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This. it all comes on the heels of news that former trump chairman paul manafort is running into trouble with his bail release. now, prosecutors who initially supported manafort's release to house arrest now oppose it. saying manafort recently -- you got to listen to this. he recently tried to co-write an opinion piece. an op-ed recording his work in ukraine with an acquaintance believed to have russian intelligence ties. you cannot make this up. >> and more twists regarding that now infamous saturday morning tweet implying that president trump knew mike flynn lied to the fbi when flynn was fi...

Difference because the white house has said the president's tweets are official, are the official word of the white house. official statements of the white house. >> right. >> so even if a lawyer drafted it, he didn't. >> he didn't. >> but even if he did, he put it in donald trump's name. >> right. >> donald trump sent it out. >> this is the way it works. >> it becomes the official language, just like if we release -- if somebody helped any of us with a statement, a pr statement. >> how about the -- >> and we put it out. >> sarah huckaby handers. >> it's us. it's attached to us. so there is a ...

Documents in flynn's plea agreement show flynn's discussions were, and i quote again, part of a coordinated effort by mr. trump's aides to create foreign policy before they were in power. and e-mails among top transition officials show that flynn was in close touch with other senior members of the trump transition team about dealings with russia. we don't yet know if trump himself was part of those conversations, though. you wouldn't be faulted for wondering. but there is now ample evidence to suggest that at the very least, the president knew flynn had lied to the fbi and subsequently pressur...

Going to be questions about who actually composed that tweet. it doesn't look like a tweet that even a rookie lawyer would have composed. and now we're seeing also on the talk shows that there aren't many people, even ty cobb another lawyer within the president's team defending this strategy. the only person seems to be john dowd and alan dershowitz and it makes sense now that a lot of people within the white house are concerned about the president's legal strategy when you've got the two highest profile lawyers seemingly disagreeing on what the basis of the defense is. >> it is, harold, breat...

Not what we have here. we have a corporate tax cut. that's not what the vast majority of people who voted for donald trump thought therm they were voting for. and there was a famous exchange that jerry baker had with gary cohn. gary cohn was in front of a room full of ceos and said how many are you going to take the tax cut and invest in your companies. barely any hands went up. it was revealing about the fact that this is not going to have the impact. >> we're at the end of the first year. this is politics involved. what i'm curious to see what will happen is as the congressman said, we may g...