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Understands how serious it is, that a foreign power was trying to interfere in the election, and it would also show that he takes very seriously the concept that it could happen in the future. i mean, we're investigating what happened in the past, but the russians are clearly not going to stop. they do this all over the world, so i think as a country we do need to use this opportunity to focus on how to stop it from happening in the future. >> one of the things that people seem to be saying also is that the manafort charges are unrelated to the other stuff, but congressman schiff, the top demo...

Others today with the campaign say he was a low-level player, he was unpaid. he was kind of a third-tier hanger on and maybe, you know, didn't have the authority to be having some of these conversations, and so i think there's more to learn about papadopoulos' role, but i don't think we should mistake him for someone who was in a high-level position in this campaign. >> we don't know if he was in a high-level position or not but as someone who worked on several campaigns, he sent e-mails to manafort and manafort would respond and sen them around. that's not necessarily someone that's low level...

Seriously. they do sort of come up a plan saying, look, we'll have to have some low-level people handle this. this is not something for the candidate to do. look, that doesn't tell me that this is -- that there's nothing here, and, you noey, to laura's point, this is collusion. a lot of people wondering what that is. we've been talking about how there's no specific crime of collusion hand what you've seen described in the papadopoulos plea agreement is certainly what collusion would look like. >> laura, lastly, what message do you think the court is trying to send with the $so million bail and...

Home decorating, activities that federal officials say were ongoing while both manafort and gates were working on behalf of the campaign. president trump briefed on the charges from the white house this morning distanced himself from manafort tweeting. sorry, but this is years ago, before paul manafort was part of the trump campaign. but why aren't crooked hilary and the dems the focus? also, there is no collusion. and today the government asked for bail set at $so million for manafort and $5 million for gates with both men put on house arrest after surrendering their passports. jake? >> all r...

El at the end of the day they are part of this. he doesn't -- if you were innocent, donald trump would be acting completely differently because we're talking about a foreign government interfering in the democratic process to help one person and hurt another. >> white house press secretary sarah sanders responded this afternoon to the indictment of trump campaign chairman manafort and deputy campaign chair gates and news that papadopoulos, george papadopoulos had pleaded guilty lying to the fbi, he said -- she said the actions, quote, had nothing to do with the president, nothing to do with th...