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Oleg deripaska, an ally and now we know august 2 a deripaska ally was asking to meet with manafort saying i have spoken to this guy for five hours. i have important messages to relay to you. let's meet. it seems to me there's something very bizarre about the fact all of these hand in the same amount of time, same period. >> i want to stay on that, carol. it's not just what you point out all of those things hand. and i believe at the time donald trump was saying equally bizarre things about america being just as bad as russia. he said on "morning joe," i don't know if it's in those two weeks, b...

Investigators, harry? >> right, to a prosecutor what really gets their antenna buzzing out of control is, first, this point that carol and ken have teased out and really meticulous reporting, by the way. they have this manuscript and they read it so carefully for key points. and then the attempts to hide a rich, little detail that would get prosecutors totally focused, gates, kilimnik and manafort all leave by separate exits at this now-infamous august 2, 2016 meeting. something is going on, and you want to know. and what else gets them going? that the counterpoint to russia's key interest in ...

Adviser, that he wasn't intending to lie but ultimately he pled guilty to lying about conversations with a russian i t thing probably to say about all of those lies and all of those trump allies is all of those lies have to do with conversations they had to communicate with russians about things that putin cared the most deeply about. putin cared about first and foremost making sure sanctions were removed because it was perilous to his power network. he cared deeply about crimea and being a power on the world stage. and donald trump, the nominee for president, was echoing putin's talking point...

Investigation into the trump campaign's ties to russia. so that's where we start today, with some of our favorite reporters and friends, national investigative reporter with "the washington post," carol leonnig. ken vogel, political reporter at "the new york times." former u.s. attorney harry litman. at the table, associated press white house reporter jonathan lemire and johnny deutsche. harry, we left out five of your titles. we will get to those before we start talking to you. i have to start with ken and carol, some unbelievable reporting from you and your colleagues this week. you guys hav...