manafort's secrets exposed.aul manafort shared polling information with an alleged kremlin operative during the 2016 campaign. did manafort's lawyers mistakenly make some key evidence public? >>> the high court rules against the mystery company owned by a foreign company in a case related to the mueller investigation. are there new clues about the secret identity of what's being called country a? >>> indicted russian lawyer. the attorney was at the trump tower meeting in 2016. has been indicted in new york. the charges are driving home her close ties to the putin regime. >>> prime time crisis. president trump will speak tonight from the oval office, hoping to gin up urgency and fear to promote his border wall. will americans buy his pitch as the administration insists on embracing misleading information. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you are in "the situation room." >> this is cn

manafort to the president, manafort's team wrote. the revelations come as another russian he encountered during the campaign faces an obstruction of justice charge brought by the southern district of new york. she was the russian lawyer that trump campaign officials hoped would deliver dirt on hillary clinton in the now infamous 2016 trump tower meeting. that meeting now a focus of mueller's investigation. the new indietment ctment highl her ties to the russian government saying she submitted a misleading declaration to the court, which she allegedly drafted in secret cooperation with a senior russian prosecutor. she has denied any ties to the kremlin. >> translator: no. i'm certainly flattered by being marked and called as a government attorney. but i have never worked for the government in the first place. >> reporte >> in written testimony in 2017, she claimed she had no relationship with russia's prosecutor general. other than those related to my professional functions of a lawyer. in april 2018, she revised her story calling her

let's talk paul manafort. we've talked so much, you and chuck have taken me to school on how a conspiracy is investigated and charged. we know robert mueller has charged the russian part of the conspiracy to meddle in the 2016 election. could paul manafort sharing polling data from the trump campaign with a russian operative be that link between the conspiracy and the trump orbit? >> got a significant revelation today and it's the result of an apparent error and inability of manafort's lawyers to cut and paste properly or use black magic marker because now we know precisely what manafort is accused of lying about. remember, it's one thing to be forgetful, if we read the story painted by manafort's attorneys, then he's an impressive multitasker who's trying to run a presidential campaign and we shouldn't be so harsh on him because he can't remember things, but forgetfulness is one thing, nicolle, he chose, and lying is a choice, he chose to lie about whether or not he shared the president's polling numbers with

that mueller knows that manafort -- what manafort said or did after a lunch break.of detail has got to scare anyone who is going up against him and who is reading this document. >> and it reframes the question, the always-puzzling question, what the hell has manafort been thinking? because that's right. mueller knows chapter and verse of his lies and that's what the document was today. it wasn't about what -- well, it was about what manafort said, but it was a documentation of why it was false. he knows it from gates, he maybe knows it from intercepted communications. and as asha says, the overall criminal investigation has almost been reframed now in counterintelligence terms, as all about russia's interference in the election. and this is where, you know, manafort is front and center. >> harry, what did you think about barr today in the senate? >> yeah, so, to me, he was really straight by the book. the thing that impressed me, i really -- he sold me on this notion, he's 68 years old, he has no reason not to play it straight, by the book. he struck me, and i -- fr

is describing what he sees as sort of paul manafort's secret sauce, the thing that paul manafort was best at as a political consultant, the biggest strength he brought to all of his work in all the different countries where he did it. polling. as kilimnik said, he, quote, takes very seriously his polling. well, in that oops, we forgot to really redact it court filing yesterday, we learn that prosecutors from the special counsel's office are alleging that manafort sent his beloved polling data, the core of what he does, he sent that data to con konstantin kilimnik, who, again, is linked to russian intelligence. late last night "the new york times" added more details to the story, including detail on the timing of the data transfer and its nature. according to "the times," man for transferred the data from the trump campaign to kilimnik in the spring of 2016. "the times" further reports it was both manafort and gates who were involved in transferring that data. and the transfer involved not just public polling data, but also private polling data that was internal to the campaign, which

