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Russians, youre going to pay for what you did, you better cut it out, were not going to let you get away with this? we have no indication, even up to the last meeting that trump had that this message was ever sent to the russians by anyone connected to trump or trump himself. >> yeah, and meanwhile, david, we do know that at least from reporting, jared kushner did say to his father-in-law, the president, that, yeah, he ought to fire jim comey, which doesnt put him in a very good light. >> well, ...

That was. we have some push back from folks close to trump saying no, it was much less frequent. but clearly there is an open channel of communication here. as david suggested, its not just between manafort or folks involved in this who are being looked at and trump, in fact we know trump texted mike flynn saying, stay strong. but its also trumps team and the fbi with the report from cnn that right after trump asked comey to stand down on some of this stuff that priebus called the fbi, called bo...

Official role, you could see why the justice department would be interested. but, look, theres a lot here we dont know. the reporting is all over the map. this began with him being a significant person of interest, which is not really a legal term, and now being somebody who is under scrutiny, or just may have information that might be of interest to investigators. i think we ought to be a little cautious at this point. the only thing we can say for certainty is the mere fact that he is within t...

Point. i mean, there really is no way to isolate that dossier in the hillary clinton camp. what do you make of this idea that paul manafort was, a, advising the trump campaign or at least trying to, and still talking to them after he himself was under scrutiny? >> well, i think you see from everyone in trumps circles over the last circumstances months, effort to deflect and obstruct. this falls probably more in the category of deflect as ken reporting, kudos for the story, coming up with this al...

Politico who broke the story and david corn washington bureau chief political analyst. ken, this is a pretty block buster story. among the many interesting details is this one. that manafort, according to your story, discussed with other trump allies the possibility of launching a counter veiling investigation bayy ukrainian officials to damage hillary clintons campaign. a way to distract attention from the parallel fbi congressional russia probe. the idea that manafort was advising this incomin...

And whether paul manafort who is a very creative guy who has made millions of dollars helping politicians avoid responsibility around the globe, what else he was suggesting, what other conversations reince priebus was having with outside republicans with people who worked on the campaign? we see indications again and again and again that there were multiple conversations about what do we do to push back the fight or to block this investigation? thats all fodder for the special counselor. >> zero...

Interesting, they also say they want negotiations especially if you talk to members of the rowhani government. i spoke to the vice president just yesterday and she told me of course they want to me of course they want to deal of course they want to make a deal happ but acknowledged that there were forces here who were more conservative who, of course are more difficult to persuade in such a thing, wolf. >> fred plight ken reporting from tehran with us well stay in close touch with you over the n...

Jards kushner, the presidents son-in-law and one of his senior advisors is now under scrutiny in the fbi-russia investigation. the officials tell nbc news they believe kushner has significant information relevant to their inquiry. we should note that that does not mean that they suspect kushner of a crime or they intend to charge him with one. the fbi scrutiny of jared kushner now means the bureaus counter intelligence and criminal investigation goes not just to the white house, but all the way ...