papadopoulos has cut a deal with mueller. he no doubt has been questioned very closely on how the president responded to that proposal. we've had accounts that sessions shot it down. others were skeptical. what did president trump say when papadopoulos in his presence says, i've been meeting with russians who can set up a meeting between you and president putin. and i think that is really the biggest question that hangs over the papadopoulos case right now. we know -- we know mueller's people have been questioning the people in that room. sam clovis, who was papadopoulos' campaign supervisor, was before the grand jury a week ago and had to resign -- pull back from his nomination to be at usda this week as a result of these disclosures. but mueller has some answers about what trump's response is, and i think that's very critical. >> i would just say i think that the march 31st meeting is extremely important, but i think the key to all of this is looking at it from what happened after papadopoulos was informed by this russia-li

the idea was proposed by papadopoulos, papadopoulos, of course, just pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi about his meetings he had with russian connections. and our cnn correspondents, they did the reporting on this. manu, first to you. >> this is a march 31st meeting. >> hang on one second. there's a moment of silence down at the new york stock exchange. this in remembrance of the eight people killed in the new york city terror attack. >>> again, a moment of silence at the new york stock exchange to remember the eight lives lost, the eight lives taken by a terrorist attack here in new york city yesterday. i want to go back, and the world rallying behind the city. manu, candidate trump in a meeting with papadopoulos, he suggested meeting with putin and the president said? >> he didn't rule it out. he did not say yes or no. we do know from court documents that papadopoulos attended this meeting with then-candidate trump, and according to the court documents, he said when papadopoulos introduced himself to the group he stated in substance he had connections that could rarparrange a meetin

charlie: has he pled guilty, papadopoulos? john: yeah, i think you can look at the statement of offense. it said that it was the factual basis for a guilty plea, so yes. charlie: so already you have one person that has pled guilty here. john: i don't have a copy of the guilty plea, but that is why he would do a statement of the fence. it was dated october 5, 2017. toadmitted all the facts plead guilty to making false statements. charlie: there has been much talk about bob mueller's team, his integrity. you know the team he has assembled. you worked with him as chief of staff. how would you characterize them? john: starting at the top, the first word that comes to mind with former director bob mueller is integrity. this is someone who, when he volunteered to sign up in the marines in vietnam, to being a prosecutor in three different u.s. attorneys offices, in high-ranking roles in multiple administrations, including head of the criminal division, and leicester director of the fbi, has earned the respect of everyone that has wor

pattern is the same as it was with george papadopoulos. russians became aware of their status as foreign policy advisers and therefore reached out to them and engaged them, a very familiar tactic of the russian foreign ministry and intelligence services. and sought to provide george papadopoulos with dirt on hillary clinton and e-mails, much as they offered to do later with jared kushner and donald trump jr. and paul manafort. so there's a pattern here. special counsel is working his way up the ladder of criminal liability. and we can see more surprises, we can expect them. and they are likely to include potential charges and also convictions. >> against sessions or in general? >> in general, not speaking about sessions in particular. but there is a moment coming when jeff sessions will, i hope, be forced to explain these apparent contra dictions, his saying he was unaware of contact between the trump campaign and russian officials which is contradicted by carter page and george papadopoulos. >> also want to ask you about the reporting tha

i never heard of papadopoulos. he never showed up at trump tower. he was the coffee boy. >> the bigger question that should be looming over the president, who in his circle knew what papadopoulos was up to. we know that papadopoulos revealed to mueller's investigators he had long planned to arrange a meeting in russia between members of the trump campaign and russian officials. nbc news is reporting that papadopoulos' superior former trump campaign co-chair sam clovis testified before a federal grand jury last week. now clovis' attorney appears to deny a key part of what papadopoulos revealed to investigators, that our client encouraged a trip to russia on behalf of the campaign. dr. clovis vigorously opposed a trip. adding that if someone proposed foreign travel in a personal capacity dr. clovis could not prohibit such travel. that's lawyer talk. documents unsealed after clovis testified appeared to show he did encourage such a meeting telling plows i would encourage you to make the trip if it is feasible. mueller is creeping closer to the white ho

what papadopoulos did was lie and that's on him. not on the campaign and we can't speak for that. >> in fact, the white house and president trump yesterday belittled him calling him, quote, a low-level volunteer who has already proven to be a liar. >>> time now for a look at your weather on this wednesday morning.

