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This is the carrot, they have to tell everything, the good, the bad, if they do that dirty work, they could try to get a reduced sentence. here, where you have this competing element of maybe youll get a reduced sentence from the court. maybe youll get a pardon from the president, everythings kind of turned on its head, and the prosecutors mentioned that in this hearing, they said this is one of the reasons they felt that manafort had been holding back, had not been telling the whole truth, he w...

With today, is exactly as you framed it. all of these lies that the government is pointing to. 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 th...

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 while he was under a cooperation agreement with the feds. the documen...

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 negative consequences in terms of the other motive that mr. manafort coul...

Could be used with respect to mr. kilimnik. 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 dur...

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 frustrating thing about this story or the intriguing thing, is that we get these little clues, but we dont ...

As i read that, its -- the government, we may not have other people we would be bringing to trial or because of manaforts shady history with lying, we may not be able to put him on the stand, this is something that has valuable information about russia, about the ukraine, and i think they saw him as a potential source of real intel. >> based on your reading, your experience as a fid. do you think its really possible that manafort had reason or has reason to fear for his safety or the members of ...

Hearing. it was an evidentiary presentation. the judge actually invited the attorneys to sit down, the hearing was so long. so this in effect was a second trial for manafort on these factual charges. >> barrett, you mentioned to one of our producers today, lets not lose track of the fact that to manafort, this will make the difference between a death sentence in jail, potentially and not. the judge has to decide, was this guy truly trying to cooperate and just having memory issues? or is it as t...

Traditional cooperating witness, they were intrigued by the intelligence value manafort could offer. as i read that, its -- the government, we may not have other people we would be bringing to trial or because of manaforts shady history with lying, we may not be able to put him on the stand, this is something that has valuable information about russia, about the ukraine, and i think they saw him as a potential source of real intel. >> based on your reading, your experience as a fid. do you think...

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 campaign associates and the russians, there continue to be ...