but does bengali is number two guy that he relies on for everything andrew wiseman. so let's focus on andrew wiseman so the american people know who he is and who really is in many cases the wizard of oz. tell us about andrew wiseman. >> i am told he is the poster boy for prosecutorial misconduct because mueller had a handrolled to pick him of the enron task force and appointing him to that position. mark: where was mueller at the time quick. >> director of the fbi. mark: he picks wiseman to handle enron. >> he was deputy director at the time when he first started under the chief of the enron task force when it was first created with the collapse of enron. so they targeted arthur anderson to begin with. mark: they investigate enron and they targeted arthur anderson? for what quick. >> destroying evidence is what they called it. but they did it by making up a crime of combining two separate statutes to make a crime of something that wasn't. they destroyed arthur anderson they knew they would destroy it by indicting it. mark: because they are the financial advisors to

mark: one is a special counsel the immediate first choices andrew wiseman to be the top lieutenant. >rk: getting into the treatment of the president but first i want to talk about manafort. the last time i heard he was in solitary confinement in federal prison. >> yes he is. mark: the same treatment as the merrill lynch gentleman but he was convicted by a jury on multiple accounts back in dc trying to get more accounts piled on. there have been reports he is broken and depressed. this is par for the course? if you have a prosecutor you have a conviction then you move on to the next case. you have been involved in a lot of cases. but this is different it is a bloodsport for mister wiseman. >> definitely. mark: they drag him back into washington d.c. in front of the obama judge and yes it does make a difference, who is very receptive apparently to the special counsel's argument and has been repeatedly. >> yes. she remanded mister manafort to custody immediately upon their request and allowing them to pile on additional charges. mark: if you look at the case involving anderson and merril

we know that andrew wiseman was part of number two. >> nothing has happened with fusion gps. >> whenpson testified to congress and they asked, what did you tell the clinton campaign about what you are doing and reporting out. he refused to answer saying it was privileged. why are the clinton people being brought in. >> lou: i wish would you asked if i knew something there be something to be known. i know he didn't answer a damn thing. as always, thanks for everything you are doing and judicial watch, as you say. without you, we would have a lot less. >> lou: another super bowl victory for the new england patriots. it did not grab the attention or approval of everyone. there are some snowflakes who melted down over the thought. president trump calls for keeping troops in iraq. we will take all of that up and much more right after the break. general jack keane >> headlines were looking at, the preliminary headlines for the super bowl, the patriots beat the los angeles rams 13 - 3. it was the least watch super bowl since 2009. there could soon be a new meaning to the mile high city. vot

what andrew wiseman said in court. they chose not to. what they put out there is the quo. change in policy and economic sanctions. it gets back to what did donald trump or the people around donald trump want in exchange for trying to deliver policy changes? it money in their pocket? it money for projects in moscow? that's still the stuff being investigated and that's what comes up in all of these incidents where floods of money come into the inauguration and transition. floods of money are coming into these campaigns and there is no real question about what the motivation was for that other than what we now know is policy changes. >> glen, to this phrase that is in here that you have the prosecutors saying it goes to the heart of what the special counsel's investigation is about, that it could be it goes to the heart of what the investigation is about but we haven't found that. the investigation was -- originally about collusion so we know that's what it's charter is but the way he said that in court doesn't it leave it open that it's also possible that they haven't found

remember, andrew wiseman, the prosecutor in this case said that the lies that mueller made -- that manafortade to mueller that lead to the breakdown of their agreement, were central to his investigation. so there's something that they want from manafort, which they think is central to their investigation, which they're not getting, we don't know if they can get that from alternative means that may be harder to get it, they can still get it, or whether manafort is the only person who knows it, and when he fails to cooperate, it really hurts mueller's case. >> one of the things the judge said manafort lied about intentionally was about his contacts with konstantin kilimnik, a russian who prosecutors say has ties to russian intelligence. what do you see as possible motivation for manafort to lie about this? >> it's hard to figure out why manafort lied at all, given that he's now going to face 19 to 24 years in virginia, and he'll get a sentence of about 10 years in d.c. so he's facing life in prison. the only thing that comes to mind is either one, what he knows is so dangerous, he feels is so

so this is where we think andrew wiseman will be able to lay out theories including how the russians connect to a russian operative to paul manafort and then perhaps candidate one. that's what we are waiting for today to come at anytime. >> these filings are often redacted to take away classified information. but on that key question as to candidate one and the ties between manafort and the president himself, then candidate trump, is it likely we will learn something from the public court filing? >> i think we will. this is one of the last opportunities to lay out exactly what happened here. so we have seen this in other cases. the michael cohen case, for instance, the sentencing memo is where we have seen the biggest punch landed against the president where they called him an unindicted co conspirator. >> we will learn a lot today and everybody is on pins and needles about the final mueller report at least in reporting that to the attorney general. we certainly are staying on top of this. >> let's bring in our colleague to take a look at michael cohen in the week ahead. good morning

