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Do we have any explanation yet why the sanctions were listed as it relates to oleg? >> of all the people in trumps sphere, somehow he has flown under the radar. this is just the first volley in terms of bringing mnuchin in as really a fulcrum of information. first it has to do with the sanctions. thats the most immediate issue. they face a 30-day deadline to try and reverse those sanctions. number one question who pressured you to do this. >> hes not going to answer that. >> well, doesnt mean th...

Those sanctions and why you specifically targeted oleg, this billionaire oligarch who is linked to putin. he says that hes divested himself of these companies. this came after a heavy lobbying campaign and the decision was made as lawmakers much going into the holiday break. >> it was quite late in the season. i want to talk more. we got a little bit of breaking news. nbc news just learned the former attorney for president trump, michael cohen will testify publicly before congress. in a statemen...

Manafort was deeply in debt to deripaska. manafort began looking for ways to pay that back. a spokesman for manafort declined to comment. cnn caught up with deripaska last year. >> did manafort owe you millions of dollars and hes the head of the trump campaign? >> deripaska with our matthew chance who caught up with him. here is how the author of "trump slash russia" explained this very complex reporting to cnn ryan nobles. >> oleg is extremely close to putin and the kremlin. he said on a couple...

Relationship with oleg. he was working for the campaign for free. what is he getting in return here? theres a lot of questions about whether or not paul manaforts work for the trump campaign was a way to settle debts he had. this is something i think mueller may be looking into and this is redacted and something looking forward to. >> so if we were to look at the business matter here, why hes willing to lie and potentially protecting him and also the sdny cohen matchup where les not investigatin...

Constanti constanti constantine kalinik. >> hes the one who received the infamous e-mail there paul manafo manafort. have you told oleg how do we use it to make it whole? that guy has connections to patton? >> yes,. bob mueller and his team are interested in konstantin kilimnik. they used the company to do lobbying work for ukraine, which is the charges sam patton pled

Which is an organization dedicated to spreading democracy around the world affiliated with the republican party. he had run that office in moscow where importantly he first met constantine kalinik. >> hes the one who received the infamous e-mail there paul manafort. have you told oleg how do we use it to make it whole? that guy has connections to patton? >> yes,. bob mueller and his team are interested in konstantin kilimnik. they used the company to do lobbying work for ukraine, which is the ch...

Paul manafort case. >> so he is -- kilimnick, just to remind everyone, is the sort of russian intelligence linked deputy of paul manafort. hes the one who receives the infamous e-mail from paul manafort when he gets the job as campaign manager. how do we use to get whole. like i got the job, have you told oleg. how do we use it to get whole. that guy has connections to patten, youre saying. >> yes. and the charges today are very much about that guy. i think one of the things that we learned toda...

Income. so one of the things that manaforts defenders have long said about this case is this isnt about russia. he was paid bayy ukrainians, russians. he was actually paid by russian, oleg. thats the man he was offering private briefings to during the campaign. that is important not really for this trial, but all of us who are following this to try to understand what it means for the russia investigation, nicolle. >> frank figliuzzi, a smart man named ken dilanian once told me follow the money a...

Was doing anything, his motives and what he was up to had anything to do with the campaign at all. weve seen from e-mails that have been released from his correspondence that they were trying to figure out how to get more money out of oleg. and obviously, paul manafort was allegedly interested in trying to use his position to get something out of a bank. the question of whether it has anything to do with it. >> when you say free lancer, another word that arises is hustler. the question is whethe...

The fact that he and trump didnt have a little trash talk about russia alludes me. >> he owed millions of dollars to oleg. at the end of the day, why was manafort invited to the meeting? >> this guy has money in his pocket. he knows something on trump that could spring him from prison. >> manafort was the chairman, he was in the room for meetings that gates was not at. he had more visibility into the finances of the campaign and the trump organization. he could have more value to mueller and his...