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And we heard manaforts contacts with kilimnik, as one prosecutor put it, to the heart of what the special counsel is investigating. we learned from the same transcript a possible reason why manafort breached his plea deal by lying to investigators as judge ruled last kweek. they said manafort might have lied to increase his chances of getting a president pardon. that is not the craziest idea on manaforts part. after the president has said a pardon for his campaign manager is still a possibility....

Thats one. two, to your point, why lie? i mean this is pretty significant. this is a really, really important investigation. why would you lie to someone with such authority who could dictate where you spend the rest of your life wearing an orange jumpsuit? >> judge amy berman jackson said that manafort didnt meet the threshold on two other things, his interactions with the white house officials and about kilimniks role to try and influence witnesses. what does it say about the special counsel t...

>> lets hone in on manafort lying about his interactions with kilimnik. again, manafort was the campaign chairman, right? and kilimnik is a russian associate who shared campaign polling data -- he shared polling data with. why lie about that? who is he protecting? >> hes tied to russian intelligence too. isnt kilimnik -- hes got ties to russian intel. hes got ties to oleg deripaska, who is an incredibly powerful oligarch. you know, people who have crossed russian intelligence, some of them have ...

Did it affect sanctions? what do they have on donald trump as well as on manafort? so i think that what mueller has to be looking at is all of those things, not just manafort. >> and, jill, when the special prosecutor looks at e-mails, obviously this was an e-mail traffic that time magazine is aware of, so the special prosecutor has seen all of that e-mail traffic. and this is -- this is one of the reasons why we all presumed paul manafort was cooperating with the special prosecutor because he w...

Him in connection to manafort. paul manafort is scheduled to be sentenced on march 5th. joining us now is jill wine banks. and jill, what is the special prosecutor looking for in this kind of situation? is there anything illegal about offering a briefing to a russian oligarchs about the presidential campaign? >> i think the major thing that is really standing out to me is what is the quid pro quo here, and why was he working for free for donald trump when he owed so much money that he couldnt re...

Potential additional obstruction of justice. >> page, i wonder what your greatest takeaway is from the manafort document. but also on the heels of what we heard from wesley about that call to the white house. whats the legal exposure for the person on the other end of that call? this administration official, the senior administration official? >> well, it depends on what they said. is it possible theyre trying to influence paul manaforts testimony and his anticipated cooperation with the governm...

Two statements one on manafort and one on cohen on manafort the governments filing in mr. manaforts case says nothing about the president even lets about collusion and devoted almost entirely to lobbying related issues. once again, the media is trying to create a story where there isnt one. and on cohen she says the government filings in mr. cohens case tell us nothing of value that wasnt already known. mr. cohen has repeatedly lied and as the prosecution has pointed out to the court, mr. cohen ...

Hes been extremely professional the whole way. we need to trust him to finish the investigation. then well comment. >> a house intelligence democrat said if mueller doesnt like the probe, he can speed it. >> i dont think a person drives this investigation more than president trump. he took over six months to turn in the questions that were given to him. hes refused to sit down with the special counsel. if he wants to cooperate, he can see this concluded sooner than anyone else can drive its dire...

Welcome back. deadlines in the cases of both paul manafort and michael cohen are rapidly approaching. prosecutors are refusing to rule out new charges against manafort after he allegedly broke his plea deal with the special counsels office. a federal judge has also ordered muellers team to explain next week what they believe manafort lied about that caused a breach of that deal. meanwhile, we now know a lawyer for manafort briefed the trump legal team on manaforts discussions with the special ...

Welcome back. deadlines in the cases of both paul manafort and michael cohen are rapidly approaching. prosecutors are refusing to rule out new charges against manafort after he allegedly broke his plea deal with the special counsels office. a federal judge has also ordered muellers team to explain next week what they believe manafort lied about that caused a breach of that deal. meanwhile, we now know a lawyer for manafort briefed the trump legal team on manaforts discussions with the special ...