manafort, paul manafort is in prison right now hoping for a pardon. what people have to remember, he's not in prison for what we call russia-gate. he's not in prison for anything that wound up in the mueller report. he worked for his pro-putin president of ukraine. mr. i mr mr. yanovittch. this was devin nunes talking about something called the blackledger. for those who don't understand what he was talking about, we'll talk about that on the other side of the break. >> have you ever heard of the black ledger? >> i have. >> and the black ologledger, ist seen as credible information? >> yes. >> the black ledger is credible? >> yes. >> bob mueller did not find it credible, did you dispute what bob mueller's findings were, they didn't use it in the prosecution or report? >> i'm not aware that bob mueller did not find it credible. >> talk a little bit about what are they talking about, malcolm? >> the blackledge -- black ledger is found in the political part of this, after a popular people's uprising pushed him out of the government. the students and the

>> thank you for that. >>> paul manafort is in the hospital. sources tell cnn he suffered a heart ailment in prison. he's serving a 7.5-year sentence in pennsylvania. his lawyer claims his family is being kept in the dark about his condition. >>> there's a deal in place clearing the way for thursday night's democratic debate to take place. the agreement and story behind it next. >>> we're learning more about the woman struck and killed by falling debris from a building in midtown manhattan. she was identified as a 60-year-old architect erica tipman. engineers will do an entire inspection to make sure all are safe. they fined the building managers in april because of, quote, the failure to maintain the exterior. >>> the labor dispute between a california union and catering providing in an attempt to derail it has been temporarily resolved. all democratic hopefuls declared their support for the union last week. they said they would not attend if they had to cross the picket line. that left officials frantically searching for a solution. once a te

while paul manafort is imprisoned on multiple felony charges. and it was specifically about what he and the president were trying to get ukraine to do to help the president and his reelection chances in 2020. so that's weird, right? weird that the presidents lawyer is consulting with a federal prisoner about the president strategy toward reelection involving a foreign entity. that's a start. [laughter] among the other materials that rudy giuliani or the other sources 40 giuliani cited and started mentioning on television and other places but he started waving around, physically waving around a sworn statement he said he obtained in ukraine. and it was a sworn statement he got from the lawyers for a man named dimitri - - long seen as the kremlin's guy in ukraine. he is under a respite house arrest. he's in austria fighting extradition to this country where he is wanted multiple felony and bribery charges. semi prosecutors say he's an upper echelon associate of russian organized crime. mr. giuliani obtains from his legal team a sworn statement tha

manafort and michael flynn. in a statement, jordan saying, "we thought they spied on two americans. we now know it was four." the u.s. government's powerful tools designed and authorized for international intelligence gathering were deployed to monitor the activities of a presidential campaign. this is a grave matter." former florida attorney general pam bondi, now working with a white house on impeachment said, the report is troubling. >> i think the american people really should be terrified that they could fabricate, falsify emails, lie, and omit exculpatory evidence in order to continue this witch hunt against the president of the united states. >> democrats also links the horowitz report with the impeachment inquiry, saying the report proves it was russia and to not ukraine that was meddling in the 2016 election. as he pointed out at the top, bret, the president is eagerly awaiting the next shoe to drop, from prosecutor john durham, who disagreed with the horowitz report, completes its investigation. bret?

one is that we learned that the president's imprisoned campaign chairman, paul manafort, was doing work from behind bars that he was consulting with rudy giuliani who is president trump's lawyer -- [laughter] giuliani said that he'd been talking strategy with paul manafort while manafort is in prison on multiple felony charges. and it was specifically about what he and the president were trying to get ukraine to do to help the president in his re-election chances in 2020. so that's weird, right? like, it's weird that the president's lawyer is consulting with a federal prisoner about the president's strategy toward re-election involving a foreign entity. that's, that's a start. [laughter] but then the other thing that happened is that among the other materials that rudyty giuliani or the other sources mr. giuliani cited and started sourcing, started mentioning on television appearances and other places is that he started waving around, literally physically waving around, a sworn statement that he said he obtained in ukraine. and it was a sworn statement that he got from the lawyers for a

