Thats what he said, thats esobviously what the opposition is. Paul manafort mumbling his way through a 2016 interview with cbs because he himself had extensive russia ties. Now trump is reportedly planning to bring him back as another loyal trumper, Peter Navarro, heads off to prison. Also tonight, judge Aileen Cannons unusual request for Jury Instructions which legal experts are calling insane, bizarre, clumsy, amateurish, you get the idea. Plus, polls will close soon in ohio, where three republicans are competing to challenge senator Sherrod Brown in a race that could decide which Party Controls the senate. But we begin tonight with the former president s crime syndicate. Trump white house aide Peter Navarro is as of today locked in a federal prison. Day one of a fourmonth sentence. Before turning himself in, navarro held a Press Conference at a Strip Mall Parking Lot down the street from the facility. He was convicted for Contempt Of Congress for refusing to comply with the january 6th committee. He even asked the Supreme Court to help him avoid prison time. But he failed and now hes in prison. Making him the very first donald trump senior aide to serve time in connection with the coup plot. Trump has to be afraid watching one of his top aides getting locked up. Over the past couple years, the cells have been filling up with these guys. Roger stone, michael cohen, rick gates, george papadopoulos, michael flynn, allen weisselberg, his own Trump Organization fined more than a Million Dollars for tax fraud. All the president s men now have criminal records or rather all of the four times indicted, twice impeached, adjudicated sexual abusers men. In that list of Donald Trumps very best people, i mentioned Paul Manafort. If you have been following us during the maga vacation of u. S. Politics you would remember manafort, the key aide who seemed to appear out of nowhere to run Trumps Campaign for free. He actually had some lujet d. C. Cred as a republican consult want with ties to president s bush and reagan. In the reagan era he founded black, manafort, and stone. The black being charles black, and the stone being none other than roger stone. The trump foot soldier and nixon zealot who would one day get pardoned by trump for multiple felony convictions. Stone is the one you see there in the center, manafort is on the left. Per the Washington Post, one of manafort and stones first clients was a new york developer named donald j. Trump, brought into their portfolio by stone who had met him through the notorious gotham lawyer, roy cohn. You cant make this up. But as all of this firm stuff was happening, manafort cooked up this side hustle that eventually blew into quite the lucrative gig. But not necessarily one you wrote home about because manaforts specialty became working for literally the worlds worst people. He was this mercenary lobbyist, one of his clients was former philippine president Ferdinand Marcos who hired him when he needed an image boost. The year after he hired manafort in 1986, marcos won the countrys president ial election, thanks to rampant voter fraud. His wi imela became famous for Shoe Hoarding while the country went broke. Manafort was also a lobbyist for the dictator of then zaire, the current democratic republic of congo. Manafort functioned as his de facto pr guy, and he, like marcos, was a bad guy. In this 1989 article, the Washington Post writes of him, he keeps coming back to washington with his hand out, and Congress Keeps filling that hand in spite of the Human Rights Abuses in zaire, and the inexplicable lack of progress by the country under his reign. The Republican Administration winks at him because hes been a cooperative ally in africa, and those are in short supply, but some democrats are fed up with paying for a corrupt and abusive dictatorship. Now remember, manafort also helped steal the ukrainian election for a putin ally. He went from doing that to working for trump. And despite all of these people he worked for, dictators accused of Human Rights Abuses and who lived lavishly while their people starved, it was trump he took the fall for. Now, supposedly, manafort is back with trump eyeing him for a 2024 campaign role, the timing very interesting. Trump is bringing him back at a time when he desperately needs money, cough cough, tish james, and new york civil trial. And manafort is the, who you going to call, guy, when you need cash or to steal an election so you can become president and use the presidency to enrich yourself and your family. The man lived lavishly himself. He owns a 15,000 ostrich feather coat. Hes friends with dictators and the oligarchs no one has ever heard of. Has them on speed dial, im sure. During his fourdecade career, he, well, kind of became an oligarch himself. Joining me is michael isikoff, investigative journalist and coauthor of find me the votes, all about the georgia crisis and were going to bring you back to talk all about georgia because thats a whole mess with that prosecution. Talk