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Him in? that's the other question. you try to rewind the tape to see how a lying liar ended up in charge of the trump campaign. >> so the detail that stood out to me in all of these stories about this august 2, 2016 meeting at the cigar bar with manafort and kilimnik, who is the russian agent, and i'm going to feed your conspiratorial imagination now -- >> i do not have a conspiratorial -- i read the newspapers and there's conspiracies in there. >> okay, i will get rid of that. after that meeting where they claim they're discussing clients and things, the thing putin really wanted to reverse i...

Lied, it could impact manafort's march sentencing with the judge possibly imposing a stiffer sentence. the question surrounding paul manafort and any possible russian collusion remained. special counsel he investigator believe details about the meeting could prove pivotal. in a closed hearing last week, a prosecutor revealed the dinner meeting was very much to the heart of what the special counsel's office is investigating. on august 2, 2016, just weeks after the republican national convention, manafort met up with his russian business associate just blocks from trump's campaign headquarters, ...

Potential target here, as a potential dupe. he's living part time in trump tower. he offers donald trump his services for nothing. and we know he had, shall we say, mounting financial obligations in his personal life. >> that's right. and we also know, brian, that those mounting financial obligations led to this desire of his to be made whole. and there is great reason to suspect, including on the backs of some fantastic investigative reporting that he actually took this position at the helm of the trump campaign not in order to have another successful campaign under his belt, as a republican ...

So it's interesting that time and again, including in this august 2, 2016, interaction with this associate of russian intelligence, konstantin kilimnik we saw paul manafort discussing things that could have significant material value for the russians. there's this idea of a ukrainian peace plan, which is more -- which is less ukraine can peace plan and more all-out victory for the russians because it would essentially bestow upon them sanctions relief. that's something that they have long sought in just about all of their interactions with the americans ever since those sanctions were placed o...

Investigators, harry? >> right, to a prosecutor what really gets their antenna buzzing out of control is, first, this point that carol and ken have teased out and really meticulous reporting, by the way. they have this manuscript and they read it so carefully for key points. and then the attempts to hide a rich, little detail that would get prosecutors totally focused, gates, kilimnik and manafort all leave by separate exits at this now-infamous august 2, 2016 meeting. something is going on, and you want to know. and what else gets them going? that the counterpoint to russia's key interest in ...