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Indictment, halfway through during the allegations that describe the fact that paul manafort and gates were pulling the strings on this lobbying on behalf of the ukraines and the russians with whom they were associated, there's a lot of talk about lobbying firm a and b but in the middle of that description is a sentence that says paul manafort funneled $4 million in order to get the report you were describing at the top of the show. so what happened here is as you described a few minutes ago, the indictment of manafort and gates was unsealed on the last monday in october and a few days later, ...

Nasty piece of work. i should mention, though, paul manafort's daughter got an associates gig at the skadden arps firm. they threw that in as a swe sweetener? i don't know. here's the second thing to know about paul manafort's lock her up adventure in ukraine. that report, that payment therein has just produced the latest criminal charges and latest guilty plea for your robert mueller special counsel's investigation. we know until last year he

Pulling strings behind the skadden report. >> when you look at the evidence they have laid out in the statement of offense today, does that lead to you, as it does to me tha me, that this is information that rick gates -- >> if gates started to cooperate, maybe he didn't start quite that early. what is clear from the indictment is that they have access to e-mails and chats and other electron ek immediaic med gates had and this fella, van der zwaan showed up in some of that. and what's interesting here and it's something that we've talked about a lot on your show is that the investigation doesn...

Craig as one of their principles. they hired skadden to do a review of the whole lock her up a adventure with timo shell cone. we'll have this blue chip law firm look into it, check it all out, issue a report, explaining what happened here. the report prepared by that law firm gave manafort what he was paying for. yes, there was a face saving mild rebuke of tymoshenko's jailing maybe not being up to western standards but it excused the whole thing, it was "utterly baffling and pernicious." and by others it was called a

Whitewashed an incident in which the president of ukraine paul manafort's client jailed one. who was involved in the preparation of the report pled guilty in washington d.c. as the latest court proceedings of the special counsel's investigation. joining us is ken vogel who has been on this story from the beginning. mr. vogel, thank you for being here. >> thank you, rachel. >> the through line for me for understanding relationship between this young man charged today and the special counsel's investigation is that paul manafort was representing the ukrainian who did the bad thing -- it's sort o...