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The fbi felt strongly enough about paul manafort and his interactions vis-a-vis this russia investigation that they felt the need to reinstate a wiretap that they had ended a while ago. because there were things that clearly came to their attention that they felt warranted a lot of investigation. as youre investigating the question of collusion. the russia hack into the election and the rest of it. this story makes mr. manafort look like more of a central figure in this. you cant draw any conclu...

Document production would potentially help mueller shift the investigation or sort of guide mueller in his investigation away from trump because cobb feels theres nothing in these documents to hide we also were able to flesh out more from our subsequent reporting, which is that these. this document production should be done only after a very thorough review as to whether these documents should potentially be privileged. is that is something that mcgann, we understand feels cobb is not taking int...

It reflects a good amount of investigation, there is a legal standard they have to meet they go through review at the highest levels of the fbi and the department of justice. theyre signed by the director of the fbi and the attorney general. if paul manafort were a named intercept interceptee. was he an incidental target or otherwise, i request guarantee you it went to the attorney general level for review and approval. >> this is actually really crucial what you just said. the reason why is bec...

Done to determine whether theres a criminal violation here. we didnt get a comment from paul manaforts spokesman. he denied he ever knowingly communicated with russian intelligence operatives during the election. >> so pamela, youre reporting here in a paul manafort has been monitors not once but twice? >> thats right, erin. our team has told that the secret order began after manafort became the subject of an fbi investigation in 2014 many we previously reported that for ukraines former ruling p...

More thorny questions than he expects. erin? out front now, ken vogel. a reporter for the new york times who heard president trumps attorney discussing the investigation. ken, let me start with you youre at a stake house, set the scene, did you see ty cobb before you sat down? did they sit down next to you? >> we actually, my source and i were seated before they came in we had probably been there for a half hour, my source points over my shoulder and says, hey, isnt that that guy? hes not the ...

Ranking campaign person. other sources told us this intelligence was not conclusive enough, robert muellers team had been provided all of these communications, erin. >> when you say encouraging, man in a for the encouraging russians to help with the campaign. obviously, the weight of everything is on that word encouraging, what do you mean by it? >> right, theres a lot we dont know about exactly what was said, this is beyond just wiretaps, its also surveillance of all kinds, including searches t...

They would have had to have had an incredible amount of documentation to get this. things just smell funny, it was based on real bona fide information. thanks very much to all three of you. next, we continue our coverage of this breaking news, donald trump not the only one talking about the election, still, hillary clinton now today, guess what. shes open to questioning the legitimacy of the results. trumps legal team have a public discussion about the russia investigation. who took this pictu...

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