Smelters its one of the things we humans have created to most closely approximate the pits of hell on earth. The pictures from aluminum smelters, especially big aluminum smelters, its basically scifi. Hard only the this is on the surface of the planet. When the soviet union collapsed and its stateowned giant aluminum smelters were becoming private property, private businesses, that heavy russian industry like a lot of other Russian Industries at the time turned into full scale murderous gang warfare. As various thugs and connected gangsters fought it out in many cases literally for control of what they knew would be a multibillion dollar private industry. The former soviet now russian aluminum industry. In siberia at the time in the 1990s one of the contenders in that fight, one of the guys trying to get control of this mammoth russian industry, famously, he started sleeping at his smelters. He would sleep at these hell mouths so he could be there 24 hours a day. He could he would sleep in the middle of those pits. So that he would be there to be able to stop sabotage in his smelters. So he would be the first one to arms if the wolves he was competing against in that industry came to his door, came to his smelter, came to his factories to try to take off from him what he was trying to build. It was a very brutal start sleeping in the smelters. But you know what . He won by the following decade. He was the aluminum king of russia. Cornered the market. He was a multibillionaire. The u. S. State department was describing him in cables as enjoying a favorable relationship with president putin. He was a more or less permanent fixture on putins trips abroad and hes widely acknowledged by our contacts to be among the two or three oligarchs putin turns to on a regular basis. Thats from a state Department Cable in 2006. 2006 is also when the same russian billionaire, the aluminum king, the buy who was basically putins right hand man, never left his side, took all his trips abroad with him, 2006, the year that state Department Cable is also the year that that same billionaire started paying Donald Trumps president ial Campaign Chairman 10 million a year. Its a contract that reportedly started paying Paul Manafort 10 million a year starting in 2006. We dont know how long those payments continued. We dont know when they ended or if they ended but the Associated Press broke this story this morning based on documents obtained from manaforts businesses and records of International Wire transfers that the a. P. Reviewed. And if it feels like everything went nuts today in the news, this story may very well be why. According to the Associated Press, manafort proposed in 2005 and started getting payed in 2006 in a contract arrangement with this russian zillionair where he agreed to influence politics, business dealings and News Coverage in the United States to benefit the putin government. For that contract he signed a deal that would pay him 10 million annually beginning in 2006. According to a memo written by Paul Manafort proposing this arrangement to the russian billionaire we are now of the belief that this model can greatly benefit the putin government if employed at the correct levels with the appropriate commitment to success. Paul manafort in this document then explained where he would exert his influence on behalf of the putin government. The highest levels of the u. S. Government. At the white house, at capitol hill, at the state department. Again, the Associated Press obtained these documents today from manaforts consulting business. They say they saw records of wire transfers of millions and millions and tens of millions of dollars to Paul Manafort. 10 million a year starting in 2006, ending we dont know when. I should note its also a matter of Public Record that when Paul Manafort was hired to run the Trump Campaign last year he worked for free. Kind of a sweet gesture when you think about it. Trying to follow the news today was like if you wanted to read a book. You intended to read a book but instead what you were offered by the universe was a shower of thousands of pieces of shredded book. Like, which would make for an excellent ticker tape parade but it made it hard to follow the narrative. Today was just a blizzard of news and it seems like the news got more and more serious as the day went by. Not just because of deliberate distraction. There are a lot of substantive things going on, the terror attack in london today, it was a very big deal, one Police Officer and three civilians dead in addition to the attacker himself. Well have more on that attack coming up, including the latest from the metropolitan police today in washington there was another day of Supreme Court confirmation hearings for nominee neil gorsuch, the substance of these hearings is increasily getting overshadowed, thooes on one side of the aisle, but what are basically now louder and louder calls for the democrats to sp participating in these hearings, to try to just stop the process instead if for no other reason than if fact this president s campaign is the subject of a counterintelligence investigation by the fbi to see if they colluded with a foreign power in an attack on the United States. Maybe in the immediate aftermath of the fbi confirming that investigation maybe thats not the time to act on a farreaching and irreversible action by that president. And to that point tomorrow congress is set to vote on the president s Obamacare Repeal which will throw 24 million americans off their Health Insurance if they get it through. Its all happening at the same time. Its all happening right now and into that confetti maelstrom today we got