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So to be clear, mr. trump had no financial relationships with any russian oligarchs? >> thats what he said at the time, thats obviously what our position is. >> with a poker face like that, its a small miracle robert muellers investigators ever figured out manafort had lied to them. today its a little bit harder for donald trump to say no collusion. a federal judge last night confirmed something many people, including muellers prosecutors, suspected for some time, ex-campaign chairman paul manaf...

Simple. easy. awesome. a second hearing is determining right now to determine whether manafort lie to robert mueller. federal judge amy berman can

About that. >> and in part maybe he told the legal team he wasnt going to be completely straightforward about this, but the big question is why did manafort lie, why did michael flynn lie? why were all these people trying to protect themselves or the president? >> the conference for rick gates sentencing was extended, basically. that suggests to me that mueller may have a ways to go, right? because gates is cooperating, theres more cooperation he expects to get out of gates. we dont know if its ...

Maybe all of this happened, but the president knew nothing about it. i think thats ultimately the question that the special counsel will have to answer, is what did the president know, when did he know it, who was briefed on these activities. but this flies in direct contradiction to the assertions by so must haany of these indiv that they had no contact with russia, they had no knowledge of the e-mails, didnt know anything about their release. these e-mails confirm there was an ongoing coordina...

That he was showing his recollection to the best of his ability. >> right. and the question again of the pardon potentially hangs over all this. but as you listen, there are theories that have been put out there that perhaps bob mueller let manafort lie to him and maybe the president would then lie in his written answers. what do you think this means, the loss of manafort as a cooperating witness? >> were going to engage in some reckless speculation here. you already noted, mike, that theres a p...