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Way of like i'm not going to give putin the credit that we care? >> that's how i read it. >> is that a -- you know? >> show has a way of getting under his skin, but he reacted very differently to north korea and called kim jong-un a maniac and so on. i think you're height he's treated some people on his own staff very differently in many ways than putin. i think that's because the president tends to respect power, he doesn't respect weakness and the people mistreated on his staff are people who are weak, they're not military -- they're the people who aren't members of the military and who aren...

He thought he could use the leverage of the indictment to get web hubble to flip. is there a zeroing in on manafort in the same way? >> certainly you want to see if there are any co-conspirators in a case that you can flip. get leverage by showing you can charge them with a crime and in exchange for lien eneniency. getting a bigger fish, a trump family member, the trump organization or trump himself. >> manafort registered as a foreign agent to benefit former government of ukraine. the filing serves as a retroactive admission that he performed work in the united states on behalf of a foreign p...

Want in the morning. a knock at the door. standing there in your hoodie footie or whatever you wear. he has been providing documentation to intel committees, senate and congressional. it's interesting, although sometimes it's a little pro forma. if i'm going to be doing the raid on manafort, i'm looking for limited things. tax records, foreign bank accounts. those of the sort of things the bureau would be doing. these guys are great. i have a tremendous amount of respect for the fbi. i have no problems with the fbi doing an objective investigation. i am comfortable with that. i have no idea ab...

>> correct. >> but you're saying he distinctly left open the possibility that there was, deliberate and authorized, electronic surveillance of people like roger stone, paul manafort and others around donald trump, possibly general flynn, who were known to have some kind of contacts with russian authorities. >> that is exactly it, lawrence. i mean, i think, again, he did mention title 3 which is investigation. what he did not mention is title 10 and title 5 which covers espionage, which covers intelligence collections. we know we were listening to the russians as we saw with michael flynn. it's...

Intelligence collections. we know we were listening to the russians as we saw with michael flynn. it's very possible within the sort of pedestrian collection of information that we may have swept up information on flynn, on manafort. it's so -- he not addressing that to me is a very clear sign that, you know, that door is still very much open. >> david corn, your reading of where it stands now. >> i think we have multiple investigations going forward. we know the house a senate intelligence committees are investigating. we also know they're led by republicans who were not happy to be looking a...