ovd, oleg deripaska. his campaign chairman offered to provide briefings. paul manafort made the offering in e-mails asking that a message be sent to oleg deripaska, an aluminum magnate in which manafort had done business with in the past. he wrote quote, if he needs private briefings we can accommodate. quote, on july 29th, a week after trump accepted the republican nomination manafort received another e-mail from constantine talking about what appeared to be a meeting he held with oleg deripaska. quote, we spent about five hours talking. i have several important messages from him to you. he asked me to go and brief you on our conversation. it has to do about the future of his country, and it's quote interesting. let me know what dates and places will work. even next week i could come and see you. manafort's response was quote, tuesday is best. and then august 2nd was indeed the next tuesday and constantine came over, and they had a long meeting at the grand havana club in new york city. so according to bank records paul manafort owed this russian guy near

deripaska is not able to come to the u.s. because of the organized crime ties and he has people working for him all over the place including people talking to the press about this case he's pressing against manafort and gates but then manafort and gates sign on to be chairman of the donald trump for president campaign and all of a sudden again, the pressure seems to go away. quote, early in the presidential campaign deripaska's representatives accused him of fraud. after trump earned the nomination, deripaska's officials said he would no longer discuss the case. and we know something was going on during the trump campaign while they were chairman and deputy chairman, something was going on between them and deripaska during the campaign while running the campaign. quote, on the evening of april 11th, 2016 two weeks after trump hired paul manafort to lead the campaign, manafort e-mailed his old lieutenant who worked for him for a decade in ukraine. manafort wrote quote, i assume you have shown our friends my media coverage. kil

this guy is trying to recoup his money. >> deripaska. >> can't find gates and manafort. where are they? i can't track them down. all of a sudden they pop up running a major presidential campaign that becomes the nominee. we later learn since then, there were e-mails being exchanged by manafort and some folks around him saying can we use my new position to get whole? which seems like it might be a reference back to deripaska and trying to make right what we're speculating here is some kind of a debt or thing he owed to deripaska. >> i just want people to think of the circumstantial case here. the russian government and putin are attempting to influence the american election. that's quite clear and i think clearly established. >> yep. >> that's happening. at the same time, a man who is massively in debt to pro-putin oligarchs who he knows is connected to just finds his way to be the campaign chairman for the trump campaign. at the same time that e-mails are being released around the same time e-mails are released that hurt hillary clinton and stir up anger with to bernie s

quote, early in the presidential campaign deripaska's representatives accused him after fraud. after trump earned the nomination, deripaska's officials said he would no longer discuss the case and we know something was going on during the trump campaign while they were chairman and deputy chairman, something was going on between them and deripaska during the campaign while running the campaign. quote, on the evening of april 11th, 2016 two weeks after trump hired paul manafort to lead the campaign, manafort e-mailed his old lieutenant who worked for him for a decade in ukraine. manafort wrote quote, i assume you have shown our friends my media coverage. kilimnik responded absolutely, every article. manafort asked how do we used to get hole. has ovd operation seen? ovd, oleg. his campaign chairman paul manafort asked for briefings. paul manafort made the e-mails again conskon consta manafort w the july 7th, 2016 e-mail quote if he needs private briefings, we can accommodate. quote, on july 29th, a week after trump acre acre secement accepted the nomination, appeared to be a meet

. >> oleg deripaska, one of a few wealthy oligarchs putin consults with regularly according to a u.s. department cable. >> he can pick up a phone to the oligarchs and say, hey, i need to get a message out and it gets done because he's vladimir putin and that's how the system, would. >> less than two weeks before trump got unanimitied manafort volunteered to brief dare pass cas privately how the campaign was going according to "the washington post". >> it's not often that the russians get somebody to volunteer like that. >> does he owe you millions of dollars? >> in fact, court documents indicate that manafort may have been in debt to deripaska. >> did he offer you those private briefings to try and repay some of that debt to you? is that why he offered them? >> get lost, please. thank you. >> deripaska's spokesman told cnn that the oligarch was never offered briefings by manafort. manafort's spokesman has denied that he was in debt to him during the trump campaign and afterwards but he has admitted that manafort offered the briefings. manafort was also at the trump tower meeting with

