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Chairman but effectively the campaign manager from about april 2016 until august 2016. he was brought in at a very critical moment in the campaign, it was an expected delegate fight between donald trump and ted cruz, who amazingly had emerged and establishism alternative to donald trump. he ranhe entire campaign during that critical period of time and was given a lot of credit, as i recall, personally hearing from people, giving manafort a tonight of credit be he put down that instruction. the r...

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For "the new york times." mark, break this down for us. this meeting that don jr. was in, what was he expecting to get out of it? >> it is unclear what he was expecting but certainly if don jr. is taking a meeting in the heat of the campaign, he is doing it because hes interested in what people might -- how they might help out the campaign. that was one of the reasons he took the meeting with the russians two mons earths earlie. he had contacts with erik prince and erik prince set up this meetin...

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Campaign from mid march to late august, 2016. 144 days in all, alex. not just that, the trump campaign hired manafort during what was a crucial period. he was there to secure enough delegates, a time of which the president thought he might lose the gop nomination. alex? >> all right. thank you so much for the fact checking. appreciate that, jeff. lets bring in host sirius xm, joe watkins and michael steele, former adviser to jeb bush. with a good saturday morning to all three of you. do you thin...

>> what would be your point of view? was it a potential violation of the campaign or anyone involved in the campaign to have had any kind of meetings, whether it be at trump tower or otherwise, in that august 2016 date involving emissaries of the united arab emirate or qatar? would that meeting constitute anything illegal, in your view? >> it could. it is illegal for foreign countries to participate or influence the election in america, and if donald trump jr. or any members of the trump campaig...

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Not wanting this information to come too late. >> these are 3162 documents they had to peel apart for months. they had the most difficult time congressional committees investigating this because the doj and fbi have not been forthright with the information. this is explosive because it shows even when harry reid went to meet with him in august 2016, early that month at the beginning of august we know jonathan boffo who was working at the counterintelligence division of the fbi alongside peter st...