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As you pointed out, paul manafort was fired from the campaign, rick gates stuck around for a while afterwards. while he wasn't necessarily involved in the presidential transition, he played an important role on the inaugural committee. he helped raise money, worked on president trump's inauguration and after that worked for a nonprofit supporting president trump. ultimately he had to leave that role because of connections with paul manafort. >> sara murray in washington. thanks. let's bring in cnn legal analyst michael zell deny, a top assistant to robert mueller formerly, and lynne sweet. mic...