YOU GUYS READY
FOR THIS.
FORMER CAMPAIGN CHAIRMAN PAUL MANAFORT, HE HAS BEEN INDICTED,
ALSO HIS BUDDY RICK GATES.
TODAY PAPADOPOULOS HAS ALSO PLED GUILTY AND TURNING EVIDENCE IN.
In the beginning it will appear as if it doesn't appear to get
is necessarily ñ more details about the charges.
IF I TOLD YOU BEFORE THAT FORMER CAMPAIGN MANAGER, DONALD TRUMP
IS NEGOTIATING HIS SURRENDER, AND THAT THOSE NEGOTIATIONS HAVE
FALLEN THROUGH, MY GUESS IS YOU WOULD'VE HAD A DRAMATIC REACTION
AND THAT IS THE REACTION THE WHOLE WORLD IS HAVING TODAY.
DON'T LET ANYONE TELL YOU THAT PAUL MANAFORT IS NOT AN
IMPORTANT PART OF THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN, HE RAN IT.
NEWT GINGRICH AND OTHERS ARE ON THE RECORD SAYING HE HAD A
GIGANTIC ROLE IN THIS.
THAT IS THE STORY TODAY.
BUT HE WAS ACTUALLY INFLUENCING THE CAMPAIGN AS AN ADVISOR
IN MARCH.
HE TOOK OVER AS THE LEADING THE CAMPAIGN IN JUNE AND THEN
ONCE WE FOUND OUT ABOUT THE OLIGARCHS PUBLICLY, WHAT HE
HAD BEEN HIDING, HE WAS OUT IN AUGUST.
BUT HE HAS HAD RAMIFICATIONS ALL THE WAY TO TODAY.
WHEN HE WAS CAUGHT WITH HIS HAND IN THE RUSSIAN COOKIE
JAR ñ
SOME OF THE THINGS HE SPENT MONEY ON OUR HILARIOUS.
HE IS A HUGE FAN OF ANTIQUE RUGS, SPENDING NEARLY 1
MILLION ON THOSE.
WAS IT WORTH IT?
WE WILL FIND OUT IF YOU WIND UP GOING TO PRISON.
OF COURSE THIS IS THE BEGINNING AND THERE WOULD BE A TRIAL
IF HE DOES NOT TURN OVER EVIDENCE AGAINST DONALD TRUMP.
THE OLIGARCH BUSINESS STARTED BEFORE HE STARTED THE TRUMP
CAMPAIGN.
THAT IS TRUE, LET ME EXPLAIN A LITTLE BIT FURTHER AND A SECOND.
WHAT WAS THE ISSUE HERE?
IF THIS WAS THE WHOLE STORY AND YOU LEFT
IT RIGHT THERE, YOU WOULD SAY IT SEEMS LIKE A BAD GUY.
HE SEEMS TO HAVE DONE MONEY LAUNDERING OF THE FEDERAL
GOVERNMENT IS RIGHT AND I HOPE THEY GET HIM.
BUT SO FAR NOT CONNECTED TO TRUMP'S CAMPAIGN.
RICK GATES IS AN IMPORTANT PART OF THE HE IS AN ASSOCIATE
OF MANAFORT.
WHAT YOU GUYS TO KNOW HOW SERIOUS THE GOVERNMENT IS
TAKING THIS.
THAT BRINGS US TO RICK GATES, WHO IN THE WORLD IS HE?
HE WAS A
PROT…G… AND JUNIOR PARTNER OF MANAFORT.
THE PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN THE TWO BEGAN ALMOST 30 YEARS AGO.
METAPHOR TO GET CAUGHT WITH HIS HAND IN THE COOKIE JAR, HE HAS
TO LEAVE TRUMP'S CAMPAIGN IN AUGUST.
GATES DID NOT LEAVE.
NOT ONLY WAS HE PART OF THE CAMPAIGN, HE WAS PART OF
THE TRANSITION TEAM AND PART OF THE WHITE HOUSE.
VERY MUCH CONNECTED TO DONALD TRUMP, HIS ADMINISTRATION
AND THE CAMPAIGN.
SO BASICALLY GATES PICKS UP WHERE MANAFORT LEFT OFF.
NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW RICK GATES SO HE STEPS IN.
LET'S PAUSE HERE BECAUSE IT IS VERY IMPORTANT.
THEY WANT TO SUPPORT THE FORMER GOVERNMENT OF UKRAINE WHICH AT
THE TIME WAS THE GOVERNMENT OF UKRAINE THAT WAS A
PRO-RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT.
THEY WANT TO DO PR FOR THEM, SUPPORT THEM IN THE US
THROUGH LOBBYING AND SEVERAL DIFFERENT WAYS THAT THEY ñ
THE RUSSIANS WANT TO BACK THE PRO-RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT IN
UKRAINE AT THE TIME.
SO THEY HIRE MANAFORT AND GATES TO START TO DO THAT, BUT THEY
DON'T WANT THEIR FINGERTIPS ON IT SO OR FINGERPRINTS I
SHOULD SAY, SO THEY ARE DOING THIS BEHIND THE SCENES.
PART OF THE REASON WHY MANAFORT AND GATES DON'T REPORT THE
MONEY AND DON'T REGISTER AS FOREIGN AGENTS.
BUT THEY DID NOT RAISE THEIR HAND, EVEN UNDER THE COVER OF
DARKNESS BECAUSE THEY WERE GETTING A TON OF MONEY FUNNELED
TO THEM.
AND IF YOU BELIEVE THE SPECIAL COUNSEL, MANAFORT WAS NOT
PAYING TAXES ON IT WHICH IS ANOTHER ISSUE.