. >>> former trump campaign chairman paul manafort is in the hospital. the 70-year-old reportedly suffered a cardiac event. his attorney says manafort is in stable condition after being moved to a hospital last thursday from a federal prison in pennsylvania. manafort was supposed to be in court today in new york city where he's facing financial crimes. he's currently serving 7.5 years after being convicted as part of special counsel robert mueller's russia investigation. >>> meantime, paul manafort's former deputy will be heading to jail. yesterday, a federal judge sentenced rick gates to 45 days behind bars. he will also have to serve three years of probation for financial crimes and lying to investigators. gates pleaded guilty in february of 2018 to charges brought by the special counsel's office. the judge cited gates', quote, extraordinary cooperation with council mueller's office and other investigations. prosecutors had pushed for a light sentence to reflect gates' assistance. >>> tornadoes have ripped apart communities for a second straight day ac

manafort is 70. >>> meanwhile, paul manafort's business partner rick gates was sentenced for his part in the same scheme. gates testified against manafort and roger stone. he was sentenced to three years of probation, 45 days of community service. >>> there is still much more ahead on "world news tonight" this tuesday. the new shipping concerns with amazon and fedex. >>> also ahead tonight, the deadly accident near times square. a woman struck and killed by falling debris from a 17-story building. >>> also, the outrage tonight over an on-duty officer who admitted being drunk, passed out behind the wheel, but was never investigated for dui. the chief defending the move. >>> and the warning from health officials tonight. passengers at two major american airports who may have been exposed to measles. a lot more news ahead tonight. a lot more news ahead tonight. stay tuned. reliable phone company. but to businesses, we're a reliable partner. we keep companies ready for what's next. (man) we weave security into their business. (man) we weave security into their business. (man) we weave sec

he tells the judge he's responsible for his actions. >>> paul manafort is in the hospital for a heart condition. he's serve a 7.5-year sentence in pennsylvania. he and his family are being kept in the dark about his medical condition. the federal bureau of prisons is not commenting due to privacy concerns. >>> a labor dispute between a california union and a catering provider that threatened to derail it has been tent actively resolved. all seven democratic hopefuls participating that debate declared their support for the union last week. they said they would not attend if they had to cross the picket line that. led others searching for a solution. once a deal was reached, senator elizabeth warren celebrated with union workers. >> congratulations, unite here. you have won. >> yay. >> you have won. all across this country, working families are faced with two options. they can back down or roll up their sleeves and get in the fight. the workers of unite here get in the fight and they win. >> workers are expected to ratify the agreement next week. >>> according to his doctor, 2020 democr

gates was an ex-business partner of paul manafort and had testified against him as a prosecution witness during his trial. gates had also testified against a longtime friend of the president, roger stone. gates and manafort were among the first of the president's associates to be charged by special counsel bob mueller, both were charged with financial crimes relating to their consulting work with pro-russia politicians in ukraine. at the time, gates had pleaded guilty and was a key in the contacts with russian officials. prosecutors had informed the judge that gates had provided, quote, extraordinary assistance and had, quote, worked ernestly to provide the government with everything that's asked of him. while gates' lawyer requested no jail time, the judge sentenced him to 45 days and said he could serve it intermittently on weekends. >>> and paul manafort who is currently serving a seven-year hospital sentence has been hospitalized. his client has been in the hospital since last thursday but they say, quote, still don't have a full understanding of his medical condition. manafort is co

. >>> and we move on now, and word that president trump's former campaign chairman paul manafort has been hospitalized for a cardiac event. manafort is serving seven years at a federal prison in central pennsylvania on financial crimes charges that came out of the mueller investigation. manafort is 70. meanwhile, paul manafort's business partner, rick gates, was sentenced today for his part in the same financial scheme. gates testified against manafort and long-time trump associate roger stone. he was sentenced to three years of probation, 45 days in jail, community service and a fine of $20,000. >>> there is still much more ahead on "world news tonight" this tuesday. the new shipping concerns with amazon and fedex. and could it effect your christmas packages? >>> also ahead tonight, the deadly accident near times square. a woman struck and killed by falling debris from a 17-story building. >>> also, the outrage tonight over an on-duty officer who admitted being drunk, passed out behind the wheel, but was never investigated for dui. the chief defending the move. >>> and the warning f

