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You see it now. the judge used the right standard. it is laid out. that is the process. its in the record as fact. heres what i dont get. the meetings werent illegal. they were not even arguably a problem for him. why lie about them? i get lying about the payments. i get lying about the money transfers and stuff like that. he was trying to cover his tracks from attacks and investigative perspective but why did he lie about these things? >> thats the question. in the entire investigation. why wou...

Released that manafort shared polling data in 2016 with kilimnick. he said they need to be investigated further even as republicans say at this point theres no signs of any collusion between trump campaign and the russians, but this revelation from the federal judge last night that paul manafort lied about those interactions with kilimnick add ing more fodder to mark warner as they push forward on the russia probe. >> youre right. it looks like this division on capitol hill over this in intensif...

Discuss this. lies, that is where we are starting this morning, ellie. were going to talk about the what and then the why. the what is paul manafort lying about these meetings with konstantin kilimnik who is this official who worked with him before when he was a political consultant but who the fbi believes has ties to russian intelligence. manafort lied, so said this judge, about interactions and communications with kilimnik about a $125,000 payment for legal bills and information material to a...

>> he used it. i said this says unusual we dont usually have this incentive. all the normal ways that people are incentivized to tell the truth to the government thats what literally will set you free are not w there when the counter vague incentive is a theis possibility of a pardon and that could seem like the easier way out for manafort. thats a big risk that hes h taking and there are all sorts of legal complications to that and why he may not after all go free even if he is pardoned, but, y...

This point. paul manafort campaign chair leaves campaign headquarters and goes to a cigar bar with one of his lieutenants in that campaign. rick gates, to meet with a russian national. they left campaign headquarters in the midst of this very busy period. and what happens? this is so important and why the judges ruling today may be terribly significant. what from what we can glean from the transcripts, we know there were discussions of two things. one was provision of some polling data from the ...

Prosecutor in the hearing and the transcript you see himsc explaining that ---- >> used the "p" word in the tran shipments. >> he used it. i said this says unusual we dont usually have this incentive. all the normal ways that people are incentivized to tell the truth to the government thats what literally will set you free are not w there when the counter vague incentive is a theis possibility of a pardon and that could seem like the easier way out for manafort. thats a big risk that hes h takin...

This discussion at this havana room, this cigar bar where paul manafort allegedly met with konstantin kilimnik who was someone who has ties to russian intelligence and discussed two things. the polling data and then potentially the lifting of sanctions. that has huge implications depending on how far up the food chain that goes. >> i think thats the big question, what exactly was he covering up. >> why he is lying. >> exactly. >> heidi przybyla, well talk to you again in just a little bit. tod...

Hour that you picked up a phone calling in to our control room to say what it means that the person who ran donald trumps campaign could spend the rest of his life in prison because he blew up his own plea deal. a day later theres a million things going on. its valentines day. happy valentines day. i think its more than a days coverage when you look at the significance of that. walk us through a day later paul manafort facing this jail time. what does it mean that manafort won that? >> you have ...

And theyre talking -- they give them internal polling data. and what -- and according to gates, then manafort went through the data to explain it to them. and what do we know happened after that? the russians were heavily involved in our election. you know, campaign strategists have always wondered how is it that the trump campaign was able to have this very detailed microtargeting give that they spent half the money that hillary clinton spent? well, i think now we know. in this august meeting b...

Heres what happened. when manafort is sentenced next month, he can probably wave adios to any hope that the judge might go easy on him. on wednesday, judging jackson agreeld and said theres evidene that proves manafort repeatedly lied about multiple top beings after he struck a plea deal. in one key passage, the judge said it was clear the former chairman had lied to the fbi and the grand jury about interactions and communications, with his former business associate, an alleged russian spy. acco...