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Special counsel. he pled guilty to two charges related to his lobbying work with ukrainian mines. what does this mean going forward? gillian turner is live in washington with that. reporter: president trump's former campaign manager's plea deal has things all fired up. democrats are hoping it's the beginning of the end to the trump administration. >> this send a message to anybody in the cross-hairs of robert mueller's investigation, you better make you're deal now. the longer you wait to come clean, the worse deal you are going to get. the bottom line is manafort knows, will manafort cooperat...

They're trying to get dirt, the russians are trying to help donald trump, was there a meeting of the minds? so that goes to the heart of the collusion or conspiracy issue. >> is it possible that with all this circumstantial evidence, it really is just a bunch of coincidences, that paul manafort, in a desperate move, donald trump was afraid of the ted cruz at the convention, stealing the nomination, he's told to hire the manafort guy and doesn't do a background check. and those russians connections just has been to be coincidence. what's the likelihood of that based on your investigation? >> ma...

>> whether this is the most improbable strain of unlikely coincidences or whether this was an active conspiracy. the bottom line is manafort knows. will manafort cooperate? will he tell mueller all he knows or will he tell mueller only what he thinks mueller already knows? the reality is i think only he can tell us. >> i think a lot of the speculation is exactly what obviously mueller will say, how deep he will go, how broad he will go. and it also speaks to maybe what kind of witness he will be where gates was not exactly stellar for prosecutors. what do you think is the end game here for man...

What he can certainly help mule we are is a more details understanding of how the nefarious russian operates operation. >> paul manafort was replaced along before the election took place. he was with the campaign for a very short period of time. literally, for, like, what a couple of months? a little period of time. manafort has nothing to do with our campaign. >> but for some reason, a month ago this is what he was saying about manafort. >> i think the whole manafort trial is very sad. he happens to be a very good person. i have great respect for what he's done in terms of what he's gone thro...

Him guilty. on those eight guilty verdicts, the defense could appeal. so we'll get more expert advice on this. it turned out the whole story about the federal savings bank in chicago worked out and how the jury viewed paul manafort basically offering trump administration jobs to the ceo of that bank in exchange for him offering manafort millions of dollars in loans, the way the jury saw that turns out to be fascinating. there are three things on watch when it comes to manafort now. specifically, potentially the president's own fate as it relates to paul manafort. three things to watch. the fir...