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They say plans to prove evidence that banking evidence helped manafort obtain something like $16 million while the banker saw a roll in the trump campaign. amy, whats your thought on this development? >> its not good for the white house. this is the president. this was the campaign. and if they can tie money that was linked to the campaign to this guy, you know and he eventually ended up working for the campaign, that doesnt look good to him. so i dont think this is good news for them. i think t...

Thanks so much for being here. for all the breaking news and big stories and our heroes on the homefront series, too. have a great weekend. heres shannon. >> shannon: paul man fort being sent to jail. federal judge revoking his bail after new charges attempted witness tampering. hello, everyone. im shannon bream in today for dana perino. and this is "the daily briefing." the former trump campaign chairman taken into custody after accusations he tried to contact witnesses in one of the federal ca...

Gates is strong. >> just so quickly -- lets cut right to the quick here. theyve already got manafort dead to center. they can send manafort away. so what youre saying is that this cant just be about gates turning up the pressure on manafort. he is nailed. hes had to give them more to get this kind of deal, right? >> look. we dont know everything that he has given up. we dont have that. and we wont know that for some time. but as youre pointing out, the stuff that they have against manafort and g...

And how he wanted to use all of that to insinuate himself with the trump orbit. i also want to bring in an expert on u.s.-russia relations, former u.s. ambassador to russia, michael mcphaul. what is important about what mana ford wman mana fort was doing and why so much of it was well hidden? >> much of it was in plain sight really, what manafort did, talking to the ukrainians and moving money around, that wasnt all that hard to find out. it just took the mueller investigation to bring it out in...

Consider evidence and potentially down the road possible indictments in either the trump russia investigation or the obstruction of justice investigation or both. he could convene his own grand jury. he has the option to use whatever grand jury has been convened to work on the paul mama mana fort ukraine course or convene the jury already working in the eastern district of virginia. the eastern district of virginia venue is central to whats going on. when bob mueller was first appointed special ...

Anderson, is that several members of the trump team were known to u.s. officials during the trump campaign, people like mana fort and others, people like the fbi investigation as well as the house and senate intelligence committees. i might also add that its our reporting that the u.s. had evidence of these meetings during the trump campaign. if they lie or dont provide, keep in mind, the u.s. intelligence committee, it is believed has ed of those kmoo communications as well. >> joining me now i...

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Russians before the election? >> my understanding is that what general flynn has now expressed is that during the transition period -- well, we were very clear that during the transition period he did speak with the ambassador -- >> im talking about during the campaign. >> i dont have any -- there is nothing that would conclude me that anything different has changed with respect to that time period. >> reporter: officials say it was intercepted during routine intelligence collection. and among t...