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Up this aid to ukraine on the presidents orders and we believe expressing what the president orders was illegal, he appears to be the guy they had to push out, who they had to replace with the former executive director of the wisconsin republican party, the guy who would be happy to sign-off on keeping ukraine from getting its military assistance even if the career expert staff thought that was illegal to do so. now the acareer expert staff guy has agreed to testify. his lawyer telling "the wash...

Intelligence. so this whole thing that the president and the white house and republicans in congress now are actively promoting, this conspiracy theory that russia didnt intervene in the 2016 election, it was ukraine who did that, that theory appears to have originated with the gru, with the russian military intelligence. with a russian military intelligence guy who delivered it to the presidents campaign chair who was in prison for laundering with not paying taxes for the millions of dollars he...

Allies have attempted to downplay paul manaforts role in the 2016 campaign. here it goes. >> i tell you, i feel a little badly about it. they went back 123 years to get things he did 12 years ago. paul manafort worked for me for a very short period of time. he worked for me, what, 49 days or something. a very short period of time. >> we had a little hiccup with this guy manafort who we can find him, we know where he is, hes right down the road now, not hard to find right now. >> rbt they nice to...

Begin tomorrow a couple miles across the potomac. what could it mean for robert muellers investigation on trump? lots of years facing this guy manafort for hooking up with trump. plus trump and the publisher of the "new york times" give each other an earful about fake news and a private meeting. its not so private. is the president putting journalists lives at risk? youve got twornd about that. also the "hardball" round table tonight. trump doubles down about his border wall. hes willing to sh...

Joining us now to reaction to her report, tom, former clinton advisor. and guys, i will start with you, greg. we are sending now this guy manafort to jail claiming the -- the judge is saying he tried to tamper with witnesses. why is he in the jail and the rest are not? >> thats a good question. the judge should blame herself. she failed to issue a no contact heard with regard to the witnesses. i read through the court documents. weissman and robert muellers evidence of this is scant. and cryptic...

Joining us now to reaction to her report, tom, former clinton advisor. and guys, i will start with you, greg. we are sending now this guy manafort to jail claiming the -- the judge is saying he tried to tamper with witnesses. why is he in the jail and the rest are not? >> thats a good question. the judge should blame herself. she failed to issue a no contact heard with regard to the witnesses. i read through the court documents. weissman and robert muellers evidence of this is scant. and cryptic...

Is the president. you heard it. what did you think? >> nothing. because it is just a personal opinion of the judge. there is no evidence in the courtroom in front of him to justify that kind of an opinion. it drew enormous headlines over the weekend because its a political narrative which trump supporters agree. its probably correct but it is irrelevant to his ruling on the matter. the matter was manafort moves to dismiss the indictment on the theory mueller doesnt have the jurisdiction to prose...

Legal standpoint. the judge could still rule this way. would manafort be off the hook if that were to happen? >> in judge ellis dismiss is this indictment that bob mueller didnt have the jurisdiction to prosecute this charge in this virginia. then the local prosecutors will get another indictment from another grand jury and theyll prosecute it. manafort wont be out of the woods. >> big headline but you arent thinking legally. >> politically it is significant. it gave the president a handle but l...

>> maybe they think manafort is somebody they can flip faster. the fact is it all plays into what my client, the president of the united states has been quite sometime. the judge said this is a witch hunt in sum and substance with a tremendous amount of government misconduct attached it to and youre quite correct attorney general sessions should step up and dismiss this entire investigation. >> bill: rudy giuliani making the case for the president. bob mueller facing new criticism his team is ov...

>> yeah. >> manafort maintains his innocence. he said, i had hoped and expect mid business colleague, thats gates, would have had the strength to continue to battle to prove our innocence. for reasons yet to surface, he chose do otherwise. this does not alter my commitment to defend myself against the untrue piled up charges contained in the indictments against me. the federal grand jury today returned an indictment today with additional charges against man for the. the indictment says manafort ...