of papadopoulos. he never showed up at trump tower, never had any interaction with any of the campaign leaders around me. and the leaders of the washington office of the campaign didn't even know who he was until his name appeared in the press. the guy was the coffee boy. >> try to distance themselves from papadopoulos all they want but they can't distance themselves from the people implicated in his guilty plea, some of who are senior members of the trump administration. sam clove advice, the campaign's policy director who is now the president's nominee for chief scientist department of agriculture was questioned last week by robert mueller's team. he testified before the investigating grand jury. cloe advice who is not a scientist and who has been working at the white house verified today that he's the individual identified in court filings as papadopoulos's campaign supervisor with whom he corresponded regularly about his outreach to those russian representatives. when papadopoulos e-mailed the cam

he told this young papadopoulos no more. what do you been that and where is that taking us in terms of this developing story? >> chris, you have to figure a lot of these revelations that are coming out now that seem to be voluntary and seem to be sessions people trying to get in front of something are, in fact, prompted by what muler is doing and papadopoulos and people going back through looking and figuring out hey, what is my exposure here and it's more than what we've seen and the guilty plea from papadopoulos and manafort and gates. you see mueller is showing a little bit of leg in some of these ways that are not necessarily in the four corners of the cases. for instance, in the supplemental material that was submitted in the manafort-gates related to their bail they just dropped in there that oh, by the way, they've been paid millions of dollar by russian oligarchs and they have these bank accounts that co-beneficiary is a russian national and you're, like, huh? why wasn't that in the indictment as if he's signaling th

the trump camp keeps downplaying the role of former adviser george papadopoulos. a new video suggests otherwise. we will bring that to you. >>> two former presidents with fresh criminal of donald trump today. plus they reveal for the first time who they voted for in the election examining the winners and losers in the new republican tax plan. will the rich get richer and what does it men for the deficit? those details ahead. but we begin with new reaction from president trump on key developments in the russia investigation as they threat on the overshadow his historic first trip to asia. in a new interview airing tomorrow, he had this reaction when asked if he would ever fire special counsel robert mueller is there well, i hope he is treating everything fairly. if he is, when you talk about innocence, i am truly not involved at any form of collusion with russia, believe me. >> that itself the last thing i can think of to be involved in. >> have you been told to expect to be questioned by the special counsel? >> no, nobody's told me. as far as i'm concerned, i have

papadopoulos? when did that memory come back to you? >> i think it was when it -- the press came up with it or some -- it was revealed in the press. >> that was the first time you remembered it? >> i would recall that my october statements -- it was a broad question. >> mr. sessions, i have a limit. i'm reclaiming my time -- mr. sessions, you were a senior campaign official and a member of the national security team. did you ever exchange any e-mail, text message or any other communication to or from mr. papadopoulos about russia or any other subject? >> repeat the category? list of things? >> exchange any e-mail, text message or any communication to or from mr. papadopoulos about any subjects? >> i do not believe so. i'm confident i did not. >> did anybody ever forward to you a communication from mr. papadopoulos? >> i don't recall it. >> did anybody from the campaign ever communicate with you about mr. papadopoulos? >> i can't say that there were no conversations about him before or after this ev

the papadopoulos plea has blind-sided republicans. jennifer, we should note what's described in that plea document is not papadopoulos saying, you know, we can collude with the russians on something untoward, so it doesn't in of itself show sessions oo be lying or not recalling, but it put sessions in some real peril, don't you think? >> it sure does. a very broad assertion. people associated with the campaign, making contacts with the russians, that certainly would encompass somebody who's trying to setup a secret meeting between putin and the president. and then when you combine that with the fact that clovis, who was the senior policy person is encouraging him to go down this route, you certainly have people at the higher levels of the campaign who knew what was going on. and remember all of this preceded by quite a bit of time before we even knew there were hack e-mails when papadopoulos is saying, yeah, i knew there were thousands of e-mails they were potentially in possession of. so their effort to distance themselves both from

