a firestore. >>> the headline late today, a former nfl player dead at the age of 30. >>> and our made in america series is back tonight, just in time for the world series. we swing for the fences. and we'll let you know how that t

podesta from the lobbying firm. he is the brother of the former clinton campaign chair john podesta who you may remember had the e-mail hacked by russia. in a podesta accused the president of perpetrating a "big lie." alison: new information tonight about the impact of three major hurricanes and the wildfires on all of our wallets. nancy chen is in the satellite center with some of the numbers for us. nancy: the head of the federal emergency management agency fema testifying before congress today. brock long told the senate panel that the united states is spending more than $200 million a day in response to hurricane harvey, irma and maria and the wildfires in california. 25 million americans were impacted by the natural disasters in the space of 50 days. right now more than 4 million are registered for the emergency aid and they predict more money will be needed than the $52 billion in the emergency relief allocated. he is working to power to be restored for puerto rico. 57 rico are still without power. nancy chen,

. >>> now tony podesta a major democratic washington player says he's stepping aside from his lobbying firm. he was chairman of podesta group. it came to light podesta group had not fully disclosed its actions. >> 6abc has the very latest on the mueller investigation and the charges against paul manafort and rick gates. there you can feed the rule text of the indictment. >>> in other news tonight a suspected child rapist is behind bars accused of preying upon young boys in delaware county. and authorities fear there are more victims still out there. "action news" reporter chad pradelli is live outside of the courthouse in media. chad. >> reporter: rick investigators here in delaware county have identified nearly a half dozen victims but they worry that number could explode and they want viewers to take a close look at michael cripps. michael cripps is charged with sexually assaulting five children dating back to 2012. some as young as five years old. cripps hid his face as he was taken to jail. >> considering the allegations you can't show your face. >> reporter: cripps responded with

it is not just tony podesta. you could say, tony podesta, this was just a ukrainian group he was helping improve its image. it's a ukrainian group that was pro-russian. according to nbc, financed by the russian oligarchs. so i think some of these firms like the podesta group now knee-deep in it. it will expand. melissa: knee deep in it. what does that mean? as we look threw all of this, you sort of start to get this picture that there are russians hiring americans to help them with all kinds of things. whether it is lobbying, improving their image, trying to make connections in washington, one way or the other, everybody has done something some point in time. it is starting to feel like that. is that inherently wrong? >> that is inherently right. melissa: is it unlawful, is it immoral, where is the law in all this? >> the law in this can be a minor one. well, they didn't register. they didn't disclose that they were working for this ukrainian group, nominally ukrainian group and that's a pretty, you know, you can

david:dc shake-up, tony podesta, brother of hillary clinton's campaign manager, john, president trump tweeting quote, he referring to tony, and his brother could drain the swamp which would be yet another campaign promise filled. fake news, weak. here is now fox news senior judicial analyst, judge andrew napolitano. judge, he does have a point, does he not? these, tony podesta, epitomized the swamp, the k street lobbyists which is the swamp that he speaks of. >> in fact tony and his company shared in common a client with paul manafort, which is the former ruler, hard to say, dictator or popularly elected, former ruler of the ukraine, who is a good buddy of vladmir putin. david: just shows again, you have this life-long democrat, podesta, the republican insider, manafort, working together on this one client. shows the swamp has no ideology and no party. just into greed. >> i agree with you. what we don't know, what is very interesting to me, what prompted podesta to leave? was it awareness of indictment of manafort? was he doing the same thing as manafort was, laundering his money? or

tony podesta has stepped down from his lobbying firm after the firm was referenced in the paul manafort indictment. manafort is accused of using the firm as part of a pr scheme for pro-russian/ukrainian clients. podesta's brother john was hillary clinton's campaign chairman. >>> we're also hearing new revelations about russian sponsored content on social media during last year's election. facebook executives will testify on capitol hill today that a russian group posted more than 80,000 times during and after president trump's victory, and that content reached as many as 126 million people, far more than previously disclosed. meanwhile, twitter has now identified nearly 3,000 russian linked accounts. that's nearly 14 times the number first disclosed, and today google is expected to identify 18 youtube channels linked to russian influence, but it describes only limited activity on the accounts. >>> there are some new comments about the civil war from the white house chief of staff john kelly that have been getting a little bit of attention overnight. kelly appearing on fox news and was a

