well, today van der zwaan pleaded guilty. van der zwaan had done work for paul manafort and he had multiple contacts with rick gates. so the question now is what exactly did he reveeal to the powell is and will it pit further pressure on manafort and gates? robert mueller has another guilty plea in his russia probe. alex van der zwaan, a london-based attorney with ties to paul manafort and top campaign official rick gates pleaded guilty to giving false statements to the special counsel's investigators about his communications with gates two months before the election. though it's unclear with what the distwo discussed, his plea may prove helpful to mueller's claim. >> in this case, manafort had a relationship with the ukrainian government and this lawyer was doing work for the ukrainian government. so let's the link and he'll try to turn this witness against gates, against manafort and possibly against others. >> van der zwaan was part of a team of attorneys at the prominent international law firm that drafted a report commis

van der zwaan's information -- van der zwaan's charge. i think the real risk for skadden is reputational. we have to go to 2012 to understand what van der zwaan's role was. the reason he's inrovolved is i 2012 when he was representing the russian strongman vanokovich, commissioned skadden to write a misleading report that he had not prosecuted his opponents politically. at the time, skadden got a lot of heat for that. its engagement with manafort in some of these seedy dealings and these really inaccurate portrayals of what was going on in ukraine i think really could tarnish the firm in a very serious way going forward. >> matt miller, we naturally of course have already heard from the white house this morning saying that this new charge underscores no evidence of collusion with the russians. can you unpack what does this mean in the context of the potential collusion investigation? >> you know, ken kind of put this well earlier, that there are many separate threads of this investigation. we don't know whether they'll ever connect. it's

van der zwaan thereafter made materially false statements. the special counsel's office lists three things they say van der zwaan knowingly lied about. they said he falsely stated his last communication with rick gates had been in mid august 2016 and it had been an innocuous text message. he falsely stated his last communication with a long-time business associate of manafort and gates in ukraine had been way back in 2014 when he talked with that person about that person's family. according to the special counsel's office, he also falsely stated that he had no idea why skadden hadn't given the special counsel's office an e-mail that dated from september 2016 between him and person a, him and this person he said he hadn't talk to since 2014. statement of the offense lays all that out and lays out in detail why all of those things were false, saying that despite those denials, in fact this lawyer who is charged today, he was still in communication with rick gates about this whitewash report on yulia tymoschenko. gates that was was still working

gates sent van der zwann documents. van der zwann called person a and discussed in russian, he speaks russian, criminal charges might be brought against the criminal justice minister, law firm a and paul manafort and we don't know why but the special counsel's office and statement of offense also say that van der zwann made recordings of the phone calls he had in september of 2016 about this whitewash report on the jailing of tymoshenko and possible criminal charges being brought against manafort. he was recording these calls. we don't know why the special counsel's office knows that but apparently they know that. they know about his notes on the calls and recordings of the calls and discussions that led to the calls and they know about him deleting e-mails and using encrypted apps to avoid records of the communication and they charge him with making materially false statements and today mr. van der zwann signs. he signed it last week on valentine ease day but th-- val day. this has some really interesting implications

it's not clear if van der zwaan has signed a cooperation deal with mueller. nbc news said his attorney said in court today, quote, there is some possibility he would not face a long sentence but because he doesn't have a criminal record, he might only get a few months, even without a deal. today's news came after a "los angeles times" report that rick gates will plead guilty and tiff against paul manafort. gates and manafort both pleaded not guilty back in october to a number of charges, including money laundering. trump attorney ty cobb failed to comment on today's charges against this lawyer van der zwaan, saying it is not related in any way to the white house. with us for more tonight, julia ainsley is in new york, nbc news national security and justice reporter. and former u.s. attorney joyce vance is back with us. she spent 25 years as a federal prosecutor. okay, julie, you get to take the big swing at the first question here, and that is significance of what happened today. this guy and why we're about to hear the name skadden arps more. >> those are gr

van der zwaan and the charges against him is twofold.

