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Feds Wiretapped Paul Manafort Before And After The 2016 Presidential Election

is sure to send some shockwaves through what we know about the investigation

into Russian meddling in the 2016 election a new report from CNN claims

that US investigators wiretapped former Trump campaign aide Paul Manafort under

secret court orders before and after the election the New York Times reporting

the special prosecutor Robert Muller told Paul Manafort

that he should prepare to be indicted chief national correspondent ed Henry

live in Washington with the breaking news on this ad what do we know well

Martha good to see you this is something that is surprising I can tell you some

people close to the president that I've spoken to who were not expecting these

two leaks this evening the first one that you mentioned about Paul Manafort

in the New York Times suggesting that he and his legal team were tipped off by

Robert Muller's investigators that he's likely to be indicted in and oven in and

of itself that's not shocking to president Trump's legal team because

they have believed for a long time that Paul Manafort was facing trouble but

when it's connected to this CNN report breaking tonight as you mentioned that

Paul Manafort was wiretapped by the government before the election and then

after the election as well this is catching some people close to

the president off-guard they're telling me that they're still trying to get a

handle on what all of this means for Robert Muller's investigation one thing

we know for sure tonight is that it's putting more pressure on Paul Manafort

because this is pretty aggressive in terms of how mulish team is going after

him the other point though that I should mention is that someone close to the

president just mentioned to me that they believe the second wiretap of manna for

that came after the election may be connected to the dossier that targeted

president Trump that has been discredited and that may be raising

alarm bells inside the government in terms of how the court order was

obtained to continue the wiretapping based on potentially a dossier that has

been discredited very quickly this is coming amid you

very interesting leak today in the New York Times as well before all of this

about Manta Ford about some tensions in the president's legal team specifically

the New York Times reporting that one of their reporters basically sat a few days

ago right near two members of legal team you see him right there John Dowd and Ty

Cobb when they were having lunch in Washington at a steak house and this

reporter basically overheard them talking about concerns that Ty Cobb

specifically had about the president's counsel inside the White House Don Magan

you see John Dowd there on the left he's the outside attorney for the president's

legal team in this Russia probe Ty Cobb on the right is also helping the

president's legal team but from inside the White House and what was overheard

allegedly by this New York Times reporter was Ty Cobb there on the right

raising questions about the chief white House Counsel Don Magan and whether or

not he was turning over enough documents to Robert Malley or see Don McGann there

on the left Robert Muller on the right McGann's his position basically martha

is that they have to be careful about turning over too much information

tomorrow because that could have an impact on the institution of the

presidency of the executive branch long term in terms of executive power

but what Ty Cobb and others are privately saying is is they want to turn

over as much emails and other documents to Robert Mahler as possible because

they simply do not believe that an obstruction of justice charge can be

brought against this president and so Ty Cobb and others in the president's legal

team I'm told believe that the sooner they can get this information to Robert

Muller Paul Manafort general Flynn others may be facing legal jeopardy but

they simply don't think the president will face anything like that so they

want to turn over as much as possible Martha yeah we spoke with trey Gowdy not

too long ago about whether or not the dossier was used as a way to legitimize

a part of this investigation and if it was used for those wire traps that's

gonna bring that into question and thank you very much that's the breaking news

tonight good to see you too