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While. now that statement is gone. here is the revised statement. it says recent news reports indicate mr. manafort was under surveillance before he joined the campaign and after he left the campaign. he has called for the u.s. government to release any intercepts involving him and non-americans in hopes of finally putting an end to these wild conspiracy theories. mr. manafort did not collude with the russian government. jill, those are two very different statements. they have taken out the refe...

You get whole with a russian billionaire? whatever that means, would seem to point to the third major point of connection which makes manafort and his relationship with the russian guy glow in the dark for this investigation. that relationship, that part of their relationship, of course, is the money part. we know from previous reporting that deripaska sued paul manafort in 2015 for $19 million. that was money that manafort was going to invest for deripaska but something went wrong with the inve...

-- manafort said when he was hoping to get whole with deripaska, thanks to his job running the trump campaign. what can you do that will help you get whole with a russian billionaire? whatever that means, would seem to point to the third major point of connection which makes manafort and his relationship with the russian guy glow in the dark for this investigation. that relationship, that part of their relationship, of course, is the money part. we know from previous reporting that deripaska sue...

The campaign. he has called for the u.s. government to release any intercepts involving him and non-americans in hopes of finally putting an end to these wild conspiracy theories. mr. manafort did not collude with the russian government. jill, those are two very different statements. they have taken out the reference to him not being indebted to russians and they have now gone on the offensive, saying the u.s. government was snooping on manafort and they should release those transcripts. >> actu...

Receive any communication from paul manaoffer offering to brief him. says he hasnt spoken to him since 2012. that "washington post" report was frankly stunning. that manafort was offering to brief a russian oligarch, whos close enough to the kremlin that he can get a diplomatic waiver. do you believe oleg deripaska, that he never even knew that n manafort was offering to brief him? >> well, i dont have any insight here. no inside baseball mag into this at all. i have to say that i when i heard t...

Exclusively learned that robert muellers focus on former trump campaign chief paul manafort goes back 11 years, all the way back to 2006. what does that tell us about the state of the investigation, and does this mean manafort is moving on from recent events of the 2016 campaign? >> well, i think that mueller is investigating every angle that he can. now, there are statutes of limitations that could limit the kinds of charges he can bring for example on tax evasion or other financial crimes. tho...

My guess is that american intelligence community and law enforcement are more discreet and discriminating than that. they would not have almost kind of accidently dealt with trump because they were dealing with someone in the same building. if they were going after paul manafort or eves dropping on manafort, they would be doing that. it raises this larger issue that theres so many people associated with the trump campaign that seem to have had dealings not just with russia but with oligarchs and...

Manafort was doing something at least on the face looked to authorities like it could be operating on behalf of a foreign power. he was talking to trump during parts of these times. now the president knows and his legal team knows and everyone around him knows if paul manafort mentioned anything to do with the campaign with regard to russia to the president on the phone, this could implicate the president. because they are collecting this evidence of paul manaforts potential wrong-doing, he has ...

Reads like a spy novel. a predawn raid where they picked the looks of manaforts home and warned him he is likely to be indicted. listen to the final paragraph of this piece. his team had to show probable cause of a crime. the federal judge he was likely to destroy the evidence. >> lets start the conversation there. you cannot get a fisa warrant without making a case to a judge that somebody is doing something with a foreign actor that raises legitimate suspicions. they had one and got a second a...

His campaign and turn the other way regarding the kind of corrupt people he had around him. >> when you see the tough tactics, that tells you they cant do this unless they have a good case against mr. manafort and you are the target of investigation and we are going to indict you. they want you to throw your hands up and say okay, i will cooperate. >> there are two issues here and they are connected. one is part of what the mueller team is trying to do. they quoted someone saying you want to str...