the political equivalent of a flash bang grenade, to mix my metaphors. We got this huge showy confusing break in the news when the republican chairman of the house Intelligence Committee, a man who is supposed to be leading one of the two bipartisan congressional investigations into the russian attack last year and the possible Trump Campaign collusion with that attack, today that congressman devin nunes held not one but two fairly breathless press conferences alleging something. He couldnt quite say what, about the Intelligence Community and the trump transition of which he was an executive member, things he had seen but could not describe that made him feel alarm, that made him feel concern, that ought to make us all feel alarm and concern and they would make us feel concerned if we knew what they were but he did not tell us, in fact, he did not have them in his possession and he didnt show them on the rest of the committee who were participating in the investigation hes supposedly leading. We r were going to have more on what he did today in just a moment with a reporter who understands these matters than almost anybody else in american journalism. For the moment suffice to say the only new information, the only advance in our understanding that came out of the what congressman devin nunes did today, the only thing he gave us, the only thing knew to come out of what he did today is new uncertainty as to whether or not there really is going continue to be an investigation in the house of representatives under his leadership about what happened to our country last year and what the Trump Campaigns role was it in it if any the only concrete outcome was raise the question of whether or not he just blew up his own investigation. And maybe thats not the most important thing in the world, right . In the senate theyre also doing an Intelligence Committee investigation and we know the fbi is doing their own counterintelligence investigation and how you feel about the competence and the independence of that fbi investigation will depend on where your personal james comey tea lis are today. Whether you think he is trustworthy or not. Whether you think he is running a trustworthy fbi or not. Whether you think the judgment under Jeff Sessions is going to allow for an untrammelled investigation to go wherever the facts lead it up to drl prosecutions if necessary. But regardless of how many investigations there are regardless of who does the investigation, today there is in reason to be convinced that a real investigation is necessary. That this stuff is a big deal and part of that is this absolute bombshell dropped by the Associated Press today about the trump Campaign Chairman reportedly being paid tens of millions of dollars annually to covertly advance the interest of putins government inside the United States in an effort that started ten years ago and we dont know when it ended or if it ended. Thats part of it. Another part is what we learned from the top democrat on the Intelligence Committee what we learned on the central question, the existential question, the question that will end the Trump Presidency on if it turns on to be true, whether the trump caaign helped russia. Whether they knew about and cooperated with russias attack while russia was attacking the United States. Congressman adam schiff, top democrat on the intel committee, on sunday morning he claimed on meet the press that there is in fact evidence of collusion between the Trump Campaign and the russians last year but he said that evidence was circumstantial. He said that on meet the press, theres circumstantial evidence of collusion between the Trump Campaign and russia. This evening on the daily version of meet the press with chucked to in the middle of trying to sort out what happened with this mishegas with chairman nunes and whether there was a distraction and whether there is going to be an Intelligence Committee investigation after nunes did that today. In the middle of sorting that out today on his 5 00 show, congressman adam schiff joined chucked to for part of that discussion at the end of the hour and listen to what he said tonight. All you have right now is a circumstantial case . Actually no, chuck, i can tell you the case is more than that and i cant go into the particulars but there is more than circumstantial evidence now so, again i think so you have seen direct evidence of collusion . I dont want to go into specifics but i will say there is evidence that is not circumstantial and is very much worthy of investigation so that is what we ought to do. That is a serious and specific new allegation. I know theres a lot of noise around this subject and around lots of subjects but be clear on this one point. To be very clear, on sunday morning congressman adam schiff, top democrat on the intel committee, said there was circumstantial evidence of the Trump Campaign colluding with the russians last year during that attack. The following did, monday morning, when the fbi confirmed there is an ongoing counterintelligence investigation into whether or not the Trump Campaign colluded with russia. That night, monday night, i asked congressman schiff on this show if he could elaborate a little bit. Tell me what he meant on meet the press when he said there was circumstantial evidence. Tell me what he meant by the phrase circumstantial evidence when he said thats what weve got on the issue of collusion and when i asked him about that monday night, heres how he answered that. Congressman, on nbc yesterday you said that you see there being an accumulation of what you described as circumstantial evidence that there was collusion between this