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So to be clear, mr. trump had no financial relationships with any russian oligarchs? >> that's what he said at the time, that's obviously what our position is. >> with a poker face like that, it's a small miracle robert mueller's investigators ever figured out manafort had lied to them. today it's a little bit harder for donald trump to say no collusion. a federal judge last night confirmed something many people, including mueller's prosecutors, suspected for some time, ex-campaign chairman paul manafort did indeed breach the terms of his plea agreement when he intentionally misled the fbi. th...

Simple. easy. awesome. a second hearing is determining right now to determine whether manafort lie to robert mueller. federal judge amy berman can

About that. >> and in part maybe he told the legal team he wasn't going to be completely straightforward about this, but the big question is why did manafort lie, why did michael flynn lie? why were all these people trying to protect themselves or the president? >> the conference for rick gates' sentencing was extended, basically. that suggests to me that mueller may have a ways to go, right? because gates is cooperating, there's more cooperation he expects to get out of gates. we don't know if it's something else. but it seems to me that asking for this time to be extended and saying, i got m...

Maybe all of this happened, but the president knew nothing about it. i think that's ultimately the question that the special counsel will have to answer, is what did the president know, when did he know it, who was briefed on these activities. but this flies in direct contradiction to the assertions by so must haany of these indiv that they had no contact with russia, they had no knowledge of the e-mails, didn't know anything about their release. these e-mails confirm there was an ongoing coordination between roger stone, jerome corsi, julian assange and wikileaks related to the release of the...

That he was showing his recollection to the best of his ability. >> right. and the question again of the pardon potentially hangs over all this. but as you listen, there are theories that have been put out there that perhaps bob mueller let manafort lie to him and maybe the president would then lie in his written answers. what do you think this means, the loss of manafort as a cooperating witness? >> we're going to engage in some reckless speculation here. you already noted, mike, that there's a pardon possibly in the wind or maybe he thinks the mueller probably would somehow absolve him. but ...