i feel very badly for paul manafort. >> all right. papers have revealed that manafort shared sensitive, internal polling data from the trump campaign about the 2016 election with russian-linked a russian-linked operative and his name is konstantin kilimnik. joining us is ted deutsch, a member of the house judiciary committee. sir, you have been through many election cycles and you know the sensitivity of internal polling data like this especially at the presidential level and what's your reaction to learning that paul manafort shared that with russians? >> this is an extraordinary revelation, brianna, in this investigation that's been full of extraordinary pieces of information, but this is the president's campaign manager sharing the most sensitive campaign data with russian officials, with the aim of getting them to aim the russian intelligence officials and this puts to why this notion that there has been no collusion. there is clearly collusion, that's what we learned in these documents. the question is is anyone really expected t

he's manafort's right-hand man. he stays in the campaign, even after manafort leaves. manafort and he, you know, talk freely. so it's likely whatever it is, mueller has independent evidence of. but, sure, i think it's quite possible that part of what's redacted there has to do with conversations with the president or the president-elect. >> i'm glad you're eager to get in, asha, because now i want you to respond to this, but i'll play this sound, it's from president trump. during the campaign, i'll explain why. we all remember this. watch. >> russia, if you're listening, i hope you're able to find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing. >> okay. so that was july 27 of 2016. s and i played that because we learned in this filing that manafort communicated with his longtime russian associate, konstantin kilimnik beginning august of 2016. the special counsel is keeping what they talked about confidential, but is the timing fishy here? >> well, the timing has already been fishy, don. we know from mueller's indictment against the 12 gru officers who did the hack on the dnc serv

manafort's attorney says that mueller's evidence demonstrates a lack of consistency in manafort's recollectionertain facts and events. what do we know about the evidence against him? >> well, we haven't seen what evidence mueller has. but if he's willing to file this and he's willing to i understand to produce witnesses if he has to, he knows for a fact that manafort was in contact with a russian agent. or someone connected to russian intelligence and passing polling data. this really goes to the heart of collusion. so you can probably see why manafort doesn't want any of that evidence to come out. i think that we need to remember that manafort isn't somebody who's been on the up and up. after being charged in d.c. and virginia. he then was obstructing justice and speaking of witness tampering. tampering with witnesses and now claiming he just forgot. and i don't know how hard it is to forget meeting with russian agents. i find it to be a tenuous argument. >> interesting. manafort is at the center of a lot of contacts with russians. the trump tower meeting. promising dirt on hillary clinton. i

manafort explained that he had not told, redacted. manafort was then asked what? redacted. after a lunch break, comma, manafort, redacted. oh, now i see, right? so this technically is a narrative declaration from an fbi agent explaining all the things that manafort has done wrong in terms of lying to prosecutors but the whole thing is like that. they also attached to that declaration 406 factual exhibits laying out their evidence that manafort told them all these lies. so that's the other big, fat part of it. and again when this landed on my desk today i was like, holy quack moly, how am i going to get through this in time for showtime with everything else going on in the world with the giant news earthquakes. watch this magic trick. turns out you can pull off all of this, all of it because every single one of these pages is either a black box or just the word "redacted." absolutely nothing. and the vast majority of the filing, it's all completely blacked out. the few remaining pages, the last thin remaining pages that remain in the stack is basically a handful of bank reco

manafort began talking with constantine kilimnik. we've learned that rick gates, manafort's associate is still cooperating with mueller's team, which means the investigation may be far from over. and also today, at the confirmation hearing of william barr, president trump's nominee to be attorney general, he told the senate judiciary committee that he would not interfere with mueller's investigation, and that he would not be bullied by anyone, including the president. and in a rebuke to the trump administration, 11 senate republicans joined democrats in a move to stop the administration from easing sanctions on russian oligarch oleg deripaska, a putin ally. so, again, as i said, there's lots to talk about here. i want to bring in sara murray with more on mueller's court filing against manafort. sara, good evening you. say there are two main filings on paul manafort. the first is about a russian name that keeps popping up, constantine kilimnik. >> yeah, konstantin kilimnik is an associate that prosecutors say has links to russian inte