in this and getting millions of dollars from foreign government, tony podesta had to leave the podesta group and the podesta group looks like it is no longer an entity. governments that are usually paying people to do pr work for them are not good people. governments on the up and up don't need a secretive pr campaign to get their views across. governments people are working for our unsavory characters and it is unintended consequence, something once robert mueller start seeing stuff that is illegal or has been mishandled he can't turn a blind eye to it. drain the swamp, he may find no russian collusion but people from the left and the right in trouble for what they have been up to. leland: i ran into the ukrainian government manafor it were working for, people who believe in our ideals for sure, thanks for joining us. >> reporter: great discussion. laura: fox news alert, the number of dead in the egypt mosque attack rising to 305 victims including 27 children and dozens of others hurt when islamic militants detonated bombs and then fired at worshipers as they were running for their li

tony podesta had to step down from his law firm and doing work for the putin-funded russian president of ukraine. there is tons and tons of russian tax going into the clinton foundation, to clinton associates, people tied with her. we need to find it out if we want to know as the country the full picture of how russia was trying to undermine our democracy and influence our political in washington >> sandra: it will lead to answers when you look at the money trail. i want to ask you about the white house, washington and capitol hill this week. the president has an aggressive schedule today meeting with his full cabinet. potentially a big announcement coming this afternoon. he is meeting with secretary of state rex tillerson, nikki haley. they say there could be an announcement on north korea this afternoon and meanwhile there is a cloud over washington now amid the sexual harassment allegations against al franken and roy moore. how is the week shaping up? it's a holiday week but there is a lot going on. >> a lot of distractions. we need to get to the bottom of what is happening on russ

podesta. he is the brother of hillary clinton's campaign manager, john podesta. we all know. robert mueller's investigation expanding to him. he may have broken the law. >> this is proof positive that bob mueller is not conducting a partisan investigation that is geared toward republicans which is what many on the right have been -- what many have been saying. he is looking into every single aspect of this. he is leaving no stone unturned. so this talking point of the gop perpetuated time and time again that robert mueller is out there working for the democrats is false. >> sandra: i don't know. >> i think the significance of podesta in the larger scheme of things. everyone thought hillary would be elected. any avenue of influence that any special interest could use with democratic players, bill clinton was used. cash was thrown at these people. everyone tried to develop relationships with them and that's the larger story that still needs to be unraveled. >> sandra: when it comes to the uraniu

tony podesta said he will fight the focus on him without dragging the firm into that. it was reported that podesta, the brother of hillary clinton's campaign chairman john podesta has come under scrutiny about the special counsel's office for his work with paul manafort's firm. it is worth noting that neither podesta has been charged with any kind of crime as of yet. >> bill: president trump tweeting earlier today. the fake news is working overtime as paul manafort's lawyer said there was no collusion and events mentioned took place long before he came to the campaign. few people new the low level volunteer papadopoulos. former deputy assistant attorney general under george bush with me now. tom dupree. you've had 24 hours to think about it and divide the segment in two parts. what's the takeaway on the manafort case as of this hour? >> the take away is there is nothing that that indictment that links the president or his campaign to the russians. the big question is whether manafort will fight the charges or to cooperate with mueller. if he does, what does he have to

look at tony podesta. he tweeted out this morning. let's get back, the central issue is the president of the united states accused the former president of wiretapping trump tower on march 4th and since then there's been not one shred of evidence. and he keeps trying to change the subject. >> we have breaking news on the vice-president meeting with house republicans trying to resurrect a way of repealing obamacare. that just got wrapped up. word on what was said. the president's meeting with china's president, his meeting with egypt's leader as well today. jared kushner's role in the administration. and on his visit to iraq. more on that as we continue. oesr your moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. be the you who shows up in that dress. who hugs a friend. who is done with treatments that don't give you clearer skin. be the you who controls your psoriasis with stelara® just 4 doses a year after 2 starter doses. stelara® may lower your ability to fight infections and may increase your risk of infections and cancer. some serious infect

