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There's reaction tonight from the manafort camp to the new charges against him. a spokesman putting out a statement. quote innocent of the allegations set out in the newly filed indictments and confidence he will be acquitted of all charges. the new allegations have nothing to do with russia and 2016 election interference. collusion. he's confident he will be acquitted. violations of his constitutional rights will be remedied. >> good luck with that. anyone read the details of this indictment will see that paul manafort was engaged in significant financial crimes. the offshore accounts. the pe...

Didn't want to waive venue. they want it to happen there. >> why would that be? >> one of the things is that there are some states where it's a federal government prosecutes first the state is procolluded from filing state charges. if virginia is one of those cases and angling for a pardon. they are inoculating themselves from being prosecuted by the state. >> there's reaction i should point out from the manafort camp. and more on the conversation when we continue. rer. the whisperer? why do they call him the whisperer? he talks to planes. he talks to planes. watch this. hey watson, what's avi...

Some of his senior advisors. who tell me, look, think about where we were a week ago from today. where everyone was waiting in anticipation of the first indictments from special counsel robert mueller they finally did come this last monday. people think it's a whole lot of nothing. yes, it's very serious charges for paul manafort and others. it suggests that think have a long road ahead to deal with that there is not a shred of evidence or a hint of a suggestion within the man ford indictment that donald trump did anything wrong as a president or as a candidate. have you manafort's attorney wh...

Manafort camp, they have serious -- they have serious problems in terms of their legal analysis. >> so shimon, all of this breaking news that we've been following this morning follows your reporting, your -- you and the team from cnn, reporting -- i mean, cnn broke the news on friday to watch and that this would be happening. and in fact, lo and behold this morning, it is happening. so today, we just saw paul manafort surrender at the washington field office of the fbi. will the public hear the charges laid out today against him? >> well, absolutely. they will hear it through us, once these do...

Were indeed on the level. whether the money that he received was -- that everything was as it should have been and as it presented. so this is just another indication that this investigation is moving forward. >> carol, do you have any sense -- the screws seem to be tightening every day on paul manafort. do you have any sense of how the manafort camp is feeling after it tightens? >> they have been defensive about this and the investigation. it is hard to get a real sense of exactly how they're feeling. there's obviously speculation about whether paul manafort will decide to cut some sort of de...