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Written answers. he submitted those written answers before he was aware that muellers team knew that manafort was lying. so whatever information manafort was sharing with trump potentially the circumstances have dramatically changed in the intervening weeks. >> remember, sara, to you, this cooperation only came after manafort was found guilty on a number of counts and then the president praised him as a good man, et cetera, after he was found guilty. so the suggest that some have made that perha...

This follows the bombshell news that the cooperation agreement between manafort and the special counsel has collapsed in spectacular fashion. robert mueller charges that the former trump campaign chair has breached his plea agreement by repeatedly lying to investigators. the stunning reversal comes with potentially devastating consequences for both manafort and mueller. for the special counsel, the more than two-year-old probe has now lost a key cooperating witness, and any information manafort ...

Kara scannell on the scene for us. joining us former federal prosecutor and legal analyst laura coates, and sara murray. the report is hes met multiple times now with mueller and his team, presumably provide something pretty useful information. s in a significant development. >> it is. i think one of the thing that will be interesting to see is whether the judge can fehr et out any details about just how much cooperation hes given, how useful hes been to prosecutors so far. we dont have a good...

Obama white house counsel greg craig. prosecutors are now considering bringing charges against craig related to his lobbying work on behalf of a political group also associated with ukraine. craig, like manafort, is believed to have conducted the work without ever registering with the justice department as a foreign agent, something thats required by federal law. eric? eric: thanks so much. arthel? arthel: for more on the manafort plea deal and what it means to the russia investigation going for...

Say, they will say the presidents legal team isnt worried. they know everything he knows. theres been lots of communication between the presidents lawyers and manaforts lawyer. they dont view the president as someone who would be in the cross hair based on any information manafort has. that said, you have to take that with a very sizable grain of salt because of the people who are making those assertions. its important context here. what i think is important is that the prospect of a manafort pa...

Were meeting with foreign governments in an attempt to undermine the current u.s. administration. that is pretty big deal. you will hear a lot about the logan act, which is a law that prevents private citizens from conducting foreign policy. problem there is, it was passed in 1799 and has never successfully been used to prosecute anybody. hasnt even been tried in more than 150 years. so it likely does not apply here. >> bill: okay. second time in two months, not second time in a couple of days. ...

Donald trump. quote, come on, man, you dont care about manafort, you care about what information manafort can give you to lead to mr. trump and an impeachment. the mueller team refuels to show their authority. judge ellis demands to see the rosenstein secret memo, unredacted. the one that house republicans thought for months -- sought for months saying that information is that within the scope of that investigation. we dont want anyone with unfettered powers, said the judge. the court sums up th...

Obvious, judge. the judge knows what everybody else knows, and that is this manafort case has nothing to do with the 016 campaign or russia collusion. this is a bunch of rogue agents who installed this admitted insurance policy to subvert the duly elected president of the united states, otherwise this is called a silent coup. judge jeanine: david, to respond to that, do you think that irrespective of the jurisdiction, that the evidence is there to convict? >> i think the evidence if you read the...

President of the united states. his lawyer cannot waive it for him. nobody can waive it for him. they get confused about waiving. this is what happens. anything the president does or anyone connected with the president, they start figuring out some way to criticize him. all this angst about if the privilege was waived. they think mueller is going to put rudy in the grand jury and say tell me what you learned the last two weeks? judge jeanine: the question from judge ellis in the district court i...

Donald trump. quote, come on, man, you dont care about manafort, you care about what information manafort can give you to lead to mr. trump and an impeachment. the mueller team refuels to show their authority. judge ellis demands to see the rosenstein secret memo, unredacted. the one that house republicans thought for months -- sought for months saying that information is that within the scope of that investigation. we dont want anyone with unfettered powers, said the judge. the court sums up th...