>> he was manafort's alter ego. he needed a translator and this guy, kilminik stepped up to be his translator. he would go with him everywhere. manafort didn't speak any of these foreign languages. and so kilimnik was there for everything. manafort immediately turned to despite all the suggestions he has this past with russian intelligence, despite everything we know about once they get into russian intelligence, they tend not to leave and manafort over looked all of this. >> thank you very much. joining me now former special watergate -- natasha. i see you writing about this ux tweeting it out. >> so, it's really hard to tell at this point because obviously the "new york times" had originally reported this went to the russian oligarch and now learning that it actually went to two ukrainian oligarchs who are very pro-russian. i don't think it diminishes the fact that there was no reason paul manafort should have been sharing ukrainian polling data with anyone outside of ukrain. whether this was an effort to shore up

and then there's paul manafort. president trump's former campaign chairman, his lawyers disputing the allegation by robert mueller that he lied to federal prosecutors. the judge ordered him to appear in court on friday. there's lots to discuss. michael cohen ongoing threats. he says this postponement took him by. surprise. >> it certainly did. everyone was looking forward really to this day. they wanted to finally hear from michael cohen. and r certainly no one. expected it to go this way. when you hear why michael cohen decided finally to say i shouldn't do this, the idea that perhaps he felt threatened certainly is concerning many. what the president has done suns michael cohen had announced that he was going to go ahead before members of congress, go out in public and say what he wanted to say, you can see that the president and rudy giuliani started this campaign of attacking him. really they went where it would hurt him because michael cohen when we have talked to him certainly and people close to him, he's alw

manafort believed owed him money. he worked for them in ukrain and he thought i can trade this access to the trump campaign in order to make this debt disappear. in fact, yes, this is collusion. i think we don't even know the scope and broadest contours of that collusion. >> here's the thing that's strange and there's this infamous email that manafort sends it to kilimnik and does he want a private briefing? why do they care a briefing from the soon-to-be republican nominee? what good is private polling data? >> as you said paul manafort spend the last two years in his spend the last ten years in his career working in you ukrain for pro-russian interests. the guy who was his closest advisor was trained by russian intelligence. and so he's coming into this american context having been steeped in ukrainian and russian political culture. he doesn't really know where the boundaries are when he enters this thing. >> and you've got to wonder about this part of it. we have some reporting that indicates the whole internal inv

where does the manafort case stand right now? not shutting the gates, mueller also revealing rick gates is still cooperating in multiple investigations. is it a sign that the russia probe will continue for months? and brexit dismade. british prime minister theresa may suffers a defeat, as lawmakers throw out her plan for the u.k.'s exit from the european union? how will the crisis impact one of america's closest allies and the world? we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer, you're in the situation room. >>> we're following breaking news on the man poised to oversea the end game of the trump/russia investigation. the attorney general nominee promising senators he would not interfere in robert mueller's work or be bullied into doing anything he felt was wrong, including an unjustified order to fire the special counsel. during his day long confirmation hearing, barr repeatedly indicated he was ready and willing to push back against president trump. but he left some wiggle room on ho

the idea that donald trump hired paul manafort as his campaign chairman when these links between manafort and russians and ukrainians tied to russia were well-known among a wide array of people and it's -- again, it's astonishing that manafort was hired to run the republican presidential nominees campaign in this kind of a situation. and so, the idea that he has a long standing relationship with someone that is believed by american intelligence officials to be a russian intelligence asset, this is mind blowing. this would have been a scandal in any other political context. >> i'm paraphrasing here. correct me if i'm wrong. i think rick santorum said that the main reason manafort was hired is there weren't any top republicans that wanted to work for trump in the days when he needed it, right? is that correct? is that a viable excuse? >> he wasn't hired to be campaign chairman. he volunteered to be the unpaid campaign chairman which has been an interesting fact in and of itself. remember, paul manafort in the midst of this, as we now know in court documents and layed out in his trial, was i

