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May imp pllicate giuliani in a smear campaign? >> right. generally believed, kendis, giuliani has been involved, was involved, in fact a key participant in that campaign. we heard from witnesses in the past week in the congressional hearings that thats exactly the case. and whats interesting, i guess, about the new revelations is the extent to which secretary pompeo may have been involved or at least knew about it. ip think this makes perfect sense. right? because its hard top imagine that giuli...

Were hearing about now, and so the fact that additional information is coming out to support that doesnt surprise me at all. >> all right. leave it there. greg braugher, thanks to you. you might have heard in all that talk about a mysterious dnc server allegedly hiding in ukraine. president trump is saying ukraine interfered in the 2016 election, not russia. we fact check that, next. we made usaa insurance for members like martin. an air force veteran made of doing whats right, not whats easy....

In the world of entertainment politics, and beyond policy. they each understand how to package and present what they want to say and theyre both trying to do it. >> thank you. we have new information about what went on behind the scenes before that now infamous call between president trump and president zelensky thanks to newly released documents from the state department that dropped overnight. the documents suggest theres a link between the presidents personal attorney and rudy giuliani, and...

I was very concerned i was able to put the russia case on absolutely solid ground in an indelible fashion that were i removed quickly or reassigned or fired that the case could not be closed or vanish in the night without a trace. >> mccabes previewing the release of his new book in which he describes how he tried to protect the fbis investigation into russian election interference. writing candidly about president trump, every day brings a new low, he says, with the president exposing himself a...

2014 and preceding that. so this is what i would argue is the duller of the two trials. this is going to be a heavily documentary trial. there are going to be a lot of tax records and essentially what the government has to show is that manafort funneled this money from his activities in ukraine and did not disclose it and did not pay taxes on it. and then at the tail end in 2016 and 2017 when the money dried up, he used the properties you mentioned in the lead-in as collateral to get loans, exce...

Be for prosecutors, do you think? >> dan is right. this is what we would call a document case. its going to be dry. its a complex investigation, but, of course, the challenge for the government, for the prosecutors, is to turn a complex investigation into a relatively simple and if possible sexy story for the jury at trial. im confident that this experienced trial team will be able to do that. but i see a relatively straight forward evidentiary trial when all things are said and done. >> how big...

Paul manaforts trial begins this week in virginia. he was robert muellers highest profile catch so far. the chairman has been charged with money laundering, tax fraud and other crimes. the special counsels team has close to 500 pieces of evidence on paul manafort, including e-mail exchanges with the former ukrainian president, statements from mercedes-benz of alexandra, photos of the putting green at paul manaforts house in the hamptons and photo of the pergola there. also plenty of overseas ban...