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August 2nd, 2016, which would have been weeks after the gop convention in cleveland. prosecutors say the meeting goes to the larger view of what we think is going on. and what we think the motive here is. this goes very much to the heart of what the special counsel's office is investigating. that meeting, and what happened at that meeting is of significance to the special counsel. we get it. any indication of the topic of that meeting has been blacked out. the document does indicate that ex-manafort business partner rick gates who served on the trump campaign, who was also cooperating with the...

Person in washington, d.c., when kilimnik was here for the inauguration. we've also learned from these new documents that even after trump had won the white house, manafort went back to working for politicians in the ukraine in 2017. as a consultant for a potential candidate. that work continued even after he was indicted in that same year. within these transcripts, there's also a reference to sanctions against russia, as the issue of sanctions appears to impart some of the meetings between trump campaign associates and the russians, there continue to be questions about the president's willing...

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 lies to mueller's team. there was...

Were they well crafted intentional lies that were meant to deceive the special counsel's office investigation, and derail it to some extent. or were these instances where somebody was misremembering something that had happened a long time ago. the government presented a pretty compelling case in this hearing as to why these were not just memory lapses. >> you also bored in on the word intelligence in this document. that that was perhaps the initial attractiveness toward doing a deal for manafort with the feds. talk about that. >> something that the prosecutors mentioned in the beginning of the...

Of their meetings and contacts. that includes one meeting, august 2nd, 2016, which would have been weeks after the gop convention in cleveland. prosecutors say the meeting goes to the larger view of what we think is going on. and what we think the motive here is. this goes very much to the heart of what the special counsel's office is investigating. that meeting, and what happened at that meeting is of significance to the special counsel. we get it. any indication of the topic of that meeting has been blacked out. the document does indicate that ex-manafort business partner rick gates who serv...