mr. nader has been spotted at the white house early on in the trump administration. he was reportedly a frequent guest of the white house. but now tonight, natasha bertrand of the atlantic" is breaking news about mr. nader that i don't -- i don't quite know what to do with. tonight natasha at the lack reports george nader the newly reported cooperating witness in the investigation reports he was indicted in 1985 "on charges of importing to the united states obscene material including photos of nude boys engaged in a variety of sexual acts." >> according to this report tonight, mr. nader pled not guilty and items seized was thrown out on procedural grounds. a lawyer for him says he vigorously denies these allegations now as he did then. like i said, i'm not quite sure what to do with this information. again, we've just learned this week the name of george nader and that he's cooperating in robert mueller's investigation. there is still fairly i guess compared to the other people that we know about involved in this case thus far, there's not that much publicly known ab

mr. yun just quit his job february 27th he announced he was quitting. in past friday was his last day. that said, maybe the president could have received advice from his own administration's hand picked advisor. theoretically he would have wanted to do that. that's why we have ambassadors. subject matter ambassadors. the problem with that prospect there is no trump administration choice to be the ambassador to south korea. administration's choice for that job, victor actually pulled out of consideration for that ambassadorship during the state of the union speech this year in protest of the president's approach to north korea. he reacted to this somewhat strange announcement. he reacted with what appeared to be bewilderment. he said quote, what are we putting on the table, sanctions? normalization? peace treaty? has any other president ever done anything like this? and when other presidents made breath-taking gambles like this in the past in the words of "the new york times", are there th

are we clear that mr. nader hasn't been charged? is it possible there's a sealed indictment against him, that he's got some other legal entanglement here with the mueller investigation? or is this just a straight cooperation for immunity deal? >> we brielieve it's straight cooperation. he is a, i don't want to say a central figure, but he is a, seems to be an important witness in this investigation, not only for questions about what happened before the election, before president trump was elected, but what's been going on in the first year of the administration in terms of how foreign governments were trying to influence the white house in steering foreign policy. >> "new york times," washington journalist, mark mizzetti. stay with us. aah! ...i would have said you were crazy. but so began the year of me. i discovered the true meaning of paperless discounts... and the indescribable rush of saving drivers an average of $620. why does fear feel so good? i fell in love three times -- once with a woman, once with a country, and finally.

>> i don't know whether the public reports of what mr. nader may be saying are accurate or not. all i can say is if those reports are accurate, there is clearly a significant discrepancy between that version and what we heard in erik prince's testimony, which is accurate, i don't know, and we should find out, but clearly both can't be true. it either was a back channel or it wasn't, it was either a meeting arranged as a result of other discussions in december in trump tower or it wasn't. and we need to get to the bottom of it. >> what indication do you have that they share your interest in bringing in mr. nader -- >> well, i don't know. clearly we had the greatest difficulty in wrestling with issue of collusion. i think there is a lot of agreement on our investigation, the intelligence community's assessment of russian activity what the russians did, as well as the integrity of the intelligence community's conclusions about their efforts to sow discord to hurt clinton, to hurt trump. i hope we can work together on presenting that to the public. there ought to also be broad agree

quote, mr. nader has been granted immunity. in a deal for his cooperation with the special counsel. i believe this is the first time we've had any reporting about mueller's investigators offering immunity to anyone in exchange for something other than a guilty plea. joining us is new york city washington investigative unit mark mizzetti, bylined on this school. thank you for your time tonight. >> thank you. >> so you and your colleagues at the "times", introduced me to the concept of george nader in the first place. i feel like it's been a couple of weeks where we've had a big influx of reporting about him, and we are still trying to understand what role he may be playing in this investigation being carried out at the special counsel's office. let me ask you if i screwed anything up in that summary and what you think is most important about this new reporting. >> no, it was pretty thorough set up. i think that what we report tonight, one of the most interesting things is this sort of year-long campaign of influence that was going on with george nader and elliot brady to steer the tr

