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Raise all sorts of questions because that's what caused so much consternation over potential contacts between trump and campaign officials in the last four years, his entire time in the white house. there are some in the white house who would certainly say, yes, donald trump junior, powell manafort, and others shouldn't have taken that. he's saying if he had the chance to do it again, he doesn't think he'd call the fbi immediately. he won't say who but he believes they have acted in the same way. >> let's bring in evan. what's your reaction to what the president just said? >> it's a stunning s...

So that's of particular interest to them and looking for whether there was any coordination between the trump campaign and russians is part of this russian interference. so far the committees have said we've seen evidence of coordination but they haven't said anything conclusively. >> shepard: which takes us back to paul manafort who was with the campaign for a short period of time. at any rate, it's clear to investigators that he offered a private briefing to a russian billionaire with close ties to vladimir putin. it appears the feds want to know why he did that and a lot else. >> right. so ...

Investigation. adam shapiro is here. manafort's business transactions. what do we know? >> the man from russia is associated with powell manafort in a deal that was valued in $18.9 million to buy a tv and media network in the ukraine that never went through. there's several transactions in new york city, a condo bought at trump tower for $3.6 million. two condos in soho, both $3 million. a brown stone in queens for about $3 million. mr. manafort issued a statement saying each of these deals were set up for his clients for many ukrainian deals.

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