look at tony podesta. he tweeted out this morning. let's get back, the central issue is the president of the united states accused the former president of wiretapping trump tower on march 4th and since then there's been not one shred of evidence. >> we have breaking news on the vice-president meeting with house republicans trying to resurrect a way of repealing obamacare. that just got wrapped up. word on what was said. the president's meeting with china's president, his meeting with egypt's leader as well today. jared kushner's role in the administration. when you have allergies, it can seem like triggers pop up everywhere. luckily there's powerful, 24-hour, non-drowsy claritin. it provides relief of symptoms that can be triggered by over 200 different allergens. live claritin clear. working on my feet all day gave me pain here. in my knees. so i stepped on this machine and got my number, which matched my dr. scholl's custom fit orthotic inserts. so i get immediate relief from my foot pain. my knee pain. find a machine at drscholls.c

podesta and the uranium deal? everybody will have paul's reaction. >> try not to -- >> i can't tell if that's a joke or -- >> how did monica lewinsky end up being one of the victims of a real estate investigation called whitewater? we never really know which direction they're go going in. they have broad latitude. >> that's really an important point, actually. and brother begala certainly knows this because i used to visit him in the west wing. you don't know where this is going to go. once you have someone with subpoena power -- ken star's investigation began with a land deal in arkansas. it wound up with monica lewinsky. >> since you lived through that to the congressman's point what does it do to a white house? you talked about president clinton's ability to compartmentalize? you said he had a remarkable ability, but what does it do to white house for people who want the president's legislative agenda to move forward? >> there are good people in that building who will become collateral damage. this president wi

but what do we know about tony podesta, julie? >> we know he was someone who for 30 years has kind of been lobbying for democratic causes. his group is a place where a lot of people go to after they leave democratic demonstrations. he's not part of these trump conservative circles we're looking at. he's someone who a lot of well-connected people in washington know, and he's also someone who took money from a pro-russia ukranian group to back their interest, to introduce ukranian officials to people on the hill. it is looking like he's a key piece to this, and i think his move yesterday to step down signals there's more news to come on tony podesta. >> and ruth marcus, you were at the editorial board where then-candidate trump talked about his foreign policy advisers. i want to play a little bit of the sound from him on that. >> george papadopoulos, he's an oil and energy consultant, excellent guy. >> this was the president, the candidate, i should say, bragging about his foreign policy advisers, perhaps trying to say that he had m

podesta, democratic powerhouse, are exposed on the foreign agent issue? because we're seeing mueller is willing to charge on it? >> actually, if you look at the indictment against manafort and gates, yeah, there is some exposure, potential exposure for tony podesta, big clinton fund-raiser, brother of john podesta, the chairman of the clinton campaign and the mercury group headed by the republican congressman. both were hired by manafort to do this pro ukrainian lobbying for. and did not file under the act saying that they didn't believe they were working for a foreign principle and according to the indictment, both were told in writing that yanikovic wanted reports of what they were doing. that should have been a red flag. they were working for the regime in kiev. >> indeed, the reference to the nonprofit offered as evidence of cover-up in the words of that indictment. michael, barbara, thank you so much. >>> ahead, mueller's next move. talking to people who work at the white house now. trump's lawyer speaking out revealing part of the legal defense stra

manafort and possibly tony podesta, the brother of john podesta, the campaign chair of hillary clinton's campaign. that's a side issue. he found both of those men perhaps breaking the law when it came to lobbying and foreign government. that would be a sign he's looking to get people to speak about what russia was trying to do. >> the president you would expect, he's confident. he said, i did nothing wrong. there's no collusion. it's commonly agreed i did nothing. when you talk to people privately around the white house, how concerned are they about this? >> they're extraordinarily concerned for a number of reasons. one is, there are people looking over their shoulder, there is that issue, number one. second, it's the fact that the president could respond to this very erratically. the last time this heated up he fired james comey, right, which got us the special counsel in the first place on this. and so there's that -- the second concern is that the president will over react to something which will only make his problems worse. so there's -- it's sort of multiple levels of fear here, bo

krishna, but also people have suggested, tony podesta, connected on the democratic side, people who we re on the democratic side, people who were not registered. this is a crime thatis were not registered. this is a crime that is almost never prosecuted. what mueller is indicating it he will charge anyone for anything within the scope of his mandate. very interesting. really good to have you with us. i was looking at a wall street editorial last week, lots of pressure on bob mueller, lots of pressure on bob mueller, lots of pressure on bob mueller, lots of flak from the republican side about hillary clinton, uranium one, then this from the wall street journal saying the best thing he can do is probably stand aside, resigned to prevent further political turmoil over his convict of interest, the suggestion that some on his team had been donors to the democrats. did you get a sense today from sarah sanders that maybe bob mueller's position is a lot safer than it was la st position is a lot safer than it was last week? there are two camps in the white house, from my understanding of people

