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Leverage over a witness, they will often put pressure on those spots and make it clear that people like paul manafort that you're all alone. and as "game of thrones" would say, winter is coming. so i think that was certainly conveyed in that predawn raid. but obviously these statements are not helpful. i don't think it was helpful for his attorney dowd to criticize the raid on manafort. what they are losing is that crush space between the president and key targets. usually white houses try to increase that space, and they're doing everything they can to eliminate it. >> phil, become to paul ma...

For those that acknowledgment. >> we have to remember what he was looking for. according to the reports we're seeing, these are not records you can gain through other subpoenas. . much more challenging to do. this investigation, the manafort part was part was advanced more than any other in relation to the scope of the investigation. manafort lives on in real estate deals. you know, going back into last year, probably about that time frame was probably immersed in the media. i think the leads out there were more advanced on manafort. >> so he is not -- well he is cooperating but not coordinati...

While the president was declaring that, "the wall street journal" was busy uploading this story, letting the cat out of the bag that despite what the president was saying about we have no involvement in this, in fact the president's lawyer, a man who is apparently serving as his lead attorney on russia matters, john dowd, he's absolutely involved in paul manafort and specifically on that question of the fbi raid, that was carried out in conjunction with bob mueller's investigation. apparently at 3:48 in the morning this morning the president's lawyer, john dowd, was up and sending misspelled e...

Mueller, that investigation is absolutely going down the financial and banking path when it comes specifically to trump's campaign chairman, paul manafort. quoting from the bloomberg report, mueller's team of investigators has sent subpoenas in recent weeks from a washington grand jury to global banks for account information and records of transactions involving manafort and some of his companies. we're going to be talking with greg ferrell, one of the investigative reporters from bloomberg who broke that story today about what those subpoenas mean and what paul manafort's options may be in te...

About the truthfulness of statements here, this is bad strategy by the president and his legal team. you shouldn't have the president making a manifestly different representation of this. paul manafort is now who the president is calling mr. manafort saying, yeah, i think i remember him, claiming he was only involved in the campaign for a short period of time, trying to distance him from manafort saying we have no involvement in these legal troubles with the special counsel and this legal fbi raid. we know that is not true because the president's lawyer proves it not to be true. so the preside...