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Partner force. he was just 25 years old. he had been in the army since fwle 2012. the deaths of these men, a reminder of the price of the ongoing 17-year war americans continue to fight. you can follow me on facebook and twitter @jaketapper or tweet the show @thelead. our coverage on cnn continues right now. happening now, breaking news. what mueller knows. cnn receives draft court filings which may show robert mueller is in the home stretch of a collusion case. the documents detail alleged steps by a trump ally to obtain information on democratic e-mails stolen by russia. manafort's meeting...

Pardon. i think that manafort is protecting other interests. i think he has his eyes on other things than the president and the presidency, and i think he should look at his client list to get a sense of some of who those people are. >> i think i know what you're trying to say. just for the russian oligarchs for dummies, flesh that out for me. >> one of manafort's key and most lucrative client was daraposka, a prominent russian oligarch who made his fortune in the aluminum business in siberia that was very mobbed up and he came out on top in that business through very bitter and dangerous infi...

Forth to the courthouse clerk's office with documents and there seems to be a lot going on in mueller world. >> there are two things going on. there's an investigation that is proceeding, and the second things is there's no public disclosures, and after the james comey situation in the 2016 election, and they are not going to come out with any significant news in the last month before the elections, which is where we are now, but they are continuing their work and afterwards the question of will there be more indictments, will there be the first of probably several public reports from the muel...

As a campaign finance violation. he's also got now weisselberg, the cfo of the trump organization. again, how often do you get the insider, the cfo, the guy who knows the money trail, the most? and then lastly, he's got mcgahn. and that's not including all the other witnesses that we've heard of, don. general flynn, manafort, who's eventually going to flip. i bet you 3-1 that he's going to wind up. he's not going to go jail -- >> why do you say that? >> look, he's facing life imprisonment. he's got another retrial on the counts that the jury hung on, 11-1. and then he's got the case coming up ...

Team raised with them about m e maybe working out a guilty plea. i think the problem back then, i'm sure guy would agree, no time at all waiting for the jury to come in to work out that kind of deal. this gives them a little bit more of a window, talk, get proffers from the lawyers, see if manafort could be helpful to them or not. i think i disagree with guy, i think manafort is not likely to plead in this case. i think his team has been pretty adamant from the beginning that they want to go to trial on these and defend them. i do agree the pressure is enormous. i'm really at this point he's g...