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Thanks to anne gearan, nick kristof and malcolm nance. coming up the man who defended bill clinton during impeachment elevated to the top lawyer in the trump white house. what does that mean? also new reporting on whether manafort is now spinning the beans on his own partner for foreign lob ouiing roger stone. later the trump name going down literally and there are questions about how the trump organization does business. we'll expose how some republicans are trying to convince voters they support parts of obamacare they were trying to repeal. i'm ari melber. you're watching "the beat" o...

That strongly recommended even. even after roger stopped being the political adviser to him he became an important adviser and is to this day. >> morgan is the director of that. morgan, let's pick up on what manafort says. it reinforces nick ackerman's theory of the case that whether or not you were technically on payroll this is a man who was intimately bound up at the candidate level which became, of course, the president level as an adviser. >> that's absolutely true, ari. when and there's a part in our movie when manafort is hired and roger tells a reporter that he's back in the saddle wit...

Though later on he totally denies that. so if you're looking for the key weak spot in terms of who is the connection that makes the conspiracy between the trump campaign and the russian government, it's got to be roger stone and the person who obviously should know the most about what roger stone was doing is paul manafort. that's his longtime friend and the campaign manager during the time when roger stone had all of these conversations. >> right. and, joyce, this goes i think to the limits of the movie analogies for understanding investigations although we use them and we love them, but the ...

Unanswered questions in this whole saga, which is what does the president's campaign chairman know? what does manafort know? since manafort decided to flip, decided to start cooperating with prosecutors, has that given mueller any new real dirt on anyone else? like, i don't know, the president. this judge now is pushing paul manafort's sentencing decision to happen now. it's after manafort started cooperating, but it's definitely before he is done. in the course of trying to push forward manafort's sentencing this judge may force robert mueller and mueller's prosecutors to tell the court wheth...

All shakes out, that hearing may give us, the public, an unprecedented window into one of the most intriguing unanswered questions in this whole saga, which is, what does the president's campaign chairman know? what does manafort know? since manafort decided to flip, decided to start cooperating with prosecutors, has that given mueller any new real dirt on anyone else? like, i don't know, the president? this judge now is pushing paul manafort's sentencing decision to happen now. it's after manafort started cooperating, but it's definitely before he is done. in the course of trying to push forw...