there are reports that deripaska who sued paul manafort over a failed business deal has information tor he has not gotten legal immunity so he has not talked to the senate intel committee. had you warner and other democrats scrutinizing the president's ties to russians now obviously these text messages coming out. >> sean: unbelievable. we will continue to follow this story. thank you, ed henry. also big news tonight on uranium one. we are learning that the fbi informant at the center of this scandal in fact told congressional committees that russia paid millions to the u.s. lobbying firm apco worldwide in a bid to influence then secretary of state hillary clinton by helping bill clinton's charities. in a state obtained by fox news, the informant says that russian nuclear officials told him at various times, quote: they expected apco to apply a portion of the $3 million annual lobbying fee it was receiving from the russians to provide in-kind support for the clinton's global anywhere tia and apco was expected to give assistance free of charge to the clinton global initiative as part of

they also got tens of millions of dollars from deripaska and other russian oligarchs. and it was those connections, it appears to be clear and we think it's clear to mueller as well, that it's those connections with the russian oligarchs, with russian and ukrainian money that attracted donald trump and his campaign to hire manafort and gates as their campaign leadership. it not only had to do with the political campaign, but also the trump organization at that time was looking to solidify and expand its financial base, the finances for the various projects, and even while the campaign was going on, mr. trump and his team were still looking to build that elusive hotel in moscow. manafort and gates really opened up a whole new world of contacts for them. so gates and manafort have significant information. eventually they will, i think, even if it's after a conviction have to cooperate and talk about the financial dealings which they're aware of between the trump organization, trump and this russian and ukrainian money that was pouring into the trump organization at the s

deripaska in particular, he is a good ally of putin. with putin and nickel. the company has nothing to do with this, but it raises eyebrows. betty: it did indeed raise quite a few eyebrows. we will continue to monitor that story. let's get to first word news with courtney collins. >> first up, former trump campaign manager paul manafort and a one-time associate have been indicted a second time on new charges that include failure to report correctly to tax authorities. manafort and gates former deputy rick gates, were accused of laundering millions of dollars earned, while acting as an unregistered agent of ukraine. they now face new charges of tax evasion and bank fraud. called forrump teachers to be paid bonuses for carrying guns in class and offered whole some praise of the national rifle association. he told state and local officials that you can't hire enough security guards to ensure safety, and that teachers would undergo rigorous weapons training. he also celebrated the nra as patriots who will help make america great again. plan

do you know if christopher steele work for oleg deripaska?> that's not something i could answer. >> could we discuss it in a classified setting? >> there might be more we could say there. >> thank you. jim comey testified before this committee in an open setting last summer and he referred to the steel dossier a salacious and unverified, as our main the fbi's position? >> i think maybe there's more we can talk about this afternoon. >> thank you. i'd like to turn my attention to the threat posed by china specifically chinese telecom companies. send it to rubio spoke earlier and i agree with what he said about the threat of a rising china, also the threat of centers, the threat telecom company specifically you know, and telecom posed to our country that's why produce legislation with senator cornyn and senator rubio to save u.s. government can't use them and that u.s. government can't use companies that use them. i'm glad some companies like verizon, at&t among others have taken this threat seriously. would you explain what the risk is that we

christopher steele, the dossier author through the lobbyist of a russian oligarch by the name of oleg deripaska firm is connected to hillary. the important words to look for here are no paper trail and private meeting. why would he want to do that without the whole thing? ainsley: we will read the texts between the two. first here is a tweet from the president wow exclamation point. senator mark warner got caught having contact with a russian oligarch. warmer did not want a paper trail on a private meeting in london he requested with steele, fraud is lent dossier fame. all tied into crooked hillary. pete: steve, as you pointed out last member oftentimes it's staff members doing the outreaching. in this particular case it is the senator himself texting with adam waldman who is the lobbyist connected to the russian oligarch. here are a couple of the texts. steve: and hillary. pete: and hillary. i stand corrected. here is a couple of the texts right here. senator warner texts we have so much to discuss we need to be careful but we can help our country. waldman texts back i'm in. another text excha