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Story line. >> it makes it much harder to argue that point, especially because when youre a figural like manafort, youre heavily involved in everything the trump campaign was doing. so he was the point of contact for many people trying to get into the campaign. he knew -- a lot of people in washington knew about manaforts shady business dealings before, and they still hired him on the campaign. so that raises questions of judgment and evaluation of character on behalf of trump and anyone else wh...

Anywhere, their demands are getting more ridiculous. once they conclude that theres no point in still negotiating over this potential interview, and if they still need trumps take on everything that went down, then youre looking into something approaching september, october when they would subpoena. what trumps lawyers are worried about is he has a history of not telling the truth in these types of depositions, and just in general as a public figure. so theyre worried they could get him on obstr...

Explain the legal exposure, the potential quid pro quo for the banker, for manafort and who is exposed here? >> put it this way, were talking about evidence that would be introduced in the manafort trial. what theyre attempting to do is to establish giving the jury information as to why the loans were approved. why they were approved is because you had a high-level executive intervene and otherwise overrule which perhaps would not be an approved loan because of the quid pro quo. hey, i want to b...

Signed these early morning raid orders before as a superior court judge in new jersey, what is the process going forward after such a raid regarding manafort and the bigger picture? >> the evidence that they obtained will be examined and sort of put in whatever puzzle theyre putting together. and then it will be explained to a grand jury and probably seek an indictment of somebody. their m.o., the standard operating procedure of federal prosecutors is to indict lower level people, even on extran...

The trump campaign. robert muellers team plans to present that evidence at trial. here is sara murray with more. >> reporter: paul manaforts role as the former trump campaign chairman wasnt expected to be a part of his upcoming trials that have to do with financial charges and allegations of former lobbying work. special counsel robert muellers team decided they would change all that putting out a new filing on friday evening. prosecutors say they node to present this information because they sa...

Were the targets, but its also possible that its a tangential figure that we havent thought of and this is an attempt by mueller to send a message. this is what happens. its going to be a disquieting day for whoever it is. >> does it make any difference if the person getting indicted is someone close to the president, like manafort, like flynn, who have been close to the president back then but are not now? >> well, politically i think it would make a huge difference. if this is a name weve bare...

But on capitol hill, both sides are treating it as anything but. senate judiciary chuck grassley wants donald trump jr. to testify. house democratic leader nancy pelosi wants the security clearance revoked for jared kushner, the presidents son-in-law, who like manafort was also at the russia meeting. and shes calling for the releefs electronic communications within the trump campaign and trump family. meantime, senate republicans are wrang lg over their leaderships latest version of a health car...