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Senior person or presidential family member only on george papadopoulos. our bari is, tsta in this story. paul manafort is in charge. i'm reading from the agreement that says the defendant, that's manafort, quote agrees to testify at any proceeding requested by mueller. where does that fit in to any case that might ever want to prove regarding what happened in the meeting? >> the point being that manafort is a person who must have salient information and in he is now obligated to provide it. he's also someone who has demonstrated that he's going to obstruct justice. the question becomes what d...

Appears to be taking with manafort? it looks very, very tough. some have said that's his job, that when you are under federal investigation and there is a prosecutor looking into, by the time they are looking into you it's generally pretty serious. >> it is, if in fact, especially if in fact they have give him a target letter or said to him in effect you are going to be indicted of then it's very rough because you have to cope on a different little. it's no longer strictly a voluntary let's help each other level. >> right. >> now you are on an adversarial level. that changes everything. it's p...

Something extremely small. in today's world a flash drive the size of your thumb or a thumb drive might have been destroyed if that was their concern. 1500 pages of a tax return, no, you aren't going to get that down the toilet very quickly. but i think there is something else going on here. and that is the possibility that the timing of that exercise of that warrant was to keep him from testifying before the senate later that day or the next day. because it's my understanding that when he did testify behind closed doors in the house he might have said something that would have complicated or ...

On manafort, and we know it's putting a strain on michael flynn as well. what's the goal here? what's mueller's goal? he wants to know everything manafort knows or just wants to get to the bottom of this investigation. >> i think he does, i think he wants to know what manafort knows because of the connections that are now openly out there. but i also think that he wants to make sure that other people in the white house or otherwise understand how serious it is. i don't think that what he's doing is that unusual. i think he's building a case in a very methodical and professional way. this is go...

It is a law. we don't want to wink at it but that's different from other kinds of laws that he might have run into. and if that's the case, then you have got to know what the next step is if you are putting pressure on him because of a farrah, so-called farrah violation what does that lead to? is that the end of the story, that's manafort's whole exposure? or is it something else? i think if you really want to know about that you will have to wait for some leaks. >> we will wait. stan always good to see you. former attorney general during the nixon and ford administrations. coming up, more o...