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Manaforts attorney says muellers evidence merely demonstrates a lack of consistency in mr. manaforts recollection of certain facts and event. what do we know about the evidence against him? >> well, we havent seen what evidence mueller has, but if hes willing to file this and he is willing i understand to produce witnesses if he has to, he knows for a fact that manafort was in contact with a russian agent or someone connected to russian intelligence and passing polling data. and this really goes...

Now. roger stone is a friend of the president. i suspect everything he hears by the special counsel gets relayed to team trump. what does rudy giuliani know that we dont? >> i think people like roger stone, jim corsi, people like that, have been providing information to the presidents lawyers. jared kushner and donald trump jr.s attorneys are also sharing information. but i think youre right, what youre seeing is there is sort of a closing in of the circle here, and what it means is that the pre...

Negotiating what are higher than fair market rates. it was $107 million. the most that was ever raised for any inauguration, and really whats at issue is the illegality of pay to play. did foreign nationals give money to curry favor with the incoming trump administration, and was there overcharging by the trump inauguration committee, excuse me, to the trump inauguration committee by the trump organization and so really theres going to be a lot of discovery thats going to go if theres this inves...

Yodelled, and bit him in the ass. i dont know why the president would ever associate himself with this guy. >> okay, but he did for a dozen years. he relied on him for these sorts of things. and i want to ask you, because, again, it sounds to me pretty loudly and clearly what youre saying is that cohen is such an idiot that what he says cant be trusted. prosecutors did say that he lied. we all know hes a liar, senator, okay? but federal prosecutors describe cohen, the information he provided on ...

Know, mueller has, is going to tell us everything about what -- you know, the importance of this -- of these lies. because you have to wonder, why was he lying about these contacts? >> you know, shimon, president trumps personal lawyer for a decade-plus, michael cohen, was also in touch with russian officials on a deal to build that trump tower in moscow, which never got off the ground. now mueller is zeroing in on that deal, though, as part of his russia investigation. tell us why. >> yeah, so ...

New york prosecutors, career prosecutors and trumps own justice department said, you know, in no uncertain terms, cohen you committed a felony and the man that directed you to commit that felony is donald j. trump. >> they clearly believe that. people can look at the memo moe for themselves. >> ill tell you what, lets put up the language of what cohen and obviously was corroborated somehow by the special counsel, which is why they find it credible and say it in there. cohen received contact info...

Cohen and any other information that mueller has, that meeting never happened. but mueller goes on in his own memo here for michael cohen to say, again, that he helped us, too, with contacts that he had with white house personnel before and after the election. now, again, the presidents lucky. mueller didnt ask him about anything that happened after the election. but again that is more avenues into more people about more things that we know they believe to be criminal behavior. >> right. and thi...

Facet of our criminal justice system and puts a huge amount of pressure on people to cooperate. michael cohen is exhibit a. >> what is expected tomorrow, tom, is it manafort or cohen, what is it? >> i suspect well learn a little more behind the scenes. hearing tomorrow, mueller will file additional documents. i think at this point were still some distance away from the end of this investigation. >> bill: you do. >> i think the coming days will bring us more information about the shape of coopera...

And we see what evidence he has gathered and the total collection of charges he brings. i think at this point its too early for history to judge bob mueller and the legitimacy of this investigation. he has a number of irons in the fire and pursuing investigations and hasnt shown his hand. as far as we know he hasnt found evidence that directly links the president with collusion with russia. >> bill: whats the flynn filing with all these redactions tell you? >> its a heavy redacted document. we k...

>> they put so many chips on a square that said donald trump. obviously they didnt understand that, but they better understand it now. >> thank you, joyce vance. >> joyce, what are we going to hear friday or before friday? >> oh, weve got the manafort sentencing. >> when its time to sentence paul manafort.? >> we dont know how much detail well get, but, you know, mueller has, i think, been rewarding us for our patience by dropping new details as he files in court. well learn what it is that spec...