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>> tim, at bloomberg, you're reporting that the special counsel has also reached out to other business associates, including manafort's son-in-law and a ukrainian oligarch according to one of the people. those efforts were characterized as an apparent attempt to gain information that could be used to squeeze manafort or force him to be more helpful to prosecutors, and that has to be what donald trump is worried about here more than anything. so we're watching this fascinating moment where today, donald trump tries to say sympathetic things about manafort and the raid. yesterday we see donald t...

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...

>> his consulting fees are 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 drekt of special counsel bob mueller the fbi raided paul manna forth'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 sending a subpoena. but today at bloomberg news, grel ferrell reported that bob mueller is apparently going after manafort's financial informati...

Purview is to subpoena documents. so i think we'll start to see a lot more of that now that this grand jury is operating under mueller. >> cnn has learned that they subpoenaed documents and notes from the donald trump jr. meeting with the russian lawyer as well as the members of the campaign including manafort and jared kushner. president trump has not shied away from talking about russia. in fact, just this past thursday at that big campaign style rally in west virginia he said this. >> the russia story is a total fabrication. it's just an excuse for the greatest loss in the history of americ...

Russian facilities to do it certainly speaks to criminality. and his inability to understand that he absolutely had to disclose his meetings and his involvement with russians, and now trying to claim that he just overlooked is not acceptable and not believable. and so i'm a little bit sad because i see us moving steadily to the point where we're going to unveil all of this collusion, all of those persons that were involved, and it leads right to the president of the united states, which i've always believed. and so let the investigations go on. let the information unfold. the fact of the matte...