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Answer when judge amy berman jackson said do you disagree with what the prosecution laid out on friday? do you disagree and think that perhaps he didn't lie at all? leaving aside whether or not it was intentional lying, and they couldn't say yet. they want time to converse with manafort and get more information. but what it appeared to me, ali, to be the case is that they are not sure if their client lied because perhaps their client is lying to them as well. some of these conversations manafort had with the white house may not have been known to his legal team and they need more time to figur...

To all these conversations manafort was having with these pro-russian ukrainians. it may be he has a lot more information about how this web of connections works than we have seen publicly so far. >> we are happy to bring our viewers the face behind the byline mark mazetti at the "times." there's this story, there's the fact that he's one of the five bylines in our first segment tonight. we greatly appreciate you staying up with us after a better than average news day in the business, mark. and mika oyang, thank you as always for joining us. the former chief ethics lawyer to president george...

The trump campaign, but the trump campaign was certainly eager to reciprocate. and i do have to say that in february of last year, the "times" wrote the first story about contacts with russian intelligence and we took some heat for it. but we've only seen case after case that have shown that these contacts were real. >> and mieke, mr. gates is not the most famous or infamous name in this case. he surfaces in the news from time to time. let's talk about him for a moment. he's cooperating, of course, which means, i'm guessing, that the feds have infiltrated his life. so what's the potential that...

>> and mieke, mr. gates is not the most famous or infamous name in this case. he surfaces in the news from time to time. let's talk about him for a moment. he's cooperating, of course, which means, i'm guessing, that the feds have infiltrated his life. so what's the potential that he comes up with even more of this sort of thing? >> i think it's very high. you have to remember that rick gates was not only paul manafort's right-hand man, he was the deputy campaign manager for a time on the trump campaign. so he would have been privy to all kinds of strategic conversations with in the trump camp...

Information at this meeting, but of course information did come from the russians later via wikileaks and others that was damaging, did come at a damaging point in the campaign. and we also see a pattern of meetings with russians, the george papadopoulos meeting, this meeting, conversations manafort had, carter page, other people throughout the campaign. so i wouldn't look at this meeting as the entirety of this whole thing. the other thing about what happened with the house republicans in this whitewashed report by devin nunes, who is essentially the p.r. guy for the white house in this, is t...