Ben Dreyfuss, senior editor at Mother Jones, discusses special counsel Robert Mueller's new charges against former Trump campaign aides Paul Manafort and Rick Gates. The charges include $30 million in money laundering and failure to pay 10 years of taxes to the IRS. Dreyfuss discusses what this latest indictment means for President Trump. We talk about the timing of Mueller's indictments and Dreyfuss notes Mueller's increasing confidence with each charge.
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