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Upon him and also just, why couldnt donald trump pay his legal bills? why couldnt he as a trump inc employee pay the legal bills? >> let me push back on you. isnt bob mueller showing hes the great equalizer. manafort was willing to stay loyal. heres the deal. if you have any evidence about trump committing crimes, mueller is coming for you whether youre loyal or not. >> im not even as interested in michael cohen as i am michael flynn. his sentencing date was set for december 18th. some are specu...

Question. it seems like whether youre loyal or not. if you have testimony mueller wants, hes going to get it. >> he is going to get it. its not simply the disloyalty, though thats really been vivid, but cohen is going to be sentenced december 12th. he has series charges hanging over him. on flynn, it does indicate hes done with him. usually youd keep him around if he might need to testify. but in all of these, were find with manafort, cohen, et cetera, mueller has belt and suspendered everything...

Justice. thats a theory that applies to multiple witnesses starting with steele and moving forward, including manafort. if theyve endorsed that theory, thats going to get a lot of play probably in the report. >> nick confisore, what do you think of this abc news report. its important to go back to trump tells. and we know from donald trump that the original raid on cohens offices was perhaps the gravest injustice that hes perceived so far. he called it an attack on the nation the day his lawyer ...

And also as with manafort, mueller has -- holds all the cards. right now hes made no promises about whether hell give him any credit for cooperating. same as with manafort and both men have to give it all up and hope for the best. and in cohens case, that is really a wealth of things in russia. hes in the steele dossier, hes in the attempt to form a trump tower in moscow and also dating back ten more years on the financial side. >> and it would seem this is the first ive seen that muellers team ...

And transactions for real estate over the years. >> everyone in washington knew paul manafort had worked for the worst russian oligarchs and anti anti-ukrainians who were part russian stooges and so forth, and it was such a mind-boggling appointment that he thought he could get out of that. but in particular the close relations to a lot of the same oligarchs who sort of funded directly or indirectly trump. for me manafort is big tell. you can say he didnt have some of the normal guards, but he a...

No? >> reporter: yeah, this is huge for them. and it looks like its going terribly for manafort. theres a mountain of evidence against him now, and it seems like their only chance is to somehow impugn rick gates. but even if they do that and even if the jury discounts everything that gates has said, theres a host of other evidence, including manaforts own tax records and the testimony of his accountants and bookkeepers about these foreign bank accounts, where he had millions of dollars that he d...

Distance himself. he ran the campaign at a critical time leading up to the convention for five months. you travel through parts of the country that support this president so much. do they believe him? do they think paul manafort is not that big a deal in the presidents world? >> well, for instance yesterday, i was in ohio, in a rural suburban area outside columbus for covering the special election. there were tons of voters there. i talked to them about numerous things, including manafort and mi...

Ukraine to avoid paying taxes and lying about his debt to secure new loans. manaforts lawyers have been fighting charges for months on two fronts. in addition to the virginia case, manafort is charged with seven other counts in washington, d.c., including failing to register as a foreign agent. that trial is set to start in september. in june, the d.c. district judge revoked manaforts $10 million bail, which included house arrest and sent him to a jail two hours south of washington. the judge sc...

Times about natalia veselnitskaya. the russian lawyer who met with campaign officials in 2016 and we find out she has kremlin connections. this is long suspected that is now confirmed. how serious of a development do you think this is and what does it mean to the investigation of the special counsels case. >> i think it is likely that mueller and his team were aware all along, which is why they had an interest already in the meeting. it is one of the first instances where we knew about somebody ...

Suspected, is there an end game. but i think mueller was already well versed in this area but it does have ramifications. >> and samantha, this is what the russians do. this shouldnt be that surprising. >> standard operating pleaseure. and i dont think anyone is surprised, including manafort and donald trump jr. or kushner. and weve had this woman saying for months that didnt have ties with the kremlin and a lawyer. and then out of nowhere we have this admission that she works with the kremlin. ...