van der zwaan, why did you feel the need to lie to the special counsel, sir? van der zwaan, a dutch national married to the daughter of a russian oligarch. he pleaded guilty to making false statements about contact with rick gates, former trump campaign chairman paul manafort's deputy. van der zwaan admitted to destroying e-mails connected to his role in a pr war that manafort and gates were allegedly involved in to support ukrainian politicians backed by russia, years before they were involved in the trump presidential campaign. according to prosecutors, van der zwaan, who "worked closely" with gates and manafort, was also communicating with a mysterious individual described as "person a" in today's charges. the latest sign of the pressure robert mueller is putting on manafort and gates, already indicted in the special counsel's probe. >> pierre thomas with us live tonight outside the course. and there are indications that rick gates, who this newest man to plead guilty worked with, could be negotiating a plea deal himself? >> reporter: david, our sources say

i was inside the courthouse when alex van der zwaan walked in. he looked calm and collected and was surrounded by his attorneys. the charges here are fairly interesting. he's actually charged with lying to the special prosecutor's investigators with conversations he had with rick gates, deputy to paul manafort who worked on the trump campaign. it's not exactly clear what those communications were or what exactly he may have been lying about. interestingly, it might be less about the charges here, when it pertains to alex van der zwaan and more about who he is and what kind of information he might have. alex van der zwaan was an attorney with the prominent law firm skadden arps. they have been cooperating with authorities here. he is recently married to the daughter of a very prominent russian billionaire german khan, one of the most prominent businessmen in russia. co-founder of alpha bank. alex van der zwaan has those connections to paul manafort and rick gates. paul manafort commissioned a report that was draft bid van der zwaan and others in 2

van der zwaan today and the big russian indictments. he's effect forgively quadrupled the wingspan of his investigation. each of them is a sort of scaffolding to build a different episode on. that's the first point. the second is that it seems to me that it really is focused very heavily now on paul manafort, and i think mueller goes where the evidence leads him but the evidence seems to be leading him into the middle of a tom clancy novel. the actual role that will may have been played by manafort here in doing -- being paid by and doing the kind of bidding for the russian government is mind bending, yet seems hike something we have to confront. and then finally, the indictment of a lawyer here, that's a special kind of act that you need permission for from the department of justice. i think it's really serving notice to everyone but including lawyers, say don mcgahn, that any attempt to shade the truth with mueller and team will be met with criminal charges. and everyone else who has worked on that report, there are about eight scadde

>> reporter: brianna, this attorney's name is alex van der zwaan. we know he's been closely connected to both rick gates and paul manafort. now, we have heard from the law firm, they say they terminated van der zwaan's employment back in 2017. they say that the law firm itself has been working with authorities. but here is where this criminal charge actually stems from. van der zwaan's communication with the special counsel all relating to some of the work he did in 2012. this was a report that was drafted by van der zwaan and other attorneys and it was actually used by the allies of the pro russian president, ukrainian president victoria ik yanukovy yanukovych. this all connects to paul manafort, because we know that paul manafort was involved in commissioning the drafting of this report, and, of course, as you'll remember paul manafort has pleaded not guilty to charges that he faced in late october relating to his work, his lobbying work for the pro russian ukrainian government, also the president of ukraine at the time, viktor yanukovych, paul ma

new charges against a special council against a guy named alex van der zwaan. he's now been charged with lying to the special counsel's team. we continue him in court later this afternoon. pete williams joining us from washington. gives your sense of significance of this. >> reporter: it's very hard to say. we know this stems from the manafort/gates case. about six years ago when manafort and gates were representing the prime minister of ukraine and the league work involved justification for charges that the prime minister brought against a political rival, the former prime minister. what the special counsel says that in november, lawyers from robert mueller interviewed alex van der zwaan and he gave them false answers about his conversations with rick gates, manafort's business partners. he was charged with lying. normally, when you're indicted the document says indictment, this document says, information. and information is the technical term that's used in the federal system when someone intends to plead guilty. they don't file a criminal complaint or indict

but when alex van der swan was arrested and indicted, surprise, and that was unsealed yesterday. when he pled guilty in federal court yesterday, that did raise the prospect, oftentimes when people plead guilty, it's because they're cooperating, it raised the prospect that he might be an inside source, a very interesting inside source of information for mueller's prosecutors about alpha bank. one of the three founders of alpha bank is his dad now, his father-in-law. so, interesting prospects raised yesterday by his guilty plea, given his family connections. now with the release tonight of the transcript of his case we can see that whatever alex van der swan told prosecutors leading up to his court appearance yesterday, whatever he told mueller's prosecutors about the mueller investigation of russia attacking our election, we now know for sure and on the record that there was no explicit, written, cooperation agreement between him and the prosecutors entered in court filings to go along with his guilty plea. now, i raise that right now in part because there's been a lot of misrepor

