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Were going get real attempt by law enforcement to bring this man to justice. >> take a brief listen to what you just alluded to. the evidence put forward in public by michael cohen. >> in the office with me was allen weisselberg. he made the decision. always allen weisselberg on the check. >> the grand jury runs until november. what do you think what will happen to weisselberg between now and then? >> one of the only reasons that trump is not in jail already is hes been blessed in his life to fi...

Inconsistency, although that certainly did not occur before when he testified. theyre hoping they can find daylight from williams the pence aide and vindman in terms of what they say about it. personally what im watching for mostly is does the president tweet again. he did himself real damage, republicans and his own advisers will admit by tweeting about yovanovitch during the hearing as she was testifying that she felt threatened. >> and what was that damage? what does that damage look like? >>...

Filing that could lead to life in prison. the special counsel says manafort violated his plea agreement by lying to the fbi and by prosecutors on a variety of subject matter, lying to them after he agreed to cooperate with them. it is remarkable. so thats where we begin. we are in washington. where did this come from? and what does it mean for both manafort, but also for the mueller probe? >> yeah. those are the things right now were all focussed on. what does this mean for the manafort probe? w...

Return when the president was dragged into admitting that in fact it was the russian whose were responsible, you saw him again calling it a hoax. im sure that within a few days well see him surfacing conspiracy theories about the dnc server. >> last week in helsinki. >> another way of saying it wasnt the russians, it was somebody else. he cannot afford to be in the place that he was in this week because he doesnt know whats coming next in the manafort probe. thats why you see him returning to th...

Under the bus and causing them to be probably disbarred. what he did, if the presidents word is true, would clearly be illegal, but we dont have any reason to believe that its true. we know that the president has a loose affiliation with truth telling, anyway. and the story doesnt make any sense. so that may be the connection between russia and stormy daniels. >> let me hit you, jill. im so glad we have you right now, because i was just handed some breaking news from politico. let me read the he...

Telling, anyway. and the story doesnt make any sense. so that may be the connection between russia and stormy daniels. >> let me hit you, jill. im so glad we have you right now, because i was just handed some breaking news from politico. let me read the headline to both of you. mueller moves to seize bank accounts in manafort probe. special counsel robert muellers office moved to seize bank accounts at three different financial institutions last year just one day before former trump campaign cha...

True. we know that the president has a loose affiliation with truth telling, anyway. and the story doesnt make any sense. so that may be the connection between russia and stormy daniels. >> let me hit you, jill. im so glad we have you right now, because i was just handed some breaking news from politico. let me read the headline to both of you. mueller moves to seize bank accounts in manafort probe. special counsel robert muellers office moved to seize bank accounts at three different financial ...

Is theres almost an entire page of the document redacted. so he listed a number of things that he was tasking robert muler with investigating we dont know yet. as much as what we know in the document is fascinating, what we dont know the is even more fascinating. > ben, what was your reaction to that document? >> i agree very much that its interesting any shedding light on the collusion component of the manafort probe which has not been what weve focused on to date. i also think, frankly, it was...

That memo that sets out in greater detail what rod rosenstein tacked mueller to do is theres almost an entire page of the document redacted. so he listed a number of things that he was tasking robert muler with investigating we dont know yet. as much as what we know in the document is facenating, what we dont know the is even more fascinating. > ben, what was your reaction to that document. >> i agree very much that its interesting any shedding light on the collusion component of the manafort pr...

Lawful, it only applies to federal prosecutions. not state prosecutions. on august 29th, we reported exclusive on "the beat" that one attorney was considering a probe relating to russia. the very next day, politico filed one this headline. mueller teams one new york attorney general in manafort probe. so there was reporting that local prosecutors to help mueller pick up his case in the face of a trump pardon. tonight we have a new development on this front that comes from muellers office. a pote...