As recently as Friday, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told a national television audience that she’s “confident” Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into the Russia scandal was near its end.
Like so many of Sanders’ claims, this doesn’t appear to be holding up especially well.
A federal grand jury in Washington has approved the first criminal charges in the special counsel’s investigation into Russian election interference, two sources told NBC News, marking a significant milestone in an inquiry that has roiled Donald Trump’s presidency.
Mueller’s Special Counsel’s Office will make public an indictment on Monday, a U.S. official with firsthand knowledge of the process confirmed to NBC News, without disclosing the name of the target or the nature of the charges. The timing was confirmed by a second source familiar with the matter.
If you saw Rachel’s show on Friday night, the initial report on the indictment was first published by CNN in the early evening on Friday. Soon after, Reuters and the Wall Street Journal ran pieces of their own. NBC News confirmed the report on Saturday.
Though the details should come into focus fairly soon, let’s review what we know and what we don’t at this point. [Update: It’s Manafort.]
For now, the indictment is sealed, which leaves most of the key questions unanswered. We don’t know who’ll be charged, for example, or what he or she will be charged with. It’s possible one person will be indicted, though the Wall Street Journal said there will be “at least one” defendant.









