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And i have several important messages from him to you. he asked me to go and brief you on our conversation. i said, i have to run it by you first, but in principle, i'm prepared to do it, provided that he buys me a ticket. it has to do about the future of his country, meaning russia. and is quite interesting. so, if you are not absolutely against the concept, please let me know which dates and places will work, even next week, and can i come and see you. and paul manafort responds to that note, quote, tuesday is best. and then, indeed, tuesday, there's kilimnik in new york city. specifically a...

Appropriate to talk to russians before we get into office about some sort of trade in exchange for relieving sanctions with them? he could be a goal mine of information beyond just financial transactions that may relate to paul manafort, if i'm on the mueller team, i want to know everything about the campaign campaign but about who else drebled it, who else spoke and was involved in conversations about foreign policy in the campaign. >> if mueller's team is telling gates that they didn't needs him to flip on manafort, does that indicate they have everything they need to potentially bust manafo...

Embedded and had contacts with russia at that time, the kalitnik thing he looks like, smells like a military intelligence officer and people in the cane knew about that that's a various thing. by far and away for me the most thing that screams out at me most is something we are not talking about right now, which is when paul manafort reaches out to an ol gashing, very close to putin and says, hey, if you need an inside private briefing about how things are going in the campaign and this is when manafort was i believe the campaign manager, he says providing an insight directly to vladimir putin...

About how russia uses its contacts. it builds networks to get information. do you see that in how they dealt with gates and manafort? >> yeah, i think, yes, absolutely, man a for the has a long record of contact with people that would have ended up you know back at moscow knowing about it the russian intelligent services knowing about it. i think paul manafort is the kind of guy based on his activities in ukraine for the puppet government and yanukovych, they would have said this guy would be useful later on, sure enough it turns out he is. he pointed out about flint he should have known bette...

Two cnn analysts who work for the obama administration and steve hall, retired chief of cia russian operations. steve, you first. >> one of the central pieces of all of this breaking news is rick gates had knowingly been in contact with a russian officer alleged to be as late as september of 2015 and gates knew he was a spy. he is also a former employee at manafort's law firm. as a russia expert, how do you see this? >> from a counterintelligence, the ka lit nick thing is a bad smelling thing. when paul manafort was working for ukraine, it's incomprehensible to me yanukovych was close to putin...