gates into people like tony podesta. i think republicans will look to expand the scope and the rhetoric surrounding this, but in terms of what we are facing now, it now moves into the actual charges. it is less from politics and more from what is going to be moving to the courts. quickly, everyone i have spoken with this morning, this is that for the white house. this is the former campaign manager and his top deputy who were brought in, and one of them had a role within the rnc. this is that. -- bad. in these charges we don't hear collusion. we'll have to hear the timing of when these incidents pertain to. jonathan: this week is packed with market moving stuff potentially with a tax bill, nominations, all of that. you just said republican said you is it would be a bad idea to fire him. i don't see how they would react. has anyone said what they would do if the president didn't do that? kevin: lawmakers are out of session this week. when they returned, that is when all this will start to bubble over. we will be speaking

tony podesta resigning. what do you make of all of this? is a special counsel process and it is working its way in. we need to let that work its way out. i was very happy we brought out one of the charges. i think this law is being ignored for a long time. some of these people are charged because they were working for a foreign government and they did not register. because>> that is something youe been aggressively pursuing for years. on the left in the right, do you think the justice department has been forcing these disclosure laws adequately? >> no. that is why we knew that. that is why we were bringing attention. the investigation by the special workingand the folks for the ukraine and i don't know how many other countries being our government -- this like a dirty secret in washington, d.c.? >> not anymore. the law needs to be enforced. these people will have to register now. the justice department will see you are there will be held to be paid from the standpoint of our oversight ringing attention to the justice department not doing it

michael flynn come on the democratic side, tony podesta, famed powerbroker, has stepped away from his lobbying firm, also involved with manafort in ukraine on that side. there are number of figures. circle ofry wide people. when you look at the white house and how they have responded, they have been consistent in their distancing. a standardt taking lawyer saying, i will not comment. you have characterized george papadopoulos as a liar, having nothing to do with the campaign. they are saying paul manafort was a minor figure, despite he was campaign manager. we know have the trump administration acts in these situations and expect they will continue to take a tough line. we learned yesterday papadopoulos had pleaded guilty a couple weeks ago. he has agreed to cooperate with mueller. we have not heard that from manafort or rick gates. do expect them to cooperate with mueller? megan: anyone knows this will be a sophisticated dance, that indictment of paul manafort was sobering for many republican officials. sobering for the white house in terms of the gravitas and the seriousness of the

kevin: tony podesta has stepped down from his lobbying group, obviously the allegations and indictment against paul manafort. also silicon valley is facing scrutiny. you will be on a committee with regards disclosures for social media company. does tech get it? why were the disclosing that a foreign government was paying for ads for propaganda on the u.s. business sites? >> that's exactly the question we are going to raise. there were actually ads with ruble, the ribbon currency -- russian currency. that should've been a huge red flag that a foreign government was inappropriately and giveally trying to something of value to an to undermineidate our election process. kevin: are there laws on the books that social media companies should have been following? susan: absolutely. that's the question i'm going to ask them. kevin: is it acceptable, in your opinion, that people like mark zuckerberg are sending general cast -- are not find? susan: all i want on the people who can answer the questions. if that's the general counsel, that's fine with me. the questions are not going to be any easie

podesta, who have not always disclosed who exactly their foreign powers are. what needs to be changed in the culture of washington, d.c. for these political consultants lobbyists and advisers on presidential campaigns to more fully disclose which foreign powers they are actually representing? rep. engel: first of all there needs to be disclosure. there also needs to be truth. it was pretty clear. they fired flint because he lied to the vice president -- flynn because he like to the vice president. generally if you tell the truth, the truth will set you free. is not a matter of whether or not there should have been dealings with russians. clearly there should not have been to have the russians interfere with our election, but the compounded by lying about it. all of us remember general flynn at the republican convention aiding the chant of "locker up" about -- lock her up" about hillary clinton seems hypocritical. shery: how much momentum does this give the investigation did take it from here and move the liability towards president trump? i am not inagain, fav

