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Offer mueller et al. remember he was at the tower meeting, having done business in that part of the world and worked for a number of powerful russian, himself, he has been if business with roger stone a key figure if all of this who has not been called in yet. tonight, nbc news is reporting manafort has already had initial conversations with the mueller team. its a lot to talk about the end of a long week. lets bring in our leadoff panel friday fight, mike at schmidt, "new york times," washingto...

Muelleret al, lets remember he was present at the trump tower meeting with the visiting russians. having done business in that part of the world for years and worked for a number of powerful russians himself. hes been in business with roger stone, a key figure in all of this who has not been called in yet. tonight nbc news is reporting manafort has already home run initial conversations with the mueller team. its a lot to talk about at the end of a long week. lets bring in our leadoff panel. mic...

Himself. tonight nbc news is reporting manafort has already had initial conversations with the mueller team. its a lot to talk about at the end of a long week. lets bring in our leadoff panel. senior white house reporter for politico. veteran former prosecutor. and jeremy bash, former chief of staff, former chief council for the house intel committee. welcome to you all. you were in court for the entire first manafort trial. you were in the courthouse for what happened today. put this in perspec...

Trumps lawyer, rudy giuliani even hinted at a potential pardon for manafort in june of this year. yet despite those public assurances, manafort is back at the bargaining table with the prosecutors. "the washington post" is reporting manafort is in talks with the special counsels office about a possible plea deal according to two people with knowledge of discussions. however according to nbc news theres a sticking point, mueller is seeking cooperation from manafort for information related to pres...

Manafort tried to monetize his relationship with the president." but no one in trump world should be shocked that manafort has landed them in hot water. this was just one headline all the way back in april 2016 when he first joined the trump campaign as a strategist. "trump just hired his next scandal." manaforts ties to russian interests in ukraine were well known, well documented at the time. we didnt learn till yesterday that he may have tried to exploit those ties during the election as camp...

Nothing that says that any problems that paul manafort or general flynn may have had that connected to president trump. >> when the president says hes not under investigation and i was told that three times, does that still seem to be the case to you? >> but if you look at the specific things stories today were mentioning they seem to be follow-ups of things that were already out there. probably the most notable thing that came out today, there was a paragraph in the "new york times" story that ...

Innocent. that explains that piece of this innocently. nothing we have learned so far points to innocence. mueller has two jobs. was there russian involvement in the election? did the trump campaign collude? thats what the manafort piece seems to be about. offering briefings to oligarchs. that piece. now the other piece is did the president obstruct justice? did he fire james comey to stop the investigation. he told lester holt he did. >> theres no evidence that hes guilty of anything. you have ...

Extraordinarily wealthy individuals who are quite connected with putin and the kremlin. its one of the reasons why mr. manafort also falls into that category of someone who has had a staff interview, but at some point were going to want to bring him in as well and appear before the senators to answer as many questions as possible. the more information, the more documents we have before we bring him on that meeting, the more fruitful that session would be. >> thats whats interesting. "the washing...

Not if i wouldnt with the campaign. >> but those arent the presidents issues. >> youve now shifted from were going to find out what the president did in the white house back to manaforts supposedly might have talked to -- and they are unsourced. we have anonymous sources. lets find out what manafort did. >> lets all swear under oath. >> and thats the end of elections. theyll do it to the next democrat whos elected. >> our sovereignty which our president spoke about, was invaded. >> it was not in...

Happened before this. >> one is an allegation by a leak to "the new york times," and other is under oath in front of the senate. >> youre saying this didnt happen. >> the quality of the response were having to something that is a fact under oath and "the new york times" reporter saying. >> put politics aside. >> lets not put truth aside. >> given everything weve seen over the past nine months, given everything thats happened from michael flynn, manafort, nonof this would strike you as a bit odd ...