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Prove, the special counsel will prove beyond any shadow of a doubt that he lied. there is no doubt -- >> he being manafort? >> yes. >> which means they know the truth so they dont need him. >> you got to recognize, its not an all or nothing thing. he may have given them leads and information that can be useful to their investigation. he may have lied about russians to protect them. he may have lied about trump. we dont know. we will find out. the one thing is they will have definitive trouble he...

Three-page report here. the government had a detailed sentence for the court. for manaforts crimes and lines including both after signing the plea agreement. this is an excellent way for mueller to back door this report about trump everybodys been waiting for. about the details about what manafort lied about. trump has submitted his answers. we also have the sort of interim appointment of matt whitaker. i wonder whether or not manafort felt emboldened he could lie at this point. he felt, i had m...

Declassifying certain things they became aware of with respect to interference in the 2016 election means theres other people in his corner. the working government and also working the intelligence community. the sense of things is theyre just worried about the facts and bring forward the best cases they can. and the fact that juries have bought that further solidifies that. >> our own kristen welker spoke with the president and he said this. it is conceivable that he aint talking manafort. is i...

We have no evidence but you can be sure others will want to investigation that possibility. otherwise, its the worst of all worlds for him. instead of going to try and communicating with donald trump, he agreed to cooperate, pleaded guilty, now has no legal recourse. hes pleaded guilty. he cant withdraw his plea. hes going to go to court. hes going to be sentenced potentially to 15 years. its inexplicable to lie to robert mueller. knowing mueller has all the resources at his disposal. the nation...

Agreement. we dont know what he may have lied about, but we will. the special counsel said it will detail what they described as the, quote, nature of the defendants crimes and lieings. manaforts team insisting her told the truth. the plea deal was supposed to limit jail time stemming from fraud charges in d.c. and conspiracy charges in virginia. if he is found to have broken his deal with mueller, he would actually face more time behind bars. in other words, he might not ever get out unless of ...

After he became president. theres still an obstruction of justice case. the pattern of behavior after he became president that robert mueller has dug into. >> is there any explanation for why manafort would lie except for the fact he believes hell get pardoned? >> we have seen manafort as behavior hes above the law. that he violated his bond requires. lucky enough to be out of jail and under house arrest. he has flaunted at the law from the very beginning. i think its interesting this is the per...

Ken dilanian covered intelligence for nbc. tom winter, investigative reporter. danny goldman, southern district of new york, and my friend midwin charles, attorney and contributor to essence magazine. the government says manafort committed federal crimes, they say he lied on a whole bunch of subjectings. is he simply banking that president trump will pardon him or does putin and his team know so much? that could be a bigger risk for manafort. >> i think the pardon is the only one that makes sens...

Pardon. were talking about what a blow this is to manafort. isnt it a huge blow to mueller? he has spent all this time with manafort. now basically sfrl everything he said tainted? >> it is a blow to him. unusable in a court of law. >> a blow to him being manafort or mueller? >> its a blow to manafort unless theres a pardon down the road. from the prosecutors perspective, he feels like, all right, we had this guy who was at the top of the campaign, had high level interactions, was in the 2016 tr...

Ruining lives for them refusing to lie. mueller gone rogue. president trumps words. speaking of mueller, in one sense, it appears he has lost one of his best witnesses. a key part is whether there are signs of collaboration. out of these four people who pleaded guilty, manafort who led the campaign for almost five months in 2016 would seem to be the best one in position to provide answers. according to "the new york times," muellers team integrated manafort at least a dozen different times. this...

In. >> they better? and breaking news this morning. the war in afghanistan claims more victims as three u.s. service members and three more wounded by a roadside bomb in kabul. we begin with this new news on manafort now accused of lying to the special counsel potentially wasting his only shot at ever getting out of jail. does that mean a big fat presidential pardon? could this rip the heart out of bob muellers entire investigation? i want to explain where we stand. for months, mueller has bee...