tony: shery brings up podesta. what should we take away from him recusing himself from leading his company? i leave that up to him to make that decision and i leave it up to director mueller to conduct whatever investigation he needs to do. what we do know and what donald trump continues to deny is that the russians and the trump campaign and now we know that iraq goes all the way to the top of their campaign with manafort and gates. shery: we will have to leave it there. perez, thank you so much for joining us. chairman of the dnc. david: coming up, general counsel for facebook, twitter and google will testify on capitol hill. we will bring that to you live at 2:30 p.m. this is bloomberg. ♪ retail. under pressure like never before. and it's connected technology that's moving companies forward fast. e-commerce. real time inventory. virtual changing rooms. that's why retailers rely on comcast business to deliver consistent network speed across multiple locations. every corporate office, warehouse and store near or

. >> president trump says the resignation of high-profile democratic lobbyist tony podesta is bigger news than the manafort indictment. podesta is stepping down from his powerhouse firm after coming under investigation. another high-profile elected republican official plans to bow out after his current term. texas house representative jeb says he will not take the election next year. because called serving the u.s. congress the greatest privilege of his life. global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: i'm emily chang, and this is "bloomberg technology." coming up, capitol hill mea culpa. facebook and twitter and google testimonies in washington. lawyer's from each tech giant answer questions on what one senator calls the national security question of the 21st century. plus, apple and qualcomm's legal battle takes another nasty turn. we consider the beef from both sides and the implications for future iphones and ipads. what a woman for bitcoin. reversing course today, plenty to introduce bitc

in particular mueller is investigating the lobbyist tony podesta. the senate democrats want to question attorney general jeff sessions again. sessions denies that he knew anything, but according to court documents, he was at a meeting where trump campaign adviser george papadopoulos discussed a possible meeting with president vladimir putin. >>> this morning democratic leaders are reacting the allegations that hillary clinton's campaign took control of the national committee during the 2016 campaign. former dnc interim chairwoman donna brazile accuses the clinton campaign of taking control of the committee in exchange for funding to keep the committee financially afloat. brazil in a forthcoming book previewed in politico says the clinton campaign influenced finances and strategy. she claims the deal showed favor it is. over bernie sanders. he and his supporters insisted it was biased against him. >>> a vigil and memorial walk was held for victims of the new york city truck attack. last night's vigil started on the bike path where the killing began.

to tony podesta stepped down from a group. mueller is investigating work podesta did on behalf of manafort for the ukraine government. his brother, john, served as hillary clinton's campaign chairman and adviser to president barack obama. >>> russian election activity. executives from facebook, twitter and google will testify about activity on their services surrounding the 2016 election. facebook says the russian group posted more than 80,000 times on its service reaching 126 million users. >>> a militant suspected in the attack on the u.s. compound in benghazi, libya five years ago has been captured and is expected to be brought to the united states in two days. it's not clear how he was involved in the attack in 2012. four americans, including ambassador chris stephens was killed. he will face trial in u.s. district court in the district of columbia. bergdahl's sentencing hearing will continue today. he unexpectedly testified today and held by the taliban for five years. what is left of a severe storm system is expected to

tony podesta resigned from it yesterday. he is the brother of the chairman of hillary clinton's campaign. he lobbied for the pro russian ukrainian group that was named as having tied to manafort. the indictment says manafort has two unnamed companies to lobby on batch of russian interest in ukraine. the bo des ta group does not say it was one of those companies. saying they are cooperating and taking every possible step to provide documentation to confirm compliance with the law. >>> tech giants will tell congress today about the extent of russian efforts to influence last year's elections through social social media ya. facebook is expected to tell the committee about a special group called the internet research agency. it posted more than 80,000 times on facebook before and after the election. those posts may have reached as many as 126 million users. twitter plans to tell the committee it closed more than 2,700 accounts linked to the same group of russian operatives. >> investigators in niger is working to find the organi

