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Republicans to blow this up as bombshell and why not focus as josh pointed on actual results. >> right. three investigations republicans blew up. >> harris: democrats did it, too. mueller became a verb at the dinner table. >> found no pattern of abuse. the republican-led intelligence committee, the republican-led intelligence committee looked into this russia investigation and found that there was no role for the ukrainian government and now we have this, that was find political bias and found n...

With turkey, correct? >> yes. >> that could open him up to compromise, that financial relationship. >> i presume. >> he also lied about his discussions with the russian ambassador and since the russians were on the other side of that conversation, they could have exposed that, could they not? >> yes. >> if a presidential candidate was doing business in russia and saying he wasnt, russians could expose that, too. >> i leave that to you. >> i will look more closely at the trump campaign chairman, ...

We are back. youre watching cnn. im brooke baldwin. just in, attorney for president trumps former campaign chairman paul manafort are responding that manafort lied to the special counsels office investigating russian election meddling and breached his plea agreement with robert mueller. shimon prokupecz is with me now. walk me through this court filing. >> reporter: something remarkable here as happened in these court documents. information that we were not supposed to see that wasnt properly re...

Submission that he chose to provide to both houses of congress ahead of his appearances. these circumstances show a deliberate effort to use his lies as a way to set the tone and shape the course of the hearing in an effort to stymie the inquiries. okay. so the special counsels office here is saying that covering up the moscow project, covering up the whole trump tower moscow thing wasnt just something that he panic and did on the spur of the moment. it was a deliberate, considered planned proce...

Them and trying to work this out so manafort can stop lying, so he can clean up what hes been lying to them about. but according to prosecutors, quote, in none of the communications with manaforts counsel was any factual or legal argument made as to why the governments assessment of manaforts credibility was erroneous or made without good faith. okay. so what this is this is muellers office, the special counsels office saying paul manafort keeps lying to us. weve got him before the grand jury. w...

The president. the defendants assistance has been useful in four significant respects. first, the defendant provided information about his own contacts with russian interests during the campaign and discussions with others in the course of making those contacts. for example, as described, the defendant provided a detailed account of his involvement and the involvement of others in the moscow project. the defendant also provided information about attempts by other russian nationals to reach the c...

The redactions here. it starts to look like this. but even with the redactions, you can still get the basics of this sort of five-part list of things that they say theyre lying about. muellers office says manafort lied to them about his interactions with konstantin kilimnik. remember that name? kilimnik was sort of manaforts right-hand man in his business in ukraine, and prosecutors have already said in other court filings that they believe konstantin kilimnik is associated with the interactions...

Bullpucky, and then he tried to change it back to original bullpucky story number one, because he hadnt been able to keep straight the first set of lies in what that had been. so this is the part of manaforts filing, which suggests that, yeah, prosecutors maybe had good reason to feel not at all comfortable with him providing anything that was supposed to be factual information about anyone. he is lying about his lying. but the final point in this manafort filing today is perhaps more serious fo...

Of new york respectfully submits this memorandum in connection with that sentencing and in response to the defendants sentencing memorandum, which was dated november 30th, 2018. cohen, an attorney and businessman, committed four distinct federal crimes over a period of federal years -- excuse me, period of several years. he was motived to do so by personal greed and repeatedly used his power and influence for deceptive ends. now he seeks extraordinary leniency, a sentence of no jail time based p...

To prosecutors. it goes on lied to them about kilimnik in a witness tampering scheme to which manafort has already plead guilty. they say he lied to them about a $125,000 payment that kilimnik made last year. manafort, according to prosecutors, misled them to what that payment was for and who it ultimately went to, and then there is a couple more things they said he lied to them about. and one of them is almost a little bit funny. one of them is not funny and is probably bad news for the white h...