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The paul manafort development was one of the biggest developments we have seen as we followed the russia investigation throughout knowing he tried to share the polling data with the operative intended for the ukrainian oligarchs. a reporter asked him did you know about this. when he was asked are you going to make the findings of the mueller report public, the president neither committed to doing so nor declined to do so. he said one of his favorite answers which is well see. that is something w...

About the deals and the operations that he had. so all that together, and now they want to assert executive privilege now two years into the game? thats what nixon tried. it didnt go so well for him. >> now, we have never seen what came out just now about paul manafort. the president has said, you know, everything he did wrong was about before he was with me, okay? he never did anything on my watch. yes, he did, and this looks like the best instance of what you can call collusion as an activity ...

Business. we do not know what else he was asked about. we also dont know whether there were any follow-up interviews. you can see fabrizio is going in and out of the special counsels office there. our reporters stand there, keep an eye on the office were the ones who noticed this. so the question is, wolf, did any of this go back to the president? the president himself was asked about whether he knew that manafort had provided this information to the russians. take a listen to what he had to sa ...

Talking about why he believes constantine was a russian intelligence asset in 2016. what does mueller know about what he was doing and who he was talking to on the backside of those conversations with manafort? >> got it. so max, listen, trump has argued before that manafort is wrong. doing it all before he ever worked for donald trump. does this new revelation from manaforts own attorneys change that? >> of course. this is an admission that manafort was doing something incredibly shady even as ...

And he is also timing this with william bahrs possible resignatiorefcofir nation, which is shaping up to be about the mid-february at the earliest. now, we did see the presidents pick william barr up on capitol hill wednesday and he told senator lindsey graham that he plans to be transparent when it comes to the mueller probe and any release orobert muellers report to congress or the public. but fair to say rod rosenstein, he has been the big protector and proponent for the special counsel. he a...

Is expected to leave the justice department soon after the new nominee is confirmed. a source says that rosenstein is not being forced out. this is on the heels of the other big development in the mueller investigation. the court filings showing that former trump campaign chair shared polling data with a russian-linked operative. tonight, we learned the intended recipients of the data were two ukrainian oligarchs who paid manafort for years and still owed him millions. manu caught up with mark w...

What we havent yet begun to learn is the why. and thats what we can assume mueller is focused on in this next stage and what the next phase of this investigation is going to be publicly is explaining why people were taking the actions that they actually did. >> whats incredible is were only learning about this because manaforts own lawyer screwed up the redactions, so the question is, what else does mueller have? >> we can only hope more redactions go unmade in future filings. theres so many que...

The campaign. this whole issue with the polling data is so curious, because one cant imagine any legitimate reasons why a foreign entity would want any kind of polling data. why manaforts people might spin this saying, theyre asking about the work he did for manafort ukranian people, obviously that would not be of great interest to mueller. >> i think this episode is so dramatic for two reasons. one, its the first time people can look to an event and say, this really looks like collusion with a ...

Others that they may assert that some of it may not be made public because of executive privilege. that dispute over whether the mueller report can be public may well wind up in court as well, so yes, john is right that theres lore here, but its also law that could wind up u before t supreme court. >> this manafort, the lack of e redaction which allowed us to learn b about these allegations, the white house can say third-degree nothing to do with the president. yes, this happened while manafort ...

If they are coordinating, once they got it, if theyre coordinating, then its a problem. >> carrie, whats your read especially in the wake of the manafort news? >> it goes to the central purpose of what the special counsel investigation is, which is whether or not there was actual coordination what we sometimes call collusion but coordination with the trump campaign and the russian government or russian government surrogate. this is an additional piece of information that weve learned that the ca...