papadopoulos. he talked about, it is reported in the paper, that he said something about going to russia and dealing with the russians. i pushed back and said you shouldn't do it. i don't think it's right to accuse me of doing something wrong. no. >> 'tparticipation with any wrong-doing. >> thank you, mr. attorney general. you didn't do anything wrong in that testimony. his question was jagarbled and that's not giving you any benefit of the doubt. i want to talk to you about your recusal and you cited 28 cfr for 45.2 saying you were involved with the campaign and that triggered recusal. that regulation only applies to criminal prosecutions or investigations. when you recuse yourself under james comey's admission, that was a counter intelligence and not a criminal investigation. why did you cite that regulation to refuse from a counter intelligence when its only applicability was for a criminal investigation? >> i'm not sure that was expressed to me when i was given advice about it in those terms. i

trump barely remembers papadopoulos. this was the president last week. >> one of the great memories of all time. >> today press secretary sarah huckabee sanders said the campaign turned over papadopoulos's e-mails to special counsel. communication between papadopoulos and sam clovis, trump campaign national co-chairman. the plea agreement citing eflt-mails said the campaign superviser told papadopoulos i would encourage you and foreign policy adviser to the campaign to make the trip to russia if it is feasible. but sanders tried to contradict that account today. my understanding is there wasn't encouragement. >> clovis nominated to top scientific post at department of agriculture, despite questions raised by top senate democrat on the agriculture committee, the white house see no reason to withdraw his nomination. >> major gar aet agarett again white house. thank you. social media executives told a subcommittee that russian linked accounts began trying to interfere with the election in 2015. and they kept at it long afte

like, were you in email chains with papadopoulos? >> probably a few, yeah. >> were you in email chains with him about russia? >> it may have come up from time to time. >> seth: look at carter page. he has all the energy of a golden retriever puppy, combined with all the political savvy of a golden retriever puppy. [ laughter ] so now the question is with all of this damning information already out there and more surely to come, what will the republicans in congress do, because so far they've desperate to avoid the topic all together. at a press conference on monday, several republican senators were asked questions by the reporters about the indictments. see if you spot iowa senator, chuck grassley trying to quietly sneak out the door behind the american flag in the background while reporters shouted questions. >> paul manafort was indicted today and -- >> and that's not -- that really isn't our job. that's not our wheel house. that's the -- [ crowd shouting ] now if you'll -- if you'll give me -- will you -- seth: he literally snuck

george papadopoulos. he's an oil and energy consultant. excellent guy. >> then trump said this the same day. >> putin says very nice things about me. i think that's very nice. it has no effect on me other than i think it is very nice. >> no effect but march 24, papadopoulos does that meeting in london and then he meets with the national security team and there you have it. telling the new york times, papadopoulos talked about a possible meeting with putin. today bloomberg reports the trump campaign approved the idea for that poutin/trump campaign meeting. we should note it never took place. and then he received an open invite by putin for trump to meet him had. now we get to a key moment. it was the next day. april 26th. papadopoulos meets a russian contact in london saying the russians had dirt on then candidate clinton, including thousands of e-mails. so what else was going on now that we're piecing this together? that night, i am a 26, trump was celebrating a primary victory and said this. >> we have a lot of power. we're going to have

trump once praised papadopoulos. >> george papadopoulos, he's an oil and energy consultant. excellent guy. >> but though the president frequently boasts about his memory, including last week -- >> one of the great memories of all time. >> the president now says he has trouble remembering a march 2016 meeting at which papadopoulos floated the idea of a campaign sit-down with vladimir putin which never occurred. >> i don't remember much about that meeting. it was a very unimportant meeting. it took place a long time. >> youth campaign adviser j.d. gordon who was also in the room tells nbc that mr. trump listened with interest but then senator jeff sessions, who is now attorney general, opposed the idea. this new information contradicts statements by the president. >> can you say whether you are aware that anyone who advised your campaign had contacts with russia during the course of the election? >> no, nobody that i know of. >> and it contradicts what sessions has told congress under oath. >> you don't believe that surrogates from the trump campaign had communications with th

papadopoulos is on his left. but the source is saying he has no specific recollection of doing so because papadopoulos was such a low-level guy. he didn't leave a big impression. this is obviously causing great waves, particularly among senate democrats. initially jeff sessions said he never met with any russians and then sessions had to amend that testimony and say he met twice with the russian ambassador. frank has sent sessions a stinging letter accusing him of misrepresenting his contacts with russians and asking them to come become to congress and clarify what exactly he remembers about this meeting, what he knew about papadopoulos' interactions with russians. >> i'm not a lawyer but is someone's rank on a campaign a legal defense for not remembering telling them to do something when it comes to russia? >> i wouldn't think so. it's really mystifying because, you know, this is a pretty dramatic thing. you are proposing a meeting between the candidate and head of an adversary nation. and the story is jeff sess