manafort ask mr. kilimnik pass the data to oleg deriposka, a russian oligarch close to the kremlin and claimed mr. manafort owed him money from a failed business venture, the person said. it is unclear whether mr. ma manafort was acting at the campaign's behest or independently trying to gain favor to someone to whom he was deeply in debt." today's filing from manafort's lawyers also says he and kilimnik met in madrid and that they may have discussed something billed as a ukraine peace plan on more than one occasion which prosecutors say manafort lied about as well. tonight, the "washington post" reports, "jason maloni, a spokesman for manafort, said the madrid meeting took place in january or february of 2017 after the presidential campaign was completed." today's filing from manafort's legal team, mistake included, is in response, and this gets complicate b complicated, to the mueller team's allegation that manafort violated his cooperation deal by lying to the feds. you may recall manafort was conv

and the manafort criminal case. that continues to unfold. we will get to lay eyes on paul manafort in court, no matter how he's dressed, on friday of this week. that issue about deripaska as a sort of dangling thread in this scandal, though, it may also depend in part on that very young woman from belarus. and we also can sort of lay eyes on her now. this woman posted video to instagram of oleg deripaska talking about the united states with the russian deputy prime minister on board deripaska's very fancy yacht in august of 2016 during the campaign. thereafter she claimed to have further video, audio and photographic documentation of deripaska also discussing what she said were his plans for the russian election which three fluent english speakers who she believed to be americans. she said those meetings which she said to have documentation of happened during the campaign. we have been covering her case here on the show over the last week because on tuesday of last week, she was unexpectedly freed from a prison in t

there's a lot to come with manafort much.etween a rock and a hard place, they don't want to admit he lied, but they fledged hearing to flush it out. >> it's for the campaign also. here is y two coincidences. the first one, manafort, is talking to his buddies wiies ab what they want with the soviet and united states. we know that the trump team, made sure that the platform was changed in a way that was better for the russian perspective. how troubling is that to you? >> it's really troubling. because, potentially, it means that there was a policy shift. by a major party nominee and the question was, i think, is whether or not that is done in exchange for something of value. legally that is what the issue is. whether or not there's a quid pro quo, we don't have -- >> for it to be a crime. for it to be a crime of. >> my bar is never a crime. it's just about what was wrong, what should you not have done. and who knew. but i hear you about it being a felony. second piece of coincidence here. the places that much of the trolling th

manafort was trying to collude with russian agents, and the question is what did the president know? what did donald trump know about this exchange of information? >> all of that as the shutdown, another manufactured crisis courtesy of president trump, moves into its 20th day and as this president continues to govern by not governing. lots to discuss. david axelrod, kirsten powers, they're both here. we're going to dig into that. but first i want you to take a look at this, jim. donald trump's speech when he got an honorary degree at wagner college in staten island. this was back in 2004. it was dug up by our friends at "the daily show." >> never, ever give up. don't give up. don't allow it to happen. if there's a concrete wall in front of you, go through it. go over it. go around it. but get to the other side of that wall. [[clap, clap]] ♪ hey, jen, which tie says, "trustworthy but also fun"? gold down, oil up. oil down, gold up. this is too busy. we need to make sure people can actually use th

manafort explained he had not told -- redacted. manafort was asked what -- redacted. after a lunch break, ka mcomma, manafo manafort, redacted. this technically is a narrative decoloration, from an fbi agent explaining the things manafort has done wrong in terms of lying to prosecutors but the whole thing is like that and they attached to that decoloration, 406 factual exhibits laying out the evidence that manafort told them lies so that's the other big part. that's the decoloration, and these are the exhibits. i said how will i get through all these exhibits before show time given everything else going on in the world with the news either qui earthquakes. watch this magic trick. you can pull off every one of these because every one of these pages is the black box or the word redacted. absolutely nothing. and the vast majority of the filing it's completely blacked out. the few remaining pages, the last thin remaining pages that remain in the stack, basically a hand full of bank records that are unreadable and big black boxes with nothing but a bank leader head and dat

manafort was trying to collude with russian agents. trump know about this exchange of information? >> there are rumblings that the investigation might be getting close to wrapping up. one possible indication a source telling cnn that deputy attorney rod rosenstien and are who over sees mueller is set to leave when he's confirmed and could happen by mid february. he signalled to other officials he will go when mueller's investigation is complete or

