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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 release any intercepts involving him and non-americans in hopes of finally putting an end to these wild conspiracy theories. mr. manafort did not collude with the russian government. jill, those are two very different statements. they have taken out the reference to him not being indebted to russians and they have now gone on the offensive, saying the u.s....

You get whole with a russian billionaire? whatever that means, would seem to point to the third major point of connection which makes manafort and his relationship with the russian guy glow in the dark for this investigation. that relationship, that part of their relationship, of course, is the money part. we know from previous reporting that deripaska sued paul manafort in 2015 for $19 million. that was money that manafort was going to invest for deripaska but something went wrong with the investments and deripaska lost his money and for a time he was not even able to con manafort and sued to...

-- manafort said when he was hoping to get whole with deripaska, thanks to his job running the trump campaign. what can you do that will help you get whole with a russian billionaire? whatever that means, would seem to point to the third major point of connection which makes manafort and his relationship with the russian guy glow in the dark for this investigation. that relationship, that part of their relationship, of course, is the money part. we know from previous reporting that deripaska sued paul manafort in 2015 for $19 million. that was money that manafort was going to invest for deripa...

The campaign. he has called for the u.s. government to release any intercepts involving him and non-americans in hopes of finally putting an end to these wild conspiracy theories. mr. manafort did not collude with the russian government. jill, those are two very different statements. they have taken out the reference to him not being indebted to russians and they have now gone on the offensive, saying the u.s. government was snooping on manafort and they should release those transcripts. >> actually, ali, what i think it is is an attempt to refocus and to throw the special prosecutor off of hi...

Receive any communication from paul manaoffer offering to brief him. says he hasn't spoken to him since 2012. that "washington post" report was frankly stunning. that manafort was offering to brief a russian oligarch, who's close enough to the kremlin that he can get a diplomatic waiver. do you believe oleg deripaska, that he never even knew that n manafort was offering to brief him? >> well, i don't have any insight here. no inside baseball mag into this at all. i have to say that i when i heard this the initial reporting, i could not conceive of why paul manafort would offer insight into the...