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Son-in-law and a business partner who happens to be a ukrainian oligarch in an apparent attempt to gain information to squeeze manafort to force him to be more helpful to prosecutors. prosecutors have reached out to nose people. an fbi raid i get. a subpoena i get. what does it look like when a special counsel reaches out to you. i imagine that is like the hands reaching out from under the bed to grab your ankles if you let your feet dangle too far off the mattress. that's probably just me. joining me now is greg ferrell. twhaing y thank you for joining us. >> my pleasure. >> reaching out. you...

Manafort. and the u.s. attorney in manhattan, up until mueller came along was pursuing one angle of that. >> and the lead prosecutor from that office pursuing that went to join mueller's team. >> yes, the lead corruption guy, yes. mueller has a lot of people from brooklyn, a lot of people from d.c. and yes the lead prosecutor for public corruption from sdny. >> greg ferrell, investigative reporter from bloomberg news. thank you very much. much more to come tonight. stay with us. this is joanne.

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...

Businesses and one of his business partners. in addition to those subpoenas, bloomberg also reports that the special counsel has also, quote, reached out to other people, including manafort's own son-in-law and a former business partner who happens to be a putin linked ukrainian oligarch in an apparent attempt to gain information to squeeze manafort to force him to be more helpful to prosecutors. prosecutors have reached out to those other people. an fbi raid i get. a subpoena i get. what does it look like when a special counsel reaches out to you? i imagine that is like the hands reaching out...

I thought that was a very -- that was pretty tough stuff to wake him up. perhaps his family was there. i think that's pretty tough stuff. >> his consulting fees, they're probably from all over the place. who knows. i don't know. did i mention i barely remember the guy? yesterday we learned at the direction of special counsel bob mueller the fbi raided paul manafort's home, seizing tax records and banking records. we don't know exactly what the fbi was looking for at paul manafort's house or why they felt like they had to go after anything with a search warrant and armed agents instead of just ...