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Obviously, he and paul manafort had a long relationship that includes significant financial dealings. now, the information you have, these e-mails that you have been some of these that you have seen are coming from information turned over to congressional investigations and the special counsel. how central is this development? because again, you now would have from these e-mails the campaign chairman for donald trump offering to brief briefings on this election. >> so, we think that these documents are being reviewed closely by mueller. they certainly are by three congressional committees that...

Putin private briefings on the 2016 campaign. e these are very significant developments tonight. i want to go now to the former white house counsel for nixon, john dean, former cia chief, steve hawe, our mark preston and editor in chief of "the daily beas beast". steve, let me start with you and "the washington post" report. they're saying paul manafort offered to brief this oligarch just before trump was nominated. offered briefings, plural. what's your reaction? >> erin, this is a big deal. at the least, which you have is manafort, at that time, the campaign manager, offering to deripaska, w...

Private briefings, we can accommodate manafort wrote in the july 2016 e-mail. portions of these were read to you along with other correspond. tell us how close he is to the kremlin, to putin himself? >> he has been scribed in some publications as the second wealthiest man in russia and there was a state department table that was leaked in wikileaks which describe him as one of the very few people who are close to putin. in russia. so, he's very powerful guy. one of the wealthiest people in the country. you don't get to that position of wealth and power without having a good relationship with t...

Why do you think they won't change their mind? >> why? because it's very difficult. they have limited information. they don't want to discuss the moment and actually i have no time to discuss. >> none. you know, "the washington post" knows the wall street report that was because of ties to organized crime in the russian mafia according to the "wall street journal." oleg continued when he was talking to me, to criticize the expansion of nato and say american leadership needs to change. of course, barack obama was president of the united states. how significant when you put this in context, this...

Have clashed. this is disciplining that putin does with many of his oligarchs, so safe to say, he's very close to putin and to other power centers in the kremlin. >> so, john dean, you hear all that. oleg deripaska, he's plugged in. he's connected. he could be, he's a confidant. deripaska obviously then linked to putin. we have lots of images of them together. they spent a lot of time together. he's also close to paul manafort and this is something people may not know fully. he worked for deripaska at one point. they had an investment partner shim, john, what do you think the significance is o...