nader. is that part of the question, i guess, of whether or not money was funneled inappropriately from uae to people associated with mr. trump? >> i suspect they will certainly look at that. the interesting thing about brody is after eric prince meets with them and mr. nader in the seychelles and makes a pitch to sell them defense contract services, he's denied it. he doesn't get that contract. fast forward, it's brody who gets a similar contract. so there's something going on there we're not exactly sure. >> now at that meeting, it's a described as a bit of a mystery, an object of fascination that meeting, what was that about. i said in summarizing the speculation around that meeting is that it's believed that the meeting may have been an effort to set up a live communication between the office in russia and the incoming trump administration. is that supported, is that how you understand it? >> i'm not ready to say there was a back channel to the space and what we know is the facts are. pr

i don't remember mr. nader's role being described. i'm also concerned this goes to a larger issue of trump family members trading on their relationships with foreign governments to fleece themselves and their businesses. >> and we also find in the -- the special prosecutor might find in his investigation a money trail of foreign money through mr. nader going into the trump campaign. >> well, yes. and i meant to enrich themselves and their businesses. but what we want to know, of course, and the only way to find fought money was going into the trump campaign is to be willing to subpoena these records. our investigation goes like this, lawrence. you sit in a chair. we ask you a question, and then we say well, that's interesting. we have no way of testing if you're telling us the truth or not because we're not going to subpoena your telephone logs. we're not going to subpoena your chat records. we're not going to subpoena your bank records. we don't know erik prince if what you did in the seychelles is what you say you did because we're

and now mr. nader gave broidy millions more to bang roll a lobbying campaign against cutter in washington. that business partner of -- oh, my god. that was so cool. do it again. that's it? we can't do it at will? it just happens like that? never mind. the business partner of elliott broidy is george nader, the guy implicated in the stuff that's dripped and draped out. nader, of course, is now a cooperating witness in the mueller investigation. he's granted immunity by mueller. nader has immunity, cooperating with mueller and all these stories are coming out. you would think they would be worried about him being at this fund-raiser. and today mr. nader filed a lawsuit, the question of who obtained broidy's e-mails and who's parsing them out is a story in their own right. but it is probably time for the republican national committee to start facing questions about why this particular guy is still inviting people to fund-raisers with the president and serving as the rnc's deputy finance chair. how'd

what, in your view, could mr. nader be giving up on donald trump? >> well, you noo know, i think particular story and george nader's role in it is going to be one of the bridges where russia was not just directly communicating -- you don't establish a back channel through the crown prince of united emirates and meet down in the seychelles with an oligarch just to shake hands and have a beer for 30 minutes like eric prince said. this has to be something much deeper than communications. more than likely, it's going to involve money, whether it was an illicit money transfer or some other form of remuneration that was going to happen, it had to be coordinated through a third party to the campaign. interesting point, this is also something that sort of gets around u.s. intelligence. the united arab emirates is an ally. eric prince, even though he's involved in the uae, he lives there, i know, i lived near him when i lived there, but i think that they thought that they could get a methodology where money could flow through allies and would not be identifi

. >> we want to hear from george nader in our russian investigation. if the accounts about mr. nader are true, then erik prince lied to congress. that's a problem. >> all right. let's get to pierre thomas with us live tonight. let's get back to what you reported there. corey lewandowski, and we're going to see noneberg after seeing the counsel might have something on the president? >> reporter: that's right, david. we expect nunberg back in the news after all the back and forth over whether he would testify. he told us today he is going to appear before mueller's grand jury tomorrow. david, we'll see. >> pierre, thank you. >>> and president trump's former campaign chairman indicted in the russia investigation pleading not guilty today. paul manafort entering a not guilty plea on tax evasion and bank fraud. his charges will start on july 10th. >>> to florida tonight, and chilling new calls from parkland, calls made during the attack from parents and 911 operates. you can hear the parents talking with their children, and it comes as florida lawmakers pass a new gun law. here's ab

some of this topic has been out there, this idea that mr. nader was cooperating with bob mueller and that there was this set of meetings. what is new in your story, so viewers understand, so we understand that advances this? >> hi, glad to be on your show tonight. that's a good question. some of this has been out there. what's new is that we now have information that we're reporting tonight that contradicts one of the participants who was at this meeting, erik prince, who testified on capitol hill, who told lawmakers back in november, that, as you said, this was just not an official, planned meeting. it was an unplanned, and an unimportant encounter that came about just by chance because he happened to be in a luxury hotel in the indian island nations with those from the united emirates. there's a secret meeting in the seychelles in january of 2017 before the inauguration of president trump. at the meeting is erik prince how mentioned, who is representing the trump transition team, a russian official close to russian president vladimir putin