russian operation and associates of donald trump during the campaign. Can you just expand on that, what you meant by circumstance circumstantial evidence and the limits of that and the extent of it . Well i know when you use that term a lot of people think that circumstantial evidence isnt telling or powerful but it depends on what kind of circumstantial ed, i cant go into specifics here but the best example is if you go outside in the afternoon and theres no snow on the ground and you wake up the next morning that there is snow on the ground you can conclude that it snowed overnight. Thats circumstantial. If you see the snow coming down you can say you have direct evidence it snowed. So circumstantial evidence can be very powerful and indicative of whats happened. So thats as much as he was willing to say on monday night. Congressman schiff has access to everything the Intelligence Committee is seeing and on monday morning he said theres circumstantial evidence of collusion, monday night hes giving more descriptive elaboration about what he means by their being circumstantial evidence of collusion. Now tonight he has moved on from that. He is now saying something new. Hes saying its not just circumstantial evidence anymore. Just play th piece of that quick do we have that . I cant go into the particulars but theres more than circumstantial evidence now. So you have seen direct evidence of collusion . I dont want to go into specifics but i will say there is evidence that is not circumstantial. Thats new. We reached out to congressman schiffs Office Tonight to fient out what this means to make sure the congressman did not misspeak, that hes intending to move the ball forward like this with what he is asserting, his office told us the congressman meant what he said, he did not misspeak. His office told us the congressman not only intended to say what he intended to say but that he wouldnt give us further elaboration on it tonight. We asked further if this new evidence hes seen, this noncircumstantial evidence of collusion between trump and russia, we asked if that had anything to do with what chairman devin nunes was talking about today. His office told us know nothing to do with that at all, a separate matter so whatever congressman schiff has nothing to do with this sideshow from devin nunes on capitol hill and the white house so whether or not they continue, the top democrat says there is something new and big that has just arisen since monday that is evidence of collusion between trump and the russians during the russian attack. Thats a big deal. And so whoever is going to carry on with this investigation, it seems more important than ever this investigation carry on. And one last point here, in terms of the importance of there being at least one credible real investigation of what has happened here and the Trump Campaigns involvement with it, if there was any. Yesterday in moscow this man either fell or was thrown out of a fourth of floor window in a moscow apartment building. Miraculously, he survived. He has serious head injuries, hes in intensive care in a hospital in moscow. That was yesterday. Today he was due to testify in a case about russian Money Laundering. Hes also due to testify in may in new york in a russian Money Laundering case brought in federal court by Preet Bhararas office. Preet bharara, the u. S. Attorney who was controversially fired by the Trump Administration two weeks ago even though he was previously asked to stay on. Both of those cases, both the new York Federal Court case and the court case in russia, both of those cases in which this man was due to testify are about a very famous quarter billion dollar fraud scheme in russia. It involved a western Capital Management firm that was operating in moscow and basically what happened is they got squeezed by russian authorities and ultimately it was a tax fraud scheme that resulted in russian government officials apparently using this western company to rip off 230 million from russian taxpayers. And the firm was aware of what was going on while russian officials were doing this at their expense and the firm tried to blow the whistle when that happened and the auditor for that firm was a guy called Sergei Magnitsky and the russian authorities and the putin government they grabbed him and threw him in prison and you can hold somebody in russia for a year in prison before you bring charges against them. They held him in prison for almost a year and then one week before that year was due to be up he mysteriously died in prison. He was 37 years old, his name was Sergei Magnitsky. After he was dead, russian officials blamed the whole fraud scheme on him posthumously. There was a magnitsky act in u. S. Law that prohibits all sorts of russian officials who were implicated in that guys death and implicated in that fraud, theres a u. S. Law that prohibits russians who were implicated in that scandal from coming into the United States. Its targeted sanctions on le involved that frau and what appears to have been th murder. We reported last month on a russian activist, a former journalist who had lobbied in this country to expand the magnitsky act, to expand it beyond just people involved in that one crime. It would be expanded to impose sanctions and penalties on all sorts of different russian officials who were involved in wide scale corruption and crime and murder and we reported on that russian activist last month on this show because for the second time in two years he narrowly survived being poisoned. His name is vladimir karamerza. Sergei magnitskys lawyer is in intensive care with head injuries. He may yet survive whatever it was that