and just based on that plea agreement that's just been unsealed regarding george papadopoulos, i mean, clovis as papadopoulos's campaign supervisor, he has obvious exposure to matters that the special counsel is investigating. in the plea agreement, papadopoulos said he was advised by his russian contacts that they had dirt on hillary clinton and that they had thousands of e-mails. it doesn't say anywhere in the plea agreement whether or not papadopoulos tried to obtain that dirt from the russians or those thousands of e-mails. it also doesn't say in the plea agreement if he told his superiors on the trump campaign that the russians told him they had dirt on clinton and thousands of e-mails. it doesn't say whether he ever tried to arrange any exchange or delivery of information from his russian sources up the chain of command on the trump campaign. but we do know that sam clovis was his campaign supervisor and we dou know from the plea agreement and papadopoulos's guilty plea that he did have those conversations with the russians and he was in frequent contact with the trump campaign,

>> no, this is the papadopoulos e-mail. >> papadopoulos said he met with him? >> something along those lines. i can't remember. >> did he mention the professor had said that he had just met with senior russian government officials and they claim to have dirt on hillary clinton and thousands of e-mails? >> i didn't see anything in terms of dirt. >> did he mention it -- >> i haven't been following this. i've been following more important cases that are really getting to bottom of interference in the election next year. so i haven't really looked at the details, but i didn't see anything i would -- i believe someone mentioned, you know, looking through the details of that complaint that the dirt was in a subsequent e-mail. i just got one in march. >> okay. but just to -- i just want to make sure because it's kind of important that papadopoulos is saying that in april 2016 as a trump campaign official he was -- he had this encounter with this professor who said he had just met with these russian official who's had dirt on hillary clinton or claimed they did and tho

certainly papadopoulos as well. papadopoulos is probably the biggest bombshell of all this week. i don't think anybody knew he had already pleaded guilty to misleading the fbi and that he was cooperating with the special prosecutor. those are big bombshells. certainly for jeff sessions, this has not been a good week. there are more questions. i wouldn't be surprised if he was called in before congress to testify and to clarify what he knew and when he knew it. >> i'm curious, rick, what your sense is of george papadopoulos. was he really a nobody as the he may have been trying to impress with his credentials, setting up a meeting. jeff sessions heard him say in that meetling, according to one witness who attended the meeting that he was trying to set up a meeting with a senior russian officials and perhaps even putin, trump seemed to be impressed with that. sessions said not to speak of it again, so what's interesting now is called in front of the because i'm back to the senate committee. they should have been calling for his head. he's essentially now been caught three times not

papadopoulos presented? >> i don't recall. >> your testimony is neither donald trump nor anyone else at the meeting expressed interest in meeting the russian president or concerns about the campaign and the russians. >> i don't recall. >> okay. we know for multiple sources including the papadopoulos guilty plea and others that contrary to your earlier testimony, there were continued efforts to continue with the russians on behalf of the trump campaign. we established you knew some of these efforts. they caused you such concern that you, quote, shut george down. i want to know what you did with this information. yes or no, after the march 31st meeting, did you take any steps to prevent trump campaign officials, advisers, employees from further outreach to the russians? >> mr. nadler, let me just say it this way. i pushed back at that. you made statement that he did, in fact, at the meeting i pushed back. >> we know that. but did you -- >> i have to be able to answer. i can't be able to -- >> i'm asking you --

the announcement which caught many off guard that a third person tied to the truck campaign george papadopoulos had pled guilty to lying to the f.b.i. that was over the timing of his meetings with alleged go betweens for russia he is now cooperating with the special investigation led by robert muller as with paul man of fort hood rick gates the white house is pushing back diminishing the role of papadopoulos as a foreign policy advisor this individual was the member of a volunteer advisory council them at one time over the course of a year and he was part of a list that risk read out in the washington post and hardly call that some sort of regular adviser however it's the case of paul man a for which is getting the most attention the indictments paint the picture of a man living a lavish lifestyle when f.b.i. agents raided his home they even photographed his suits as evidence of money laundering more than seventy five million a form payments through offshore bank accounts on twitter trump reacted to the arrests he has repeatedly called the investigation into ties between his two thousand and si

