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>> danny lippman, thank you so much. thank you for being here. let's bring in the district attorney for georgia now. i want to talk about manafort, welcome to the show. >> thank you. >> manafort, he was there at the trump tower meeting in 2016 with the russians. old friend and business partner roger stone says she may be indicted by mueller soon. he was chair of the campaign when the party changed its stance to you cape at the convention. list off the value, in addition to what i just did, to manafort in this agreement. >> watching last week was watching an old western movie when there's an ...

But over the last few days, we have eve had new reporting that paul manafort might be looking for a plea deal instead of going to trial, to try to avoid the kind of fate he had in his last trial where he got convicted on eight felonies and to try to avoid the legal expenses of going through with this trial. the first reporting was a couple weeks ago in the wall street journal. then there was a similar report friday night. then yesterday "the washington post" said essentially the same thing. now tonight it's abc news. so four major news organizations, all of them with top notch reporters workin...

Few days, we have had a flurry of new reporting that paul manafort might be looking for a plea deal instead of going to trial, to try to avoid the kind of fate he had in his last trial where he got convicted on eight felonies and to try to avoid the legal expenses of going through with this trial. the first reporting was a couple weeks ago in the "wall street journal". then there was a similar report in bloomberg friday night. then yesterday "the washington post" said essentially the same thing. now tonight it's abc news. so four major news organizations, all of them with top notch reporters w...

>> what does it suggest that he's worried about? >> you mentioned the cohen piece. follow me here for a second. giuliani introduced the notion of this preceding meeting to that june 9 meeting. that was not out there before. today on one of his many interviews, he said that one of the people at that meeting was rick gates. rick gates is the star cooperating witness in the paul manafort trial set to begin tomorrow. and before a trial, the government has to provide every prior statement of any of their witnesses. so now manafort's attorneys have rick gates' prior statements, all of his interview ...

Gates was at that meeting and it would not surprise me, this is pure conjecture and there may be limitations on whether manafort's lawyers can disclose this. but it wouldn't surprise me at all if rudolph giuliani learned from manafort's lawyers a little bit about what rick gates is going to say about collusion. and they're now trying to get out in front of this by not denying there is collusion but by saying it is not a crime. >> that is a fascinating theory that would plane is the chain of potential information. given what he is charged with, why would the trump tower meeting come up at all? ...