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Kk we believe is the nickname for him and that's the way manafort referred to him. there are also these couple references who we believe may to be a russian oligarch who is known to be very close to vladimir putin and is known to have extensive business dealings. his name is oleg dare passka. we'll have more on his role. this was always going to be a difficult prospect for him. you don't have the wind at your back had you're coming off eight convictions. eight felony federal convictions right before you start a new trial on seven more counts. in terms of the president's legal jeopardy though, ...

Item number 1194. kk we believe is the nickname for him and that's the way manafort referred to him. there are also these couple references who we believe may be to a russian oligarch who is known to be very close to vladimir putin and is known to have extensive business dealings. his name is oleg deripaska. we'll have more on his role. this was always going to be a difficult prospect for him. you don't have the wind at your back if you're coming off eight convictions. eight felony federal convictions right before you start a new trial on seven more counts. in terms of the president's legal je...

Convicted felon paul manafort, is now apparently trying to get himself a deal with the prosecutors in robert mueller's office. joining us now is chuck rosenberg, a senior fbi official, also a former u.s. attorney for the eastern district of virginia, which is where the first manafort trial was held. mr. rosenberg, chuck, thank you very much for your time tonight. >> my pleasure, rachel. >> is it normal practice for a defense team to come to prosecutors to try to cut a deal for their client literally while the jury is out and deliberating on their client's fate? >> no, because it's highly unusu...

Manafort, they unsealed some of the earlier proceedings that we the public hadn't previously had access to in manafort's d.c. case. that let us see for the first time that even the judge who is overseeing the next paul manafort trial in d.c., that judge appears to be misystifiedy the fact that manafort didn't consent to all the charges against him just being consolidated in one jurisdiction so he could go on trial once. the reason, the trump campaign chair, the reason he had a trial that ended last week and he's now about to have a new trial that is starting within the next few weeks is simply...

The prospect of pardoning paul manafort to get him out of this legal corner of a mess that he's in, does this mean that paul manafort was offering to cooperate with prosecutors for the first time ever? could this mean that he wasn't offering to cooperate but his defense team was nevertheless, trying to make his second trial go away? if they weren't operating, if they weren't offering his cooperation in exchange for making those charges go away, what else would they have to offer? quote, paul manafort's defense team talks with prosecutors to resolve a second set of of charges against the former...