to me about manafort, because he also kind of played ball in the Trump Campaign with a russian spy. Yes, he did. I mean, look, im having flashbacks to 2016 right now. Manafort was sort of the first red flag when i and other people started reporting into the trump worlds ties to russia. You had trump, of course, who was saying all these nice things about Vladimir Putin while he was trying to do a Business Deal in moscow. But when he brought manafort in, that just raised all sorts of questions. Manafort, as you pointed out, had been the political consultant for years for viktor yanukovych, who was the proputin President Of Ukraine at the time, or up until 2014. The uprising took place the orange revolution. The orange revolution, and he flees to moscow. That had been, so yanukovych was manaforts main patron for years. And all of the money from the party of regions which was yanukovychs party, came from oligarchs who were close to putin. Many of whom manafort had all these ties to. Oling deripaska, a name from the past im sure you remember. He was a Business Partner of manafort while he was considered one of the two or three oligarchs closest to Vladimir Putin. Had all sorts of suspected ties to organized crime. The u. S. Government wouldnt let him in the country as a result of that. And heres manafort, not only doing business with not only representing him, but they did business together. And then they fell out. This is what really got me. This is may of 2016, i discover that deripaska, the proputin billionaire, is suing manafort in the Cayman Islands because millions of dollars in their Business Deal disappeared. So at the very moment that he gets hired by the Trump Campaign, hes in hoch to a Russian Oligarch who was tied in with Vladimir Putin. So the giving over of nonpublic Campaign Data to someone who turns out to essentially be a russian spy, that and also when he then takes over the Trump Campaign, changing only one thing in the republican platform, which is to remove the plank in the republican platform for support for ukraine. Putting all that together, donald trump is now desperate for money, and the only way he can stay out of prison is to become president. Is that suspicious to you that hes bringing this specific guy back in who has ties to russian cash and helps steal elections . Look, i think its going to be suspicious to a lot of people. Lets go back to the Senate Intelligence committee report. They spent years investigating this. Bipartisan report, and they concluded that manafort, because of one of his closest associates, was this guy, kilimnik, who was viewed by the fbi as a russian intelligence asset, manafort is meeting with him while hes chairman of the Trump Campaign, and sharing internal polling data with him at the grand havana room in new york. Senate Intelligence Committee report described this, it said manafort was a Grave Counterintelligence threat. Who was the chairman of the Senate Intelligence committee at the time the report was written . Was it marco rubio . Marco rubio. So one question, you know, you and others might want to ask of marco rubio, is he comfortable with somebody who he declared to be a Grave Counterintelligence threat working for the republican nominee . Oh, michael. Ia know his answer will be whatever trump wants. Michael isikoff, fantastic. Well bring you to talk about georgia. Good to see you again. All right, lets bring in congressman adam schiff of california, a former member of the january 6th select committee. Hopefully you were able to hear michael isikoff. Great journalism there, but are you concerned, congressman, from a National Security perspective, that donald trump, who is desperate for money and who needs to be president in order to make the cases against him, the federal cases go away, is turning to manafort again . Absolutely. And lets remember that during that 2016 campaign, while manafort is the chair of the campaign, he secretly is meeting with this russian Intelligence Officer or operative, konstantin kilimnik, giving them internal polling information. This is the same russian intelligence that is hacking and dumping the dnc documents, that is working with a troll farm in st. Petersburg to try to essentially run a Covert SocialMedia Campaign for donald trump. So he is effectively the liaison between the Trump Campaign and russian intelligence. And as part of that relationship, hes also involved in a prorussian plan for eastern ukraine. What could there possibly be to worry about in having someone like that brought into a president ial campaign again . Not to meng the fact that he was tried and convicted of various fraudulent activities including those around not registering as a Foreign Agent involved with trying to intimidate other witnesses. We dont know even more about his role and his relationship with russian intelligence because he used encrypted apps, and he refused to cooperate when it came to kilimnik. So all kinds of sirens going on with this prospect. And by the way, it does kind of make you sit back and think about the fact that donald trump said he would allow putin to do whatever the hell he wants to our nato allies and hes doubled down on getting his apparatus in the House Of Representatives to refuse to fund ukraine. Donald trump needs money. Vladimir putin might be the worlds richest man because hes robbed all of the oligarchs he has under his control. Does it concern you that perhaps what donald trump is hoping to trade for help from russia again to get himself back in the white house is ukraine . Oh, absolutely. You know, what we saw in the first president ial campaign when he was lying about having any Business Dealings in russia, even as michael cohen, his lawyer, was on the phone with the kremlin right up to the point of the republican convention, trying to make this deal for moscow trump tower, something that bob mueller found would be the most lucrative deal of Donald Trumps life, he was willing to do that even when he wasnt in all of that debt that hes in now with these judgments against him. He is more financially imperiled now than ever before. More economic incentive, more Greed Operating here now than in the past. And ukraine is in a much more vulnerable position. He has a lot more to offer the kremlin dictators. So its a grave, as the Senate Bipartisan report said, a Grave Counterintelligence risk to have manafort anywhere near that campaign. In addition to that, we know that donald trump is facing, i dont know if the trial will happen because judge Aileen Cannon doesnt seem interested, but if that were case to go forward, donald trump is accused of stealing National Security secrets, including Nuclear Secrets hes accused of sharing with people who dont have access to them. How would we even find out if donald trump decided that is something that might be something thats useful for manafort to broker around the world . Im just trying to think, use my lurid imagination with donald trump which we sometimes fail to do. Doesnt require much of a lurid imagination, it just required recollection. Youll recall in his meeting with putin when he essentially banished everyone out of the room. He didnt want witnesses to his conversation with putin, and as i recall, i think he was reliant even on the interpreter, the russian interpreter, i dont know if it was his or putins so theres lots of reasons to be concerned about any private conversation he might have with putin, but also whatever he would relate to Paul Manafort about National Security or Intelligence Matters that might be of interest or value to russian intelligence. Its exactly the reason why i think when the Intelligence Community briefs him as the presumptive nominee of the republican party, theyre going to really dumb down anything they tell him because they know they cant trust him with whatever they share. I have two more quick questions. One, your reaction to Peter Navarro now finally serving time . Well, i think its very important affirmation of the fact you cant just thumb your nose at a subpoena. Theres no separate standard for cronies of donald trump. And without a penalty like going to jail when people receive congressional subpoenas theyll just say this is optional. Now, i think a congressional subpoena has real teeth, and thats vitally important for our oversight role. Let me play you a piece of sound of donald trump with apologies to how offensive it is and get your reaction. When you see those palestinian marches, even i, im amazed at how many people are in those marches. And guys like schumer see that, and to him its votes. I think its votes more than Anything Else. Because he was always proisrael. Hes very antiisrael now. Any jewish person that votes for democrats hates their religion. They hate everything about israel, and they should be ashamed of themselves. Congressman, you yourself have faced some of those propalestinian protests. Some of the protesters are themselves jewish people. What do you make of the idea that donald trump has said that anyone who doesnt vote for him hates their religion if theyre jewish . You know, its hard to begin to explain how offensive that is. It odd to be offensive to everyone, certainly offensive to anyone in the jewish community. But the idea, the very idea that donald trump would think hes in a position to be advising jewish people about their own faith, hes not in a position to advise anyone about anyones faith, if he knew even the first thing about judaism, he would understand the obligation of the respect we have for efforts to mend the broken parts of our world. And if anyone is the antithesis to those Jewish Values it is someone like donald trump who is so determined to divide, Pit American Against american, and further break this very damaged world we live in. Yeah, he might want to stop saying hitler did good things before he starts advising jewish people on what they ought to do and how they ought to vote. Congressman adam schiff, thank you very much. 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