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Violations. a landscaper is testifying how manafort spent half a million dollars at his hampton's mansion over the course of five years. his grounds featuring a waterfall and red and white flower bed in the shape of an m. manafort's long time bookkeeper taking the stand testifying a number 14 times in a row here the bookkeeper saying she never heard any mention of manafort's 14 different shell company bank accounts. a brief moment of levity the judge noticing his binder of documents got swapped with one of mueller's prosecutor's binders. now judge ellis had a sneak peek at their strategy. the ...

Mueller. >> they should. mueller has said we have the authority to execute the search warrant. the entire argument that manafort gave with overly broad mandate in order to investigate anything rising out of donald trump's campaign is he also shot that back. it turns out that rosenstein wrote a memo last year. it shows that mueller has the authority to do what he's been doing. m manafort is at the center of whether this campaign colluded with russia.

Dealings and he's go hard as my colleagues just indicated, using cooperation from rick gates, the deputy campaign manager who was involved with manafort in the criminal activities that m manafort has been charged in, also involved in the presidential transition, and much later in the presidential campaign and transition that paul manafort was, but also michael flynn, who was national security advisor in the white house. i think mueller is just getting started with charges here. we don't know what awaits jared kushner, what awaits trump jr. and we also don't know about the underlying issue of c...

Get your assessment before i ask you more specific questions. >> well, i thought overall he was credible. he is obviously very upset about the situation about his role in it. i think he may make -- he may connect dots more i say more tightly than maybe matt and i are comfortable with right now. we just simply don't know what the trump campaign knew and what information they got. but i think his point, you know, what was the trump campaign buying from cambridge analytica and why did such senior players in the trump campaign, kushner, m manafort want him to be part of it is a fair question to as...

Do we understand more from these filings about that main plot line? >> oh, absolutely. i i think that was part of bob mueller's intention. if you look at the indictment via vee the russians, he told us a lot more detail than i would have frankly expected. and that would have had to be part of the agreement with the intelligence community to go into that kind of detail. because just giving that detail gives the russians some information that they could reverse engineer and see what are the sources of that information. and that indictment, the kremlin was going how in the hell do the americans k...