moments ago, the attorney for alex van der zwaan wrapped up. nbc news justice correspondent pete williams was in the courtroom. he joins us now with more. pete, how did he plead? >> reporter: he pleaded guilty to the charges, so he'll be sentenced in april. and he faces a sentence, maximum sentence under the law of five years. that's what the law says, if you lie to the fbi. but his lawyers and the prosecutors have agreed that the likely sentencing range is zero to six months. and i suspect if he cooperates with the government, i doubt he'll do much time at all, if any. his lawyer said his wife is in london. she's pregnant and they want to get the sentencing over with so he can serve whatever time he may have to, so he can get back over there and help her with the birth. we've learned that he's a dutch citizen. he was born in brussels. he's 33 years old. so he doesn't have a u.s. passport. and of course, one of the things, if he's convicted here, he could likely be deported. now, he may not care about that, because he's been working most of his

on the matter of alex van der swan who pled guilty yesterday. it was said in the hearing, we have the transcript of it today. one of the prosecutors, andrew wisem weissman said there was no substantive cooperation. >> fact that he doesn't want to cooperate doesn't mean he won't be compelled to give information. an important differentiation between cooperating and being compelled. it seems he doesn't want to be helpful. that happens in all sorts of cases all around country all the time. but once he is sentenced and his conviction is final, what prosecutors can do is immunize him from any other prosecution from any other crime he may have committed and then compel him to testify. so whether he wants to cooperate or not, they can still get information from him. information from him. >> very important point, chuck rosenberg, former u.s. attorney, and fbi official and clear thinker and speaker. thanks for being us. >> thank you, rachel. >> we'll be right back. stay with us. greatness comes from. save 30% at ancestrydna.com. and when youod sugar is a

von der leyen talk about your view of iran. the panel seems to at least three-fifths of it agree that iran has been a since of instability. is that germany's view as well? min minister. >> first of all we support kuwait's efforts in the current dispute, that being qatar and its neighbors. as i said, clearly dialogue is the best way and that's really key to addressing. there may be difference of opinion even within a family sometimes we disagree. i think gcc countries are a family and i'm absolutely convinced that they would address the current dispute. and in that sense we're looking forward to resolution. regarding turkish troops in qatar, they're limited on a scale was based on invitation from qatar. it's not against any other country in the region that cannot be imagined. we've played a very constructive role within nato in the past and of course we continue to remain so we have troops in afghanistan combating extremism there, you know, we did -- we went there to help united states. we are in somali through humanitarian assi

alex van der zwann pled guilty to making false statements to rick gates. gates was indicted along with paul manafort tied to their lobbying. at his former law firm, van der zwann helped write a report to justify ukraine's prosecution of their former prime minister. van der zwann told prosecutors that he provided gates an early draft of what was meant to be an independent report, all know van der zwann's plea agreement does not mention cooperation, he could be used to apply pressure to the former high level trump aide who have pleaded not guilty. van der van is the son-in-law of german khan who filed a liable suit for mentioning him in the dossi dossier. incredible how it connects together. >>> yesterday president trump claimed he has been, quote, much tougher on russia than obama. just look at the facts he said. but he didn't elaborate leavinging the explanation up to sarah huckabee sanders at yesterday's briefing. watch this. >> he hasn't even called out putin. he criticized obama, the fbi. he didn't even criticize vladimir putin. >> he has been tougher o

take us through this case involving a dutch citizen, alex van der zwaan. he pled guilty this morning after being charged by special counsel robert mueller, there for lying. it appears two instances of lying. lying to investigators about his discussions with yuan the former campaign trump aide rick gates and also lying about his turning over an e-mail communication. we should mention that zwaan, his father-in-law, should i say, is a russian billionaire german, one the of most prominent there. there's no evidence that his tie is related. >> so what we read between lines? >> it appears zwaan is not a big fish in the investigation. but knowing the way mueller operates, a possible attempt to put pressure on gates. gates is in negotiations for a possible plea deal to plead guilty. you'll remember he was charged with a number of crimes including money laundering. this relating to his work with paul manafort regard propaganda russian politicians between 2006 and 2015. those charges carry more than ten years. in addition to that the enormous legal business here. so

