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Lies from the law firm and thats why he lied. according to the judge, according to prosecutors, van der zwaan concealed some very key information that the prosecutors were interested in, including the fact that rick gates was in frequent contact with someone who the fbi says is a russian intelligence agent. this man by the name of konstantin kolimnik. and this occurred in the middle of the 2016 campaign. we know have that van der zwaan will serve 30 days in jail, he could have faced up to six mo...

Gates gates, the deputy to manafort, was in touch throughout the campaign, including the closing weeks of the campaign. september -- october 16, to a guy who was a known russian intelligence agent, a guy from the gru. we talk about this in russian roulette about his ties. he was basically running manaforts operation in kiev. he was known as the guy from the gru. and gates, manaforts deputy, was in touch with him in september and october. now, we dont know the details yet of what those communicat...

Noted. i think as with so much with mueller, we dont know what else he knows. we dont know what the nature of those communications were. but the mere fact that you had -- you know, manafort was gone from the campaign by august of 2016. gates stayed on. he actually was still a top official of the campaign. he was liaison to the rnc. then he remained, basically was running the inauguration. we now have this new evidence that he was kmaun kcommunicatina guy that the fbi believed was a russian intel...

Comes out. very difficult for the white house and the trump campaign which gates was a part of to say it had nothing to do with us. prior to his guilty plea involved things prior to him being part of the campaign. at this point in time it is clear that the idea he is there to flip on manafort is not true. it is about the links to the trump campaign and that can be a problem to the white house in the long run. >> this shows some of the hardest evidence we have so far that mueller is looking into ...

One about these contacts with the russian intelligence agent and about manafort and other actions in the campaign. >> in order for gates to have gotten a plea deal, can you just explain how that sort of works? there is a proffer session, isnt there, where essentially hes asked to say everything that he would potentially say, its kind of a free pass for that day? >> its a free pass for the day. as a matter of fact, they used to call i queen for a day. for that day, anything you say will not be us...

Other aspect. >> right and im certain he will be an important witness against paul manafort. >> he can still be called -- >> of course. if you read the indictment of manafort, its virtually every paragraph says manafort and gates did this, manafort and gates did that, he will be an important witness in that case. but obviously mueller has his eye on the ball, which is not the manafort case. its the trump campaign, and did they work with russian interests to win the election. gates was involved w...

Russian intelligence agent. what they said, what the exchanges were, was there a quid pro quo, we dont know that, it is a significant development. >> we can fight back against what the white house has been saying the presidents supporters have been saying, pundits on tv have been saying. all of the alleged ceo imse that manafort and gates were being accused of by mueller had happened a long time before the campaign, before any involvement with donald trump, according to this latest reporting. ri...

Election? and gates has a lot to say about that. gates might even know, well, gates might even know what happened at this infamous meeting with donald trump, jr. in which the russians came, he held the meeting in order to get dirt on hillary clinton. everyone said, nothing happened at that meeting. manafort was at that meeting. likely he told gates what happened at that meeting. so there is a lot of information gates could have. one about these contacts with the russian intelligence agent and ab...

What you hear from the white house, it appears robert mueller has not given up on the question of collusion, the question of collusion is very much what he wants rick gates to perhaps help his prosecutors come up with a case on. so, again, what we hear from the president, what we are hearing now from people who were close to these discussions with rick gates, appears to show a different picture that very much paints a picture that robert mueller is not done with the question of collusion. >> and...

Trump and vladimir putin though the ball is in the u.s. court they say. if you read russian media, the kremlin backed media, they say this the most tense time in relations between the two countries and this is now a full scale civil war. melissa? sorry -- the cold war. >> yes, the cold war, got you. what is the latest condition on the spy and his daughter? >> well, theres been developing news today, about that. the british police said that actually yulia, sergeis daughter is out of critical cond...