bernie madoff was the same level of bail they put on paul manafort. that's the level of gravity we all understand the story should be taken. trump tweeted, no collusion. it's commonly agreed after many months of costly looking, there was no collusion with russia and trump. nia, tonight rear the closest we've been to just that. >> donald trump is wrong, with that tweet, saying, there's no there there. we see today there is plenty there there, and more to come. you look at some of the transcripts that have come out of the court sessions. it sounds like what we learned today is part of a larger investigation. it was stunning to read his plea deal. we got the manafort indictment, and then the papadopoulos really detailed accounts of his e-mail exchanges with high level folks in the campaign. man in a fort and gates, talking specifically about hillary clinton e-mails and russia, we use the word bombshell over and over throughout the course of this investigation, i think this was one of those days, well, this really was a bombshell, for the first time, we r

that was the bond that bernie madoff had, right. guy here, a young campaign staff who is now facing jail time, right, even with a deal for lying to fbi prosecutors, each of those things is a warning to others, you know, to play ball and to to play by the rules. >> and they're sending a strong message, the mueller shop in the wake of the president calling this a hoax, a witch-hunt. this is their way of saying this is no hoax to us. >> one of the things we saw in the last week is certainly this drum beat from republicans that this has gone on long enough. and i think what we got the message from today from the mueller investigators that we hear you and here is what we've got, you know. and i think -- look, i think robert mueller knows -- i mean, he's served in government. he knows that this is something that is distracting to the white house, that the president, you know, deserves to be able to run his administration. but also, it's clear that he believes that there is something here that needs to be thoroughly investigated, and so he

a bernie madoff figure on the run.with $16 million in cash and his collections of watches and jewelry, fleeing after learning on happy investors had gone to the fbi. one week later he was back in florida but not under arrest. what no one knew was that scott had cut a deal with the fbi to act as an informant. >> this is scott rothstein, november 16th, monday, 1:43 p.m. >> he wore a wire and helped convict 26 people involved in his ponzi scheme. and despite his cooperation, in 2010, he was sentenced to 50 years in prison. but one big question emerged -- speculation about that woman in the firm who had been killed. >> whether melissa knew about the ponzi scheme is one of those great mysteries. >> scott had started his ponzi scheme three years before melissa was murdered. >> is it time to take a fresh look at the whole melissa lewis murder? is there something more sinister? >> detective brian kendall now had a whole new problem with his fairly straightforward case against tony, the jealous treen engineer. is there woman me