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Because character is destiny. donald trump's character has brought us to this point. for the details on today's developments we turn to our lead off panel of legal experts. joining us now ken dilanian intelligence and national security reporter for nbc news. also joining us jill wine-banks, and mimi roka. and jill, first to you. your reaction of the developments of the day to michael cohen in federal court. >> i think this was an amazing big day with the noose really tightening now because we are now focused on the connection between the trump cal pain and trump and russia. there's no question...

In the electoral college. since then we were destined to be here at some point analyzing the crimes allegedly committed by and on behalf of donald trump to defraud american voters to win the presidency of the united states. because character is destiny. donald trump's character has brought us to this point. for the details on today's developments we turn to our lead off panel of legal experts. joining us now ken dilanian intelligence and national security reporter for nbc news. also joining us jill wine-banks, and mimi roka. and jill, first to you. your reaction of the developments of the day ...

Lies ahead. ken, how upset is robert mueller by paul manafort's handling of all that? >> joyce is making a great point. robert mueller only speaks through court filings. he doesn't give news confrensz, he's not briefing reporters. when he speaks, it's meticulous, it's well prepared and it's powerful. and he really hasn't done much speaking yet. he's filed a series of very strong charges against manafort, but he hasn't gotten to the fundamental questions in this case, whether donald trump colluded with russia, whether he obstructed justice. i think there's a lot of speaking yet to be done by ...

You talk about how hard it is to get those phone calls, time to make those calls. it says the filing does, that manafort had more than 100 phone calls with his attorneys and another 200 calls with other persons. ken, what does this mean for paul manafort right now? >> well, right now he's going to the alexandria jail which is going to be a lot harder than the northern neck rural jail 100 miles from here. what's remarkable about this, peter, his bail was revoked in washington, d.c. and when i asked the marshal services that day what normally would happen, he was supposed to go to the washington...

To have developed a work around. manafort has revealed on the monitored phone calls that in order to exchange e-mails he reads and composes e-mails on a second laptop that is shuttled in and out of the facility by his team. this is amazing. when the team takes the laptop from the jail, it reconnects to the internet and manafort's e-mails are transmitted. joining us now, daniel goldman is a former assistant u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york, now an msnbc legal analyst and here on set political reporter for the daily beast betsy woodruff, white house reporter with the associate...