saw him fling off a fourth floor window ledge yesterday in moscow head first. He may yet survive but he wasnt able to testify today. Sergei magnitsky, though, he did not survive. He was dead at 37. They threw him in prison in 2008, they killed him in prison in 2009. And in 2006, 2007, 2008 and at least through 2009 Paul Manafort, Donald TrumpsCampaign Chairman, thats when he was being paid 10 million a year to promote the interests of Vladimir Putins government secretly in the United States without registering as a foreign agent, without declaring who he was working for, and without ever before now having to defend publicly his real intentions and his real pay masters while he was doing what otherwise appeared to be american political work. Theres a lot going on. Some of it is deadly, deadly, deadly serious. We have got Charlie Savage here tonight, one of the best National Security and justice correspondents in the country. We have one of the a. P. Reporters who broke this story on the contract to promote putins government secretly in this country, we have the latest on what happened today in london. Lots ahead tonight. Stay with us. You cant predict the market. But through good times and bad. At t. Rowe price. Weve helped our investors stay confident for over 75 years. Call us or your advisor. T. Rowe price. Invest with confidence. This afternoon, congressman devin nunes of california rushed to the microphones to tell the press about what he called Significant Developments in his committees investigation of russian interference in the u. S. Election. What he told the assembled reporters on capitol hill was that the american Intelligence Community, while engaged in surveillance of foreign targets, they had incidentally collected information about american citizens who were involved in the trump transition. Hmm. He said details about these people ithe p transition were widely disseminated in Intelligence Community reporting to which the inevitable response is, ooh, what do you mean . Also, is this bad . Are you saying something illegal has happened . Are you saying that u. S. Intelligence agencies have improperly surveilled someone . What do you mean . Reporters started by asking the very juicy obvious lowhanging fruit question which is are you saying, mr. Chairman, that u. S. Intelligence agencies surveilled the president elect . They looked at hiS Communications and shared those around . You mean they listened in on trump . Simple question. Youd think. Heres the first time he got asked. Reporter was the president also part of that incidental collection, hiS Communications . Yes. Was the president part of that collection . Yes. Yes. Are you sure . Reporter excuse me, let me just clarify. The president of the United Statess personal communications were intercepted as an incidental part of yeah, i think what we have to its very when we talk about intelligence products here we have to be very careful. No, whoa, whoa, whoa, where would you get that idea . So the first answer is yes, the president S Communications were intercepted here. Second answer, no, no, no, no, the president S Communications were not captured here. Lets try again. The president of the United Statess personal communications were collected in incidental collection, not in specific targeted collection . Its possible. We wont know until we get the information on friday. Until friday. Thats strange, because we all thought he had the information and thats why he convened this press conference, to talk about the information he had. But on that one direct question, the president had hiS Communications intercepted here . The answers were yes it includes the president , no it doesnt include the president and then its possible it includes the president and then well know on friday. And then literally 10 seconds later he was back to the first answer again. Reporter mr. Chairman, was the president s conversations or anything about the president appearing in intelligence reports . Is that what youre saying . I have seen i have seen intelligence reports that clearly show that the president elect and his team were i guess at least monitored and disseminated out in intelligence. So yes and then no and then its possible i dont know ill let you know on friday and then back to yes, yes, i have seen reports that clearly show the president elect was monitored. I guess, at least. Fall a space of two minutes. And then it was off to the white house to go brief the president on these definitive new findings. At a Second Press Conference after his meeting with the president , congressman nunes was asked why it was appropriate for him to brief the white house given that his committee is supposed to be investigating the president s campaign right now. Mr. Nunes said it was appropriate to do that because these findings that he was discussing today have, in his words, nothing to do with the russia investigation. A reporter then asked, well if hes going to open a new investigation into this stuff since he said this material isnt related to existing investigation, would he open a new investigation on this stuff . His reply to that was that this stuff is part of the existing investigation, you guys. Were already investigating. So its okay for me to take this to the white house because this isnt part of our investigation and of course were investigating this because its part of our investigation. What are you talking about . Congressman nunes finished off his afternoon with an interview on cnn in which he was still unable to give any coherent answer about whether Donald Trumps communications were picked up in this surveillance he is allegedly describing from the time he was