. >> it would be my hope we could have mr. nader, special counsel permitting, come before our committee at the appropriate time and that we also have erik prince come back before the intelligence committee so we can determine which account is accurate. >> do you think erik prince lied about the seychelles meeting? >> i don't know what he said was accurate or not. if those reports are accurate, there is clearly a significant discrepancy between that version and what we heard in erik prince's testimony. >> reporter: and wolf, schiff also called for prince to return to this committee, provide more records, answer more questions, and that's something the republicans are not committing to yet. mo mike conaway, the reporter leading this investigation, and there is talk about if corwin lewandowski is finished today, it's a question whether this investigation will wind down. schiff also called for nader cooperating with special counsel's investigation, but schiff wants to talk to him as well before this committee, wolf. >> still plent

about seven weeks later then, the fbi meets mr. nader at dulles airport this is not like a hey, brooke, how are you, meeting? >> this is like a hey, buddy -- >> they are armed with a search warrant to get his phones. remember, in order to get a search warrant you have to be able to show that there is probable cause to believe that that individual commit aid crime and that they also -- he used his phone. every crime almost always uses a cell phone. they already have an understanding of serious criminal wrongdoing. this is what they call an approach. fbi comes up to him. come with us. we're taking your phone. you have a choice right now. you can cooperate with us right away or risk getting charged, going through the whole legal process and potentially going to jail. it sounds like he recognized okay, i'm cooked. i'll cooperate. they gave him a subpoena two days later. then he got a lawyer. likely over the last two months he has been telling them everything he knows. >> how do they know he's telling the truth? >> that's a tricky thing

>> i don't know if the public reports about what mr. nader may be saying are accurate or not. all i can say is if those reports are accurate, there is clearly a significant discrepancy between that version and what we heard in erik prince's testimony. >> schiff wants both nader to come before this committee and for prince to return to the committee and provide further documents. and that's something, john, republicans are not yet committing to. as we know, republicans are looking to end this investigation soon after this corwin lewandowski testimony from today. the question is what do they do now with this potentially conflicting information from this one witness who came before the committee last year, john. >> at least we know it's of interest to the investigation that matters most. ma manu raju on capitol hill. >>> trump is upset with sarah sanders' response to what she said about a porn actress. deyou were persecuted,, and forced to flee the country of your birth. but you started a new life in a brand new world. when i built my ancestry family tree, i found your story... t

quote, mr. nader was first served on january 17th after landing at washington's international airport. he planned to celebrate the president's first year in office but the fbi had other plans questioning him for more than two hours and seizing electro c electroni electronics. he was the subject of a story this weekend that was interesting, intriguing, a little opaque but this weekend the times described the same man as a lebanese american businessman who had become a focus of the mueller investigation. in this reporting this past weekend, the times said he had been questioned by the prosecutors and other witnesses had been questioned about him, about his role advising the government of the united arab emirates and quote any possible attempts to buy political influence by directing money to support mr. trump during the presidential campaign. so that was the reporting, people were asking about this guy's role and investigators were asking witnesses about this guy's role and this guy was a focus of

nader into silence. that is interesting. but why is all the press coming out now? we can't know for sure where it's all coming from, including previously sealed court documents. there's one interesting thing here that's worth pointing out. it involves the 1985 indictment against george nader, these were charges later dropped. a court ruled that a search warrant was not properly attained. the prosecutor who tried and failed, who brought those charges and couldn't get a conviction his name was joseph di genova, he was the u.s. attorney for the district of columbia at the time. guess who just got hired as trump's new russia lawyer in the russia probe, joseph di genova the same guy. the guy who tried but ultimately failed to convict gorge nader on the charges. he's coming back into the eyes of the white house just as the public is learning all these details about george nader's criminal past. george nader, robert mueller's cooperating witness. i don't know if it's coincidence both of these things are coming to light at the same time. while the president and his lawyers

