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Pressure on gates. and he actually was, according to the indictment and the information available, intimately involved in not only the money laundering scheme but the scheme to represent the yanukovych and ukrainian intere in dealing with every aspect of manaforts money laundering. >> lets give some of the details released aut manaforts spending habits. 820,000 on landscaping in the hamptons. manafort is obviously a man of expensiveaste. why would mueller put this infoation out there? >> well, o...

And one thing ill tel you as a prosecutor that indictment generally goes back to the jury room. that is their guidepost as to when what the case is all about. and those items that are in the indictment there, that lavish spendi you talked about is extremely powerful evidence to a jury. so people like my parents. okay, my dads a cashier at wal-mart, if hes on thatury and he hears some guy is spending that mucon rugs or i think theres an item in there he spending hundreds of thousands of dollars o...

Important realize hickss portion of the investigation is more on the obstruction side of things. she was also reportedly involved in the crafting a statement so when trump tower news broke you kushner and trump jr. with a russian lawyer the president of th united states was supposedly involved in crafting a statement that his son made that turned out to be highly misleading planned mueller is investigating that and hicks is involved in that statement so her pieces of this investigation have real...

The trump white house working to down-play the role of george papadopoulos, but could he be the key to investigation? paul manafort is something of a known quantity in washington. papadopoulos, rick gates not so much. what could they potentially reveal to investigators that would cause problems for paul manafort and others perhaps gher in trumps circle? ke ill ask that of you. >> well, rick gates has been with manafort for quite a few years. and manafort, his circle certainly includes a number o...

Good for mr. manafort. you talked about the pressure on mr. gates. i think both of those men are under a lot of pressure. and the only thing that could relieve that pressure is a pardon from the president of the unit states. which is why you saw manaforts attorney coming out and making a very bombastic stement the other day attacking mueller and -- >> got to go. >> and sort of trying to play for a pardon. >> thank you, i appreciate it. thats it for us tonight. thanks for watching. ill see you ...

Agent of the ukraine and others. and the mueller investigation i believe is expanding its circle and interewing really all of manaforts contacts. theyve gone through his financial dealings. but i think that his dealings particularly in kiev representing the regime there in ukraine and elsewhere. so i think the political end and the russian connection end of the manafort investigation is still developing and wl be coming in a superceding indictment. >> does that make him vulnerable to preure at a...

Against paul manafort and mr. gates yesterday, realistic atly thereto still a long way to go in other pieces of the investigation and those portions continue. >> so the investigation on paul manaforts financial dealings is an area president can pursue with the president. >> for ken. >> definitely. this was really round one of the manafort and gates investigation. i frankly, would expect additional charges. one reason for that is that the information and plea agreement refer, i think, indirectly ...

Heard about it yesterday. what do you make of muellers move to announce his arrest just yesterday was that strategic move. >> yeah first of all it tells us mueller is running a tight ship over there. i know theres talks about leaks but i dont think its coming from muellers side, i think its coming from congress or defense or someone else not his team thats first part of it. they kept a huge secret that would have been big news of it had leaked. also it was unsealed even though the deal was consu...