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That was then released with some redactions in which weissman, a prosecutor for mueller, said that the meeting that paul manafort had with konstan kilimnick in august 2016 goes to the heart of the investigation, because at the time he was donald trumps campaign chairman, meeting with someone with ties to the kremlin, they discussed polling data he would share and they also discussed a peace plan in which to possibly ease or end sanctions on russia that have been in place since their annexation o...

Government or potential intermediaries of the russian government. you have the trump tower meeting in june of 2016. you have have all of roger stones conversations through intermediaries with wikileaks and then you have this meeting. the reason the government is interested is you have beforehand conversations between manafort and kilimnik where he said i want to use my position to get whole with the russian oligarch and then you have this meeting happening right after kilimnik has told manafort ...

Number one issue that not only democrats but a lot of republicans feel energized about. if you look at the polling data, three-fourths of americans do feel the rich dont pay enough in taxes. and the fact that his previous statements that hes made criticizing a lot of the policy proposals that are popular in the democratic party right now like the green new deal, like medicare for all, and then failing to have specifics of what his own agenda is, just looks like hes punching down. and i think its...

Take a listen. >> youre a billionaire. >> yeah. >> give me a sense, are you talking about you should pay 2% higher, 10% higher, 20% higher federal income tax? >> i dont -- poppy, i dont know what the number is. >> would it go up to the rate under president clinton? are we talking about significantly higher? >> i think what is being proposed is 70%, thats a punitive number. >> whats not punitive? >> i dont know what the number is. im suggesting i should be paying higher taxes. >> so heidi, he cou...

Edited a word document entitled "new initiative for peace" and in an on-the-record interview not long after the presidents inauguration, kilimnik said he had drafted a plan to bring peace to the ukraine in the nearly three-year-old conflict with russia. to help understand what this tells us about the russia investigation, im joined by natasha bertrand and msnbc legal analyst, nick ackerman, former watergate prosecutor. natasha, ill start with you. what do you take away from this as someone whos ...

And the staging and release of the e-mails. you can basically put everything into this transcript, into those two conspiracies, whether its the social media, using the polling data. i mean, that wasnt given so that people could send out christmas cards in ukraine. this was given -- this is very detailed information about voters likes and dislikes in particular areas of the united states that were critical to donald trump, so that he could suppress the hillary clinton vote. the business about the...

Mueller toufound. >> youre not surprised to see muellers numbers hold up like that. >> no, of course, he behaved himself appropriately. when mueller says something, he says it in court through justice department documents backed up meticulously with facts versus what the president does all the time, go out and lie in ways that are demonstrably false. you can prove the president lied and oftentimes the mueller proved in court that the president lied. something we mentioned before the break, the s...

Had drafted a plan to bring peace to the ukraine in the nearly three-year-old conflict with russia. to help understand what this tells us about the russia investigation, im joined by natasha bertrand and msnbc legal analyst, nick ackerman, former watergate prosecutor. natasha, ill start with you. what do you take away from this as someone whos covered this very closely? >> yeah, chris, so two big takeaways from this. the first, obviously, is that manafort was sharing very detailed polling data w...

Understanding that if trump were to be elected, h he would, in fact, move and try to reduce, remove sanctions. thats a conspiracy. they are going to be then liable to criminal charges. >> and the conspiracy is the crime. collusion is what we already know has happened. putin said in helsinki, i was for donald trumps election. we know that the trump campaign, we know from sentencing documents, that they shared polling data. so in your mind, i know we conflate them and its the fault of people like ...

Honking. trust me, in my mind, theres a hom honk going on now. >> they confirmed that russia interfered. they realized reports detailing how russia interfered on social media. eventually, we will see a report where they lay out what they found on these russia contacts. >> disconnect these dots. weve already seen guilty pleas and indictments from people who are part of the trump campaign. how do you marry the two? >> whats very important, this is not a criminal investigation. they dont have acces...