last week, "the new york times" reported, quote, mr. mueller's investigators have questioned mr. nader and have pressed witnesses for information about any possible attempts by the emiratis to buy political influence. so, walk me through how the qataris withholding this information effects the investigation. because also, if i'm qatar, i know the investigation is going on, but i also know president trump wants to fire mueller. >> well, exactly. but you also know that there are a whole range of both business interests and policy interests that you have with the trump administration. and you know that when mueller's report, we're presuming his report, comes out and qatar is named as a coop ra diterative s that would spell an end not only to favorable policy outcomes but of course to the business deali dealings. the business dealings we know jared kushner wants to engage in with qatar and potentially other elements of the trump organization itself. so there's a huge incentive on the part of the qataris not to cooperate here. and of course it's something that the trump administration

the paper reporting, quote, mr. mueller appears to be examining the influence of foreign money on mr. trump's political activities and has asked witnesses about the possibility that the advisor george nader funneled money from the emirates to the president's political efforts. >>> friendly reminder, the u.a.e. was one of the four countries we told you about last week that was reportedly discussing ways to manipulate jared kushner. and one of the others on that list, mexico, which is where jared is today, meeting with the nation's president all while on a downgraded security clearance. >>> peter baker and the panel still here. peter, do you hear anything about how jared kushner prepared for this trip to mexico, his first foray into the foreign policy portfolio after what can only be described as a global humiliation of being stripped of that clearance and everything that kenotes? >> i assume he was watching msnbc and the times for information about meks dough. we don't require a clearance. everything else will requir

. >> i don't know whether the public reports of what mr. nader may be saying are accurate or not. all i can say is if the reports are accurate, there is clearly a significant discrepancy between that version and what we heard in erik prince's testimony. >> so, mike, what do you view as most significant about this "washington post" report, and what do you think the demands are at this point from those people on the congressional committees you cover every day, want to see happen next? >> well, this would be significant, that the special counsel, mueller, and his team are investigating not just the meeting in the seychelles but the meetings at trump tower between trump transition officials and at least intermediaries of the russian government, if not russian government officials themselves, to establish a back channel between the transition, between the future trump administration and the russian government. in the case of this meeting involving erik prince and that nader was a part of here, what adam schiff is wanting to do here, on a day when we were expecting the focus to be on c

just today ap records george nader that got broidy those contracts, mr. nader gave him millions more to bankroll a lobbying campaign in washington against qatar. that business partner of he w l elliott -- oh, my god. that was so cool. do it again. that's it? we can't do it at women. it just happens like that. never mind. the business partner of elliott's george nader, the guy implicated, nader, of course, is now a cooperating witness in the mueller investigation. he's been granted immunity by mueller. so nader's got immunity, nader is cooperating with mueller and all these stories are coming out about elliott bridy. you would think the rnc would be nervous having him host fund-raisers with the president. today he filed a lawsuit against qatar alleging its government is responsible for hacking his e-mails and documents and leaking them out to the press all in an effort to discredit him. the question of who on trained his e-mails and is parceling them out is a story in its own right but in the meantime, it probably is time for the republican national commit

is at the meeting, mr. nader is cooperating with him, then he's caught prince in a lie. we know that special prosecutor mueller has a bad attitude about people lying to investigators. we look at people charged with crimes, people who pled guilty, we have flynn, papadopoulos, and gates all pled guilty to lying to the government. so prince might very well be next. >> natasha, the new details about this meeting, where does that lead now in this investigation? >> well, it's going to help mueller establish even in a stronger sense whether or not and to what extent, the trump transition team and later the administration and, of course, earlier the campaign was trying to create back channels to russia. we still don't know necessarily why that is, but this meeting is very, very important. and the fact that george nader, who's this lebanese-american businessman with extensive ties in the middle east, a fixture in washington d.c. the last couple of decade, the fact he was there and representing the emrates is telling

