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Intriguing one, whether mueller played manafort or whether manafort played mueller. mueller got a lot of information, manafort stopped that second trial from occurring, pled to 10 counts. he would have been convicted of more than that, cooperated so he can argue that to the judge and still is making a play for a pardon. >> bret: that's real question and the president has said that it's still on the table about a pardon manafort speak of which the president as woe mentioned earlier putting out that tweet saying it's totally clear the president, thank you, splamtion point. for reaction and i gue...

When he's 24, manafort manages his successful campaign to become national chairman of the young republicans, so he and roger and manafort go back as far as they can go and is absolutely an extraordinary significant person in roger's life and if he's dropping a dial on roger that would be both painful for him on a personal level and, of course, on a legal level as well. >> and nick ackerman, sam nunberg was someone who worked directly for roger although they did a falling out. provided his testimony as i think many people remember. and here's what he said about all this in terms of his expectat...

Beforehand. mueller already knows that we would think and came out -- pumping paul manafort for information explicitly on roger stone. they are former business partners and cnn reports manafort has been to mueller's office nine times in the past four week as lone for six-hour intel sessions. they have this long history. their form was black, manafort and kelly. that's manafort and stone. they were also a groomsmen at stone's wedding. they are close friends to be sure. he notes it's possible mueller could charge him and earlier this year he acknowledged the possibility of giement. . >> so you a...

His undoing because of the guilty pleas that have been brought against him subsequently. >> when you were interviewing paul manafort at that time, what did you glean that applies today? did you see any fissures in their relationship? did you imagine that manafort would be in a position to turn on stone or would have negative information about him up to this juncture to be clear about the evidence, we know that paul manafort has done more criminal activity than roger who appears to be of interest but we can't say anything more than that. >> i think that roger is probably reeling from this lates...

Conversations with manafort, but the way i've always viewed to the extent that there might be a conspiracy here, how it would work is that it would be more like the hub of a wheel with different spokes going out from the hub to different parts on the wheel. so the connection with robert stone or sorry with roger stone to julian assange might be one of those spokes and there could be other portions and other people involved in separate conspiracies who don't know each other but all part of the effort to collude with russia for the benefit of the campaign. >> both, please stay with me. we'll go ...