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With the special counsel. this filing says manafort lied about his interactions with konstantin kilimnik, a russian who has alleged ties to russian intelligence. also says manafort lied about a separate doj investigation about a wire transfer and about contact with trump administration officials. according to the feds, manafort has said he had no direct or indirect communications with anyone in the trump administration. but federal prosecutors write, quote, the evidence demonstrates that manafor...

A wire transfer and about contact with trump administration officials. according to the feds, manafort has said he had no direct or indirect communications with anyone in the trump administration. but federal prosecutors write, quote, the evidence demonstrates that manafort had contacts with administration officials. for instance, in a text exchange from may 26 of 2018, manafort authorized a person to speak with an administration official on manaforts behalf. separately, according to another man...

Saying he would work for the feds in effect by cooperating with the special counsel. this filing says manafort lied about his interactions with konstantin kilimnik, a russian who has alleged ties to russian intelligence. also says manafort lied about a separate doj investigation about a wire transfer and about contact with trump administration officials. according to the feds, manafort has said he had no direct or indirect communications with anyone in the trump administration. but federal prose...

Financial dealings that manafort has, probably the facilitators of it, and something that we should sort of expect will take center stage as this trial comes down about sort of the ins and outs of paul manaforts financial machinations. >> the manafort team has gotten another week or so, ten days, right, to go through a lot of these documents. the trial now has been postponed. its not starting this week. its going to start a week and a half or so later. the president, though, garrett has tried to...

Not only between manafort, gates and the ollie daigarchs but now mueller looking at the oligarchs directly and interviewing them in an effort to understand what happened. so it is a widening net for mueller and a tightening noose for manafort. >> reporter: manafort has pleaded not guilty to criminal indictments in virginia and washington, d.c. stemming from the mueller probe. and now cnn has learned that muellers team is using information obtained during the manafort investigation to continue to...

>> there may have been back channels used by oligarchs to fund the trump campaign and perhaps the inauguration as well. >> reporter: cnn reported that mueller has pinpointed at least three russian oligarchs whose identity was unknown. one was stopped when his private plane stopped in the new york city area and agents searched their electronics. >> now mueller is looking at the oligarchs directly and interviewing them in an effort to understand from their point of view what happened here. so its ...

Spokesman confirms the raid, but then reiterated that manafort has, quote, consistently cooperated with law enforcement and other serious inquiries and did so on this occasion as well. but the fbi obviously hasnt gotten what they wanted and they ultimately resorted to this raid. wolf? >> really dramatic development. jessica snyder reporting for us. thanks very much. the raid of manaforts home in suburban washington, northern virginia raises lots of questions. lets bring in our senior legal analy...

Knowingly with russian intelligence officials. i dont think its possible i could have inadvert eptly had discussions with russian officials. its not like they wear badges. the story is not true. manafort has said the fbi has not questioned him and law enforcement, a senior law enforcement official confirms to nbc news today that that is the case. we should also note a law enforcement official telling us some of the language thats being reported about repeated contacts is overheated but they do b...