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Say we have a number of concerns about the agreement the u.s. has reached. can you explain what those concerns are and what your first question is to secretary mnuchin? >> so first of all, these sanctions were put in place for a reason. he has shown links to manafort. we believe there is an involvement with putin in all of this. for mnuchin all of a sudden to want to lift these sanctions, it goes back to what got michael flynn in trouble in the first place. this whole interest by russia to lift the sanctions. they want the sanctions lifted and what's happening here slowly but surely, president...

And the kremlin. it just doesn't look good. you know, at some point, we've had a lot of campaigns with kind of hin can i things in the margins, but why are all these people in the campaign tied back to shady russian characters? there's something here that, beyond the legalities of what mueller is looking into, just politically, a lot of questions and they remain answered. >> matthew, listen, manafort was the campaign chairman from march to august of 2016. what kind of polling information would the trump team have, at that point in the campaign? how detailed? >> i mean, i imagine pretty detaile...

>> yeah, i -- i can't think of one, but that's -- that's my judgment. that's not a legal issue. the legal issue i would have here is pretty simple. you're talking about one case in isolation, that's paul manafort. there are other cases, obviously, the special counsel is looking into, for example, other people involved in the campaign who were in contact with wikileaks. the one piece missing here, and we're about half a step away from that, don, is we have paul manafort offering information, polling information to someone who is evidently connected with russian intelligence. the one question --...

Weeds a little bit -- >> go there. >> that's the piece of evidence that makes a conspiracy that makes a collusion case by itself, it doesn't. if you put it together with this, that the polling information was given to the russians to enable them to use their hacked information that they're feeding into facebook and other social media things to move the electorate in certain critical states, now you have, if this is true, the trump political operatives working in collusion with the russians to move the election. now we don't know what the other pieces of this puzzle show, but certainly a lot of...

Oling deripaska. why do they need polling data? they need the polling data in order to target this kremlin social media campaign that they are running to elect donald trump. so this is another piece of the puzzle that suggests that yes, was there collusion between the president's campaign and the kremlin. this is quite possibly the biggest political scandal in american history coming out right here. >> the times said he wanted this passed on to the russian oligarch to which he owed millions of dollars. what does that say to then tent of manafort's actions? >> at the very least he would have of...