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I know most the people on his team. ive either worked with them or been around them in my career in the fbi and they are true experts as what they do. >> we keep repeating rule one in this kind of thing, never lie to the feds. yet we keep seeing that offense committed amongst smart people. >> thats right. i dont think they understand, their defense counsel surely do, but each individual count of 1001, what youre referring to, lying to a federal official or fbi agent, carries five years in jail. ...

The different articles coming out on the collateral aspects of this case. theyre going to look at all the people that were around the president-to-be back around december, november of 2016, when these allegations first hit and theyll start looking at all the collateral players around his senior staff and people that were putting together his cabinet. and theyll dig into that. thats why youre starting to see these collateral charges starting to come out now. >> my theory is were able to see betwe...

The fbi and they are true exp t experts as what they do. >> we keep repeating rule one in this kind of thing, never lie to the feds. yet we keep seeing that offense committed amongst smart people. >> thats right. i dont think they understand, their defense counsel surely do, but each individual count of 1,001, what youre referring to, lying to a federal official or fbi agent, carries five years in jail. and a lot of the charges that youve seen placed on manafort are heavy, heavy hits. he is look...

I think its sending a clear message people need to understand that hes looking deep and hard into this investigation. hes assembled, brian, one of the best teams ive ever seen. i know most the people on his team. ive either worked with them or been around them in my career in the fbi and they are true experts as what they do. >> we keep repeating rule one in this kind of thing, never lie to the feds. yet we keep seeing that offense committed amongst smart people. >> thats right. i dont think the...

Power, russia. but what theyre going to do, you started to see it with the indictments with manafort and the different articles coming out on the collateral aspects of this case. theyre going to look at all the people that were around the president-to-be back around december, november of 2016, when these allegations first hit and theyll start looking at all the collateral players around his senior staff and people that were putting together his cabinet. and theyll dig into that. thats why youre ...

Look at the predicating offenses which in this case is obvious collusion of a foreign power. russia. but what theyre going to do, you started to see it with the indictments with manafort and the different articles coming out on the collateral aspects of this case. theyre going to look at all the people that were around the president-to-be back around december, november of 2016, when these allegations first hit and theyll start looking at all the collateral players around his senior staff and peo...

Papadopoulos, it says, in fact, sprelly in the documents at the time that part of the investigation was looking into collusion, cooperation between trump associates and the russian campaign. but more recently in a court opinion unsealed today as well dated october 2nd, 2017, the first lines say this is a matter of national importance and that the u.s. through the special counsels office is investigating foreign interference in the 2016 election and potential collusion in those efforts by america...

We knew manafort had been in business with oleg deripaska, we knew he sent an e-mail to oleg deripaska saying has oleg seen this? can we be made whole? nbc uncovered 30 million more dollars that changed hands between these two men. someone who worked in counter intelligence what crosses your mind when you see that? >> motive? i dont know any more simple way to put it. it is true. when counter intelligence -- theres four pillars of motivation that are the cornerstone of specialize, money, ideolog...

Reporting on manafort what did you make of it? >> i can verify that a prosecutor would look at it in a similar way in terms of motive. certainly it provides motive for manafort to be offering private briefings that we heard about, that manafort allegedly offered the same on the ground la gaurk in an e-mail. why would the chair of a presidential campaign in the united states give special access to a russian ol la gaurk? we have 30 million dlashl reasons why. >> the way i sort of think of where we...

Withdrawn. he said that originally through his spokesman -- >> let me put this on the screen. we have two comments from jason maloni, manaforts spokesman. this is interesting. the first one read as follows. mr. manafort is not indebted to former clients today, nor was he at the time he began working for the trump campaign. that was alive for a little while. now that statement is gone. here is the revised statement. it says, recent news reports indicate mr. manafort was under surveillance before ...