Me Manafort News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Trump campaign is still unclear. the document also gave no indication whether president trump was aware of manafort transferring the data and didn't specify how kilimnik might have used it. we do know manafort and his deputy rick gates asked kilimnik to give it to the uen cran oligarchs, who financed russian-backed political parties. george vance, let me start with you on this, how can something like this potentially or could it potentially implicate the president more broadly having hired paul manafort, having him run the campaign, or is that connection not strong enough for that to be an iss...

Run the campaign, or is that connection not strong enough for that to be an issue? >> i think the short answer is we don't know. mueller likely has a lot of information that's not publicly available but it's pretty interesting to me manafort, whose best protection here would have been to tell mueller's team everything that he knew, that was his one guarantee of getting favorable treatment at sentencing, there was something here that was so important that he had to protect it. i think that certainly could have been other people who knew what he was up to. >> jeremy bash, what do you make of thi...

And transactions for real estate over the years. >> everyone in washington knew paul manafort had worked for the worst russian oligarchs and anti anti-ukrainians who were part russian stooges and so forth, and it was such a mind-boggling appointment that he thought he could get out of that. but in particular the close relations to a lot of the same oligarchs who sort of funded directly or indirectly trump. for me manafort is big tell. you can say he didn't have some of the normal guards, but he also felt a kind of kinship with manafort. >> let me ask you to weigh in on that. i haven't seen you...

This is serious. i'm joined by joyce vance, former u.s. attorney and msnbc analyst.ooks to me manafort is going inside and he may not get out ever. >> i thinkhat's a strong possibility. prosecutors don't like defendants who go out and try totacher with witnesses. usually judges don't like that any more than prosecutors do. he could find his bond revoked on friday. >> he's got a hobcyian choice now. he can wait for a pardon with trump, there he is stoically going into and out of court all day or wait and think mueller might get him down to five years. the way mueller is stacking up charges, how...

With citi, we see a bright future for our farmers and their families. ♪ the stunning new revelation in robert mueller's russia investigation, we are just learning that paul manafort's former son-in-law jeffrey cut a plea deal with federal investigators back in january. and according to "the wall street journal", he has met with investigators on robert mueller's team. joining us ken vogel, "the new york times." ken, i actually read this on your twitter feed. you're writing about the back story. you tweeted, sources tell me manafort was so aggressively pursuing money from russians and pro ru...