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Trump campaign is still unclear. the document also gave no indication whether president trump was aware of manafort transferring the data and didnt specify how kilimnik might have used it. we do know manafort and his deputy rick gates asked kilimnik to give it to the uen cran oligarchs, who financed russian-backed political parties. george vance, let me start with you on this, how can something like this potentially or could it potentially implicate the president more broadly having hired paul m...

Run the campaign, or is that connection not strong enough for that to be an issue? >> i think the short answer is we dont know. mueller likely has a lot of information thats not publicly available but its pretty interesting to me manafort, whose best protection here would have been to tell muellers team everything that he knew, that was his one guarantee of getting favorable treatment at sentencing, there was something here that was so important that he had to protect it. i think that certainly ...

And transactions for real estate over the years. >> everyone in washington knew paul manafort had worked for the worst russian oligarchs and anti anti-ukrainians who were part russian stooges and so forth, and it was such a mind-boggling appointment that he thought he could get out of that. but in particular the close relations to a lot of the same oligarchs who sort of funded directly or indirectly trump. for me manafort is big tell. you can say he didnt have some of the normal guards, but he a...

This is serious. im joined by joyce vance, former u.s. attorney and msnbc analyst.ooks to me manafort is going inside and he may not get out ever. >> i thinkhats a strong possibility. prosecutors dont like defendants who go out and try totacher with witnesses. usually judges dont like that any more than prosecutors do. he could find his bond revoked on friday. >> hes got a hobcyian choice now. he can wait for a pardon with trump, there he is stoically going into and out of court all day or wait ...

With citi, we see a bright future for our farmers and their families. ♪ the stunning new revelation in robert muellers russia investigation, we are just learning that paul manaforts former son-in-law jeffrey cut a plea deal with federal investigators back in january. and according to "the wall street journal", he has met with investigators on robert muellers team. joining us ken vogel, "the new york times." ken, i actually read this on your twitter feed. youre writing about the back story. y...

There? why would they have to go to that length? >> yeah. usually theres a probable cause. theres a reason to believe youre not getting all the evidence thats there, or you want to confirm youre getting all the evidence thats there. manafort said he cooperated and turned over documents. but that extra step, i think its telling, came the next day after he turned over documents to the judiciary committee. he testified. its a sequenced event and looks planned. theres obviously some reason to think ...