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And that situation with the dents seemed to come to a head right around the time of the u.s. presidential elections. what i learned most importantly from boyarkin when i spoke to him is that they were putting pressure on manafort, including during the election campaign, to pay back the money that deripaska says manafort owes him. so that was the kind of key information, as i saw it, because it showed that powerful figures in russia had significant leverage over the chairman of the trump campaign in 2016. >> now, this has not been a part of the mueller investigation that we have seen at least p...

Play ball? >> that's very hard for me to say what robert mueller does or doesn't know. he runs a tight ship and there have been very few leaks if any from his office. it's clear that boyarkin is certainly on the radar now of the u.s. government. he was put on a sanctions list, a very strict kind of financial sanctions list on december 19th. that is what led also our editors and myself to kind of accelerate the publication. because now he was in the public eye and we felt it was very much in the public's interest to know who this person is. so i think we're going to be hearing more about him, b...