we kind of thought rick gates testifying against paul manafort, talking to the grand jury, rick gates testifying on the stand in the roger stone trial. we kind of thought that was it. but apparently not. apparently there is more to get out of rick gaetes and it is sensitive enough that we the public won't be allowed to see what prosecutors are going to file. that was a little bit of a curve ball tonight. just as we were getting on the air, heading down to the studio a few minutes ago, we did get in the defense submission, gates defense lawyers telling the judge in his case why they think he shouldn't get any prison time. that alone is interesting but we're still waiting for what the prosecutors have to say, which should be fascinating. we'll have a little bit more on that coming up. i should also mention we originally thought we would be seeing trump national security adviser, mike flynn, it was this time last year that mike flynn was initially in court expecting to get his sentence for the felony count on which he has pled guilty. this time last year when he showed up for sentencing,

witness against paul manafort and roger stone. prosecutors had asked for him to only be given probation but he got 45 days in jail. we do have an answer on the rick gates sentencing. 45 days in jail. back to taylor riggs in san francisco. wind energy is included in these tax credits, solar energy not so much. why is that? taylor: i want to take a look at some of the companies we know. toar dropping as much as 1% 2% earlier this morning on the news. it is setting up for pretty big spikes as democrats pushing for the tax credit to be extended for some of the alternative energy. wind looks like it might be included. solar not included. the solar stops are taking a bit of a leg lower. republicans have been pushing back. the white house does not want to extend the tax credits to some of the alternative energy producers. we have to wait and see. we have a few days left to see if we can get this done. vonnie: taylor riggs in san francisco. thank you for that. i want to reiterate we have a decision in the rick dates sentencing. sentencing

. >> paul manafort has resigned as campaign chairman of the controversy over some consulting work. >> the days after his victory donald trump began -- >> decision day for donald trump, the president-elect makes his first major national security pitch delighted conservatives and enraging democrats. >> early december 2016 one of those choices, new national security adviser michael flynn, met with trump's son-in-law jared kushner at trump tower. they later exchange texts and phone calls amid the obama administration decisions to impose sanction and russia in retaliation for hacking the dnc. donald trump raised vladimir putin's decision to not retaliate tweeting i always knew he was very smart. at the beginning of 2017 in intelligence report the director of national intelligence stated vladimir putin ordered and influence campaign aimed at the us presidential election with the intent to help president-elect trump's election chances. >> if there's any evidence anyone affiliated with the trump campaign communicated with the russian government in the course of this campaign what will you do?

for instance, paul manafort was under investigation. why didn't somebody tell candidate trump that the campaign manager he was electing was under investigation? why did not candidate trump tell that there was a counterintelligence probe of his campaign. why didn't they tell? they're resetting treasury prep. why did they tell the species is job of telling judge that the steele dossier is a not aware of the source, the agent of the divorce is it was like a jaw dropper. we didn't know that they were paying for it. why would you not want to know that? >> they thought they had the president of the united states by the short hairs. they thought they had them in a counterintelligence. they thought the president of the united states was a spy, a traitor. more subservient to vladimir hooton then to the american people. they kept trying and they kept trying and trying in the cup falling short. for example in, they wanted the notion planted in the fisa's judges head that the g.o.p. platform was more somebody to the russians as a result of carter p

many people such as michael flynn, the trump campaign chairman paul manafort. paul manafort's deputy rick gates, roger stone and george papadopoulos. >> here's what the if i see said about the mistakes with only with carter page. >> we found investigators failed to meet their obligations in finding the fisa obligations were scruplessly accurate. we identified significant omissions in each of the application. seven in the first application and a total byse-- >> senator amy klobuchar reminded everyone in the room of the big picture of the investigation they were discussing. >> does anything in your report call into question the finding in the special counsel's report that the russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential election in a sweeping and systematic fashion in. >> no, in fact. does we cite the different footnotes. does anything in your report call into question and the special tounscounsel's report? >> we don't take issue with any part of the essential counsel pfls report, no. >> i want to get your overall assessment of what you think were the i

