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Presidents former campaign chairman paul manafort. manaforts interviews have been a significant part of muellers investigation to date and with his investigation appearing to wrap up, this could be the last major filing. over the past few months we have learned a lot from the memos like this, last month because of a computer formatting glitch no kidding thats honestly what it was, manaforts attorneys accide accidentally revealed mueller believed he was sharing polling data during the 2016 electi...

Polling data, thats not like top-secret information. >> i -- >> right. >> no, i agree with that. i agree. i hate to say this, anderson. i agree with the two lawyers who have been on tonight. its the first time ever ill say that. but i mean, the lawyers for the defense have a right to see the information that mueller has. so if there is information thats been passed along to kilimnik, i think if its not extremely sensitive, they should have it. i mean, in terms of the conversation you were having...

Look, im just saying that part doesnt make sense. but lets leave that there. thats one aspect of this. now you get into a what did he do? they believe. we have to see the proof but they say he gave polling data to the russian guy with the connections. okay. then it turns out that the russian trolls that were trying to manipulate message start targeting the same places and faces that the trump campaign did to a certain extent and that leads you to connect a to b and say i wonder if thats what the...

The linchpin to collusion with russia if there is. >> well, he could be. he could be and, you know, as youve pointed out now tonight, his contact with konstantin kilimnik is probably the most interesting and questionable element of all of these many, many russian contacts whether its don junior and trump tower or michael cohen on building a tower in moscow. heres the thing and this is something that people might not appreciate if you havent run a bunch of elections you might not fully understand...

Documents werent released until few hours ago. 800 pages total which included exhibit actual sentencing memo i have here black lines heavily redacted i spoke with a justice producer said no major bombshells in a 25 page memo, in fact, many expected to find out an actual prison recommendation for paul manafort but no specific sentence number mentioned. the memo reads, quote, manafort chose repeatedly and knowingly to violate the law whether laws prescribe garden variety crimes such as tax fraud, ...

Mr. manafort lied about providing the polling data konstantin kilimnik because he feared that if the president knew that he would not pardon him. it sort of cuts both ways, but if you step back for a minute and look at the larger context, mueller is winding down. that means that a lot of other investigations are probably going to be referred out to other u.s. attorneys offices and a lot of this is going to, to some degree, continue. its not necessarily going to be the end. >> it means that the l...

And repeated again that there was no collusion. hes been saying the whole time this is a witch hunt and hoax. and the fact that as ken says that russia apparently is not mentioned at all in these documents that thats a fact that the president is going to jump on theres no question about that. and will use that as evidence or as example to say that hes been right the whole time. >> ben, i want to get back to the investigation with you for a moat here. it did find manafort did share some polling d...

Out from this filing. the judge found, with respect to the allegations of the spells counsel that mr. manafort lied about his attempts to commu communicate with the white house. that was one piece she didnt believe the special counsel had sufficient information for a lie. which of course bears on a broader question of speculation. but witness tampering or obstruction of justice. >> trying to look at the court of public opinion is a question of how to think about manafort in all of this. is this ...

General at any time in the next week. the president now says heseger for the report to come out. >> you know the nice part? no collusion, obstruction, no anything. no phone calls, no nothing. so i look forward to seeing the report. if its an honest report, it will say that. >> you catch the no phone calls thing there? weird. we will get to see a key document in the case against paul manafort. in fact were expecting it any minute now. tonight is the deadline to file a sentencing memo where manafo...

Or was he a conduit in some sort of relationship here? >> it looks suspicious. those dots are all over. you look in particular at an august 2016 meeting that manafort had a dinner meeting with kilminik. they left by separate entrances. this is where they discussed ukrain deal russia very much wanted to get out of the ukrain mess. it was where manafort may have handed over this polling data. which goes to the heart of the concerns about russian manipulation and the election. and what happened aft...