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Clearance. this more than, paul manaforts lawyers are back in court to prepare for his next trial. this as we learn the former trump campaign chairman sought a plea deal to avoid a second grueling court battle. we have more on the manafort case. lets begin with jessica schneider who has more on whats happening with bruce ohr. what exactly are house investigators trying to learn from bruce ohr today? >> conservatives on capitol hill, they say they want the truth from bruce ohr. how freedom caucus...

About donald trump during the election. republicans, they have been raising issues about the timing of the meetings. they are saying that those meetings often occurred around crucial milestones in the early days of the russia investigation, including when court warrants were secured. they want to know why ohr met with steele at all, especially after the fbi t i terminated it relationship with the former british spy. it started around 9:00 a.m. it could prove to be a long and contentious day for ...

Dispute over housing. even the trump showed a total lack of respect for prosecutors, a landmark moment in his real estate career, he called the case ridiculous. it got him to enter a consent decree, promising him not to discriminate and rent to tenants regardless of race. joining me is elise goldweber. >> hi. >> did you ever think the person you were suing then, to prevent discrimination, would become president? >> never that he would become president, never. >> what do you see in the echoes tod...

Question. hes been inside that room. >> i was in there for around like five to six hours. and there could have -- a lot of it had to do specifically with michael. and the fact that they then -- they put out michaels case to the southern district meant to me that they didnt really believe that michael had anything of value. >> nick, your view? >> my view is that michael cohen is cooperating with mueller and hes cooperating with the southern district. the plea that he entered into, that plea agree...

She says she could have gotten away from him if she wanted to. ill read you the quote. im sure if i would have taken off running, he wouldnt have even given chase. and even if i had, theres no way he could have caught me. hes even less likely, she says, to catch me now. provocative talk aside, donald trump is on the run in this case. daniels has authorized her lawyer to seek a deposition from the president himself. they argue that will be more likely now that michael cohen has pled guilty. has p...

Folks have fixers and shady financial deals and donald trump talks like a mafioso wide guy asking for loyalty pledges and complaining about witnesses who flip. and so in that context it has to be looked at with more suspicion. and paul manafort is already indicted for witness tampering. thats also going to make the prosecutors look at this more than they will look at any just random burglaries. ari, what happens is federal prosecutor, you get your fbi agent to make a call to nypd. look, this is ...

Investigation of russian interference in the 2016 campaign is ongoing. but theres growing evidence that senate republicans whove cautioned trump against firing sessions are now, quote, resigned to the prosecute he may do so after the midterm elections, a sign that one of the last remaining walls of opposition of such a move is crumbling. ty, your response to this breaking story? >> my response is that rod rosenstein will continue to do the work of the special counsel. he will continue to oversee...

Already been charges of that kind of obstructive conduct, of trying to fix the evidence. now, here, again, authorities arent telling us theyre investigating it this way. do you think this is something that the prosecutors would be interested in? >> there is no doubt that the prosecutors have already made contact with nypd to make sure that they know everything about how the call was made, what the first statement by the banker was, whats missing, what was in the briefcase? undoubtedly there is g...

Rick gates statements had to be turned over to the defense at that time. they have an idea and manafort has a good idea about what -- >> your theory here is the reason why the way it looks in public doesnt make sense is because the way it looks in public is not the full story, that michael cohen didnt just plead out of the blue with no other idea that he could get leniency and that lanny davis sounds wishy-washy, not because hes a potential idiot, but because he is responding to pressures that a...

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