of the four people investigated by the fbi, papadopoulos, carter page, paul manafort, michael flynn, three now convicted felons. the a.g. seems to argue that foreign money is just fine, the new normal. >> and in today's world, presidential campaigns are frequently in contact with foreign persons. and indeed in most campaigns there are signs of illegal foreign money coming in. >> first of all, if it's illegal, it's wrong, it's not okay. and then his agency successfully prosecuted paul manafort for his foreign money and actively investigating rudy giuliani for his potential contact with wrong foreign money and connection to the trump campaign in the same way. this idea that foreign influence is just fine sounds a lot like trump's special guest today, the russian foreign minister. it's the exact opposite of what the people protecting our elections say. >> my view is that if any public official or member of any campaign is contacted by any nation state or anybody acting on behalf of a nation state about influencing or interfering with our election, then that's something that the fbi woul

manafort. it's a lie to say nothing is there. to the extent which they meddled, that's the question. democrats who care about meddling to me you think you want to get to the bottom of that. this whole entire idea of democrats caring about russia to begin with was a farce because one, why did obama wait so long for sanctions on russia and waited on his way out in my opinion to tie president trump's hands. you even had fiona hale who democrats lauded who worked at the nsc, was closely intimately involved with russia to express concerns that the dossir was russian disinformation. for all the democrats who say they care about russian meddling, why do you want to get to the bottom if hillary clinton and the dnc were paying for information which the fbi use to get a fisa warrant on an american citizen? >> trace: to switch gears a little bit the reports coming out that john durham the federal prosecutor looking at the origins of the russia probe is now looking at investigating former cia director john

. >> laura: mena forte, paul manafort. >> paul manafort. and the allegations, the russians trying to make and roads into the presidential campaign and normally would have led to a defense briefing of the higher officials in the trump campaign so they could be on their guard. they deliberately chose not to do that because they were trying to entrap the campaign. and the notion that this ig report exonerates -- well we were a little afraid someone might release information. yeah that is utter nonsense. this is spying on the opposition political campaign. and mccabe, i'm sorry if you think that is calling it as it is but it is calling it is as it is. you spent on the political campaign and you want to be in jail for it. this is a travesty. the worst scandal in american history. in this report here is a white wash of it but full of detail that a real prosecutor up in connecticut is going to be able to have a heyday with. >> laura: you know, this is something i didn't hear anybody discussed today. byron, i didn't realize this before, that peter

his former boss paul manafort has been hospitalized. that is according to two sources who could not speak publicly. president trump's former campaign manager is serving more than seven years in prison. sources say manafort had a heart-related condition that prompted him to be moved to a hospital last week from a federal prison in pennsylvania. >> no government shutdown this weekend. the house of representatives passed a sweeping trillion dollar budget today. one of two spending bills funds the military and the border wall project. the 2020 deal also raises the age for tobacco purchases to 21 years of age across the country. the bills now go to the senate. president trump is expected to sign those. >> call your friends and family on the east coast or midwest. tonight millions of people are feeling the effects of a massive winter storm. snow and ice from the midwest to the northeast are being blamed for hundreds of crashes and deaths. in the south, nearly two dozen tornadoes ripped across three states. students and teachers survived by sc

paul manafort's deputy rick gates, roger stone, and george papadopoulos. here's what the inspector general said about the mistakes only with carter page. >> we found investigators failed to meet their basic obligations in finding the fisa obligations were scrupulously accurate. we identified significant omissions in each of the four applications. seven in the first application a total of 17 by the final application. as a result, the surveillance of carter page continued even as the fbi gathered information that weakened the assessment of probable cause. >> senator amy klobuchar reminded everyone in the room of the big picture of the investigation they were discussing. >> does anything in your report call into question the finding in the special counsel's report that the russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential election in a sweeping and systematic fashion? >> no, in fact, we cite the different footnotes. >> does anything in your report call into question the finding in the special counsel's report? that the russian government worked for that

and we know paul manafort worked very hard to work for free for him in order to advance his own economic interests but this is the way donald trump operates and the way he's always operated and we also know he was dangling pardons to people as they were being implicated or endanger of an indictment, and that is not something we typically see in the light of day when politicians are being implicated in crime. >> and we also know rick gates there was a monter offer from the defense fund which we think is a violation of law, it's sort of a gray area. but these patterns are not unfamiliar patterns to people who have studied corruption and crime in politics. >> no, i was really glad you brought up chicago or a look at oligarch oligarchic systems throughout the world. because sometimes we look at this and say oh, he's so original. it's actually really banal. this is corruption 101, self-dealing, surrounding yourself with people who will carry water, lying, confusion. confusion is definitely a friend of corrupt regimes. what is different is that first of all we don't have a federal government i