if you look at what just happened yesterday with va van dervan der van der zwaan, it is all about the underlying crime, though it doesn't say so. when you look at the statement van der zwaan had to make in order to have his guilty plea accepted, he admitted to conversations that occurred in september of 2016 right in the middle of the campaign. >> right. >> this statement does not contain everything that was said in that conversation. there is no way that mueller was interested in what happened in the ukraine in 2012 with the report that was done by a law firm. there's also no way that mueller needed more evidence on either rick gates or on manafort. >> no. but if it is about money laundering, if you are going to go back in history, there's loads of questionable things we've talked about. sort of being unanswered for years. the palm beach property that trump bought for $40 million. a couple years later, sells to a russian oligarch with close ties to putin were $80 million. you have lots of these floating out there we've never come back to. if mueller was working on following the money

friday, you have unsealed 89 new felony criminal charges against 17 different people from ricky alex van der zwaan to the last two days of legal cannon blasts concerning trump campaign chair campaign chair rick gates. i don't know what robert mueller has been doing for the past week other than filing these 89 new felony criminal charges against 17 people but even just that activity of his that we can see in public, i would say that makes this a pretty good contender for busy week when it comes to the special counsel's investigation. just today alone has been head snapping in terms of how much happened all at once, just since yesterday. just rick gates has been charged with 23 new felonies on top of the eight he was already facing. he then had his entire legal team replaced. then he got a new lawyer. then he had all 31 felony charges pending against him dropped. then he pled guilty to two new, brand-new felony charges and then he signed on to a sweeping and sort of intimidating cooperation agreement with the government in which among other things he pledges to go undercover for them if they a

this is a new indictment against a man named alex van der zwaan. i'm joined by cnn's shimon prokupecz, also here jeffrey toobin, katherine ham and caitlin huey-burns. place this, shimon, into the larger investigation. >> as you said, we're kind of surprised by this. it's not exactly clear how he's placed in the larger investigation. he's certainly connected to paul manafort. "the new york times" back in september of last year did a story about him, and in it they basically describe how the justice department of justice and special counsel were looking at him. it has to do with some work that he was hired for to do for paul manafort, it says he arranged for this law firm, the scat den arps, this prominent law firm in new york that he worked for to draft a report that was used to essentially jail a political rival of ukrainian viktor yanukovych. as we know and have done reporting on this, manafort had done work for yanukovych and it appears he hired this firm to do some work for him in justifying the jalg of yanukovych's political rival. it's kind of

it charges this new york city certain, alex van der zwaan. he was involved back in 2012 with the team of lawyers. they drafted a report that was used by allies of the russian-backed ukrainian president to justify the jailing of one of their political rivals. now, the new york times is also reported in a report back in the fall that paul manafort was involved in the commissioning of this drafting of this report. so, again, this all ties to paul manafort and as you'll remember, paul manafort pleaded not guilty to a range of charges that relate to his work doing lobbying for ukrainian government, viktor yanukovych and alleged money laundering. though this lawyer, who is now charged in this two-page information, though he seems to be related, he has ties to paul manafort and rick gates. we know this information was handed down this morning. we expect this attorney will appear in court for a plea hearing this afternoon at 2:30. it is expected that he will plead guilty. but the broader picture of this is it really does show how mueller's probe has

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alex van der zwaan charged with making false statements about his communications with former trump campaign aide rick gates according to a court document. he pleaded guilty this aftern n afternoon. nbc's ari melber putting the development in context telling us, "mueller is showing how tough he will be on anyone who lies or contributes to obstruction, including lawyers caught up in h or working on the matter." this is as donald trump blusters away on twitter about the significance of friday's 13 indictments of russian nationals for their role in meddling in the 2016 presidential election. the president tweeting this morning that it was all obama's fault and pointing to coverage on "fox & friends" to prove it. "thank you to "fox & friends" on the great timeline on all the failures the obama administration had against russia including crimea, syria, and so much more. we are now starting to win again." and this, "i've been much tougher on russia than obama, just look at the facts. total fake news." the fake news is the part of that tweet where president trump claims to have been tougher on russ

