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Van der zwann made the comments during the interview. three days later this is. and then in the statement of the offense, the special counsels office lists three things they say van der zwann falsely stated his last communication with rick gates had been in mid august and it was -- mid august 2016 and it had been a text message. they say he falsely stated that his last communication with a long-time business associate of manafort and gates of ukraine was way back in 2014 when he talked with that...

Are separate from any campaign related issues or russian interference issues. but they could conceivably, if they let mr. manafort whod want to resolve his own case, that could lead to further revelations in that regard. >> and i cant remember the exact wording from the podium and president when manafort started getting so much attention. trump said, you know, he was here for a very short period of time. remind us the manafort-gates relationship and what these two gentlemen may have to offer mr....

Relationship and what these two gentlemen may have to offer mr. mueller. >> so paul manafort was donald trumps campaign manager from june 2016 to august 2016, which was a critical time because thats when the republican national convention happened. and rick gates was a long-time associate and business partner with paul manafort. particularly when manafort was working as an alleged paid lobbyist for putin-linked interests in the ukraine. and both rick gates and paul manafort have been charged wit...

I dont know. youve just been fired for running a presidential campaign. i dont know what the right thing is to do but when paul manafort was fired in august 2016 he did something unexpected that day. the day of his resignation, he created a shell company called summer breeze l.l.c. that same day that he quit the campaign. within a few weeks, summer breeze received a $3.5 million loan from a new york financial firm with ukrainian connections called spruce capital. then in november, the month of t...

Could lead to further revelations in that regard. >> and i cant remember the exact wording from the podium and president when manafort started getting so much attention. trump said, you know, he was here for a very short period of time. remind us the manafort-gates relationship and what these two gentlemen may have to offer mr. mueller. >> so paul manafort was donald trumps campaign manager from june 2016 to august 2016, which was a critical time because thats when the republican national conven...

This by the cia in august 2016 and did not take any action on it. so i certainly hope president trump does not follow that lead, but the other thing hes made clear about -- >> what you just said makes no sense because hes now been president for a year, and he actually -- you would say he has followed that lead because he hasnt done anything. what has he actually done? >> the other thing he has said is he doesnt want to orchestrate to the enemy what his plans are. i do believe that behind the sce...

Meddling. according to "the washington post" or "the new york times" months ago, he hadnt held a cabinet-level meeting. he hasnt imposed the sanctions that were basically, you know, passed by both houses of congress overwhelmingly. and even today, his first tweet said nothing about, you know, that this country has been attacked, and weve got to do something about it. it was about me, me, me. >> well, but let me say this. i certainly hope he doesnt take barack obamas lead, who under his watch, th...

Dara? >> the days are not getting even easier. thank you so much. now to nbcs hallie jackson with more on how the white house is responding to the mueller indictments. >> the federal government outlining an elaborate, expensive, and extraordinary assault on u.s. democracy, describing how 13 russians, and 3 russian companies interfered online and in person in the 2016 election. the indictment says the russians tried to create chaos, supporting the trump presidential campaign, and disparaging hi...

They charged today and you can tell from a lot of the specificity in the indictment that parts of how they were able to trace all of this was clearly money. i mean, the russian operation paid out a lot of money to do what they did. they paid for online ads that were protrump and anti clinton and paid for real, live americans who apparently didnt know they were participate income a russian op and set up protrump and anti clinton rail li -- rallies and paid for on more than one occasion this unusu...

That are included and involve several individuals again traveling here to the united states. according to the indictment taking steps to disguise where their messages were originally coming from. and apparently they used a facebook group to organize coordinated rallies in florida. and the rallies were collectively referred to as, quote, florida goes trump and held on august 2016. so this is more than just putting out some propaganda online. this is the organization of groups for folks that are f...