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Our nbc headquarters here in new york. there is brand new information coming out of the mueller investigation about one of the big names, the big targets. former trump campaign chairman paul manafort. the revelations are coming from the transcript of a closed door court hearing that took place early they are week. kind of thing that's published all the time but not quite like this. during that hearing, mueller's prosecutors explained in detail why they're accusing manafort of lying to investigators while he was under a cooperation agreement with the feds. the document has more than its share o...

Jeremy, why would manafort want to be protecting a guy like kilimnik? >> well, previous to this, brian, manafort had been accused of, and, of course, stood trial and was convicted of financial impropriety, tax evasion, money laundering and failure to register as a foreign agent for the russian federation for his work on behalf of the ukrainian proputin elements. this hearing today, really unveiled that manafort could have also played a central role during the 2016 campaign as a go between between the trump inner circle and the russian federation. that's the way that in some ways the russian fe...

The clue we got today about the meeting and rick gates' cooperation. and it's taken a long time for this to sus itself out and get a bigger and larger picture of it. we still don't know the full extent of it, though. there's still a lot here, even from the things that we learned tonight about why was it that manafort who was running the campaign, was taking this polling data to these folks to share it with them? what would actually motivate that? what was truly behind that. and that is the frustrating thing about this story or the intriguing thing, is that we get these little clues, but we don...

And they have ways of doing that if it's a real threat. >> michael schmidt, one of the larger stories you've broken in recent memory, had to do with the questions the feds wanted to ask president trump. there was one in there about paul manafort, can you refresh our memory and how today may have filled many some of those blanks? >> there were questions about what the president knew about manafort's efforts to communicate with these russians during the campaign. and what that was all about. but i think another part of this that we're all sort of missing, is that when manafort was telling these ...

Spends the rest of his life in prison. they could see everything that was going on. and that really really bothered and helped deteriorate the relationship between mueller and manafort, and gets us to where we are today. >> jeremy bash, we also saw mention of the p word, pardon. first time in my memory from any kind of mueller court appearance or filing, i'll put it on the screen, prosecutors put forward why manafort may have lied, telling the truth about an unnamed sensitive issue would have negative consequences in terms of the other motive that mr. manafort could have. which is to at least ...