THERE WAS A TWIST IN THE STORY AND I HAD REPORTED THIS
MANY MONTHS AGO WHEN WE FOUND OUT THE WORK THEY WERE
DOING FOR THE OLIGARCH.
AT SOME POINT THEY HAD TO SPLIT WITH THE OLIGARCH, AND THEN IT
WANTED TO CHASE HIM DOWN THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.
AND THESE GUYS STOPPED RETURNING ITS CALLS BECAUSE THEY HAD DONE
A DEAL WHERE MANAFORT AND GATES APPARENTLY BASED ON THEIR
PATTERN DECIDED WHY NOT RIP THESE GUYS AS WELL.
THEY JUST DIDN'T DO THE WORK.
CROSSING RUSSIAN OLIGARCHS IS NOT A SMART STRATEGY.
I WAS CONFUSED BY IT AT THE TIME AND I SHARED IT WITH YOU GUYS.
IF THEY ARE WORKING WITH THE RUSSIANS DURING THE
CAMPAIGN, WHY WOULD THEY BE DOING THAT IF THEY HAD TO
SPLIT WITH THE RUSSIANS EARLIER?
NOW WE HAVE THE ANSWER, AND IT IS INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT.
LET ME GIVE YOU SOME OF THE DETAILS.
A COUPLE OF MONTHS AGO I TOLD YOU MANAFORT TAKES THE MONEY
ñ HE PUTS IT IN HIS ACCOUNT STOPS RETURNING EMAILS AND
PHONE CALLS.
IT TAKES SOME COURAGE TO DO THAT?
IT TURNS OUT IT IS A BAD IDEA AND THEY REALIZED IT LATER
AND HAVE TO MAKE UP FOR IT.
THAT IS WHERE THE STORY CONNECTS TO THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN AND
GETS VERY INTERESTING.
IN OTHER WORDS HE OWED THE RUSSIANS MONEY AND SO DID GATES.
IS SUPER RELEVANT TO THE POINT OF TRUMP AND THE REST OF THIS
INVESTIGATION BUT MANAFORT AND GATES ARE IN A WORLD OF TROUBLE
BECAUSE NOW WE SEE EXACTLY WHAT THEIR MOTIVATION WAS, IF THEY
LOAN THE MONEY AS IS CHARGED THEY COULD BE IN ENORMOUS
TROUBLE FOR THAT.
YOU HAVE MOTIVE, INTENT, AND SERIOUS JAIL TIME HERE.
ONE MORE PART THAT IS IMPORTANT AS RAW STORY EXPLAINS HERE
ñ A LOT OF DIFFERENT PEOPLE ARE REPORTING ON THIS STORY.
IN THIS CASE TRAVIS SAYS ñ SO I LEAVE OPEN THE POSSIBILITY IN
REGARDS TO METAPHOR AND GATES BECAUSE WE HAVE TO WORK WITH THE
EVIDENCE WE HAVE THAT TRUMP DID NOT KNOW THAT MANAFORT AND GATES
WERE TRYING TO GET THEMSELVES OUT OF A 19 BILLION ñ
MILLION-DOLLAR DEBT THEY OWED TO A RUSSIAN OLIGARCH TIED TO
VLADIMIR PUTIN.
IF IT TURNS OUT THEY WERE THE ONES ARE COLLUDED WITH THE
RUSSIANS IN ORDER TO TRY TO MAKE UP FOR THEIR OWN PROBLEMS
AND THEIR OWN DEBTS TO THE OLIGARCHS, THEN THEY SHOULD
GO TO PRISON FOR A LONG TIME AND IT SHOULDN'T NECESSARILY
TOUCH ANYONE ELSE.
THE PROBLEM IS THEY ARE NOT THE
ONLY ONES, THERE WAS OF COURSE
ALSO GEORGE PAPADOPOULOS WHO WE FOUND OUT HAD BEEN ARRESTED
MONTHS AGO AND IS NOW COOPERATING WITH THE
SPECIAL COUNSEL ROBERT MUELLER.
PAPADOPOULOS'S STORY CONNECTS DIRECTLY TO TRUMP AND HIS
CAMPAIGN AND WANTING TO MEET WITH THE RUSSIANS ABOUT
STOLEN EMAILS FROM HILLARY CLINTON AND THE DNC AND HOW
THE RUSSIANS CAN HELP THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN WITH THOSE EMAILS.
THAT IS ANOTHER PORTION OF THIS STORY, VERY IMPORTANT, AND
DIRECTLY TIES TO THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN.WHETHER TRUMP
KNOWS ABOUT THIS ñ
PAPADOPOULOS MIGHT KNOW AND HE IS NOW TALKING TO
THE FEDS.
IF DONALD TRUMP PARDONS HIM HE SHOULD BE IMMEDIATELY IMPEACHED.
AND YOU WILL KNOW THAT HE IS DEFINITELY GUILTY.
IF HE DOESN'T PARDON THEM AND HE SAYS MAN, I DIDN'T KNOW THEY
WERE DOING THAT ñ SURE, YOU SHOULD INVESTIGATE URANIUM ONE
HILLARY CLINTON.
BUT
THAT IS NOT THE DIRECTION DONALD TRUMP HAS GONE SO FAR.
HE'S ON TWITTER SAYING THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS, TALK ABOUT HILLARY.
BUT WE ARE GOING TO FIND OUT AND ESPECIALLY IF THEY TURN GIVEN
THE SERIOUSNESS OF THE CHARGES AGAINST HIM AND IT SEEMS LIKE
STRONG EVIDENCE AGAINST HIM THEY ARE EITHER GOING AWAY FOR A LONG
TIME OR WE MIGHT FIND OUT WHAT TRUMP'S ROLE IS A LITTLE
BIT LATER.
EITHER WAY, SUPER INTERESTING AND VERY IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENTS.