yanukovych could consolidate his base by stoking submerged grievances. even though there is little evidence of the mistreatment of russian language speakers by the ukrainian state, he encouraged his candidate to make an issue of imaginative uses to rally their base. to the same and, he instructed yanukovych to rayj chanced nato which he did by condemning joint operations the alliance was operating in crimea. first of all, that's exactly what putin did, over the last couple of weeks. but the imagined grievances, the alleged abuses, this is all the sort of playbook of the modern-day gop. >> the right, and also, i think the other important subjects to all this is the corruption. that manafort's work in ukraine was utterly corrupt, he was paid off the books by ukrainian oligarchs who would go around passing the hat, and then they would transfer the money into manafort's secret bank accounts of cypress, and other places.