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We ve seen it in the previous filings, about manafort s contacts with the administration. according to the filings today, manafort s attorneys say that mueller identified a misstatement about those contacts that manafort had with the administration, specifically they say on may 26, 2018, manafort had a, quote, text message from a third party asking permission to use mr. manafort s name as an introduction in the event the third party met with the president, end quote. the documents do not say who manafort was communicating with. manafort s attorneys say, quote, this does not constitute outreach by mr. manafort to the president. there was another contact that may have occurred, but they say that was hearsay. i want to back up. manafort sharing polling data from the 2016 election. when he was doing that, was he part of the trump campaign? it does not specifically say he was. we don t have a date on when that share ing occurred. we do not know whether or not ....
Dpom the documents and provided them to the white house and the doj and then they came back and said of those that you provided us, 102,000 of them we re keeping confidential because of executive privilege. and without more information, it leads one to wonder what exactly that privileged material is because if you look at the same letter publicly available online, the attorneys say president bush directed us, explicitly to error on the side of transparency so it is interesting that once the trump administration had a pass, there is all of this detail why they withheld different documents for a number of different reasons. sometimes they were duplicates or nonresponsive and then to the doj part, there is not a whole lot of information. admittingly these are not the attorneys for the white house and they may not be privy to the information but it seems like the white house said, these additional 102,000, we re just with holding them and we won t give a ton of reasons why. you won t s ....
great to be here. don mcgahn s attorneys say president trump, through counsel declined to assert anything over his testimony. he answered the questions honestly as any person interviewed by federal investigators must. ozzie, your take aways from the statement in the new york times report as a whole. as a whole, don mcgahn and his lawyer are coming up with a plan to show mcgahn has done nothing wrong. in a case where there s no smoking gun, painting the picture and setting the scene is helpful. as much as he is talking, the president doesn t want to go in for an interview. if his own lawyer has to devise a strantegy, it shows the president has something to hide. we are not going to know until mueller has the full report. there is information coming forward that may be helpful, but not the smoking gun democrats or ....