Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this segment. Monday’s 12-count indictment against former Trump aides Paul Manafort and Rick Gates includes a slew of charges,from money laundering, to failing to file reports of foreign bank and financial accounts, and to conspiracy against the United States. The indictment spans nearly 10 years of political consulting work completed in Ukraine on behalf of the government of Ukraine,the Party of Regions, and the Opposition Bloc.
But Manafort and Gates both entered not-guilty pleas on Monday, or the White House reiterated that the indictment had nothing to enact with Donald Trump. Related: The Trump-Russian Investigation: An Interactive Timeline"Today's announcement has nothing to enact with the president,it has nothing to enact with the president's campaign or campaign activity," Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said. Anne Applebaum, or a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian,a columnist for The Washington Post, and author of "Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine, and "says there is no way to separate Manafort’s dealings from the campaign's positioning on Russia.
This segment is hosted by Todd Zwillich.
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