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They say plans to prove evidence that banking evidence helped manafort obtain something like $16 million while the banker saw a roll in the trump campaign. amy, what's your thought on this development? >> it's not good for the white house. this is the president. this was the campaign. and if they can tie money that was linked to the campaign to this guy, you know and he eventually ended up working for the campaign, that doesn't look good to him. so i don't think this is good news for them. i think they want to avoid this topic as much as possible. >> areva, they're talking about venues, a by f...

Thanks so much for being here. for all the breaking news and big stories and our heroes on the homefront series, too. have a great weekend. here's shannon. >> shannon: paul man fort being sent to jail. federal judge revoking his bail after new charges attempted witness tampering. hello, everyone. i'm shannon bream in today for dana perino. and this is "the daily briefing." the former trump campaign chairman taken into custody after accusations he tried to contact witnesses in one of the federal cases against him. mana fort is facing two charges on money laundering, tax evasion and conspiracy t...

Gates is strong. >> just so quickly -- let's cut right to the quick here. they've already got manafort dead to center. they can send manafort away. so what you're saying is that this can't just be about gates turning up the pressure on manafort. he is nailed. he's had to give them more to get this kind of deal, right? >> look. we don't know everything that he has given up. we don't have that. and we won't know that for some time. but as you're pointing out, the stuff that they have against manafort and gates are documents. documents don't lie on the witness stand. they're considered the best e...

And how he wanted to use all of that to insinuate himself with the trump orbit. i also want to bring in an expert on u.s.-russia relations, former u.s. ambassador to russia, michael mcphaul. what is important about what mana ford wman mana fort was doing and why so much of it was well hidden? >> much of it was in plain sight really, what manafort did, talking to the ukrainians and moving money around, that wasn't all that hard to find out. it just took the mueller investigation to bring it out into the open so that everybody in the public knows about it. but what i find just confounding about ...

Consider evidence and potentially down the road possible indictments in either the trump russia investigation or the obstruction of justice investigation or both. he could convene his own grand jury. he has the option to use whatever grand jury has been convened to work on the paul mama mana fort ukraine course or convene the jury already working in the eastern district of virginia. the eastern district of virginia venue is central to what's going on. when bob mueller was first appointed special counsel the first person we learned he hired to work with him, the first person named as coming wit...