it led to paul manafort's resignation from the trump pain. and the stated intent of ukrainian officials was to weaken the trump campaign because they epghted to help elect hillary clinton. and, you know, it's strange to see pundits pretending that didn't happen. and what they are trying to do that conflate that with a different theory. proven that's true. that is the one that trump tried to put forward in a phone call with zelensky. appears to be saying it wasn't russia that was behind the hacking of the dnc. and then it might have been ukraine. it's true there is no evidence for that theory. and, it's fair enough to point out that but, what also ironic here the people indignant about that claim by trump are accepting the claim that russia hacked the dnc. even though there has been no evidence yet. there have been claims by intelligence officials but those same intelligence officials gave us the whole scam that was the trump-russia collusion. >> tucker: may i stop. there do i think you are one of the more credible voices on that i should say

also behind bars the president's campaign manager paul manafort. he's currently serving 7 1/2 years from charges stemming from the mueller investigation. that investigation also reeled in the president's deputy campaign manager rick gates as well as trump ally roger stone, and the president's former national security advisor mike flynn. the last two men roger stone and mike flynn are awaiting sentencing next year. and the president's recent comments are any indication they may be in for some good news. >> roger stone, are you going to pardon him, sir? he's been convicted of felonies. >> am i going to pardon him? i haven't thought of it. i think it's very tough what they did to roger stone compare to what they do to other people on their side. i've known roger over the years, he's a nice guy. lot of people like him. he got hit very hard as did general flynn as did a lot of other people. they got hit very, very hard and now they're finding out it was all a big hoax. >> it was a big hoax. we already know president trump has demonstrated a willingness

ukrainian officials leaked information that exposed some inherentio corruption by paul manafort, and it was inconsequential, it led tom paul manafort's resignation from the trump campaign, and the stated intent ofen ukrainian officials was to weaken the trump campaign, because they wanted to help elect hillary clinton. you know, it's strange to see pundits pretending that didn't happen. what they are trying to do is complete that with t a different theory, which is that trump tried to put forward in a phone call with zelensky where hee appears to say it was in russian that was behind the hacking of the dnc, it might've been ukraine. it'sen true therece is no evidee for that theory, and it's fair enough to point out that. was also ironic here is that people who are indignant about that claim by trump are accepting the claim that russia hacked the dnc, even though there is no evidence yet. there have been claims by intelligence officials, but those same intelligent officials gave us the scam that was the trump-russia collusion. >> tucker: mas stop you there? i think you're one of the m

funny, because candor got michael cohen, paul manafort, most recently roger stone in times of trouble. the system is so corrupt, frankly, repulsive. we have a dual justice system in this country. and don't forget, this is what the attorney general signaled in a recent speech. i would argue that no attorney general of the united states would say this unless you know something we don't know. take a listen. >> immediately after president trump won election, opponents inaugurated what they called "the resistance." and they rallied around an explicit strategy of using every tool, and maneuver to sabotage the functioning of the executive branch. and his administration. now, resistance is the language used to describe insurgency against rule imposed by an occupying military power. this is a very dangerous and indeed incendiary notion to import into the politics of the democratic republic. >> sean: i would buckle up as a country, that sounds as serious as it can get. much more on that straight ahead. lindsey graham, remember, it week from this wednesday, he will have horwitz before his commit

you only have to look at paul manafort. paul manafort was dirtied up by what was likely disinformation. now, look, he ended up doing other things wrong, but that initialing dirt that came from ukraine. we also know that the dossier sources, some of those sources were in ukraine. so, there is no question -- i'm not saying that the ukrainian government had some not like putin was doing, but, look, they clearly sided on behalf of the clinton campaign and they helped to dirty up trump. you had the ambassador of irk in the uniteukraine in the s in washington, d.c. saying negative things about a presidential candidate. which is almost unheard of. as it relates to yovanovitch, the issue there is that there are people there that -- in ukraine, that want visas to come to the united states so they can present evidence to the appropriate authorities, whether it be congress or the department of justice. and that's the problem. and that's what rudy giuliani is saying that there are people that want to give us information that cannot do