his name is alex van der zwaan. and you saw the image of him walking into that courtroom, and that is a reminder of the awesome power of federal law enforcement. he's walking in there to plead guilty to one count of making a false statement to investigators. and that's going to mean the end of his legal career in all likelihood. and it's a very significant day for him. the question is, what does it mean to the mueller investigation? he figures in the case against paul manafort and rick gates, it appears. he was doing some work with a prominent american law firm called skadden arps involving a ukrainian politician. this work had been commissioned by manafort and gates. and it appears, because he got a little bit of a deal here. he could have been charged with two counts of false statements and obstruction of justice. he's only charged with one. so there's rampant speculation today that he is offering some information that may strengthen the case against paul manafort and/or rick gates. why does that matter? because i

it's a thorough investigation. >> it's alex van der zwaan and one other person. any guess who is that might be? >> i don't know. >> okay. so, john, van der zwaan is a dutch citizen, a son of russianology arc, worked in london. he was preparing a report on ukraine that gates and manafort asked for. are you surprised by the reach of the probe? >> not at all, because if you think about it, the way for manafort to be helpful to trump and vice versa is his connection with yanukovych for whom the report was written to show he wasn't the evil character that we say. and it leads us to the crimea sanctions. so that entire pot, that with the magnitsky and meddling are three sanctions area all of which trump shone himself weak on, suggesting as did you in your earlier report say, this is the questioned proquo. . this is the first lawyer as compared to watergate where we had many more -- what we have here is an effort to squeeze gates who may already be cooperating to force manafort to reconsider his position. and i think the washing of money and what was going on in ukraine

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van der zwaan . cnn reported last year that the fbi investigated whether that bank had a computer server connection to the trump organization during the 2016 campaign. but the white house today is pointing to the false statement charges as further evidence that the mueller team does not have any evidence of trump campaign collusion with the russians. >> we do know this indictment, just like the one on friday, only reinforces our overarching point which is the president has long stated, there is no evidence of collusion because none existed and there will be no findings of wrongdoing. >> much like the 13 nationals indicted on friday, this does not address the issue of collusion. but the charges do show the progress of special counsel's investigation and its steady pressure on people surrounding the president, past and present. in about nine months, mueller has brought charges against 22 people and entities. four of whom are former trump associates. beyond paul manafort, there's manafort's deputy, four

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alex van der zwaan is expected to plead guilty. he had a court appearance at half past two that i have not heard if he has pled guilty or not. what this means is that the independent counsel's office is building a case from the ground up. this will guarantee cooperation and puts more pressure on paul manafort who is charged with multiple counts of money laundering, pressure to face a long trial and a prison sentence, or come up face a long trial and a prison sentence, or come up with his own plea agreement. any claim is serious and americans will want robert mueller to pick up any claim that he sees that the central claim is where russia and the tramp campaign working together —— trompe campaign? these charges do not bring us closer to understanding bat. this does not deal with the campaign at all. these charges against rick gates and paul manafort goes back to lobbying that they did for ukraine well before paul manafort became involved in the donald trump campaign. this plea deal was part of that investigation. the question is

alex van der zwaan's father-in-law has ties to vladimir putin. he is a russian oligarch named german chan. well, i'm going to let someone else try to pronounce that. he owns russia's alpha bank. that bank and german, i can't read this name in the prompter, so i'm going to skip it. and that bank is mentioned in christopher steel's dossier. joining us, jennifer rogers, a former federal prosecutor and the u.s. attorney's office and executive director of the senate for advancement of public integrity at columbia law school. your reading of this plea today? >> well, they obviously have another cooperate or on their hands. it was information, not an indictment. so my assumption is they're going to use him to persuade gates finally. apparently he's been in talks about cooperating but it will get him over the line. who they really want is manafort who knows a lot about the trump campaign. my guess is they're continuing to exert pressure in the way of paul manafort. >> the "l.a. times" reported days ago that gates it completed a plea agreement. there was