manafort to the president.re was another contact that may have occurred, but they say that was hearsay. >> i want to back up. manafort sharing polling data from the 2016 election. when he was doing that, was he part of the trump campaign? >> it does not specifically say he was. we don't have a date on when that share ing occurred. we do not know whether or not that was while manafort was still a member of the trump campaign, before he was a member of the trump campaign, or afterwards. >> i imagine that would be a big question for investigators. why would you be sharing polling data with somebody tied to russian intelligence? >> exactly. we don't know is that proprietary, internal, trump campaign data? did he happen to pull it off nbcnews.com, politico, wherever it may be? that's another big question. when did it occur? was it proprietary information? presumably this is something that individual could look up on his own, so it's curious why the former trump campaign chairman is sharing that information. >> if it

rosenstein because we just saw what happened with manafort. the amount of information we are unaware of and my understanding is, mr. whitaker is not up to speed which is probably a good thing given his compromised position on a lot of -- for a lot of reasons, i think it's a bit concerning that mr. rosenstein is leaving and my guess is that there's a number of pressures on him to make this decision. i also suspect he has great confidence in mr. barr given his reputation and experience. >> such a great point. gloria, she mentions pressure. we alluded to all the accomplishments, achievements under rod rosenstein' tenure with regard to the investigation. what about the pressure from the president himself? certainly no love lost there. >> no. there hasn't been any love lost. ironically when he started out, everybody loved him. he was the teacher's pet because don't forget he wrote the memo about comey which donald trump used as justification for firing comey so he was -- he was the good guy but then came the raid on michael cohen's office and the p

manafort, stone, et cetera, in terms of the campaign. if i'm looking at this, i'm saying it's significant. >> phil, i want to ask you, you've been at border briefings before, correct? >> yes. >> i want to get back to the border with the president tonight. so, you watched. did anything jump out to you, things that did or did not come up in the border briefings as to what he was saying? >> there was one thing, don, let me take this away from politics and get into practice. you could talk about organized crime, you could talk about gangs, could talk about human trafficking. my world for years was counterterrorism. between 2002, when i returned to the cia, and 2010, i was detailed to the fbi for a few years between 2005 and 2010. i was thinking today, i run every day during my run, i must have sat in maybe 1,500, 2,000 threat briefings. that is people in this country who are trying to blow something up and people trying to come into this country to try to sponsor an act of terrorism. 1,500, 2,000 threat briefings, i can't remember one game o

lawyers for former trump campaign chief paul manafort inadvertently revealed that paul manafort sharednternal trump polling data with one of his russian associates who is tied to russian intelligence. it's the clearance evidenciest collusion between the trump campaign and russia. meanwhile, there's also a government shutdown and the president meets again with congressional leaders today after his oval office address last night to the nation where he made his case for the border wall. this, as the government shutdown enters day 19. but first, let's get to laura jarrod. she is live in washington with all of the breaking rosenstein news. what have you have learned, laura. >> reporter: well, rosenstein, the number two official at the justice department, the man who has been overseeing the russia investigation since its inception plans to leave the department soon after bill barr, the president's pick for attorney general, is confirmed by the senate. now i'm told by a source familiar with rosenstein saying that he's not being forced out by the white house, but he has informed them of his pl

manafort's lawyers this week accidentally made public in a court filing that prosecutors claimed manafortas lying to them about sharing the polling information with his business associate konstanin kilimnick. we don't know why that information was being shared and whether any of that data ended up with the russians who at the time were trying to launch a campaign to try to help donald trump win the white house. the president was asked by reporters whether he knew that his campaign chairman was sharing that information. >> no, i didn't know anything about it. nothing about it. >> reporter: cnn reporters in february of last year saw fabrizio leaving his interview at the mueller offices here in washington. and we've since confirmed that he provided information to the mueller investigation. fabrizio is a former business associate of manafort and he is someone who would have knowledge about the inner workings of the trump campaign as well as manafort's connections in eastern europe. fabrizio worked with manafort in ukraine and he went on to serve as the chief polster for the trump campaign in

