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Warrants and now a threat of the word indictment. >> interesting. big picture here, rick, how do you president trump is going to react to all of this especially considering he falsely accused the former president of wiretapping him before? >> i think hes probably going to say see, they were wiretapping me, see, they did have potential wire taps in trump tower. >> but theres no evidence they were wiretapping him. >> theres some indirect vindication of what he said earlier. look, this is a serious...

Were wiretapping me. see, they did have potential wiretaps in trump tower. that would be my guess. >> theres no evidence they were wiretapping him. >> some indirect vindication of what he said earlier. look, this is a serious matter and something that the president and his team should be concerned about. i mean depending on what the nature of this potential indictment is and whether it implicates manafort and some activity in the campaign or something outside the campaign, i dont think we know t...

Wouldnt they have this? >> well, they would, and i think ricks absolutely right. i mean what we probably will hear from president trump is that he has been vindicated, that he was wiretapped when, in fact, what he would be doing by saying so is that hed be clouding the facts. hed be distorting the facts to try to fit the narrative for him to push back. and we should note that will probably work with his base. his base has been very loyal to him. they think that not only is official washington ou...

Restarted the surveillance after obtaining a new fisa warrant that extended at least into early this year. now, the second warrant, don, was part of the fbis efforts to investigate ties between trump campaign associates and suspected russian operatives. its unclear when that new warrant started, but we have learned that as part of the warrant, earlier this year the fbi conducted a search of a storage facility belonging to paul manafort. of course thats in addition to that raid last july on his h...

That he was wiretapped? >> well, that certainly raises the question. the justice department has publicly denied the presidents own lines were wiretapped. as youll recall, he tweeted out months ago that president obama had his wires tapped. the justice department has come out and said thats not true. but what is possible, don, is that he was picked up on the manafort surveillance, and we should note that manafort does have a residence in trump tower, but it is not clear if the fbi did surveillanc...

Between suspected russian operatives relaying what they claimed were discussions with manafort as well as communications involving manafort himself. now, none of this has amounted to what people would consider a smoking gun in this investigation. there is still more work being done to determine whether theres a criminal violation here. we did not get a comment from paul manaforts spokesman, but manafort has previously denied that he ever knowingly communicated with russian intelligence operative...

President. pamela joins me now. pamela, good evening to you. what are you learning? >> well, don, sources tell our team that the fbi got permission from the secret surveillance court to monitor paul manafort, the former trump campaign chairman, both before and after the election as you mentioned. this is an extraordinary step for the fbi to do surveillance of a high-ranking campaign official. of course manafort is now at the center of the russia meddling probe, and were told that there are inter...

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