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His brother said he could soon be sent to the united states part of a swap in exchange for ten people arrested here two weeks accused of being russian secret agents. the matter is handled at the highest level of the u.s. and russian governments, his brother said in moscow. at the home of russia's ambassador to the u.s. a senior american diplomat talked about the swap. >> the main person of the reason was to discuss follow-up on the summit that took place here two weeks ago. did the case, the spy case come up? likely, it did. >> reporter: three of the accused russian agents in virginia and two ...

Mueller to basically stave off the upcoming trial in d.c. what's important, those talks broke down. plea discussions going on -- imagine how dramatic this was -- these discussions going on while everyone was awaiting what that virginia jury would do deliberating against bark and tax charges against manafort, stalling on questions raised by special counsel robert mueller and the journal not able to find out what those are. you look at these images last week that captivated the nation, owl of this shows something we didn't know, something was getting to manafort, maybe potential jail time he see...

Street journal" reports manafort's defense team held talks with federal prosecutors to try to strike a deal to resolve the second set of charges before his conviction in last week's trial. a deal was not made but the journal writes, quote, the plea discussions on the washington case represent a softening in posture for mr. manafort who has fought charges brought by mr. mueller's 15-month investigation, longer and more aggressively than other defendants in the probe. joining me now is nbc news justice reporter julia ainsley. julian, for people who are having trouble following this, this is not ...

Mueller. one of the people said it isn't clear what those issues were, and the proposed terms of the plea deal couldn't immediately be determined, end quote. the plea discussions on this, the second upcoming case, quote, represent a softening in posture for mr. manafort. manafort has fought charges more aggressively than others in the mueller investigation. president trump praised his brave former campaign chairman saying he had, quote, refused to break. it seems manafort was closer to breaking than we all realized. there is no indication that if manafort had struck a plea deal that he would h...