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Campaign, ultimately shaped the presidents views about that country as some of the reporting over the weekend suggests he has become obsessed with it, detests ukraine and his views of that country are so negative, in the trope of the mueller reports, rick gates suggests paul manafort introduced this theory that ukraine may have hacked the dnc server and trump basically runs away with it, and here we are. >> that theory may have started with manaforts associate, constantin kilimnik. we did a vide...

With american elections. i do sympathize with mr. trump but it doesnt mean that we have -- >> you know that all president trump wants is to be able to point to ukraine and say look, theyre investigating joe biden and corruption so i dont know. you understand how just having the investigation feeds directly into the u.s. election? >> when it was against manafort it was used by democrats against trump. lets be fair here. >> reporter: the so-called black ledger, he believes, was phony. the secret p...

So many threads to pull on. let me pick up on manafort here. its interesting that hes at the center of all of this, both trying to fuel the conspiracy theory that ukraine was behind the dnc hack but also trying to stop it. how is paul manafort featured and viewed there in ukraine at the moment? >> ive got to be honest, ayman. he is a pretty detested character in ukraine these days. ukrainians look back at the work that he did to prop up that candidate who then fled to russia. and they feel that ...

Intervened in 2016, to help hillary clinton and hurt donald trump, by exposing dirt on paul manafort. they also want to investigate joe biden and his son, hunter. that member of parliament who is leading the push, he is a a friend of paul manaforts. he made a cameo in the mueller report when mueller discovered an op-ed defending manafort had been partially written by manafort himself, in violation of manaforts gag order. this new push in ukraine may not lead to any prosecutions per se. that may ...

According to mueller, the two teamed up a few months ago to ghost write an op-ed defending manaforts work in ukraine. they were previously in touch throughout 2016 while manafort was workingnhe trump campaign. this russian hinch man kilimnik serving as the liaison t powerful russian interests. it was kilimnik who manafort contacted about leveraging his new role in the campaign to curry favor with the billionaire russian oligarch writing i assume have you shown our friends my media coverage, righ...