right in between jeff sessions and george papadopoulos is j.d. gordon, he's a former national security official for the trump campaign. he was, obviously, at that meeting that day. he now says to us, on the record, j.d. gordon, that then candidate trump heard him out, referring to george papadopoulos. that then candidate trump heard out papadopoulos's pitch about then candidate trump meeting with russian president vladimir putin. of course, we've been reporting that senator sessions, and now attorney general sessions, at that time knocked down the idea. and, of course, all of this is a very big interest to the special counsel's office, because they want to know what the president's reaction was in the room that day. and according to j.d. gordon, at the very least he heard him out. >> jim, appreciate that breaking news. as more people in president trump's inner circle are under scrutiny in the russia investigation, we're also learning more about how president trump himself is reacting. sources told cnn yesterday the president was fuming, agonizing

now returning to the papadopoulos issue. in your october 18 testimony you purport to have forgotten this conversation by mr. papadopoulos about russia that you put into. you said you weren't being dishonest that you forgot it. remember that? >> something like that. >> when did you remember mark's of mr. papadopoulos? when did that memory come back to you? >> i think it was when the press came up with it were that it was revealed in the past. >> the first time you remember that? >> i would call that my october statement was a broad question that no, i understand. [inaudible conversations] >> did you ever exchange any e-mail, text message or any other occasion to her from mr. papadopoulos about russia or any other subject? >> repeat the category, list of things to make any e-mails, text message or any communication to or from mr. papadopoulos. >> i do not believe so and i'm confident i did not. >> did anyone ever forward you a quick occasions from him? >> i do not call it. >> does anyone communicate with you about mr. profitab

we know that papadopoulos, george papadopoulos, he's now a convicted felon. he's a convicted liar. he lied to the fbi. it's not like nobody knows not to lie to the fbi. there's been enough information out there that this investigation is going on that everybody is going to say, the way that mueller is going to get you is by lying to the fbi, and he still chose to lie. >> you have a good point. why would george papadopoulos lie to the fbi? michael, you worked with mueller. anybody who's watched a cop show and knows that -- >> they haven't been watching "matlock". >> i think that he thought -- i'm reading into his mind, which i'm not very good at. but i think he thought he could either, one, get away with it, or, two, thought that he was protective of the institution he worked for and may want to work for because it makes no sense objectively, why would you lie when the fbi asks you a question. he had to have some rationale for it. usually i think it's because they think they'll get away with it. >> might be because he thought he was a small fish, you know, in this big pond where the

george papadopoulos told sessions. he met with kislyak. >> you take the conversation between page, sessions and papadopoul papadopoulos. in a vacuum, i'm with phil. you talk to a lot of people. i understand that. the problem is context matters. we know under oath jeff sessions said he had not had any contact with any russian officials during 2016 campaign. we know he met with sergey kislyak. and to me even more damning in september 2016, he and kislyak met in his senate office. the way that sessions gets around that right now is to say that was in my capacity as a senator not as a surrogate for trump. i don't know how you draw that line. i have little kids so i compare it to my kid not bringing the homework hard. first time, honest mistake. you have a lot of stuff going on. >> you're playing with your friends, fine. the second time, well, you know, got to get on that. . the kid forgets his homework a third time and you may not want to be doing your homework. so context and what's come before matters. and i think that's

and if i could add one point about paige and papadopoulos. when you remember back to the campaign era, remember when there was 17 candidates and a figure like jeb bush, he had been able to ahimaaz some of the brightest talent. so donald trump was often reaching into less well-known figures in these sort of advisories or expertise roles. then you get characters like a carter paige or george papadopoulos who had not come through the normal channels we'd see in foreign policy as it interacts with politics. so one of the factors which is a year later is casting echos in this. >> it was puzzling when it happened. i think it was in a "the washington post" article. philip, i'm not wrong when he was being asked about a team and he was dropping names. and it's common for him to do that. in the case of george papadopoulos it wasn't hard to find a record of him. that's a good point kelly. phil, i want to point out something you wrote tonight about donald trump's department of justice. the justice department trashily enjoys a measure of infends. governme

