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This goes, i think, very much to the heart of what the special counsels office is investigating. and joining us now, glen kushner, former assistant u.s. attorney and tim obryan is with us, the author of the book trump nation. he is also an msnbc contributor and glen, we really need you know because were taking, were taking a little piece of a transcript, people are kind of running with this that this is a huge little bomb thats in the middle of this thing. what do you make of it? >> sometimes yo...

Kushner, former assistant u.s. attorney and tim obryan is with us, the author of the book trump nation. he is also an msnbc contributor and glen, we really need you know because were taking, were taking a little piece of a transcript, people are kind of running with this that this is a huge little bomb thats in the middle of this thing. what do you make of it? >> sometimes you accidently blurt something out and its like, you know, i didnt mean to say it but i meant what i said. >> they have the ...

Dancing around on the fringes on each one of these other indictments and ill tell you, i will be shocked if we dont see sometime fairly soon a large needy conspiracy to defraud the united states indictment returned by bob mueller. >> also in this, tim, is the prosecutor talking about the possibility of manafort angling for a pardon, one talking about why is he not accurately and honestly cooperating with prosecutors and prosecutors saying it could be what he thinks is more important is to angle ...

Goes right to the heart of what the special counsel is investigating, i mean, thats actually a big ticket admission because they were debating about the import of manaforts lie about his on going communications with him after manafort had been charged criminally. thats pretty mind blowing. i dealt with a lot of cooperating witnesses over the years. manafort is the worst ocho c cooperating witness ever but there was something so desperately important to manafort and by extension, im sure others w...

Sometime fair lly soon a large need ty conspiracy to defraud t united states indictment returned by bob mueller. >> also in this, tim, is the prosecutor talking about the possibility of manafort angling for a pardon, one talking about why is he not accurately and honestly cooperating with prosecutors and prosecutors saying it could be what he thinks is more important is to angle for the pardon. >> given how far down the road hes gone at blowing up his relationships with muellers team and essenti...

>> well, what one colleague -- one white house official told my colleague, jennifer jacobs, is that the idea behind the initial tweet was the president trying to tell comey that, hey, if youre going to start leakin things, you better be honest, because there may be tapes. and this strategy of tapes is something that the president has used before to sort of, you know, as a threat, you know, by some people. another one of my colleagues, tim obryan was threatened by the president, but when it came ...

They were doing with trump because that investment firm was quote closer to putin. why did you have to take the money closer to putin? tim obryan from bloomberg news is just reporting that tonight. we got an exclusive first look at the reporting. he will be joining us in just a moment. but if his reporting proves out and between the racketeering lawsuit going ahead and the senate investigation and the financial documents as of today and the investigation robert mueller is leading as special coun...

Concerned about felix saters mob ties at the end of 2007 and yet, three years after that, sater continues as a consultant to the company and a decade later still in contact with the presidents personal attorney. >> in terms of the question again about whether this is not just association but related to the current stuff, am i right one of the people bob mueller brought on is somebody that prosecuted sater. >> he was part of team that went after that whole crew that was doing pump and dump schemi...

With the question of why that happened. why was money connected to putin pouring into trump prok jeblts? why did they do that? and if it did happen, is it likely now all these years later that that sort of thing is going to get somebody in trouble? reporter tim obryan from bloomberg joins us in just a moment. we got more ahead. stay with us. it only takes a second for an everyday item to become dangerous. new tide pods child guard pack. helps keep your laundry pacs safe and your child safer. ali...

Art of being the donald for which donald trump sued him and lost. tim obryans scoop at bloomberg on the financing behind some of trumps most high profile business projects and how they may dove tail with the trump russia investigation. that posts tomorrow at bloomberg view. tim obryan, great to have you with us. >> great to be here. >> let me ask you about the central claim. you connect a lot of dots and put a lot of history together. there is a claim from an ex employee of this company called b...