. >> bill: how much do you know about alex van der zwaan? >> i don't know a ton about that specific indictment. we do know this indictment like the one on friday only reinforces our point when it comes to the special counsel's investigation. as the president has long stated there is no evidence of collusion because none existed. there will be no findings of wrongdoing. again, this has to do with an attorney representing one of the individuals who has already been indicted. has nothing to do with actions related to this president. >> it is not an indictment. he is cooperating with mueller's team and in court at 2:30. trey gowdy wants to know in two weeks about the security clearance in the white house about the rob porter matter? >> we'll wait a few weeks but -- >> bill: is white house is not ready to give trey gowdy an answer? >> the chief of staff outlined on friday in a memo a series of changes to the security clearance process in wake of rob porter. we'll tighten up the interim clearance process so that way those don't go on forever and e

no, wow, we've got some der people. alright. >> any other questions? >> yes. >> you mentioned that activists should not get do close to the president. with respect to the trump administration it's the complete opposite, with industry and community have been hostile toward the president to the point that when roger stone who tried to join our community recently was ejected by industry leaders and activists, do you think that's a mistake to completely write off the president or that is a sound strategy right now? >> the president has, i need to write off thepresident himself , i don't know. these come down sort of on two ways. he has suggested that he would be interested in supporting state laws. he said i think more overtly that he supportive of medical rights but if jeff sessions who's in charge of the doj and most recently i think they're going to close the office of national drug control policy which is a not super well-funded, his budget was slapped by 95 percent last fall and it's still an organization that does essentially offer suggestions and co

let's talk about alex van der zwaan. no one other than in the legal community knew who he was until yesterday. if you're a lawyer at skadden arps, one of the most well-known law firms in the world, you know that lying to the fbi is going to get you in big, big trouble. while he might be okay with getting disbarred, his father-in-law is worth a cool $10 billion because that's how you roll when you're a russian oligarch, wouldn't he realize what a big risk that is? >> you would think it would be something he would know intimately from working with these kinds of cases all the time. >> literally. >> it is bob mueller saying several things. number one, anyone who lies, obstructs, or tampers with evidence is on the hook. so if you're a lawyer in the government, you're a lawyer in the white house, this kind of thing gets your attention. number two, to your point, what was going on that made you decide you were better off risking lying to the feds than causing up the goods? >> ding, ding, ding. >> as you say, it's not big becau

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van der sloot, robin, is in prison after he was convicted of murdering a young woman in peru in 2010. >> let's bring in our chief legal analyst dan abrams and senior legal correspondent sunny hostin. this is just, oh, my gosh. i mean, does she have a case here? >> well, look, you know, typically this kind of case would come from joran van der sloot saying i was portrayed falsely in this documentary and i'm going to sue. she was saying she was effectively tricked. there is an interesting wrinkle in alabama law, something called the tort of outrage and in december of last year, the alabama supreme court expanded it and said there are more situations where you can sue under the tort of outrage and the definition is when something is so extreme in degree as to go beyond all possible bounds of decency and be regarded as atrocious and utterly intolerable in a civilized society. that is the claim. >> isn't that where we are? it's basically the claim of intentional infliction of emotional distress and she's saying not only did i give my dna, they tricked me into giving it and i didn't even kn

these students get involved and bring their message to washington and to all of the saying, ders, they are you've got to do something about this. have stronger background checks you've got to raise ages. options have to be on the senseless event this got to doce and we've something. hopefully we'll see this push to done.omething the president has said that he was going to do some things, and said he would do some things before and hasn't. we'll see. plan for your carrying forth this conversation in your state? attorney general of north carolina years ago. i helped all the schools to put their critical incident response kits, and their trategy plans, if this type of incident were to occur. it's very complicated and and we've put those in place. a n you hear a teacher at raleigh school the other day, the fire alarm went off. not want to did leave the classroom, because that's what happened in florida, fire alarm was pulled and this as they ot students left the building. their cher even brought kids into the closet together to protect them. alarmtalking about a fire here that went off. th

district court in washington as alex van der zwaan was there. he pleaded guilty to lying to federal agents about his ties to trump former campaign aide richard gates. gates was indicted along with paul metaphor. manafort headed up president trump's campaign in 2016. the white house already has distanced themselves from these latest developments. >> this has to do with an attorney that is representing someone who has already been indicted. it had nothing to do with actions related to this president. >> reporter: sarah sanders continued to insist that russian influence did not influence the election. >> the president did not say that the russian did not metal, but what he is saying is that it did not have an impact and it was not with help from the trump campaign.>> reporter: last thursday, 13 russian individuals and three russian companies were charged with meddling in the 2016 campaign. as for alex van der zwaan, he worked for a prominent wall street law firm during the time that was in question, although he was fired from that firm last year. t