talk about what manafort's lawyers call a "peace plan for ukraine" the country where manafort earlier did political consulting work. these aren't government allegations. they're statements made by manafort's own lawyer in a document intended to refute mueller's claim that manafort hasn't cooperated with investigators since pleading guilty. but it's impossible to tell from this new filing whether manafort was intending to share campaign information with the russians or just reaching out to his former employee in hopes of lining up future consulting work once the trump campaign was over. lester? >> all right, pete williams, thank you. >>> the russian lawyer who met with trump campaign officials at trump tower in 2016 has now been charged in a separate case. nbc's richard engel has been on the story, tracking it for months. >> reporter: tonight natalia veselnitskaya, the russian lawyer who met at trump tower with president trump's family and inner circle during the 2016 campaign, has been charged by federal prosecutors with obstruction of justice. the charges are not directly related to

minutes from now paul manafort will appear in court.facing allegations that he broke a plea agreement by lying to special counsel investigators and to the grand jury. the judge demanding manafort appear in court after he argued the trip to d.c. was too time consuming. let's get to jessica schneider outside the district court in washington. what do we expect to hear in the courtroom today? >> this is the first time paul manafort will be inside the federal courtroom since october. of course, judge amy jackson ordering him to appear saying this hearing is too important and that paul manafort has missed too many hearings to skip this one. we are awaiting paul manafort's arrival inside the courtroom. we know he'll be brought here or has been brought here from the virginia jail where he's been locked up since june. the one thing the judge allowing him to wear a suit instead of the dark green inmate uniform. so the judge will be hearing arguments from the prosecutors. they have been alleging that paul manafort lied to them on five different to

lawyers for former trump campaign chair paul manafort inadvertently revealed that manafort shared internalate tied to russian intelligence. so does this constitute collusion? and about last night. the president he's oval office address making a case for the border wall. "new york times" called it a nine-minute speech that made no new arguments but included misleading asertions. the times report the that the president didn't want to give the speech in the first place because it wasn't change any minds. was he right? this as the shutdo

and in manafort defense team -- the manafort defense team's filing with the court tonight where they ask for extra time, they make clear that if you do fill in what's in all the black boxes, if you do put in the real evidentiary exhibits in place of these place holder pages that just say "redacted" on them, ultimately what you get, ultimately what they got last night and what the judge in this case got last night is the unredacted version of this declaration of evidence against paul manafort. and apparently, it amounts to more than 800 pages. so i thought this is a lot. this is the redacted version. you unredact this and apparently it's over 800 pages. so, again, we don't know much about the assistance and the details of what robert mueller and the special counsel's office say the president's campaign chair lied to about, and how they know he lied to them. but we do know now their statement of evidence to prove their case amounts to more than 800 pages of evidence. and as they told the judge last night in their filing, that's not all they've got. here's 800 pages. do you want any mor

why manafort's people might spin this saying, they're asking about the work he did for manafort ukranian people, obviously that would not be of great interest to mueller. >> i think this episode is so dramatic for two reasons. one, it's the first time people can look to an event and say, this really looks like collusion with a foreign government interest who all of our intelligence agencies have had it out to beat hillary clinton and make sure trump wasie le el. and that was the entire goal of their interference in this election. the second one was we found this out inadvertently. it means all along people said, there was no collusion that would have leaked out. it is an indicator that mueller might have lots on collusion that we only saw one crumb of inadvertently leak out. there are so many witnesses we don't know about. there's so much testimony we don't know about. now that the house is in control -- by democrats in their investigations, they intend, the intelligence committee intends to hand over a bunch of transcripts that the intelligence committee refuse to hand over to mueller.

