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And that situation with the dents seemed to come to a head right around the time of the u.s. presidential elections. what i learned most importantly from boyarkin when i spoke to him is that they were putting pressure on manafort, including during the election campaign, to pay back the money that deripaska says manafort owes him. so that was the kind of key information, as i saw it, because it showed that powerful figures in russia had significant leverage over the chairman of the trump campaign...

Paul manafort alleged read oleg deripaska millions of dollars. the story quotes a middle man as saying he pressured manafort during the height of the 2016 presidential race to pay it back and that manafort offered ways to do so. so what does that mean? well, essentially that a powerful russian may have had leverage over the future presidents campaign chairman. the same being investigating for possible collusion with the kremlin. matthew chance is live for us in moscow. matthe you have tried to q...

Well, this morning, president trumps attorney rudy giuliani is issuing an ultimatum to special counsel robert mueller. put up or shut up. giuliani is pressuring mueller to submit his report on whether the russia investigation has found evidence of collusion. by the way, even if it has, giuliani says collusion is not a crime. now, this comes as a new "time" magazine report shows the leverage the russians apparently had over paul manafort at the time he was trumps campaign chair. joining me now to...

That russian ex-spy reportedly contacted manafort on behalf of a russian billionaire who has close ties to the kremlin. what does this suggest to you about the influence the russians may have had over manafort at this time where he was part of the campaign? >> any time you have that kind of leverage over someone like paul manafort, its concerning. that being said, there hasnt bib from the mueller camp or from the special prosecutors office any charges whatsoever against manafort relative to any ...

Illegal immigrants getting -- they could use it for health care. >> im going to defend donald trump for a second. donald trump did try to negotiate on daca and immigration security and he got his head handed to him and not by me and not by my party but by this party and many people on this channel. >> thats not what happened. >> thats exactly what happened. >> sandra: mark, your final thought. >> if the democrats are smart, they have to decide are they the resis dance oresistance or a gog majori...

Both sides say they are going to reach a deal and then you can end the shutdown. they dont actually have to have a signed piece of paper. that is possible. i think that doesnt realistically happen until after january 3rd. so, yeah. sandra: by the way, if -- i believe sonny hoyer, nancy pelosi, theyll put legislation on the floor, january 3rd, will the president just veto anything that doesnt have a wall in it? >> absolutely. he should. this is a bigger issue than just the shutdown. this goes to ...

If they want to 11 million illegal immigrants getting -- they could use it for health care. >> im going to defend donald trump for a second. donald trump did try to negotiate on daca and immigration security and he got his head handed to him and not by me and not by my party but by this party and many people on this channel. >> thats not what happened. >> thats exactly what happened. >> sandra: mark, your final thought. >> if the democrats are smart, they have to decide are they the resis dance ...

Both sides say they are going to reach a deal and then you can end the shutdown. they dont actually have to have a signed piece of paper. that is possible. i think that doesnt realistically happen until after january 3rd. so, yeah. sandra: by the way, if -- i believe sonny hoyer, nancy pelosi, theyll put legislation on the floor, january 3rd, will the president just veto anything that doesnt have a wall in it? >> absolutely. he should. this is a bigger issue than just the shutdown. this goes to ...

On-scene commander it always has an impact on a commander-in-chief or any leader. >> eric: did you think he should reverse the decision? >> he hasnt issued that order to the pentagon yet. that came as a result of a tweet. yes, i dont think we should do that. there is a major reason. we have the taliban at the table because we said we did not establish a date certain for ending our commitment to afghanistan. that changed the policy that was in play for a number of years by the obama administratio...

The negotiations for the funding for dhs and the wall? and then theres the separate question, entirely separate question whether or not the president wants to agree to have a fight later in february. have a big valentines day fight, thats when this would run out, when we get closer to the debt ceiling, if the president wants to take these fights and arguments in sequence, the democrats have given him the opportunity. if the president thinks he has more leverage now with all these other agencies ...