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Leave no room behind with xfi pods. simple. easy. awesome. click or visit a retail store today. welcome back. tonight the white house rattled over the largest public collusion development since the mueller probe began. "the guardian" reporting paul manafort held secret talks with julian assange. the news breaking hours after mueller ripped up manafort's plea agreement for allegedly lying to the feds. we talked a lot about why this seems important. what are the specific potential criminal elements here? i want to bring in two former federal prosecutors, mimi rocca and seth waxman. mimi, what ...

Point. and again, we have to remember with these bombshell allegations from "the guardian," we know there was collusion. i mean, we know about that trump tower meeting with manafort and don jr. and various other people with the russians when they agreed to accept the quote dirt unquote on hillary clinton, which they were told was part of the russian government's attempt -- by the russians, part of the russian government's attempt to influence the election in trump's favor. so we know there was collusion at the highest level of the campaign. we don't know the extent of it, we don't know to what...

To be evidence satisfactory to a judge. and remember, they said multiple lies. so i do think that the lies -- i think -- i don't know that the timing of the story is breaking, but i think that we can surmise that manafort's agreement was torn up because he was lying about something central to the russia investigation. that could be his involvement, it could be other people's involvement, but something he was not willing to admit. >> right. >> and that they have hard proof of. so that's why i don't know that the loss of manafort is quite as big as everyone thinks. because it's always nice to ha...

Before we go racing to what it fully means, i would want to see the intelligence report itself -- >> specifically, an an expert on this, do you have reason to think this doesn't square? i spoke to someone in the trump world today who's not a manafort defender but said, look, he is dumb in many ways but not dumb enough to do that meeting himself, he would have sent a henchman. >> i think one reason this is having the impact it's having, it's almost unfathomable, as malcolm said that manafort would be the person to make this connection. you walk into the embassy of ecuador to meet julian assange...

Material, that manafort misled mueller about, was this? >> yeah, for me -- you know, it's so hard to say. i mean, manafort's been in countless debriefings with the government. whether it was this set of facts or some other set of facts that he was denying or not admitting to, that the government just didn't believe him, it's hard to say. is it a coincidence that the information comes out on the same day? it could be. clearly what's most important, of course, that is the government is no longer sponsoring manafort, and that is a huge loss for the government, and frankly, a huge win for the pres...