nader and other evidence, he could have some potential criminal exposure here. it could be an opportunity for mueller's team to offer some sort of cooperation deal and find out what else erik prince might know about this, or if there is a different version of the story he might want to tell. i think one of the things that is a red flag, probably, for the mueller team, is all of the secrecy that's involved here. now, we have two reports of inquiry into a back channel so the trump administration can talk with russians outside of the hearing of the intelligence community. that suggests that, perhaps, there is some improper or illegal activity that is going to be discussed. going to a remote island like the seychelles to have this conversation also suggests, you know, subterfuge and secrecy. that secrecy is likely a red flag for mueller. you think he'll probe until he gets to the bottom of it. a lie by prince, if proven true, could be an opportunity to get cooperation out of him to get to the bottom of it. >> is there a logical reason why the incoming trump administ

>> i don't know whether the public reports of what mr. nader may be saying are accurate or not. all i can say is if those reports are accurate, there is clearly a significant discrepancy between that version and what we heard in erik prince's testimony, which is accurate. i don't know. we should find out. but clearly both can't be true. it either was a back channel or it wasn't, it was either a meeting arranged as a result of other discussions in december in trump tower or it wasn't. and we need to get to the bottom of it. >> reporter: now, schiff wants both nader to come before the committee who has not testified before this panel, even as he's cooperating with robert mueller's investigation. and he also wants prince to return to this committee, provide more documents and records and answer more questions. that's something that republicans are not committing to yet. mike conway, the republican leading this investigation, declined to comment about this matter. and when we asked yesterday, erik prince's spokesperson, about whether or not george nader was, in fact, at one of these

it's not clear if it's illegal with regard to mr nader there is not sufficient evidence to make that claim but with regard to mr brody's actions there certainly are day shifts into to tell a sitting president that he should fire and secretary of state and for there to be a self interest in that that is his economic dealings with the u.a.e. certainly brazen and presumptuous but not necessarily illegal at least no evidence so far ok so should we expect any backlash against the. well i don't think so i don't expect any i mean we've seen now over the last six or months or so a number of email leaks including the email account of the u.a.e. powerful and that's your to washington use of a table in which there were all kinds of improper things revealed and we saw our really no backlash so i'm not expecting any ok so what do you make of the timing then of these leaks because the saudi crown prince might have been summoned to in the u.s. later this month. well not only is muhammad and someone going to washington but also another trump central player jerry questionnaire the son in law has rece

mr. nader is a lebanese-american, he's been involved with different presidencies as sort of a mixer, mover and shaker in the middle east, and that tells us that mueller's inquiry appears to be expanding beyond just russia, beyond just what we thought it originally involved and possibly leapfrogging into the middle east, which is a whole new universe for mueller's team to be looking at. >> also legally, as well. let's look at the federal code here. that's why we have you here. section 208, what is it exactly? >> this is the general conflict of interest statute. generally speaking, a federal l employee, executive branch official or executive branch employee, cannot participate. that's the key, the conflict of interest statute does not criminalize holding assets, properties, stocks, credit swaps, things like that. what it does criminalize is holding those assets and participating in what is called a particular matter. and all that means is if you have a financial interest in a particular are

if the accounts about mr. nader are true, then eric prince lied to congress. that's a problem. >> reporter: we're expecting nunberg back in the news. he told us thursday he is going to appear before mueller's grand jury today. so we'll see. pierre thomas, abc news, washington. >>> now to the store known as the biggest toy store there is until it filed for bankruptcy. they are going to close all their stores. the bankrupt company has failed to find a buyer or reach a debt restructuring deal. the down fall can be tracked back to a leverage buyout that prevented it from investing in technology and operation. >> doesn't mean we have to grow up, does it? >> yeah, you do. because even if you did, you wouldn't be a toys "r" us kid. more games. more toys. oh boy. >>> despite strong fourth quarter sales, abercrombie and fitch says they plan to close 60 outlets this year. they have been struggling financially and hope trimming the number of stores will revive sales. >>> meanwhile americans are slipping deeper into debt. a new study by wallet hub found u.s. consumers hav