the supervisor responded enkoujing papadopoulos to make the trip. it was unsealed the same day as indictments against paul manafort and rick gates in relation to their lobbying work for the ewe crane government. the governme they received millions of dollars and hid it. manafort and gates have pleaded not guilty to charges which cover activities prior to trump's presidential campaign. >> there is now a proposed date for the start of the manafort/gates trial, it is may 7 of 2018. the trial expected to last at least three weeks. that, of course, takes it to the summer, a very busy summer before the key midterm elections. >> let's talk more about all of this with a congressman on the foreign affairs committees. you heard the president say this past february that during the presidential campaign he knew of nobody with any russia contacts in his campaign. do you believe that's true? >> i do not. we now have direct evidence of collusion, george papadopoulos a trump campaign official coordinated with the russians to try to get dirt on hillary clinton. the

it didn't happen. >> reporter: papadopoulos tried to stick to the official line, telling fbi agents, that his contacts with russia "occurred before" he joined the trump campaign. that was not true. it was only after he joined the campaign that he was contacted by russians, offering "dirt" on hillary clinton and tried to arrange meetings between trump and russian president putin. democrats say the president's effort to distance himself from papadopoulos raises its own questions. >> you're a senior foreign policy adviser until you do something that exposes the connections of the campaign. >> brian, important to point out that george papadopoulos not only pleaded guilty to lying but now cooperating with robert mueller. >> has been since july. it's clear the comments from the white house are not sitting well with him and he is poised to be a key witness in this investigation. >>> brian, thank you. >>> next this evening we turn to the new video and the very close call the san francisco airport. air traffic controllers six times telling pilots on an air canada flight to abort the landing,

papadopoulos. you well know that mr. papadopoulos in addition to his comments in the meeting regarding a meeting between trump and mr. putin had a series of meetings dealing with, as you can see trump, mr. pop dop plus, and you leading that committee. i can't imamin your memory would fail you so much. moving on, he was in that meeting. you also had steven miller a. senior policy advisor, who was noted in the stipulated statement of defense to receive conversation from mr. papadopoulos about his constant interaction with the russians to intrude in the 201 election. you continued -- 2016 election. you continued in the october 18 meeting before the judiciary committee in the senate to not answer the question. now in light of the facts that are now part of the record, do you wish to change your testimony before the senate intelligence committee on june 13, 2017, where you said i have never met with or had any conversation with any russians or foreign officials? let me jump to the final part, no knowledge, i have no knowledge

papadopoulos connections and possibly arranging a meeting with putin. now again yes or no, did anyone else at that meeting, including then candidate trump react in any way to what mr. papadopoulos had presented? >> i don't recall. >> once and for all, can we answer the question? >> i am once and for all answering the question congressman. i don't understand why you won't take my answer. >> we are on the third edition, mr. attorney general. so during your time on the campaign, did any person on earth state that they were communicating with russians traveling to russia or ask the campaign to meet with russians, to your recollection? >> i'm prepared to answer the question. but i just will not answer it in a way that suggests that i am anyway intentionally mislead anyone when i answered the question. >> what's the answer to the question, mr. attorney general? >> the answer is i met with the ambassador. >> all right. so that's just a piece of some of what we watched today. dana bash is with me. we heard the vociferous defense of himself as honorable person a

fbi arrests papadopoulos and october 5th papadopoulos pleads guilty. so papadopoulos was arrested four whole months ago but just heard about it yesterday. what do you make of mueller's move to announce his arrest just yesterday was that strategic move. >> yeah first of all it tells us mueller is running a tight ship over there. i know there's talks about leaks but i don't think it's coming from mueller's side, i think it's coming from congress or defense or someone else not his team that's first part of it. they kept a huge secret that would have been big news of it had leaked. also it was unsealed even though the deal was consummated on october 5th. the unsealing of that was yesterday. and i think what that tells me is that this gentleman is going to be involved and have something to say about the manafort and gates case. for in other words, i think mr. papadopoulos if the trial of manafort and gates were tomorrow he would be on the witness list and he will have something to say about both those gentlemen. and of course asim mentioned mr. padopoulos w

democrats say the president's effort to distance himself from papadopoulos raises its own questions. >> you're a senior foreign policy adviser until you do something that exposes the connections of the campaign. >> brian, important to point out that george papadopoulos not only pleaded guilty to lying but now cooperating with robert mueller. >> clear the comments are not sitting well with him and he is poisoned to be a key witness in this investigation. >>> brian, thank you. >>> next this evening we turn to the new video and the very close call the san francisco airport. to abort the landing, to go around. there was concern that there was another plane with passengers on that very runway. here's abc's clayton sandell. >> reporter: the video shows a controller's eye view of an air canada a-320 told to abort its landing because another jet on the ground might be in the way. the order repeated six times in 37 seconds. >> air canada 781 go around. >> reporter: but the pilots don't respond. they land safely and finally call in. >> air canada 781. >> pretty evident. >> a professional job b

