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Our nbc headquarters here in new york. there is brand new information coming out of the mueller investigation about one of the big names, the big targets. former trump campaign chairman paul manafort. the revelations are coming from the transcript of a closed door court hearing that took place early they are week. kind of thing thats published all the time but not quite like this. during that hearing, muellers prosecutors explained in detail why theyre accusing manafort of lying to investigators...

Jeremy, why would manafort want to be protecting a guy like kilimnik? >> well, previous to this, brian, manafort had been accused of, and, of course, stood trial and was convicted of financial impropriety, tax evasion, money laundering and failure to register as a foreign agent for the russian federation for his work on behalf of the ukrainian proputin elements. this hearing today, really unveiled that manafort could have also played a central role during the 2016 campaign as a go between betwee...

The clue we got today about the meeting and rick gates cooperation. and its taken a long time for this to sus itself out and get a bigger and larger picture of it. we still dont know the full extent of it, though. theres still a lot here, even from the things that we learned tonight about why was it that manafort who was running the campaign, was taking this polling data to these folks to share it with them? what would actually motivate that? what was truly behind that. and that is the frustrati...

And they have ways of doing that if its a real threat. >> michael schmidt, one of the larger stories youve broken in recent memory, had to do with the questions the feds wanted to ask president trump. there was one in there about paul manafort, can you refresh our memory and how today may have filled many some of those blanks? >> there were questions about what the president knew about manaforts efforts to communicate with these russians during the campaign. and what that was all about. but i th...

Spends the rest of his life in prison. they could see everything that was going on. and that really really bothered and helped deteriorate the relationship between mueller and manafort, and gets us to where we are today. >> jeremy bash, we also saw mention of the p word, pardon. first time in my memory from any kind of mueller court appearance or filing, ill put it on the screen, prosecutors put forward why manafort may have lied, telling the truth about an unnamed sensitive issue would have neg...

August 2nd, 2016, which would have been weeks after the gop convention in cleveland. prosecutors say the meeting goes to the larger view of what we think is going on. and what we think the motive here is. this goes very much to the heart of what the special counsels office is investigating. that meeting, and what happened at that meeting is of significance to the special counsel. we get it. any indication of the topic of that meeting has been blacked out. the document does indicate that ex-manaf...

Person in washington, d.c., when kilimnik was here for the inauguration. weve also learned from these new documents that even after trump had won the white house, manafort went back to working for politicians in the ukraine in 2017. as a consultant for a potential candidate. that work continued even after he was indicted in that same year. within these transcripts, theres also a reference to sanctions against russia, as the issue of sanctions appears to impart some of the meetings between trump ...

If its a real threat. >> michael schmidt, one of the larger stories youve broken in recent memory, had to do with the questions the feds wanted to ask president trump. there was one in there about paul manafort, can you refresh our memory and how today may have filled many some of those blanks? >> there were questions about what the president knew about manaforts efforts to communicate with these russians during the campaign. and what that was all about. but i think another part of this that wer...

Were they well crafted intentional lies that were meant to deceive the special counsels office investigation, and derail it to some extent. or were these instances where somebody was misremembering something that had happened a long time ago. the government presented a pretty compelling case in this hearing as to why these were not just memory lapses. >> you also bored in on the word intelligence in this document. that that was perhaps the initial attractiveness toward doing a deal for manafort ...

Of their meetings and contacts. that includes one meeting, august 2nd, 2016, which would have been weeks after the gop convention in cleveland. prosecutors say the meeting goes to the larger view of what we think is going on. and what we think the motive here is. this goes very much to the heart of what the special counsels office is investigating. that meeting, and what happened at that meeting is of significance to the special counsel. we get it. any indication of the topic of that meeting has...