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Exclusively learned that robert mueller's focus on former trump campaign chief paul manafort goes back 11 years, all the way back to 2006. what does that tell us about the state of the investigation, and does this mean manafort is moving on from recent events of the 2016 campaign? >> well, i think that mueller is investigating every angle that he can. now, there are statutes of limitations that could limit the kinds of charges he can bring for example on tax evasion or other financial crimes. those usually have statutes of limitations ranging five to ten years. stuart will probably have the de...

My guess is that american intelligence community and law enforcement are more discreet and discriminating than that. they would not have almost kind of accidently dealt with trump because they were dealing with someone in the same building. if they were going after paul manafort or eves dropping on manafort, they would be doing that. it raises this larger issue that there's so many people associated with the trump campaign that seem to have had dealings not just with russia but with oligarchs and ukraine and the turkish government. we know about michael flynn. the whole thing does have the fee...

Manafort was doing something at least on the face looked to authorities like it could be operating on behalf of a foreign power. he was talking to trump during parts of these times. now the president knows and his legal team knows and everyone around him knows if paul manafort mentioned anything to do with the campaign with regard to russia to the president on the phone, this could implicate the president. because they are collecting this evidence of paul manafort's potential wrong-doing, he has a great incentive to flip. if he didn't before, he will have incentive now. >> new details about th...

Reads like a spy novel. a predawn raid where they picked the looks of manafort's home and warned him he is likely to be indicted. listen to the final paragraph of this piece. his team had to show probable cause of a crime. the federal judge he was likely to destroy the evidence. >> let's start the conversation there. you cannot get a fisa warrant without making a case to a judge that somebody is doing something with a foreign actor that raises legitimate suspicions. they had one and got a second at a time he was talking to candidate trump and president-elect trump and then president trump. to ...

His campaign and turn the other way regarding the kind of corrupt people he had around him. >> when you see the tough tactics, that tells you they can't do this unless they have a good case against mr. manafort and you are the target of investigation and we are going to indict you. they want you to throw your hands up and say okay, i will cooperate. >> there are two issues here and they are connected. one is part of what the mueller team is trying to do. they quoted someone saying you want to strike terror into the hearts of people so they cooperate with the investigation and understand you ar...