our coverage continues at 6:00 paul manafo. chuck todd is here, he'll talk about how pivotal this debate will be for the front runner, gavin newsom chuck and i will be asking a lot of questions but you can tweet us the questions you want to ask. >>> separating families at the border that's the new immigration policy. separating parents from their children if they cross the border illegally. the old policy was to keep them together at the same detention center. now parents will be prosecuted while children will be send to another detention center. a lawsuit was filed in february to challenge this practice. >>> looming this week for president trump an expected anountment on the iran nuclear deal. he tweeted he'll announce his decision tomorrow. the sanctions were lifted in exchange for iran limiting its nuclear program. president trump has blasted the deal since he was a candidate however u.s. allies are urging the president to amend the deal if he must but not pull out completely. >>> still to come at 5:00, a delivery driver cau

is continuing its own inveigation into paul manafo and russian influence in the american election. but without help from ukraine. jane: for more on this story, paul joined me a short time ago. thanks for joining me. this isn't the first time that michael cohen has been accused of taking money to gain acce to mr. trump. is this case any different? paul: this is different because itreign money, or allegations of foreign money. michael cohen stands accused of taking money from u.s. companies to get access to the white house. when those stories broke, apparently it was mr. cohen's bank records obtained by a lawyer for the porn s stormy daniels -- here we are down the usual trump rabbit hos already. it was tn said there were foreigners involved. at the same time, i was doing my own reporting kiev, talking to senior sources with direct knowledge of the matter. they said the foreign government in question was ukraine's. re cutouts -- it was not done directly by the government of ukraine. but my sources tell me that the payment was effected by the ukrainian president to michaelto coheake su

the judge at a hearing for paul manafo manafort. that judge also asking about the scope of the mueller investigation, something the president pounced on. here's pierre thomas tonight. >> reporter: former donald trump campaign manager paul manafort arriving in federal court today to try to get this one case thrown out. inside the court rroom special counsel's investigation judge t.s. ellis, a reagan appointee, asking what robert mueller's indictment of paul manafort for alleged financial crimes has to do with mueller's primary mission, investigating whether trump associates colluded with the russians. "trump's prosecution or impeachment," ellis told prosecutors. "that's what you are really after." ellis said mueller's indictment on a number of charges. including tax evasion and bank fraud related to work abroad before the campaign is really intended to get manafort to quote, "sing" or become a cooperating witness. the government arguing the special counsel's mandate is broad, and includes looking at manafort's work overseas the but se

. >> she went on line and found them for $500 paul manafo. >> the man sounded nice. >> she decided tozzie and wired the money. >> i was waiting for the dog. and i got an e-mail. >> it said she had to pay another $980 for shipping the dog to her home. this time the payment did not go through. >> they refused to deliver it. >> the seller told her to send the money by western union instead and not to tell the cashier why she was sending it. so she went to western union. >> they said, i don't think we do this. >> reporter: western union stopped the payment too and they got her money back again. >> these people are professional fraud sters. it's what they do every day. >> reporter: kim gardner tells us her company launched a program in january to block the faud against customers. >> if we feel for a moment that the transaction is part of a fraud scheme, we will place that transaction on hold immediately. >> reporter: among its knewest efforts money gram compiles data on senders and and severs. in this case she had never used money gram before and suddenly two payments in a week. what's mor

counsel, but obviously the special counsel said they were going to ask the president questions about paul manafo manafort, michael flynn and george papadopoulos. paul manafort is in deep trouble. flynn and papadopoulos have completed guilty to lying to the fbi. the white house has been worried about them flipping and giving the special counsel information. what that means is, when the questions are asked to the president about what he said, the communications with paul manafort, flynn, papadopoulos, they have one story that they told the special counsel. he has another based on context. that is a very serious problem considering they'll look at the facts and line up. >> in this particular case, it's is -- what you said is the definition of a perjury trap. if this was a guilty man, he wouldn't have turned to his fbi director, james comey, and said please investigate it. look into it. prove it. it didn't happen. it's not true. he continually asked him to do that. he's done the opposite of a guilty man in this process. he said you're investigating. it's a witch hunt and it's be growing. the scope i

wall street journal, it says "ju dge questions mueller's authority to prosecute manafo rt." now paulanafort is a nice guy. he worked for a very short period of time for me, literally, what, a couple months? johnrked at the firm for mccain. they worked for others. does anybody say that? no. fake newsfighting, on cnn. >> [booing] president trump: i think nbc may be more distorted and worse. >> [booing] president trump: no, but on cnn they have a headline, "judge in manafort case,president trump:'s to hurt trump." i said, give me that article, i want to read it. a federal judge questions special counsel robert mueller's authority to bring tax and bank fraud charges unrelated -- unrelated to the 2016 election against former trump campaign manager chairman paul manafort. he was there for a short while, but i really believe he is a good person. the judge, who is really something special i hear from many standpoint, he is a special person, suggested the charges before the court for the eastern district of virginia, which is part of the mueller team history mr. manafort into giving informati