lying to them. well, listen, you know one of the things that campaigns do is give people titles that makes them feel empowered. he had a title. he was a volunteer on the campaign. that doesn t mean he was embedded in the campaign. if anything, it proves there was no collusion because, according to his testimony, the russians came to him and said they already had the emails. the trump team couldn t have gotten with the russians to find emails if the russians already had them. steve: sure. the whole thing about the trump team and the involvement is aside from the fact that mr. man ford and mr. gates were part of the trump teen all that stuff happened a long time ago. right. listen, they are probably reaching back to build some pressure. manafort was a cubous character to begin with he knew rnc rules and was able to make sure that nobody could steal the nomination from trump, but he had all sorts of problems with russians and other despots overseas. i mean, he was a shady figure to be
anna co-very much, allied with vladimir putin. the country drew him out. they said we would like somebody who represents us not vladimir putin. putin s response was we are going to send in the separatist rebels to carve up your country, hence we got the crimea situation and we still have an infiltration. when you think promoting ukraine you think friendly to the u.s. yeah, this government. but not the one prior to that. steve: so, it looks as if they were looking at paul manafort. they realized there were five companies and one of the other companies was the podesta group. they didn t file the paperwork. that s how we wound up where we are today. it is interesting though if they everywhere going to get mr. man ford pictured right there on violating the foreign agent s registration act for not filing the paperwork because he was lobbying, you know, is the podesta group guilty of the same thing? well, they certainly were late in filing their paperwork. didn t actually file it until after
right? that s true. paul manafort, trump s campaign chairman for five months, including the republican convention has said his work in eastern europe was to helping a ukrainian party. the documents and the sources that we have been in touch with and reviewed in terms of the documents demonstrate that man ford was in fact working throughout a number of years, starting in 2004 and continuing to 2009, he was working on behalf of men close to vladimir putin and traveled with him on trips. the white house has tried desperately to distance itself from paul manafort. they said he worked for a limited time and a limited capacity, which i think by any observation is vastly understating his role. in the convention, he went
multiple, law enforcement and administration officials tells cnn president trump and president obama were briefed. according u.s. officials familiar with the matter, raise a red flag, communicated were int communicating with russian national were then campaign man ford joined and was out in august flynn stayed on and resigned last night. communication between campaign staff and represents are not unusual. however these communications stood out due to the frequency
idea. i ve come to know him and he s a spectacular human being. he gives of himself, the charitable deeds he does that no one knows about. he s someone who doesn t gripe and complain. today he lost it for a good reason. he sat through ten days, ten days of this proceeding where he listened to this guy tony bosch come in there, make up stories about him, be impeached where he slithered off the witness stand and waiting for his turn to put on his case. the witness we chose to call to explain his decision, which we knew he couldn t explain would be commissioner sealy. the individual who testified according to mlb, saying mr. man ford testified the coo of baseball regarding the explanation of suspension. that s not true, piers. mr. man ford basically deferred to mr. selic.