. >> and this is where paul manafort, michael online, former campaign adviser roger stone, rick gates, former associate george papadopoulos, all convicted of federal crimes in addition last year trump university settled a $25 million fraud lawsuit, last month president trump admitted misusing his own charity foundation fund and ordered to pay $2 million. you really think president trump is concerned about rooting out corruption? >> i think most of what you're listed and most of the people indicted or convicted were alleged to have been part of some sort of huge russian conspiracy. but i think what we found out from the inspector general report is that it was all based on a false premise. >> this is the trump justice department put all of these people into prison -- it is not -- >> it turns out that the fbi hid information that carter page all along was telling another part of the government, the cia -- >> that doesn't absolve paul manafort of money laundering. >> the whole investigation, the start of this, general flynn was not guilty of anything to do with russians. general flynn was

manafort and roger stone and most recently a criminal probe into trump lawyer rudy giuliani. not to mention the impeachment of an american president. joining me now to discuss maya wylie, an msnbc legal analyst. offered the forthcoming book "break them up" and philip bump, national correspondent for "the washington post." i want to just start with the people in the president's orbit just who have pleaded to or gone to prison because of felonies. and i came up in chicago politics and this pattern's very familiar if you're around corrupt machines. first a donor gets nicked and then maybe they turn or they don't and then the chief of staff -- and then before you know it, the people around the corrupt politician are all pleading or going to jail and then the politician goes down. and i've seen this play out numerous times with the corrupt. and it's amazing how just the basic fact of how many people are in the president's inner orb bit in prison doesn't really scan. >> this is crew he assembled himself. this is not a bunch of people who were working together and some corruption fi

and then his agency successfully prosecuted paul manafort for his foreign money. right now they're actively investigating rudy giuliani for his potential contact with wrong foreign money and connection to the trump campaign in the same way. this idea that foreign influence is just fine sounds a lot like trump's special guest today, the russian foreign minister. however, it's the exact opposite of what the people protecting your elections say. >> my view is that if any public official or member of any campaign is contacted by any nation state or anybody acting on behalf of a nation state about influencing or interfering with our election, then that's something that the fbi would want to know about. >> but more important for mr. barr apparently is to show that investigating this president and his pals for exactly that should be seen as bad. and he hand-picked a prosecutor to investigate just that, and he calls the russia probe thin justification. trump is the victim. all right. that was what was promised from this ig's report, 476 pages, no trump as victim. trump ev

donald trump's campaign chairman, paul manafort. paul manafort's deputy who was also part of the trump campaign rick gates, trump's political advisor roger stone and others along with a dozen russian military officers who conducted the cyber attack on our election, that is to say indictments of those officers, not convictions because they of course are being harbored in russia by vladimir putin and will never face those charges. attorney general barr described the inspector general's investigation in a way the attorney general knows is absolutely not true. >> he starts with limited information. he can only talk to people who are essentially there as employees, and he's limited to the information generally in the fbi. >> not true. william barr knows that the inspector general spoke to christopher steele who is not an employee of the justice department or the fbi. when you knowingly say things like that that are not true that's what we all call a lie. whey did william barr do that again today for donald trump? after the break i'll ask

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manafort. he helped the moscow friendly regents in the parliamentary elections 2006 and spent the next few years being their strongest opposition party leaders. including the prime minister as a particular threat to the influence in ukraine as a front runner in the 2010 presidential election by seizing on the sweetheart gas deal and promise to end it. she made a good case why on earth's should the company be allowed to siphon off $800 million in a single year by playing a middleman will nobody needed? and nobody in ukraine wanted. manafort and his team went right back with full force help to drive the approval ratings up 20 percent even the renegotiation of the russia uk ukraine national gas deal she succeeded to take the middleman out to take dimitri out of the center of the even the most successful negotiation of the deal wasn't enough to sway a majority of voters. manafort squeezed by into the presidency. he received much credit for the victory with a rich new contract is the off-site politi

his former business partner paul manafort is serving seven years in prison for masterminding that scheme, and his lawyers now say manafort has been sent to a prison hospital for treatment of heart problems michael flynn, the former trump national security adviser, will be sentenced next month, then long-time trump friend roger stone is sentenced in february, lester. >> all right, pete williams, thank you. >>> the other major story we're following tonight affecting an awful of people is that massive december storm system hitting multiple parts of the country. a deadly tornado outbreak in the south, and dangerous snow and ice in the north at least 14 people have died in all this. morgan chesky begins our coverage in alexandria, louisiana. morgan, how extensive is the damage? >> reporter: good evening. as you can see behind me, in some areas it is pure devastation, all of this caused by just one of the more than two dozen tornadoes happening in the last 24 hours. those storms spanning several states and tonight that threat isn't over yet. tonight a tornado outbreak wreaking havoc in the sou

