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Muellers office. >> dana: is that why trump supporters are upset with this growing arms and legs. >> yes, shes a bona fide russian in fell against agent in national security. >> dana: putin cant be happy about. that. >> no, im sure his name will pop up. >> dana: i bet it will. thank you for the legal lesson today. president trump wants more money in the defense budget. will he get it? we are live at the pentagon to break down the numbers. the hop day spirit is alive and well. how one man travels...

In march? >> the government thought manifort was helping more than he did. this is the problem. they say he lied. if his lawyers admit he lied they will indict him for purgely. if his lawyers deny he lied the federal judge cant sentence him until she determined if he lied. to make that determination she has to have a mini trial. that gives a window into muellers thinking. we find out what they asked manifort what they claim he lied about. >> dana: and maria butina she arranged nra leaders to go ...

Last night, some of these people are saying that he acts as if he fears in some way that he has been cornered, fairly or unfairly by the special prosecutor and whatever is going on, he thinks it is very unfair or certainly that is what he is expressing to those around him. how this might relate to this information about manafort, we dont know. there is something very interesting about the timing of this. that is three weeks ago at the mid-term election, he replaced his attorney general, jeff ses...

Question. why would you risk spending the rest of your life in jail? for what reason? we just dont know the answer to that. parton seems likely. from muellers point of view, once he determined that he thought he was not credible, he is going to throw it all out there. he cant use him anymore. maybe its a way to go around matt whitaker and let the public in on some of the information that he knows about manafort without having to get it preapproved over justice. you know more about this than i do...

And one being in march of 2016 either before or during the time that manafort is coming on to the trump campaign. >> right. he is coming on to the campaign just as trump is about to wrap up the nomination. he is supposed to be someone who wrangles the delegates and he had a significant history of working with other candidates and politics more generally. here we have according to the guardian a meeting that is happening in march. we know about this trump tower meeting that obviously people are i...

Figure in what the prosecutor is saying that manafort lied about. this of course is speculative, what i just said. its not about this visit and how intensely interested mueller has been for a year now. >> you brought up the acting attorney general, matt whitaker. lets listen to what jim comey said about him today. >> he may not be the sharpest knife in our drawer, but he can see his future and knows if he acted in an extra legal way he would go down in history for the wrong reasons. im sure he d...

That is a dangerous place to be. we know that mueller is so careful, he would not do this unless he had corroborating information. we do not know of course what that corroborating information is, but he can no longer use manafort as a witness. >> he would have chosen manafort. >> here disqualified him and manafort cannot take back his guilty plea and mueller can charge him with more things. >> the sentencing is still to come. >> all of this information or as much as mueller feels he needs to pro...

Assange connection here? >> i wouldnt speculate. certainly if there are previous contacts between manafort and assange or manafort and wikileaks or manafort and some kind of cut out between him and wikileaks. perhaps it could be and certainly this is a line of inquiry of the special prosecutor. i do know this much. this is what the special prosecutor wanted to find out the moment he learned more than a year ago about this visit to see the incoming president of ecuador. but i dont know what the e...