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Ties between manafort and deripaska. this new information about the $10 million loan comes on top of other reporting which goes back to that i did during the 2016 campaign about how manafort and h gotten into a dispute with deripaska over a $19 million cable deal in ukraine, deripaska thought manafort had ripped him off the money had he put up for the venture had gone missing. but what's really significant here and why this is so important to the larger mueller investigation is you said that deripaska has close ties to the kremlin. we should flesh that out a little bit. deripaska was described...

Deripaska. this new information about the $10 million loan comes on top of other reporting which goes back to that i did during the 2016 campaign about how manafort and h gotten into a dispute with deripaska over a $19 million cable deal in ukraine, deripaska thought manafort had ripped him off the money had he put up for the venture had gone missing. but what's really significant here and why this is so important to the larger mueller investigation is you said that deripaska has close ties to the kremlin. we should flesh that out a little bit. deripaska was described in wikileaks cables writt...

That's where manafort had connections. those were the early trump administration connections. >> people act like ukraine is this orbiting planet. he was working for the pro-russian government. >> that's right. russia influenced their election. there's a pattern there. what i think is also significant is manafort's arguments that collusion hasn't been authorized, that investigation, that's off the table. trump and manafort need to confront the fact that trump's own justice department has sanctioned this area of investigation, direct collusion. so that i think is really significant. in addition ...

He resigned. this wasn't a low-level staffer. it was top of the top. we're seeing someone running a campaign creating this opening for russian interest essentially. the last time we heard from the president about paul manafort was after his home was raided in august and the president thought manafort was a decent man. this sent a strong signal when they raided his home. >> manafort wanted to profit, be repaid past debts, we heard his spokesman saying that. how big a news is this. >> it's three-fold on the one hand, you have a situation where it undercuts the white house's narrative that there ...