his personal lawyer, michael cohen, paul manafort, and everyone is in jail now. that tells me he is a crook. america needs to protect itself. i am an immigrant from ghana. i call america home. i don't want america to go down the chutes with president trump. host: jeff in michigan, republican line. jeff, you with us? caller: hello. host: jeff, you can't me. -- caught me. sorry about that. caller: i have been hearing a lot from impeachment. there is another thing people don't realize. a few this is old, but years ago, i have been hearing about a lawsuit that could affect the trial, now that president trump is impeached, that president trump was profiting off his businesses from saudi arabia and it is considered to be a violation of the emoluments clause. -- think if one of the senate members brings it up, it could be very interesting. it could affect president trump in a very strong way. host: another story going on in washington about the emoluments clause. in glen ellen, illinois, independent line. what did you think of today's impeachment debate? caller: i felt

manafort and george papadopoulos and said the fbi ought to require higher level permission to do that in a campaign. >> the fbi could have at the supervisory agent level, one level from a line agent authorized a confidential human source to have a conversation with either of the presidential candidates. >> reporter: the fbi's current director christopher wray ordered changes in how his agents operate pete williams, nbc news, washington. >>> the revelations keep coming about the boeing 737 max the faa facing criticism about its oversight of a plane after a just-released faa document warned last year that 15 of the planes could crash over their life span. here is tom costello. >> reporter: after first speaking with the families of victims from two 737 max crashes, the new faa chief quickly came under congressional fire. >> did the faa at some point in this process make a mistake? >> yes. >> thank you. >> yes. >> reporter: among them, failing to properly oversee th design and production of boeing 737 max and failing to ground the plane between crashes when faa managers warned another max

the chairman of his campaign paul manafort was on the tape, on the goal for millions of dollars to a former corrupt president in ukraine, president zelensky who was going to be shaken down and was the reformer. he was a product of the revolution in 2014 which tried to bring democracy and some fairness and anticorruption efforts to ukraine. giuliani and his gang that can't shoot straight went over there because they wanted to take advantage of the situation and go back to the correct forces in ukraine so this president and one thing in mind area his own reelection and how president zelinski could help him and you can see that if you look at the phone conversation ambassador song when had with the president theday after july 20 . he had this phone conversation that was partially overheard by david holmes . they and the state department and he hears them tell the president that he will do whatever you want, you going to do the investigation. so on and then he gets off the phone and then he tells them what? what the president is interested in is the big stuff relating to the president's

his former business partner paul manafort is sevening seven years in prison for masterminding that scheme and his lawyers now say manafort has been sent to a prison hospital for treatment of heart problems michael flynn, the former trump national security adviser, will be sentenced next month. then the long-time trump friend roger stone is sentenced in february >> our thanks to pete williams for that report. >>> family, friends, and police officers gathered for an emot n emotional funeral in new jersey. detective joseph seals was laid to rest after being killed in a shootout in jersey city. he is described as a devoted husband and adoring father of five one fz his sons could be seen saluting at the service while wearing his father's uniform cap. delivering a eulogy the police chief said detective seals hate hate-based violence. >>> a suspected armed robber is dead after the two were involved in a shootout. police say the 32-year-old driver was making a delivery in philadelphia when he was approached by a suspected 5r78d robber who allegedly stole some items from his truck authorities say

or example, he had paul manafort as his campaign chairman. works for the russian ligarchs who moved all that money out of ukraine and he comes out and he's trump's manager. so you have this russian managing the yee trump campaign and trump take he is a wonderful man. i don't mean to interrupt but how does this relate to the impeachment? caller: you can put all of this stuff in the articles of mpeachment all the things he's been doing since he came down hat escalator and paid actors to clap for him when he announced the impeachment but the republicans not having a 14-hour meeting but 200-hour meeting raising amendments and objections and this and that. it.s face this guy has connections to russian. i would invite any of the republicans listening a me to please explain how russian employee, manafort, is his campaign anager and when he is put in prison trump says i hardly know him. maryville,is dorothy republican n the line. aller: i'm calling on this witch hunt. president n after trump since beginning. i have been a democrat for 60 years. this

