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>> and out for himself. >> and hes been out for himself and he was in debt millions of dollars to some of those people. i think the question here is one of motivation, was manafort trying to show these people he was close to trump and therefore could give them access? that would suggest manafort was, as you say, out for himself, or was he doing it in order to try to give the gru information they could use in a social immediate ka campaign with a little intention? that might suggest there was a b...

Pretty bad financial straits went to work as a volunteer for the trump campaign. then he would have handed this over. why would he do that without talking to the campaign. that would seem a little irrational to me. and fast forward to what weve seen him do now to wait until he gets a -- go all the way through trial and then agree to cooperate, and then not be fully cooperative, when i was in court with watching him and his lawyers just a month ago, his lawyers said we dont even know what he lied...

Could potentially add more charges, given manaforts alleged breach. the request from manaforts team to hold off on releasing specifics about manaforts alleged lies came after the judge told the special counsels lawyers she needs more details beyond what was laid out in that ten-page filing friday. besides a lot of blacked outlines, muellers team specified five different subjects where manafort lied, including about meetings manafort had with his former business associate who has ties to russian ...

Want some kind of cooperation gremd as pard of any deal. we doend know where the two sides have come down on this. again, what were told is this is a very close to a deal and final agreement has not yet been done but thats one of the things were all looking for to see what kind of terms are reached and whether or not hes going to cooperate with the special counsels investigation. perhaps against the president or other people who may be implicated in that investigation. >> thats a critically impo...

Should have been. >> reporter: and then theres paul manafort. >> i have great respect for what he has done in terms of what he has gone through. >> reporter: winning praise from the president for not cooperating with prosecutors. >> it is called flipping and it ought to be illegal. >> reporter: the feds often make their case with star witnesses that turn on their bosses. the presidents lawyer tells "the washington post", trump tower asked about the possibility of pardoning manafort several weeks...

Steve: what do you make with the fact with his 12 count indictment robert mueller is trying to throw the book at mr. gates and mr. manafort as well? >> well, you know, its pretty typical as a prosecutor you charge as many things as can you and can you scale them back later. if you dont charge now though you could get a double jeopardy issued later. there was a statute of imlimitations after manafort. he had to go after all these things. they can scale it back later. try to build pressure on him ...