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Get a campaign insider talking, what flows is damaging. the opening pages of a much more complicated tale, meaning can you connect this to the 2016 campaign, or are these just two guys who are apparently now admitted lawbreakers and trump made the mistake of hiring them? >> a lot of attorneys watching this are asking that very question. if it gets to the point where manafort sees a conviction coming, or if its clear this is happening, then if mueller can flip manafort, and a lot of people are sp...

President, that theyre not actually after getting manafort on money laundering and those charges. how much does this muddy the waters? >> depends where judge ellis ends up, obviously. theres obvious validity to it, they were trying to flip manafort. did not start out as something looking into manaforts finances, whether he committed bank fraud, if me violated foreign lobbying laws. that being said, mueller does have, if you look at his -- the special counsels dictum, whatever you want to call it...

American election. this is significant because gates is not being used to flip manafort. there is a matter of the gru who is working with manafort and gates and theyre in constant contact. thats a big deal. >> then about how the u.s. is dealing with russia. president trump expelled the 60 russian diplomats. russia said it would retaliate. it has now and done the same, expelled its diplomats. it is interesting. we have been talking all week about why did president trump do that when he used kid g...

Sometimes that information comes as it did in the manafort and gates case from e-mails, they got search warrants from manafort and gates e-mails, sometimes it comes from other witnesses, and sometimes it comes from the insiders themselves. i wouldnt necessarily say theyre trying to flip manafort. theyve decided based on the evidence theyve seen that manafort is guilty and they can prove it without a reasonable doubt. >> but they keep adding indictments, and im sorry to interrupt, but yesterday w...

Manafort and rick gates. these men are under indictment for money laundering charges and failure to register as a foreign lobbyist. this lawyer has pleaded guilty to making a false statement about his conversations with gates and what experts tell me, witnesses lie to investigators all the time. they dont often prosecute and file these charges. they do so when they want something out of the witness. it stands to reason this young lawyer has something to give about paul manafort and rick gates be...

Against trumps former campaign chairman. even if you were to fire mueller, which i dont think he will, that indictment is still there. that case still has to go to trial. this investigation now has so much momentum that its pointless to think about -- >> that indictment -- sorry. right now is not necessarily campaign related. think mller is trying to flip manafort. >> im sure he is trying to flip him but remember, that indictment charges a conspiracy that includes the time when manafort was the ...

Be good because even his supporters are not happy with his tweets. as to manafort, i think its also important to keep in mind when we look at how aggressive mueller is being that he may be trying to flip manafort. so that depends on whether manafort actually has some interesting knowledge of some of these actions. we dont know that because he wasnt there during some of the key times. but he does have, from everything that weve learned about him, some very potential legal liabilities in terms of ...

Aggressively to flip manafort. >> i want to ask you more about other "new york times" reporting, specifically the comment by ty cobb, the presidents attorney, specifically brought into a deal with the questions about russia. he said that the white house counsel, don mcgahn, has a couple documents locked in a safe. what kind of information would mcgahn have in a safe that he wouldnt be sharing with the rest of the legal team? >> well, i will tell you my first thought was something from an earlier...

Letter its very likely they will indict him unless he decides to cooperate. >> go ahead. >> yeah. i have a very similar answer. what i would say is that this indicates both to me. it certainly indicates, as john said, that mueller is intending to indict manafort, but the fact that he is telegraphing that to manafort in an aggressive way is something that is fairly commonly done in my experience when you are trying to flip someone. and so really one thing that i took from that new york times stor...