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Against american elections, against the american electorate. if the russians were getting from manafort details polling data, down to the precinct level, that could look like a conspiracy to interfere in the election, something that mueller already charged in another context. we also know, from the reporting, that rick gates was at that meeting. even if manafort's cooperation has been halting, gate's cooperation is not. they know quite a bit about what happened at the cigar bar in manhattan august 2nd. also, as circumstantial evidence, my understanding is the three men left that cigar bar thro...

>> brian, it was, as you described it, an unusual meeting at an unusual place. at the height of the 2016 presidential campaign. august 2nd, paul manafort, the campaign chair, leaves campaign headquarters in trump tower and goes over to 666 -- to the 666 building and to a club at the top called the grand havana room, a cigar club. there he and his campaign lieutenant, rick gates, meet with a visiting foreign national, konstantin kilimnik and the meeting occurs at the height of the campaign, three men meet and one of the things we know from the bits of courtroom records that have not been redact...

Intentionally vague. >> one of the things that's being explored is what is the level of coordination, communication, collusion, and/or conspiracy between members of the trump campaign like manafort and russian spies. and if mueller has been able to demonstrate and a federal judge has now concluded that manafort lied about that august 2nd meeting and intelligence, that would actually be significant evidence of collusion and coordination between the trump campaign and the russian effort to break into our democracy and artificially alter the results. that's a very serious development. >> so you v...

Handle on this investigation, that is there some sort of an agreement involving the president and the russian side to do something regarding this election. i have not heard that. what i think could come up is are there people in the trump campaign or bbit, that had clos ties to russia and how did that come into play and then there is the question was was the president or other people in the campaign aware. i think those are the fracturing lines of where we will see this investigation go. >> tom, look, you're setting up chuck rosenberg here. i have a graphic here i can't put in television, you ...

Manafort, one convicted in fully cooperating gates. it feels like he has surfaced this meeting. it is a very important window into that meeting for prosecutors. august 2nd is the meeting, and i want to emphasize this, here is donald trump on july 31s, two days earlier on a sunday show being asked about ukraine. take a listen. >> that whole part of the world is a mess all of the power of nato and all of this, he takes crimea -- >> you said he might recognize