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A spokesman for manafort says its 100 false to suggest this meeting including any discussion of contributions to the Trump Campaign or the Republican Party. When donald trump jr. Talked about the meeting he called it nothing and manafort said he was on his phone most of the time. The whole contact took how long . 20 minutes or so. 20 minutes. And jared left after five or ten. Yes. Like she said and paul manafort. On his phone. The whole time. Like i said it was pretty apparent this is not what w...

Departure lounge. >> when he was arrested, and pleaded poverty essentially when he said, i cant pay all this bail, and only had to post $200,000. thats a lot of money for us, but compared to what he was being asked to. and then we find out $1 million from, as frank says, a russian connected oligarch apparently. why do you think hes not a flight risk? i mean it seems to me that he has all of the markings of one. obviously the judge and, you know, i think judges do really important work for us, an...

And then we find out $1 million from, as frank says, a russian-connected oligarch, apparently. why do you think hes not a flight risk? i mean, it seems to me that he has all of the markings of one. obviously, the judge -- and you know, i think judges do really important work for us and judges evaluate the facts as they see them. i think that lev parnas got something that most of us would not get, a big, big gift at holiday time. >> frank, we learned a bunch of things today. number one, on the ma...

From, as frank said, a russian-connected oligarch apparently -- why do you think hes not a flight risk? i mean, it seems to me that he has all of the markings of one. obviously the judge -- you know, i think judges do really important work for us and judges evaluate the facts as they see them. i think that lev parnas got something that most of us would not get, big, big gift at holiday time. >> frank, we learned a bunch of things today. on the manafort front, he is in the hospital, apparently ha...

Clean bill of health as the president, you know, claimed on the south lawn of the white house today. >> heidi, i want to read a tweet from adam schiff, the chairman of the house intelligence committee. the statement by paul manaforts lawyer after an already lenient sentence repeating the presidents mantra of no collusion was no accident. it was a delivered appeal for a pardon, one injustice must not follow another: so hes basically saying, first of all, the judge didnt say no collusion, the lawy...

It was the deliberate appeal for a pardon, one injustice must not follow another. so schiff is basically saying first of all, what phil just said, the judge didnt say no collusion, the lawyer said no collusion. and that was intended for an appeal for a pardon. talk about adam schiffs game here and how this action can shift to capitol hill on the manafort front. >> right. based on our reporting the intelligence committee is actually getting a lot of information in coordination with other committe...

You basically get a long stack of subpoenas that uently be filled out wh information of the people youre going to call. i think this is yet another indication that on the manafort front, mueller is plowing ahead. manafort is one of the very few folks who has been caught up in all of this who has yet to strike a deal. so as of now, all systems appear geared for trial but well see how that ultimately plays out. >> because it is a day that ends with "why," we do have other news regard region invest...

President trump continues to react. >> ive talked to multiple people today who were giving me completely different stories. i have i somebody who has spoken with the president multiple times today who said to me hes completely cool. when he heard about papadopoulos he said who is the hell is this guy? i dont even know who he is, that he expected clearly something on the manafort front. then i spoke with somebody else who has spoken with the president and i said well, somebody described him as co...

Reported that muellers team is interested in talking to senior trump administration officials. we have seen reporting that mueller is working with the irs. we learned last night that he is working possibly with new york attorney general eric snyderman to have state charges brought that cant be pardoned by the president. in your opinion what thread of the investigation are they pulling the hardest on? >> i think what we are seeing is a very aggressive prosecutor, especially on the manafort front....

We learned last night that he is working possibly with new york attorney general eric snyderman to have state charges brought that cant be pardoned by the president. in your opinion what thread of the investigation are they pulling the hardest on? >> i think what we are seeing is a very aggressive prosecutor, especially on the manafort front. we saw him last month execute a search warrant to go into manaforts house. that is a very -- thats a big move for a prosecutor to take, especially at a tim...