tony podesta resigned from the podesta group yesterday. he is the brother of john podesta, the chairman of hillary clinton's campaign. the podesta group lobbied for a pro-russian ukrainian group with tied to manafort. manafort asked two unnamed companies to lobby on behalf of russian interests in ukraine. the podesta group did not confirm it was one of those companies. the firm says it has fully cooperated with the special counsel's office and taken every possible step to provide documentation that confirms compliance with the law. >>> tech giants will tell congress today about the extent of russian efforts to influence last year's election through social media. facebook is expected to tell them about a russia group called the internet research agency that posted more than 80,000 times on facebook before and after the election. those posts may have reached as many as 126 million users. twitter plans to tell the committee it closed more than 2700 accounts linked to the same group of russian operatives. >>> investigators in niger are working

saw podesta group, tony was the brother of hillary clinton's campaign manager who was implicated in this probe. >> that's so not related to what we are discussing. when you talk about the president's desire to have these people rooted out, remind everybody this is a president who tried to prevent the former fbi director from investigating flynn who was his national security adviser at the time, and apparently flynn is now in contact with the mueller investigation, maybe working on some kind of plea deal. you don't think the president should be concerned? >> i think what happened early in the administration, you're right, that the president never held office, never been a public servant, i think he was learning to understand the limits of his power. i am glad that he appears to have learned and understands his power. i think his impulse is to fight back. someone hits me, hit back ten times harder. you can't do that with the fbi director. kelly is anchoring him. you see the president when you have the manafort indictment, his impulse was to perhaps do something in response. i think general

tony podesta is one of the top democrats in washington and he is apparently under krut any in this probe. >> sources tell cnn that mueller has begun asking about jared kushner's involvement in comey's firing. the president was fiercely protective of michael flynn, we all recall. is there any reason to think he won't be just as loyal to his son-in-law? >> well, you think he'll be loyal as much as he can be and with whatever means are available to him. what's remarkable when you step back from the situation to note is how much both the president and actually general flynn and even if you consider paul manafort have put their son-in-laws or sons in jeopardy by drawing them so close. >> jon: -- and in a way that draws them to the investigation. and the other thing that is worth noting and this picks up on what laura said is that there is communication being made to by many parties to all parties. in the indictments and statements made to the press, mule eller is signaling much to concerned about. in particular, the indictment of manafort suggests he's being investigated for the kind of money

podesta, last year not last decade tony podesta lobbied against the largest bank and s-- sat on a board of a ban company. it's not even close, what we're talking about isn't even close to her most significant role with respect to rush. hillary clinton along with the obama administration that gave one fifth of america's uranium reserves, bill clinton paid a half a millions by a paid speech connected to the you're ydeal. so a individual who worked less than five months who worked with a russian -- even though the clintons had mump more extenttive ties. as secretary of state hillary was crafting a policy she said was design today quote strength then russia and to be clear the president has no personal financial dealings with russia, they are dealing with contest in russia once and selling a palm beach home to a businessman in 2005. and for the media members trying to conflate paul's role, numerous individuals, james clapper and mike more rel and intelligence from both parties have said across the board they have seen zero evidence of any collusion between the trump campaign and russian off

group to maintain their founder tony podesta. brooke? >> dan, thank you. dan merica at the white house for us. >> former contributor of the government ethics. welcome. as a democrat, what's your reaction to that? >> i'm hearing about this at the same time as you are. recall owe i took a look at doj's regulations for the special prosecutor and it clearly says and it's repeated in his written authorization that mueller received himself that he can investigate any matters that arise in the course of this investigation. it doesn't say matters arising against republicans or democrats. it just says any matters so if he's come across something involving podesta, that's fair game. if it's come up in the course of this investigation. >> walter, let me ask you about today's indictments involving campaign officials and president trump. he's shown he's not afraid of using his pardoning power and so had a lot of journalists asking if he might use it within this mueller investigation. let me play you some sound and this is cnn's senior legal a