president elect. But after all that, after two press conferences and a briefing for the president and a tv interview, the chairman of the house Intelligence Committee, i have to tell you, still has not shared any of this new information that he says he has with his own committee where he is supposedly leading a robust investigation. He still hasnt shown the information to anyone, including the other people hes supposed to be investigating with. Top democrat on that Committee Gave his own press conference tonight in which he said the actions may have made it impossible for the committee to do its work with any credibility from here on out. This was a big weird distracting story in the news today but the bottom line news here, i mean, really the take away here is that congressman devin nunes is behaving very strangely for a man who is supposed to be leading a bipartisan of a very serious National Security matter. Thats really the bottom line, that was weird. Youre running this investigation and thats how youre behaving . Dont headlines aside, he did not release any information today. He hasot shown any information to anyone else. He is not ev claiming that he actually is in possession of any information. He inot claiming that any laws were broken. And while saying that he is alarmed and concerned and everybody should be alarmed and concerned and the president should be alarmed and concerned, hes not making any sort of coherent case as to what anybody should be concerned about. Hey team, i know were tight on time, but i really need a. Sick day tomorrow. Moms dont take sick days. Moms take nyquil severe the. Nighttime sniffling,sneezing, coughing, aching, fever best. Sleep with a cold, medicine. This is not a screensaver. Game. This is the destruction of a cancer cell by the bodys own mune sysm, thanks to medicine that didnt exist until now. And today can save your life. I recently confirmed that on numerous occasions the Intelligence Community incidentally collected information about u. S. Citizens involved in the trump transition. None of this surveillance was related to russia or the investigation of russian activities or of the trump team. I can say this, the chairman will need to decide whether he is the chairman of an independent investigation into conduct which includes allegations of potential coordination between the Trump Campaign and the russians or he is going to act as a surrogate of the white house, because he cannot do both. And unfortunately i think the actions of today throw great doubt into the ability of both the chairman and the committee to conduct the investigation the way it ought to be conducted. Republican chairman of the house Intelligence Committee and the top democrat on that same committee holding duelling press conferences today, which is not a great sign for that committees Ongoing Investigation into rusan interference in the u. S. Election last ye and the question of whether or not the Trump Campaign cooperated, collaborated in that russian attack. Joining us now is Charlie Savage, the National Security reporter for the new york times, the author of power wars, inside obamas post9 11 presidency. Nice to see you. Thanks for being here. Thanks for having me back. Can i ask you to walk me through . Explain a little bit of how this wiretapping stuff works. We heard a lot of people talking today about the idea of routine surveillance of foreign targets. What does that mean, routine surveillance . So the fbi here at home and the nsa abroad are engaged in foreign intelligence collection using surveillance all the time everyday. Especially abroad. They were involved in major deals that have geopolitical implications, terrorism suspects, all kinds you know, the definition of what counts as foreign intelligence is broad. Its almost anything. And so if they are specifically targeting a person they think might have that intelligence because theyre a prominent person in whatever world theyre looking at or if theyre vacuuming up stuff abroad in hopes of gathering that stuff, they are going to inevitably suck in conversations in which at the other end of the line or receiving and sending emails to and from that target is an american. And the rules allow the government to use that collected information even though it involves an american if it involves foreign intelligence. Something they think is relevant. They can even identify the american in their reports to each other if the identity of the american is necessary to understand that foreign intelligence. This incidental collection and the rules surrounding what the government can do with it has been a major dispute about surveillance in the post9 11 world. It surrounds the bush administrations warrantless wiretapping program and what the fisa amendments act that grew out of it. Its been a huge conversation in the courts and congress for years but its been an issue that has been like the hippy issue. The civil libertarians, the aclus and the rand pauls like, hey, wait a minute, what about the rules . Is this going tontrude on americans privacy . And the standard conservativ line has been, eh, whatever, this is about getting terrorists. And its one of the most interesting developments of all of this chaotic mess that youve been trying to explain tonight has been the sudden awakening that incidental collection and the rules surrounding what can happen to it when the government finds itself in possession of private information about americans without having set out to get that information but came anyway bauds they were talking to targets is suddenly of great salience to an entirely different set of the political factions. And its happening in