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Juvéderm it. talk to your doctor about the juvéderm collection of fillers. and we are back with our national lead now paul manafort back in court and behind closed doors. it centers around secret meetings inside a new york cigar club where cnn reports manafort passed on private campaign data the a man with contacts with russian military intelligence. >> tonight the federal judge overseeing manaforts fate is considering whether he lied to prosecutors during plea talks. if the judge decides ma...

Ecuador in mid-may 2017, something his lawyers have confirmed to nbc news. so in meetings with the countrys incoming president, "the times" reports manafort, quoted, suggested he could help negotiate a deal for the handover of julian assange to the united states. although, theres no indication the president was involved in any negotiations like that. so bottom line, theres a lot going on publicly suddenly. developments that yahoo! news says signal the investigation into russia and its interferen...

The topics he can talk about. there are reports manafort. had meetings with prosecutors already. they likely know the areas he is able cover. now, it will take many hours over the coming days, weeks, even months to sit down and go over in excruciating detail all of the things he knows. think mueller is in very good shape and knows paul manafort has things of value he wants to know about. >> under the heading of manafort and the russians, our mutual friend and veteran said the following on the ai...

We are seeing even up to 12 inches already in some spots near morehead city, beaufort, north carolina. again, 90 miles per hour. we are looking at this pink line here. i want to mention this because we have a tornado watch until 7:00 a.m. you want to take note of that, especially if you have power outages out there. timeline, we are looking at winds really gusting near hurricane force winds over the next 24 to 36 hours. so we have a lot to get through over the next couple of days. >> michelle, t...

All this, how will he hold up under a cross-examination? theres probably a lot there that the manafort side could hit him with. >> thats right. its going to be bruising. and additionally, its going to be personal. there was significant friction several months back when rick gates was going through the process of deciding whether or not he was going to flip on paul manafort. whether he was going to essentially turn on a man who had been his business partner and boss for upwards of a decade. at th...

Welcome back. paul manafort who navigated the republican national contention for donald trumps campaign and served as the chairman is scheduled to be in court right now. manaforts lawyers are working overtime to delay his criminal trial set to begin on wednesday. the former republican operative faces more than a dozen bank and tax charges. the case is the first criminal trial in the special counsels investigation. manafort has been in jail ahead of the proceeding. why? after being accused of wit...

People helping you. its also to give you an opportunity to push things out of the public mind. other things come up. other instances of particular events come up. other people may get charged. theres all sorts of things that happen along the course of an investigation or just over time that it takes that intense pretrial scrutiny and publicity and takes it out of the populous head and the potential jurors head. in this case, im not sure if thats going to work for them. if were not talking about ...

After a robust rebranding effort, the candidate made it into the presidential palace. during that time he was hired by a russian oligarch for reportedly for a $10 million a year deal. though the businessman denies the reports manafort and an associate were sued by the russian in 2014 accusing them both of taking $19 million that was meant for investment. in 2016 manafort was brought on to the trump campaign eventually becoming the chairman. he reportedly e-mailed associates of the oligarch offer...

Okay. what exactly are manaforts lawyers arguing for? whats on the table here? >> on the table today, they want a delay in the trial. they want to push it back. they have a ton of publicity. were talking about it. i think sometimes defense attorneys believe, and i think theres a basis. defense attorneys say the further we can push a trial out, the more time we have where somebodys name may be out of the headlines. i dont think this kind of theory holds water. the president of the united states i...