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Our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 755 of the trump administration and we have breaking news from today in the mueller investigation. the president's former campaign chairman, paul manafort, is tonight facing the very serious prospect of living out the rest of his days on earth in federal prison. things did not go well for his side in court today. late today a federal judge sided with special counsel mueller's office and ruled that manafort lied to prosecutors in violation of the plea deal he struck just last fall. judge amy berman jackson ruled that manafort made multiple false s...

Get the magnitsky act. i don't know if this gets where we need to get to. does this get you two-thirds vote in the senate? absolutely not. that's my concern. the more i hear about all of this, but i go yeah, if you don't have the smoking gun, if you don't have that one kill shot, is this all for naught? that's my question. >> is that you, harry? >> i was going to say, look, we're certainly spraying a lot of bullets around that do show the structure of a real conspiracy between the campaign and russia. the missing piece, i agree, is some sense of trump's knowledge but there are many possible av...

Trump's businesses and the ways in which those businesses have crossed paths with russians and have actually targeted russia for possible development. and that is thus far we have not seen any evidence that mueller is going down those paths. so in some ways these are complimentary. we've southeasternly secertainle some of the transcripts to bring charges. and obviously also the congressional investigators had the benefit of not having quite as much pressure on them to wrap up an investigation as mueller has and they can continue to do things as far as normal congressional oversight you would s...

>> the eyebrow raising statements and questions he would come up during the campaign are things he's still doing now. he's not changed his ret ring whatsoever. despite the obviously intense pressure from the investigations, not just on the hill but mueller, he's not backed down or trafrpged his story. he's not done a 180 in how he feels about vladimir putin. he's doubled his appreciation down his feeling for putin and willing to criticize putin against members of his own party and administration. that has not changed. you're right, this is yet another -- it is i big piece of the -- a big piece...

Joining us now. we started with reporting this analysis, which was probably clearer to you than it was to me which we saw the transcripts in which mueller, one of his top deputies, andrew weissmann, talks about the contact between paul manafort and constantine kl kilimnik being the heart of the collusion probe. that something you're taking a fresh look at now you have the ability and more control over your committee? >> absolutely, nicolle. again, it goes to the question of why was the trump team so damn eager to work with the russians starting back in october of 2015? that's the best evidence...