a year in which the fisa amendment acts, the warrantless surveillance program, is up for renewal and its going to be fascinating to see how this plays out. Dharlly, one of the reasons weve been anticipating some sort of disclosure along these lines if not exactly what we heard today, one of the reasons that frankly i didnt join the big pile on in calling President Trump crazy when he tweeted he believed he had been wiretapped in trump tower even though he worded in the a crazy way is because weve been watching very closely the question about why mike flynn was fired. General flynn as the National Security adviser had to leave supposedly because he was untruthful about the content of hiS Communications with the Russian Ambassador. We learned that through a Washington Post story this described him being picked up on surveillance of the ambassador which included people knowing if it was him on the phone. We saw the Intelligence Community, the cia and nsa on march 15, basically demanding to be known how come we all found out that Michael Flynn was on that call . The fbi and the cia apparently still havent responded to the house Intelligence Committee on that and it still remains an outstanding question, doesnt it, as to whether or not Michael Flynn was properly unmasked as a u. S. Person on that warrant . Whether he might have been the subject of a warrant himself or where whether there might have been misconduct in the his name becoming known, associated with that content . I have to say, as someone paying close attention to surveillance debates and rules for years i think that is a red herring. Just this morning the wall street journal editorial page had this editorial that went viral because it talked about trump being a fake president who is clinging to this crazy climb like a drunk to an empty gin bottle, a very strong antitrump ed editorial from a conservative out let but embedded in that was this, and he has a legitimate question about why was the government listening to Michael Flynn. Thats kind of crazy to me. If you pay any attention to this, you should understand that the Russian Ambassador of all people Walking Around the streets of the United States is going to be the target of a wiretap by the fbi for counterintelligence purposes and if the National Security advisor to the rising president is talking to the Russian Ambassador, that conversation will be intercepted, theyre listening to the Russian Ambassador, hes talking to someone else, they get both sides of that conversation and obviously what Michael Flynn of all people says to the Russian Ambassador and vice versa is foreign intelligence and you need to know who Michael Flynn is to understand it. I do not see based on what the rules are and just a sort of basic understanding of how this works what is alarming about that or maybe alarming is the wrong word. What is mysterious about that, what is hard to understand about that. We think this was a targeting of the Russian Ambassador and thats not remarkable at all in the world. Charlie savage, National Security reporter for the new york times, thats why i want to talk to you about this. Thank you for helping us through this. Good to see you. Good to see you, too. Much more ahead tonight including the reporter who wrote the bombshell, a piece about Paul Manafort and his work to promote the putin government secretly in the United States. Plus the latest from monodon. Stay with us tonight. I will never wash my hair again. New pantene doesnt just wash your hair, it fuels it. Making every strand stronger. So tangles dont stand a chance. Because strong is beautiful. You foundim a robot cars. Com rawr yeti and found a place to service it, too. Jingle bells now when youre ready, you can sell your old car and find your new one all on cars. Com you know us for shopping, and now were there for every turn. Cars. Com chooarmy versus army. Ion. Nation versus nation. The battle has begun. Evony the kings return. Download now. 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A. s hit list. That was march 30, 1979, british member of parliament killed, bomb planted in his car in the parking garage at the house of commons. All through the 70s right through the turn of the century britain was, of course, embroiled in the murderous conflict in Northern Ireland and at times that war bled into the uk mainland. It made british politicians and britain itself targets for attack by irish paramilitary groups. But, still, parliament is a serious target and a hard target. E last attack on parliament was 1979. There hadnt been an attack at the british house of commons since then. Until today. The value our parliament remits democracy, freedom, human rights, the rule of law command the admiration and respect of free people everywhere. That is why it is a target for those who reject those values. But let me make it clear today as i have had calls to do before, any attempt to defeat those values through violence and terror is doomed to failure. Tomorrow Morning Parliament will meet as normal. British Prime Minister theresa may this afternoon. Parliament will be meeting as normal. This started today when police got called around 2 40 p. M. Local time, a man driving a gray hyundai 4 x 4 driving across the Westminster Bridge deliberately steering against pedestrians. Four people died, many more were injured, including three Police Officers. The attacker sped up and drove directly toward the houses of parliament, crashed into a railing, proceeded to get out of his car, attacked a Police Officer inside the gates with a knife. That Police Officer died from his injuries, he was 48 years old. The attacker then reportedly lunged toward another officer before he was shot and killed by police. Four people were killed total, plus the attacker makes five, at least 40 people were wounded. The police are treating this as a terrorist incident. Police said this evening that the attacker is thought to be inspired by international terrorism. 