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Motivating factors to commit sa espionage, sell your sunt out. he's desperate. but what is going on at the same time? this wasn't done in a vacuum. we have social media propaganda campaign, hacking. who did that, russian gru. who did manafort turn the polling data over to, constance climg nick, either a former gru or still connected to gru. this is a problem because once gru, always gru. he's not going to take this and put it on a shelf. he's going to give it to someone who could exploit it. the question is whether manafort then briefed trump on it. for me it comes down to why is manafort stil...

>> you learned what we just alluded to, what the intent of the situation manafort has to this russian associate kilimnik was and that was to get it to this ukrainian ole agarks who had previously funded ukraine to pay a ton of money. at this time manafort was telling people, including kilimnik, he was still owed money, be beyond the tens of millions he collected for that work, by these oligarks funded. so it appeared he said hey, i'm a player on this campaign which could win the presidency, despite what you heard from the public polling, that trump has a chance, it would behoove you,

Us with all of this. i did this. and i think that is the big question mueller's gott the answer to. >> so when frank figliuzzi says something like that, i think ears everywhere perk up and listen. if you believe paul manafort has been under the belief that a pardon might be possible, and we know it's been reported that a pardon was dangled by john dow, the president's lawyer to manafort and flynn, why wouldn't that be an obvious assumption to make? >> it's certainly one of the assumptions to make. all of this is very, very suggestive. we are not there yet, but when you think about how valuable...

That is these oligargs, to have manafort on his team and it was an effort to collect unpaid fees. >> but they weren't just ol gargs looking for money but looking for a war with the united states and hacking our elections. >> mine, these were oligarks who at various times funded parties in ukraine that were seen as russian facing. it does get into the issue, the key issue in ukraine is the relationship with russia and how to reduce hostilities there, turn down the temperature there. and we know from other reporting that there were efforts and we know from other reporting there were other effort...

Through this cutout and ultimately to kilimnik, that could be used against the trump campaign and that is where the trump campaign and kremlin could have been working together to finance the trump campaign. >> frank fa gl, what else do we? there's nobody higher on a campaign then its chairman, other than the candidate. what else do you need to do if you're robert mueller to prove coordination between the trump campaign and russia? >> so close yet so far. we are inching closer and closer to the oval office, and that gap, what is in that gap we're talking about? what the president knew and when ...