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papadopoulos. thank your answer is no because you don't think there were any such meetings. >> i'm not aware of it. >> did you raise the issue but your answer is no. >> to the best of my recollection. >> in your testimony today you spoke to nobody in the campaign after the march 31 meeting because nothing happened. her testimony therefore is that you communicate with nobody on the campaign about this matter after the march 31 meeting. >> i don't recall. >> at some point you became aware the fbi was investigating potential links between the trump campaign in the russian government. after you became aware of the investigation did you discuss mr. papadopoulos with anybody in the fbi? >> did i discuss the matter with the fbi and asked them questions about what they may have found? >> i have not had any discussions with mr. mueller or his team or the fbi concerning any factors. >> nobody else with the fbi either? >> no. >> and the department of justice? >> no. >> the white house? >> no. >> any members o

papadopoulos. he talked about it's reported in the paper that he said something about going to russia and dealing with the russians and i pushed back and said you shouldn't do it. so i don't think i'm -- it's right to accuse me of doing something wrong. i had no participation in any wrongdoing with regard to influence in this campaign improperly. >> the chair recognizes the gentleman from florida mr. de santos for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. attorney general, you didn't do anything wrong in this testimony. the question was garbled. that's just not giving you any benefit of the doubt at all to do what these guys are doing to you. i hear what you're saying and you didn't do anything wrong there. i want to talk to you about your recusal from the russian case. you cited cfr 445.2 saying you were involved with the campaign that triggered recusal. however, that regulation only applies to criminal xruprosecuts or investigations. when you recused yourself, that was a counterintelligence investigation,

president, do you remember george papadopoulos during that march meeting? >> i don't remember much about that meeting. it was a very unimportant meeting. toopts a long time -- don't remember much about it. >> as this white house faces the daily deluge about robert mueller's investigation, the president decided today to criticize his own justice department and call on it to investigate his former political rival, hillary clinton. he wrote on twitter, everyone is asking why the justice department and fbi isn't looking into all of the dishonesty going on with crooked hillary and the dems. new donna b book says she paid for and stole the dem primary. what about deleted e-mails, uranium, podesta, the server, plus, plus. people are angry. at some point the justice department and the fbi must do what is right and proper. the american public deserves it. talking to reporters later in the day he had he was disappointed with the justice department. >> all i can tell you is this. there was no collusion. there was no nothing. it's a disgrace, frankly, that they continu

sessions is thinking he does not recall those conversations taking place with papadopoulos. er erin? >> doesn't seem to recall anything unless someone comes with evidence. joining me now is al franken on the committee investigating russia's meddling in the election. thanks to you, i appreciate your time. the president says he made the decision to fire comey. multiple sources say jared kushner was a driver of that decision. how big of a role did kushner play? >> well, i don't know. evidently special prosecutor asked for documents from the son-in-law, jared kushner. and he is obviously investigati investigating obstruction of justice in this matter. that's, you know, robert mueller will be the one to get to the bottom of this. he'll probably be making these decisions as to who committed some crime such as obstruction of justice. >> we now know, of course, kushner filed security clearance forms saying no meetings with russians. he left off the forms the meeting in trump tower with donald trump jr. and manafort. he left off the meeting with the russian ambassador to the united s

and george papadopoulos was one of them. and it's a reminder, by the way, just to kind of step back from the russia stuff specifically. first of all, of just how unprepared donald trump was to become president. there's a lot of evidence he didn't expect to win when he did, had no transition plan really in place. we still have huge numbers of unfilled jobs. and you do see in places throughout the goth people who appear to be very unqualified, at least by historical standards forethe jobs they are getting. so i just want to point out this is an ongoing problem, not just a weird thing that was happening in the middle of the campaign. it's very endemic or emblematic of donald trump as a president. the guy wasn't ready to assume office and have the best people. but one consequence of this is that he's been poisoned by some of these frankly kind of weird character who came in. carter page is another one. a pretty unusual, mist earous guy and we're still trying to figure out who are these character who he opened the door to and wha

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