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Look at the predicating offenses which in this case is obvious collusion of a foreign power. russia. but what they're going to do, you started to see it with the indictments with manafort and the different articles coming out on the collateral aspects of this case. they're going to look at all the people that were around the president-to-be back around december, november of 2016, when these allegations first hit and they'll start looking at all the collateral players around his senior staff and people that were putting together his cabinet. and they'll dig into that. that's why you're starting...

Papadopoulos, it says, in fact, sprelly in the documents at the time that part of the investigation was looking into collusion, cooperation between trump associates and the russian campaign. but more recently in a court opinion unsealed today as well dated october 2nd, 2017, the first lines say this is a matter of national importance and that the u.s. through the special counsel's office is investigating foreign interference in the 2016 election and potential collusion in those efforts by american citizens. that's a court opinion relating to this case. that is still very clearly a subject of t...

We knew manafort had been in business with oleg deripaska, we knew he sent an e-mail to oleg deripaska saying has oleg seen this? can we be made whole? nbc uncovered 30 million more dollars that changed hands between these two men. someone who worked in counter intelligence what crosses your mind when you see that? >> motive? i don't know any more simple way to put it. it is true. when counter intelligence -- there's four pillars of motivation that are the cornerstone of specialize, money, ideology, core, ego. money always plays a role, it's the easiest way to get people to do what you want th...

Reporting on manafort what did you make of it? >> i can verify that a prosecutor would look at it in a similar way in terms of motive. certainly it provides motive for manafort to be offering private briefings that we heard about, that manafort allegedly offered the same on the ground la gaurk in an e-mail. why would the chair of a presidential campaign in the united states give special access to a russian ol la gaurk? we have 30 million dlashl reasons why. >> the way i sort of think of where we are right now, you've got all these -- revealed these moments of the two sides, if you think of the...

Withdrawn. he said that originally through his spokesman -- >> let me put this on the screen. we have two comments from jason maloni, manafort's spokesman. this is interesting. the first one read as follows. mr. manafort is not indebted to former clients today, nor was he at the time he began working for the trump campaign. that was alive for a little while. now that statement is gone. here is the revised statement. it says, recent news reports indicate mr. manafort was under surveillance before he joined the campaign and after he left the campaign. he has called for the u.s. government to rel...