president -- bruce ohr communicated that with the fbi and the department of justice, specifically andrew wisemaneam. and the most important fact is he communicated those three pieces of information prior to the election. more importantly, prior to when the fbi and the department of justice went to the fisa court to get the warrant to spy on trump's campaign. that is huge. maria: yeah, that's huge because for a long time adam schiff has been saying, oh, they didn't know this was a clinton paid-for document. they found out after september. but we know from this testimony that, in fact, meetings were happening as early as july of 2016. >> adam schiff specifically says in the memo that bruce ohr's communication with the fbi with anything relative to the dossier took place after the election and after the october 21st fisa application was taken to the fisa court. that is not accurate based on bruce ohr's testimony to us in his deposition. maria: well, you are now in the minority. you no longer have subpoena power on the republican side. where's the accountability for this? >> well, we're going to kee

still no collusion being yelled at the white house, simply because this is one opportunity that andrew wiseman, the prosecutor who has been running the manafort case, where he could have taken this opportunity to sort of spin a narrative. and tell us a little bit about what he sees, as part of this investigation, as the connection between the russians, and constantine kulumnik, according to the special counsel an operative of the russian intelligence services and then manafort and the trump campaign, a lot of folks were waiting for this memo, because it is one of the last opportunities before the sentencing for the special counsel to sort of lay that out, and they chose not to do that here. now, obviously, you know, there's still a mueller report to come. in the next couple of weeks perhaps. and so, that's where that might go. but certainly, if you want to hear the story of what manafort was up to, you do see a very dry technical memo here, from the special counsel, sort of, you know, going through the fact that he's been working with the ukrainian government, since 2005, and all of the differ

transcript was released, it was dr described to me as a unicorn sighting, seeing a transcript of andrew wiseman in his own words laying out one of the investigative theories, conversations about sanctions relief, while the russians were helping donald trump, is central to the special counsel's probe. your thought about the significance of that? >> well, getting sanctions removed or reduced has been vladimir putin's priority foreign policy interest over the past four years or so. so it doesn't seem to be very surprising at all that if there was some type of discussion going back and forth between russian officials and u.s. persons, maybe affiliated with the trump campaign, that what the russians would be interested in is getting some type of understanding on the part of those officials that if mr. trump were to be elected, there would be an effort to reduce those sanctions because vladimir putin wants them removed. ever since his annexation of crimea, this has been something that's been a thorn in his side. i think he saw the opportunity with mr. trump's candidacy. so it's not surprising at all

of the things that we were looking for is, if there is this sort of overarching narrative that andrew wiseman, the lead prosecutor in this case, has sort of explaining -- as he has hinted before, by the way, he has hinted that there is this evidence that indicates that there is this evidence between the russians, konstantin kilimnik, a business partner of paul manafort, and who according to the special counsel, is a russian spy, and paul manafort and the terrain, that there's this overarching conspiracy, then they did not put it in this court filing. it may still be something that they put in the final mueller memo that goes to the attorney general, but that is not what is in here today. and i think for -- if you're the president's legal team, if you're people close to the president, supporters of the president, i think that's a great relief, because, again, you can go out to the rooftops and scream, "still no collusion," right? and as garrett said, that does sort of overshadow the fact that there is, there has been a lot done here by the mueller investigation. there is just the number of peo

we've had the manafort legal proceedings that have brought into focus how andrew wiseman and other mueller prosecutors see the kilimnik/manafort contacts essential to that. we haven't talked a lot about obstruction but to hear the white house counsel's chief of staff took notes and mueller's prosecutors have them to hear and to learn in the last week that donald trump also repeated the same behaviors, whether they amount to obstruction is a question you can answer better than me. the investigations, at every turn, he's tried to halt the people investigating him. >> yeah. we've seen obstruction in plain sight for so long now that we are numb to it. and now we -- >> who's numb? can i get some numbing gel? who's numb? >> i feel like -- >> i feel -- >> -- exposed, you know -- i'm very sensitive to this. >> who's numb? let me push back on a substantive level. the prosecutors in new york not known to go numb. >> you know, now it looks like we might have, you know, acting attorney general whitaker going in and testifying before congress and lying about -- >> let -- >> go ahead. >> let me play tha

. >> andrew wiseman a lawyer for the special counsel saying this goes to the heart of what the specialel is investigating in the matter with trump and russia. this meet took place after the nominating convention so we're well into the election. donald trump is the republican nominee. and according to manafort's statements, discussions about ukraine policy had ended at that point. but prosecutors saying that's not the case and that this meeting may have been pivotal not only to discussing between manafort, gates and his associate from europe, constantine kalimnik and also this may have been the meeting where manafort provided to kalimnik internal polling information, giving them a sneak peek insight into what's happening in the campaign. something that you know, that manafort had said did not occur. and according to both the special counsel and now the judge agreeing with him, that was not a truthful statement. >> maria. paul manafort has gotten himself into trouble and a lot more trouble since if you look at what's happening here in the last 24 hours. he is facing spending the rest of