der, look at that, it is green. clam chowedder for everybody. >> e-a-g-l-e-s, eagles. >> wow. >> all right. 6:04. how do we cover this, what do we say what do we do. >> lets start by talking about it. what a game it was. lets say it over and offer again. we got a tweet from karen. i saw mike and alex celebrating so i knew i was than the dreaming, super bowl champs. it is not a dream. it is real. lets talk about how we got there. >> well, eagles led for most of the game. but the path paths did catch up in the fourth quarter. until philly drives back down the field and gets a touchdown pass to their tight-event zach ertz, there is final play, brady still had one more chance down by eight, tossed it in the end zone. even if gronkowski they have to get for two and then into overtime. eagles win 41-33. >> the team all year just fight until the end, just keep waiting on each other and that is what this season has been about. that locker roomies a special locker room. you could see it throughout the course of the game no m

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and tonight london based attorney alex van der zwaan is accused of lying to vrgs. >> why did you feel the need to lie to the special counsel, sir? >> reporter: van derzwaan, a dutch national who married a daughter of a russianology arc in a lavish wedding pleaded guilty to making false statements about making contact with rick gates, former trump campaign chairman manafort deputy. manchester and gates were involved in a pr war to support ukrainian predictions backed by russia. according to prosecute prosecutors van der zwaan who worked closely with gates and manafort was communicating with a mysterious individual described at person a pmt. the latest sign of pressure mueller is puttingen on the manafort and gates. pierre thomas, abc news, washington. >>> vice president pence was set to hold a history making meeting with north korean officials during the winter olympic in south korea but the vice president's office says that kim jong un's government cancelled it at the last minute. pence led the u.s. delegation to the opening krer monies in pyeongchang. his office suggested that north

so far the answer is no. >> jon: the alex van der zwaan is the son-in-law of one of russia's richest men. any significance to that family tie there? >> right. it's hard to know. more significance in the information he pled to and the timing of the communications that he allegedly lied about was a month or two before the campaign. there is some communication that mueller was interested in between he and rick gates and another person which may or may not be manafort in like october of 2016. and so i think, you know, i think at that point the official work for the ukraine had wrapped up and i think that timing issue is -- it is interesting he is not cooperating. i think he is taking the plea and that's it. i don't think there is necessarily a cooperation agreement. it is curious fact that i know i guess his father-in-law is a prominent russian but beyond that i would hesitate to draw too much from that. >> jon: thanks for helping us unpack some of this information. robert driscoll formerly with the department of justice. we appreciate it. >> molly: and an internal review claims hawaii w

a london-based lawyer, alex van der zwaan, admitted he misled investigators about the last time he spoke with rick gates, a former associate of asked trump campaign chairman, paul manafort. global news 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. i am alisa parenti. this is bloomberg. bloomberg technology is next. ♪ emily: i am emily chang and this is "bloomberg technology." russian bots take on u.s. gun control. butia is in during it twitter campaign against america. plus, walmart margins hit record lows. how investors are reacting. a potential gold mine for advertisers looking to cash in on the newest era of connected cars. but first, to our lead. russian bots were caught following certain hashtags following last week's florida school shooting. just one way to widen divide among the u.s. electorate on how to handle gun control, making compromise even more difficult. this happened with past issues like the nfl and then debate and the 2016 presidential election. and, allegedly telling in the election. twitter and facebook are facing ren

adam van der water from the office of economic and workforce development. i won't belabor this, but we did present the concept of a negotiated waterfront stretching from bay front to the brisbane border. we'd be happy to come back and present under more detail. generally speaking, there is an area of growth in san francisco, where we have about 36,000 exiting residents and 23,000 existing workers, but it's experiencing change. our office is engaged in a number of major projects along this area, from mission rock at the north through the chase center arena currently under construction in mission bay, pier 70, which this body recently considered, the potrero power station which will be before you later this year, through to the former hunter's point plant, india basin, executive basin and candlestick park. these projects, in and of themselves on top of any smaller projects that are occurring in these neighborhoods will represent approximately 20,000 new how's holds, a third of which we are aiming to be affordable, about 38,000 new jobs, and not aarea of opare