this news breaking news about "the new york times." they're ties to the russian oligarchs. he's issued requests to the federal crimes unit. so this is weaving all the threads together. i think it is significant that this is an invitation and we have no indication of whether he'll accept it. >> what daddy trump has been saying, he wants a warm relationship with putin. >> yeah. especially as we know, we suspected all along. paul manafort was the one behind a lot of this. and like the cran said, if you line things up, a lot of the most suspect statements were made around the time, within weeks of when will manafort took over as campaign chairman in terms of altering the ukraine