mr. trump is representing a whole bunch of voices and concerns. go look at our infrastructures and our buildings and our roads. host: that is diane in massachusetts. you saw this probably over the last several hours, the topic of tariffs and trade and issues of those concerns have prompted the resignation of white house economic adviser gary cohn. he was quoted as saying "it has been an honor to serve my ," and said in a statement hours before he resigned "despite recent turnover, the west wing has tremendous spirit." the wall street journal editors this morning, in talking about ,he resignation of gary cohn have written over the past couple of days on the prospect of these tariffs. -- an obvious question, who will replace him? who in the community of free market specialists would take the job , a strongohn personality and his own right, provided ballast against some of mr. trump's worst economic policy instincts. it is difficult to imagine that anyone outside the president's current prot

he never gave the name george nader. if he met with george nader, he lied under oath. mr. prince, from his perspective, they describe this differently, that you asked did he have any employees or anything with him and he didn't mention nader. nader had worked with him as a one-off, an independent contractor and he didn't consider him an employee. what do you think the truth of the situation is and why do you care so much about this meeting? >> first, that transcript i believe is publicly available, so people can decide for themselves. if there's any question, let's bring him back because this is pretty important. let's just understand that this is a gentleman who wants to privatize our wars. he was part of a dark chapter in american history with blackwater and he's writing part of a second dark chapter in american history. the fact is he says he traveled all the way to the middle of the indian ocean to have a meeting with the uae where he used to live there. why not meet anyplace else? by the way, down at the end of the bar there's this mr. dimitry medvedev who is the head

if these are the best witnesses mr. mueller can put before a grand jury what does that say about the investigation quickly? >> doesn't sound like a very powerful case if you have witnesses like that. they're hoping for guilty pleas. if the case goes to trial, particularly goes to trial in a fair distribute where a person can get a fair trial, not where the overwhelming number of jurors will have voted for democrats, i think then, you would see that there would not be convictions based on lack of credibility of witnesses such as the two you have just described. david: yeah. >> but prosecutors have this enormous power to get people to plead guilty even based on weakest of cases because they don't want to take a chance of through the roulette wheel and being found guilty. the criminal justice system disencourages people going to trial to prove their innocence. david: andrew napolitano agrees with you. good stuff. appreciate it. >> thank you. trish: targeting trade. president trump threatening tariffs on at least $30 billio

but it is another very troubling aspect of mr. prince's behavior. and frankly mr. nunes behavior. >> and we do need more answers to understand this. and i want to be very explicit on george nader, uae adviser who had ties to advisers to trump. so that's his link. i said adviser to the campaign. go ahead. >> and he's not cooperating with mr. mueller, which means mr. prince will have a witness who will fully explain the nature of that conversation to the special counsel. >> right. and that meeting and of course what the purpose of it was, obviously, in january of 2017, middle of the indian ocean, you have prince and this russian fund adviser close to putin. obviously an important meeting. i want to ask you also, congressman, about the jared kushner. senior adviser and son-in-law. you delivered a letter and asked him for an emergency hearing for kushner security clearance. what was trey response to you? >> i have not heard from him yet. i was giving him thisler and wh this letter and what it was about. as we speak mr. jajared kushner mexico. and we is "the new york ti

mr. gates: we always work with the secretary of state. we have mark green, the administrator over at usaid. there is an aids court nader but a lot of that money is coming out to usaid. and there is a deep collaboration there. if the hiring of good people and morale at the state department can be improved under new leadership, that will be a good thing. and certainly we will meet the new secretary and talk about the partnerships we've had, and how we can manage those. >> something we haven't talked about is a new interest, new priority. work is a broad, so it doesn't touch the u.s. as and perhapsoes sub-saharan africa. but talk about what you're doing on alzheimer's and how you can have a big impact. mr. gates: a big part is our work and education. it's a super important area. alzheimer's is unusual because there is a gigantic market. who ever created drug pictures alzheimer's will make billion's of dollars. and yet, if the target that proves to be very difficult. these are very expensive because the gold standard is improving behavior on

