VIDEO: White House press briefing with Sarah Sanders amid Mueller indictments (10/30/17)

Watch the full White House press briefing from Monday afternoon

WASHINGTON – The White House held a press briefing Monday afternoon with press secretary Sarah Sanders.

You can watch it in full below:

Here are some other headlines from around Washington:

Ex-Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort indicted on conspiracy, money laundering, other charges

President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, and a former business associate, Rick Gates, surrendered to federal authorities Monday in the first charges stemming from the special investigation into possible ties between Trump's presidential campaign and Russia.

Ex-Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos pleads guilty to lying to FBI in Mueller probe

George Papadopolous, former foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign, pleaded guilty for making false statements to the FBI, according to records unsealed today.

Papadopolous lied to FBI agents “about the timing, extent and nature of his relationships and interactions with certain foreign nationals whom he understood to have close connections with senior Russian government officials,” according to the complaint.

In a March 2016 email, Papadopoulos offered to set up a meeting between top Russian officials and top Trump campaign officials, under the subject line "Meeting with Russian Leadership -- Including Putin," according to the source.

Ryan says he isn't commenting on indictments

House Speaker Paul Ryan isn't commenting on the indictments of President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman and an associate.

Ryan said in a radio interview on WTAQ in his home state of Wisconsin that he doesn't have anything to say on that, other than "nothing's going to derail what we're doing in Congress because we're working on solving people's problems."

Ryan was discussing the Republican effort to overhaul the tax code.

Paul Manafort and Rick Gates were indicted Monday on felony charges of conspiracy against the United States and other charges as part of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election. Several congressional committees are also investigating the interference.


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