, chairman of the hillary clinton campaign, his brother, tony podesta who worked with paul manafort, that's when they both actually went ahead and signed their forms showing they were working for a foreign government. that, again, was tony podesta, who i'm sure is going to be another shoe that falls very quickly as we start looking more and more into this whole thing and the question -- >> we'll see. >> the question of the dossier. today was campaign chair paul manafort who was indicted along with deputy chair of the transition rick gates and foreign policy adviser george papadopolous who pleaded guilty. what happens later we'll see. congressman israel, your reaction to the events. >> i chaired the democratic national campaign committee for four years and coached candidates and lesson one in politics avoid headlines with the words 31 page indictment and money laundering and they haven't been able to avoid this. the republicans were going into this midterm cycle facing a headwind. they now face a headwind that is strong and sustained. the fact is, if you are part of that 35% of the am

podesta the lobbyist with democratic ties who stepped away from his lobbying group, the podesta group. it's possible podesta will become the focus of this investigation, lobbying firm a and b were mentioned in indictments here. as you sit here are you willing to support this investigation from robert mueller even if it delves into issues that concern this democratic lobbying group and perhaps other democrats? >> first, i think we're starting to understand more and more about the russia playbook in the united states to try to influence our political system. i think americans understands the trump playbook which is to distract from the investigation when it touches anything to deal with him. yes, we want the mueller investigation to lead where it may. that if there are individuals who are accountable whether they be connected to the republicans or democrats, it's important that he has free rein to pursue those investigations. >> as you know, executives from facebook, twitter, google are all testifying before congress today. and we've seen some of the prepared testimony from the attorney

podesta information comes out, i think he should be prosecuted. this is the difference between me and a lot of other people that come on, i just want to find out what happened. >> but you just said the uranium one story has been debunked. >> it has. >>? >> august -- >> who paid $12 million -- >> in august 2016 "the washington post" ran a story saying that steve bannon, through some of his other groups, had funded the uranium one story and that, in fact, hillary clinton had removed herself from the decision-making process, that it would have taken nine secretaries to veto the program and that the donors whod had made donations to hillary's campaign had sold the company before she did. the optics are terrible, i agree. >> let me ask this question -- absolutely, and there's the potential to be some, you know, shady business coming on here. >> if we're saying optics are bad, i mean, come on. >> -- a bank that was promoting -- neil: guys, if we could step back from this, because there's a hot we don't know. but we do know the russians seem to be very i

we told you that yesterday because democratic lobbyist tony podesta has resigned to fight charges. in doing so, we inadvertently showed you a picture of john podesta, his brother. we regret9 the mistake here. it's actually tony podesta who has resigned due to the mueller investigation swirling right now and, again, we regret that error. >>> back to this story about the russians, here's how insidious the russians really get when it comes to being online. have you seen these handles on twitter? look at this one, @it's time to secede which advocated for the secession of texas from the united states or how about this one? @ten underscore gop. guess what? both have been found to be linked to russian operatives, and both have been kicked off twitter, suspended. so right now representatives from twitter along with facebook and google are testifying on capitol hill. these are live pictures from the senate governmental affairs committee as they look to determine what role the numerous now-suspended accounts with russian links played in meddling or convincing some americans -- maybe even jus

podesta and all of these democratic figures that robert mueller is applying to the trump campaign. the difference is that robert mueller is investigating possible collusion with the foreign government with the trump campaign, not a joint fund-raising agreement between the trump campaign and the republican party. these are two very different issues and the president seems to be wanting to conflate them to sort of muddy the waters and make it seem like there's a scandal over here and a scandal over there. >> you're right. this idea, he's always pushing this false equivalence between, i may have done bad things but, look, they did, too. it's entirely different to have potentially coordinated with an american adversary than to have done what he's accusing the democrats of doing. we first learned in your paper under a headline, trump denies knowing about russian connections. your paper reported it at a march 31st meeting, mr. papadopoulos introduced himself and says he had connections that could arrange a meeting between mr. trump and president putin. mr. sessions opposed the idea. mr.

but us a, john podesta -- who are clinton's campaign advisers brother to lobby on his behalf while hiding there were actually lobbying. that is the big thing that gets gates. but again, the idea is to get them to make a plea deal so that then mueller can get them to provide more evidence on the case on the way in the which the trump campaign was trying to reach the russians. juan: the issue of dates also being indicted -- gates also being indicted. as you pointed out and some of your articles, manafort was only chair of the campaign for short period of time in 2016, but wass stayed on the next day involved in the trump campaign even through the inauguration as president. the significance of gates of being included in this indictment? deputy andrew weissman is fairly well-known for indicting the target and the targets family members. manafort had marital problems recently, so i joked this morning that other than indicting his wife who legitimately could've been tied to some of these because her name is on the business as well, instead he indicted manafort's long-term business partner gates