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August 2nd, 2016, meeting at the cigar club in new york were they basically trying to get donald trump elected president so that the sanctions could be lifted and, you know, russia would win and trump would win? >> and there's a great, you know, john put some of this together this morning. we're going to put up the list of dates here as we tick through. you mentioned august 2nd. but if we go back a couple weeks from then, right? if we're look at july 26th, just look at the timeline here, july 22nd, rather, the wikileaks of those 20,000 hacked e-mails, then prosecutors talking about what happen...

Discuss this. lies, that is where we are starting this morning, ellie. we're going to talk about the what and then the why. the what is paul manafort lying about these meetings with konstantin kilimnik who is this official who worked with him before when he was a political consultant but who the fbi believes has ties to russian intelligence. manafort lied, so said this judge, about interactions and communications with kilimnik about a $125,000 payment for legal bills and information material to another doj probe. he lied about a meeting on august 2nd in which there were discussions about polic...

And they're talking -- they give them internal polling data. and what -- and according to gates, then manafort went through the data to explain it to them. and what do we know happened after that? the russians were heavily involved in our election. you know, campaign strategists have always wondered how is it that the trump campaign was able to have this very detailed microtargeting give that they spent half the money that hillary clinton spent? well, i think now we know. in this august meeting because they had all the data to do it and then the russians took care of it for them. and in additi...

The russians were heavily involved in our election. you know, campaign strategists have always wondered how is it that the trump campaign was able to have this very detailed microtargeting give that they spent half the money that hillary clinton spent? well, i think now we know. in this august meeting because they had all the data to do it and then the russians took care of it for them. and in addition, not only were they talking about the data but they also went over this peace plan, which isn't a peace plan at all, it's putin's idea of how to solve the ukraine problem. so that he can get the...

Applau applause, let's bring in our lead-off panel. ned price, former senior director on the national security counsel. former u.s. attorney joyce vance who spent 25 years as a federal prosecutor and at aforementioned, tom hamburger, because it's your reporting we're discussing here tonight, i'd like you to begin and talk about the setting of this meeting at this club not far from here in midtown manhattan, why it matters, why it could be foundational. >> brian, it was, as you described it, an unusual meeting at an unusual place. at the height of the 2016 presidential campaign. august 2nd, pau...