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The day before he resigned. so, at this point, paul manafort was still the donald trump presidential campaign chair. but ken vogel got this incredible scoop about manafort's man in kiev. it was essentially a profile of the guy who ran manafort's business with him in ukraine. and there is a ton that's interesting in this story. it has stood up remarkably well over time. but the big revelation in the piece was that paul manafort's man in kiev, his right-hand man in his ukraine business, his closest associate for all that political work in ukraine that ultimately brought him so much trouble, that...

This is like a perfect example of how this -- the pebble in the water that just keeps growing and mueller's expanding his probe. the court filing is for this alexander guy in which gates told him he had been in touch with a person -- people believe is the person -- who basically ran manafort's office for the ten years he was working in russia sympathic ukraine and that he had ties to the gru which is russian military intelligence and that manafort ann gates knew this as late of september, october 2016 which is the heat of the campaign, really. it shows you how mueller is using the the conversa...

Team saying that rick gates who is paul manafort's associate during the campaign had contacts with someone considered to be a russian intelligence agent. the fact that this is now appearing in a court filing from mueller's team, what do you make of that? >> it's a troubling sign for gates who's cooperating and manafort who's still yet to go to trial. he worked on a ukraine matter that manafort was the middle man. we believe is the guy that ran manafort's office. this is a person who's believed to be a former russian intelligence office in the gru. so if that's true, if you look at what's in th...

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