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As the ap noted in its story today, willfully failing to register is a felony and can result up to five years in prison and a fine of up to 250,000. Should mention this is also not the first time that Paul Manafort has been accused of failing to legally disclose work he did on behalf of a foreign power. Last august in the middle of the president ial campaign, the same ap reporter from todays scoop, Jeff Horowitz also reported that Paul Manafort had failed to disclose his lobbying efforts for a prorussian Political Party in ukraine. Joining us is Jeff Horowitz, the ap reporter who broke the story earlier today. I appreciate your time today. I know its been a big day explaining this work to everybody. Thanks for being with us tonight. Thanks for having me. I know you dont want to talk about your sources or your reporting process too much, but what can you explain to us about how this came about, about how you knew to look, for example, for this company that manafort operated, how you figured out that he might have this kind of a relationship. So i have some very talented colleagues who are working in moscow, kiev, cypress, all over the place on this stuff. But without getting into sort of the details of reporting and some of the sourcing is confidential, what i can say is that we obtained from a number of different places memos that manafort wrote to oleg darapaska, who is a Russian Oligarch very close to putin. For a number of years back is sort of one of putins top business lieutenants, top allies in the business community. And in these memos, which were sort of associated with this 10 million a Year Contract that you referenced, Paul Manafort is talking about representing oleg darapaskas personal and business interests abroad and thats eastern and former russian countries. While the focus was on the post soviet countries, trying to make sure that his message was sort of channeled well and through a number of different means to washington as well. And in the documentation that you found manafort explicitly makes the case that this would be a promotion of putins government that this would be good for putins government specifically. Right. And that is the language was extremely clear on that. That one of the appeals and it kind of was a sales pitch from manaforts firm to darapaska. One of the appeals of subsidizing his work or underwriting his work is darapaka would be underadvancing the work of the putin government. It was very straight forward. A big part of it undercutting political movements that the putin government would not mike in countries neighboring russia and supporting those that it would. Jeff horowitz, reporter at the Associated Press. Remarkable scoop today. A long story very easy to understand, very clearly sourced. Thanks for helping us understand it tonight. Appreciate it. Certainly. Thank you. Well be right back. Stay with us. Safe drivers who switch to esurance could save money on car insurance. You know, the kind of driver who always buckles up. Comes to a complete stop. And looks both ways, no matter what. Because esurance believes thats the kind of driver who deserves to save money on car insurance. In fact, safe drivers who switch from geico to esurance could save hundreds. So if you switch to esurance, saving is a pretty safe bet. Auto and Home Insurance for the modern world. Esurance. An allstate company. Click or call. They are apparently going to do it. Theyre going to hold the vote. House majority leader tells nbc news tonight that by 7 00 p. M. Tomorrow, republicans, in his words, will have passed their bill to repeal obamacare and throw 24 million americans off their Health Insurance. It still does not look at all like the republicans for sure have the votes they need. They cant get nor do they appear to want any democrats votes. That means their magic number in terms of no votes from republicans is 21. If 22 republicans vote no, the bill is dead. Nbc has been doing a whip count of no votes. And the list of republicans who say theyll vote no tomorrow or are that leaning strongly against the bill tomorrow right now is well above 22. Its 28 say they are no or leaning no. Again, 22 no votes and its dead. You have to wonder if that selfimposed 7 00 p. M. Deadline is really realistic. But they tell us tonight theyre still going to try for it. Tomorrow is going to be another big day. We will see you again tomorrow. Now its time for the last word with lawrence odonnell. Good evening, lawrence. Hello, rachel. Every once in a while they do go to the floor with the bill in the house where they think theyre maybe six votes shy or Something Like that, and they put all the pressure on those guys on the floor, and you watch them extend the time of the vote. But 28. 28. Yeah. Mmm. I know. They can go down to 22 no votes. Weve got 26 in the whip count right now. Presumably people are going to get some brutal knocks on the door this evening. Theyve got 21 hours to try to make this happen. Its going to be a pretty intense time. We will be watching. Thanks, lawrence. Thanks, rachel. Well, the chairman of the house Intelligence Committee has described a cloud of scandal over the white house. And today he chose to walk straight into that cloud himself. We have a member of the house Intelligence Committee with us to respond to what happened today