now mr. broidy took a turn into the robert mueller investigation. his prosecutors now have a cooperating witness named george nader, adviser to the government of the uae. mueller is interested because they're investigating, quote, the influence of foreign money on trump's political activities. mueller's prosecutors have reportedly asked witnesses about the possibility that george nader funneled money from the united arab emirates into president trump's political efforts. it is illegal to facilitate that. mueller is looking into that issue using this cooperating witness, george nader, who turns out to be in business with elliott broidy, the guy who has reportedly been offering to get rid of the justice department's malaysia investigation for a $75 million fee to him and his wife. the guy who is a new york state pension fund bribery felon, this magnificent specimen of civic-mindedness who was named deputy finance chairman of the rnc. he surfaces now in the reporting about this new cooperating witness helping the mueller investigation examine the possi

these are the star witnesses mr. mueller has. i had mr. dershowitz, a famed attorney on earlier in the day, he says this shows the incredible lack of real strong character witnesses in the case of mr. mueller. he doesn't have a very strong case if these are his star witnesses. ed: i think the fbi is tipping the scale. they are putting their finger on the scale. they want an advantage. you want them -- they want you to investigate. and the flynn case, here is a three-star general. they threatened his son which is part of the reason he copped a plea. i don't know what his son did and i don't know what he did. but i know he served his country ably and effectively. but if all this evidence we are talking about tonight is true, he's not going to be convicted. some judge will say this deck was stacked against you. david: a lot of fbi personnel, it's reported by "the washington post" and some other newspapers, they didn't think that he lied in front of them. he actually copped a plea for lying base was being squeezed by strzok and lord knows hole

we have had the george nader development, now the ted mallach development. it appears and feels as though mueller is closing in on the central element on the issue of coordination and collusion. no longer just money laundering but collusion and coordination with russians or russian national cutouts on the matter of interference in the 2016 election. >> in a statement, he said the fbi detained him frr defending president trump. he's ready to accuse the so-called deep state of making up this russia dossier to destroy donald trump. what do you make of that? >> he's a roger stone accolade. he's going to say anything to help sell his book. nothing he says would surprise me. he is a propaganda machine and frankly every word that comes out of his mouth is prop gan ag. >> they spoke to him over an hour, con fiscated his cell phone. they want him to appear before a grand jury in washington in two weeks. what does that say to you? >> it wasn't the subpoena, but they have legal access to his cell phone. there's a legal predicate that enabled them to do that. with bob m

this demonstrates mr. trump ignored legal advice to avoid interfering in the investigation. at the time, the follow-up questions were not known. >>> and florida lawmakers passed new gun violence measures defying a push from the nra. we get nmore from athena jones n florida. >> reporter: good morning, christine and dave. the school safety bill passed and it is headed to the governor's desk. it would raise the age to purchase a firearm to 21 from 18 years old and establish a three-day waiting period to buy a firearm with exceptions. it would ban the sale of bump fire stocks. that is the accessory to allow a semiautomatic weapon to fire like an automatic weapon. it would give law enforcement more power to seize weapons and ammunition from those deemed mentally unfit or otherwise a threat. it would provide additional funding for armed school resource officers and for mental health services in districts across the state. the controversial provision in the bill allows school staff to be armed as long as they go

to exert influence on the trumpet ministration to essentially take a hard line against qatar and in mr broida his case try to have rex tillerson the secretary of state fired from his position as our viewers will recall there was a real patch from about september through the end of last year in which there was a lot of speculation about mr taylor since future as secretary of state and in fact he had to have a press conference at one point to basically say that he was continuing to do his job that he served at the pleasure of the president and that he wasn't going to be beaten down personally by all of the speculation what this indicates is that the special counsel's investigation into whether there was any russian influence in the two thousand and sixteen presidential election such that donald trump became president well it seems to have broadened to see whether the united arab emirates perhaps other countries and we don't know this for a fact may have also tried to exert influence not just to one curry favor with a possible u.s. president but once dollar trump got into the oval office