The FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast team discusses the news that President Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn is pleading guilty to lying to the FBI, and that Flynn is cooperating with special counsel Robert Mueller and his team. Where does this leave Mueller’s investigation? And is Trump now in its crosshairs? The crew dives in. […]
The guilty plea of former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn — the fourth official from President Trump’s campaign implicated in criminal activity — is in several ways even more damaging to the president than special counsel Robert Mueller’s charges earlier this fall against Paul Manafort, who actually ran Trump’s campaign for a time. In short: […]
If you were tuned in to your TV last week as news broke about the first indictments in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into possible ties between the Trump campaign and Russia, you likely had a very different experience depending on which news channel you were watching. Russia-related coverage was much more plentiful on MSNBC […]
Special Counsel Robert Mueller brought forward charges against three people in President Trump’s orbit this week as part of the investigation into Russian influence on the 2016 election. As you’ll see in the video above, it’s going to take some time before we know how Americans reacted to that news.
The information that came to light on Monday — the indictment of President Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort and campaign official Rick Gates, and the guilty plea entered by former Trump foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos — was a significant step in the ongoing investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and the […]