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Made the decision to, you know, run this sort of false flag in to him. >> you think because he had this social media page, some of his interactions on there may have been why he was picked out of all the had earns who may be visiti americans who may be working and visiting russia right now? >> one of these fsb officers walks up to someone working in russia and says i have these documents. our embassy employees know better and walk away. he's been set up, he's not a spy working for the united states, for the cia or the pentagon or anybody like that. he doesn't meet the profile. and right now, t...

Government archives under that title, but that title is often used by many countries as a cover for an intelligence agent. he also served in mexico, in the russian embassy there, and then moved into the arms trade. in the early 2000s, he was involved in selling warships and gunships for coast guards and navies in various countries, especially in africa and other parts of the developing world. and then he went to work for this russian oligarch as a kind of all-around fixer, special projects operative for this oligarch. he's had quite the illustrious career. >> and that oligarch,oling deripaska,...

"time" magazine cites an intelligence agent is saying he put the squeeze on manafort. and this comes as manafort awaits sentencing for financial convictions and for broken plea agreement with special counsel robert mueller. we have cnn justice correspondent, jessica schneider, joining us now. was manafort compromised? that's the question. he was certainly vulnerable to it. >> right. and that's probably the key question here that mueller's team is now investigating, especially because of all the timing in this, brianna. it raises serious questions about how much leverage the russians may have h...

Shifting mosaic of puzzle pieces out there, and we're -- what we're getting is detail that's being filled in here. so we're getting color. and boyarkin is, you know, he's an interesting character. he's a former intelligence agent, and what he did -- his job was, was running special projects for deripaska in africa and other places, and that may have included, you know, collecting debts from people like paul manafort. but what's important to see is that this is just one of many pieces out there that are all connecting trump to the campaign. the interesting question for me is, what did trump kno...

>> that's an extraordinary bombshell to hear about. the fact that somebody in manafort's position had that sort of leverage on them from a russian intelligence agent, that has enormous significance. total speculation, of course. this could be part of what we hear that manafort was not being forthright about, and that could certainly lead to a more tight nexus, sort of a missing link if you will between actual government agents and directly trying to influence the campaign. >> but then i guess in order for it to link to the president, there would have to then be a second stage of that connectio...