manafort. >>> photographed by the russians, the president disclosed highly classified information. after years of trump minimizing russianen ter feerns, the white house did warn lavrov against any russian attempts to interfere. the russians may not have gotten the message. cnn's kaitlan collins explains. >> yeah. it was the russian foreign minister's first official visit to washington since that famous oval office meeting the day after the president fired james comey, and after his hour-long sit-down with lavrov, he warned against any russian appearance but shortly after he held a press conference in washington where he said we did not discuss that at all. the readout says you did discuss election interference. are you contradicting what the white house said. that's when he said he did bring up secretary of state pompeo in their previous meeting that day had, in fact, brought up election interference and he did talk about it with the president, but the question, of course, is to the extent. this all comes as the president is pushing the theory that ukraine has interfered in the ele

manafort. joining us tonight is tom fitton, pft judicial watch. tom, let's start with first, the -- this ukrainian role in meddling in the 2016 u.s. presidential election. there seems to be some sort of orthodoxy suggesting that that did not just happen despite obvious evidence and i are refutable evidence in point of fact, and most of it reported first by john solomon. >> it's part of a pattern by the coup cabal. we were work the russians to take out trump, so let's accuse russia of working with trump. we were working with ukrainians to take out trump so let's accuse trump of corruption with ukraine. this is an unrivaled abuse of power. they have the awesome power of impeachment and they abites for the petty goal of protecting joe biden over this corruption. they spent some time in there trying to defend the indefensible, joe biden in the ukraine. and i tell you, i don't know if this is going to convince any more democrats that agree they need the votes to vote for impeachment because this is

manafort and his relationship with those deep figures from ukraine. and to do a great deal of reporting and these foreign parties and as an unregistered foreign agent in both of the surface in 2016 that is shocking to disturbing to a great deal of concern on my part and that this was taking place we didn't fully understand. >> one of the issues you talk about with crime in progress is presales. >> that's a way to finance condo developments and covering a lot of businesses over the years that's new to me in this case. essentially what you do when you put together a condo project you try to get commitments from buyers and if you can presell one third of the units that income can be used to finance the project go it's a way to capitalize a development without having to get funding from a bank or another source. to promote the development so that stimulates demand for the rest of the units the sales are hyped there is a lot of puffery about how many presales you make if you inflate your presale price you can be accused of fraud by buyers that claim you we

paul manafort, early campaign manager for the president is being investigated when he joined the team. what do you make of that? >> stuff going on in the campaign at many points. they could have done it after george papadopoulos allegedly told this australian ambassador the russians offered to assist the campaign. any number of points, they need to preserve the integrity of the election and they chose to embark down the road conducting a full-blown investigation and horwitz report makes quite clear it did so in a shockingly shoddy manner. >> thank you so much for your time, we appreciate it, 19 after the hour, democrats handing donald trump a big victory. >> the silver lining of impeachment, this witchhunt, that is the reason they approved usmc a. carley: what is in the new trade deal? tracy carrasco with how many new jobs it will create. ♪ .. >> the silver lining have impeachment and this witchhunt, that is the reason they approved usmc a so that is okay with me because they approved it and they are happy to have it. rob: big win for the president with an agreement in place on the

he was close to paul manafort who is serving seven and a half year sentence. they are not opposed to probation as opposed to jail time >>> a group of friends dining in a ihop left their server a generous tip she thought it was a mistake and tried to give the money back but it is hers to keep everybody pitched in $100 bucks. >> i love these stories. thank you for bitening up part of our day here. thank you. >>> how bowings first assembly line freeze could send ripple effects across the entire u.s. economy. former ceo director set on what is to be aer vy busy week in washington, d.c. flaush memory support brand. you can find it in the vitamin aisle in stores everywhere. prevagen. healthier brain. better life. . >>> stocks fighting for gains after new record highs fresh concerns giving investors pause. suspending production of the 737 max jet. what it means for the future and room to run continues. looking at the tech sector's decade of dominance and whether anything can slow it down. all of this as "worldwide exchange" rolls on ♪ welcome back to the show, welc