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Russian intelligence officer, man named konstantin kilimnik. documents show kilimnik bragging on eight separate occasion about him having ax says to internal, non-public trump polling data. in one court transcript we're just seeing today for the first time, a prosecutor in the special counsel's office andrew weissman describes what exactly trump's campaign was providing to this russian intelligence officer in august, 2020. at that crucial turning point in the campaign while russia was working to try to get trump elected. weissman told the court, quote, they're at a meeting where they specifica...

Saw not only what it was that the trump campaign was giving, but there was also a discussion of what it was that russia wanted in return. which was an effort to take over half of ukraine, which was discussed before the election and after the election. so there was quite a lot of data there, as you noted. one of the things we learned from -- recently, is we did not know what kilimnik did with the data. obviously, we had strong suspicions he would have passed it on to russian intelligence officers. but that's now been confirmed by this administration. and you know, one has suspicions about where...

Associate of manafort who they say is a russian intelligence agent. last month, the u.s. government asserted manafort did share those documents with kilimnik, and he shared them with russian intelligence. we have long known the broad outlines of this part of the story but we now know from these newly unredacted filings that number one, manafort lied to prosecutors about the nature of the data he was sharing. he insisted it was no big deal. it wasn't internal valuable material. it was all just stuff you could get publicly anyway. that was a lie. also, he lied about whether he was giving it to s...

Data there, as you noted, one of the things that we learned recently was we did not know what kilimnik did with the data. obviously we had strong suspicions that he would pass that on to russian intelligence officers, but that's now been confirmed by this administration. and, you know, one has suspicions about where that came from. but that's now been set in stone by the current dni of what to kilimnik did with this. >> can you talk about the suspicions a little bit? i mean, it is interesting that you and the special counsel's office were able to figure out that manafort had given this stuff t...

>> i know you have to be careful your ethical obligations to to justice department as a former prosecutor are real and present and i know you take these very seriously and don't want to ask you to talk about anything you're precluded to talk about from the ethical constraints you're under. with that said, at the time you were detailing manafort's lies to the court in 2019 and can see so much more of that with these new unredactions, we've learned since then that he was passing on polling data to the russian intelligence services. you told the court at the time that the polling data was about b...