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If there's going to be indictments, that reportedly he told manafort that he was going to be indicted. it may be a while for the house and senate. they're focused on national security, and that's very important. mueller is focused on national security and criminal acts so criminal takes precedence. >> the national security aspects obviously dominate a lot of our attention and our focus, what was russia doing, were they meddling in our election, but this is also a criminal investigation. >> when bob mueller took over the investigation, i sort of thought at the end of the day is do what ken star...

Talking about the counterintelligence part. that door was open, the russians were able to do something and as of today, i'm not aware of one dollar, one increase in manpower not counterintelligence community. we have not gone in there and said, we have to fix this, stop the russians, make sure whatever assets they use in place are dried up so that's different from the criminal angle of this and i'll close by saying this. even if a conviction is secured against flynn, against manafort, even against donald trump, that does not fix the counterintelligence deficiency. there has got to be a look at...

Group, which is run by the brother of john podesta. podesta is not affiliated with that group anymore but has been affiliated with that group in the past. i mean, when you start to read into this, and think about that connection, it just makes you think that washington is just so incestuous, it can't be true. >> that's a great point and it's also, i think, ken also mentioned in his reporting, about $17 million, that is what manafort's group actually received. there's a larger question here, thomas, and that is the question of, look, we've got the criminal charges but at the core is what you sa...

Incredibly meticulous so he understands what the stakes are and they are high, because this could potentially go straight to the white house where there could be a potential impeachment. so this is something that is critically important, not only for the mueller investigation but also for the institution of the presidency. >> we know, based on our own reporting from yesterday, about mueller and manafort, the fact that, you know, we have the raid by fbi that happened in the early morning hours in alexandria, virginia, by the fbi, but it talks about the fact that not only are they interested in ...

He did was to actually help organize protests against a nato exercise there on crimea, which years later was seized by russia. what they're going to determine is, does he have links to the kremlin or russian intelligence and by going to these other people, he's going to put the squeeze on them. mueller's going to know everything about what went on in manafort's postlobbying life. >> maria teresa, the manafort potential witness testimony, the mike flynn potential witness testimony, his attorney having said he has quite a story to tell, how important is getting the right story in term of the tru...