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A big question in terms of overall gist of manafort and his case will be to what degree he 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 i...

Campaign aides and it was lied about this man, kilimnik that led to mueller jailing that dutch lawyer in london. if you remember that. he acted as a go between for putin and oleg. mueller is investigating the changes that are made to help russia in the 2016 gop platform and this man allegedly bragged about pulling that off but denied any links to russian intelligence. >> if there had been any questions about my reel allegiance, he would have thrown me out of this administration. i have my own va...

Have been b scrutinizing is significant in the fact you have a company which is potentially aaffiliate wd a russian oligarch seems to have been doing business with michael cohen here. >> cara, you know what more do we know about him? hes not one of the commonly, the oligarchs. not like oleg. victor now a very important name. what do you know about him and what is it that mueller and the fbi wanted to know from him? >> well, erin, he is one of the most prominent although maybe not household busin...

>> while donald trump who is sometimes the chief commu communications director of his administration. his treasury department now announcing its just going to start easing some of those very sanctions including on one of the most important people you see there on your screen. oleg darapasta, he is of course wrapped up in the russian probe. paul manafort owed him money. during the campaign of secret briefings back to oleg, the focus here is so intense that he offered to cooperate with congress wh...

Business? >> part of it. the other part important to note is that the oligarch was sanctioned not because he was a bad actor but for having ties to oleg. the ties are basically that he owns a company that owns rusal. so the effects of the sanction, they feel theyre in jeopardy and need to ask for an exemption, theyre saying listen, we are not involved in bad behavior, and we think that we are owed this exemption. its obviously having a massive impact. were not -- >> dont blame us because he owns...

Atlantic magazine turned up e-mails from when manafort was running trumps campaign and manafort appeared to link the job on the trump campaign to his outstanding unsettled business matters with oleg. he e-mailed a business associate asking if oleg seen the press clippings about manafort becoming the campaign chair and asked if there is a way he can use that to get whole with oleg. he offered private briefings on the campaign to him. his business associate and say they assess as having current ti...

Igor is not ascensioned, so put everything on him. today igor got sanctioned. both him, his dad and uncle, are all in a position where theyre not stripped, but theyre quite internationally constrained. theres two last things to know here. first is that the person who appears to be hardest hit by the sanctions today is somebody who is a familiar figure from the russia scandal. in particular the scandal surrounding paul manafort. his name is oleg gorpaska, a very rich oligarch, close to putin. he ...

By him. hes really singled out. aside from his business influence, he is well-known because of long standing business dealings with paul manafort who is awaiting trial on multiple felonies. the a.p. reported back in march of last year that in 2006, manafort signed a $10 million a year contract with oleg to promote the interest in the united states and around the world. the a.p. has stood by that reporting. beyond that $10 million a year reported contract, deripaska tried multiple business ventur...

Olegs country meaning russia. manafort and his business associate then met up in new york in early august 2016 to discuss whatever those messages were from oleg. at the time, manafort was trumps campaign manager. well, oleg is now sanctioned by the u.s. government and his business empire has just had a drop today and hes close to putin and nobody knows how the russian government is going to respond. they say they will respond in kind but there is no russian equivalent to looking multibillionaire...

Including in the sanction was olo oleg dare paska, former associate of paul manafort. as for paul manafort, special counsel robert muellers have a new search warrant against him, the seventh so far, one of those warrants for a storage locker. his attorneys filed a motion to suppress evidence found inside that locker. lets bring in barbara mcquaid and also the author of the book "how to catch a russian spy." what do you make of this weeks developments, barbara and what i just introduced our segme...