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The eastern district of virginia about his dealings with turkey. >> you touch on an interesting issue which is my long-held contention we all should have bought stock in toner companies before this case started. we'd all be on an island in the caribbean by now. julia, to quickly switch gears to where you were when i last saw you outdoors this afternoon, outside the manafort matter, what did you witness in court? >> it was interesting, brian, it was just 30 minutes, a pretty quick scheduling conference. i talked to manafort's lawyer, kevin downing, on the way in, and he said, i don't expect muc...

Sometimes to be independent, who wouldn't necessarily follow the advice of prosecution and not incarcerate someone because the prosecution says not to. they're going into his character. that's piece i flipped to where they talk about something michael flynn did when he was 13 is years old. >> yeah, i saw that. >> saved two children from a free-rolling car. i mean, things that seem to have nothing to do with this, but they're trying to build the character of a man, but it is difficult to get away from the other things we know about michael flynn, in particular an investigation that's ongoing in...

Cooperative. and it seems clear, it's because they know the judge they're dealing with. judge sullivan is known sometimes to be independent, who wouldn't necessarily follow the advice of prosecution and not incarcerate someone because the prosecution says not to. they're going into his character. that's piece i flipped to where they talk about something michael flynn did when he was 13 is years old. >> yeah, i saw that. >> saved two children from a free-rolling car. i mean, things that seem to have nothing to do with this, but they're trying to build the character of a man, but it is difficult...

Demonstrates additional contacts with administration officials. back with us, peter baker, joyce vance, frank figliuzzi, jeremy bash. jeremy, on this manafort matter, i'm trying to focus my thinking on area two of today's court documents, what is your takeaway about this relationship between trump -- team trump and manafort? >> well, i think the important player here is konstantin kilimnik. you'd be forgiven on a friday night from your getting confused with your kilimniks, and other names. he was indicted by the special counsel back in june for trying to witness tamper and there's clearly some...

A wire transfer and about contact with trump administration officials. according to the feds, manafort has said he had no direct or indirect communications with anyone in the trump administration. but federal prosecutors write, quote, the evidence demonstrates that manafort had contacts with administration officials. for instance, in a text exchange from may 26 of 2018, manafort authorized a person to speak with an administration official on manafort's behalf. separately, according to another manafort colleague, manafort said in february, 2018, that manafort had been in communication with a se...