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he won't throw manafort away. he's afraid of manafort.w what it is. >> that's a connection that has entanglements that go out further and probably a lot deeper than even we know right now. >> i think part of it is he could entangle his family, the kids. and i think it is that entanglement that he's trying to protect more than anything. >> and the interesting thing about moats. you can always find a way to cross them. >> shutdown versus mueller. the rest of the white house staff, what do they -- they've always tried to create this space for themselves when it comes to mueller. i think they like the shutdown fight because tarks lous them to avoid that. >> they are going to do something with governing, but in this case, not governing. it's a conversation about their jobs and their reason for being in the white house, i suppose, as to events that happened before he won and, obviously, hang over everybody like an anvil. it's not a pleasant conversation for kellyanne conway to be having on the driveway every morning, like why -- we had a great

he's working for an oligarch who manafort used to work for.hey have a kind of business dispute, and manafort is now trying to help this guy to settle a business debt. he, of course, is close to putin and the kremlin. it just doesn't look good. you know, at some point, we've had a lot of campaigns with kind of hin can i things in the margins, but why are all these people in the campaign tied back to shady russian characters? there's something here that, beyond the legalities of what mueller is looking into, just politically, a lot of questions and they remain answered. >> matthew, listen, manafort was the campaign chairman from march to august of 2016. what kind of polling information would the trump team have, at that point in the campaign? how detailed? >> i mean, i imagine pretty detailed. especially going into august, you know, you're trying to figure out, okay, what do we got to hit? where are the states where we think we can win? >> that's pretty close to the election. >> they did a pretty good job in it, apparently. >> phil, we know that

of new details about manafort's lipnks to russia. there were two plot twists under seal involving special counsel robert mueller including one twist from the supreme court today. we're going to be covering all of that over the course of the hour. that all happened today. just as the news cycle is jammed up with tonight's presidential first. his first prime time oval office address. here is the president live from the oval office. again, we believe this will be about ten minutes. >> my fellow americans, tonight i am speaking to you because there is a growing humanitarian and security crisis at our southern border. every day customs and border patrol agents encounter thousands of illegal immigrants trying to enter our country. we're out of space to haul them and we have no way to promptly return them back home to their country. america proudly welcomes millions of lawful immigrants who enrich our society and contribute to our nation, but all americans are hurt by uncontrolled illegal migration. it strains public resources and drives do

manafort's lawyers say their client has misremembered details. but their lawyer submitted a redacted version with formatting errors that allows all of these details to be made public. >> thank you for that. >>> the supreme court ruling, the justices rejecting a challenge by an unnamed foreign company that sought to avoid complying with the grand jury subpoena. the jury reinstates fines totaling $50,000 a day against the mystery company for failing to comply with the subpoena. chief justice john roberts put those results on hold. it's the first time the supreme court has had to intervene on the mueller probe. >>> a riggs lawyer who met at trump tower with the trump campaign has now been charged with obstruction of justice. investigators charging natalia veselnitskaya in connection with the money laundering case. it does highlight her deep ties to the russian government. she helped organize the infamous meeting at trump tower between members of the campaign and trump's family and russians, promising dirt on hillary clinton. so there is a success of

evidence of paul manafort's lies after agreeing to cooperate. cuomo's court on what it confirms, what it conceals, and what we can read between the redr redactions. will bill bar protect the president that tapped him for the job or would he protect the integrity of the special counsel's probe? did his answer satisfy anxious democrats? we'll go one-on-one with a member of the senate judiciary committee, next. and the house stood as one today against steve king. in fact, even the congressman himself threw in a vote to condemn his own racist remarks. what do you say? let's get after it. look at the size of this baby. another fact filing filled with reasons that the mueller team believes manafort was up to no good while heading up to the trump campaign. not just before. not in his past life but then. it sends the message that this information is sensitive and that the investigation was over. it comes on the same day that rick gates had his sentencing delayed for at least the last couple of months and on the same day he fielded questions about the sp

but is con stannen kilimnik the kind of person who would be running someone like manafort or would manaforttrying to deliver for donald trump? donald trump had an insatiable desire for input from his campaign deputies and there were never many at one time. he went through a lot but there were never many at one time. do you think this was the kind of arrangement and do you think mueller is probing this to figure out which direction it went? >> i don't see kilimnik handling the asset wait you would classically think of an espionage operation. however, kilimnik does have ties to russian intelligence and it's possible the russian entity that was trying to influence outcomes in the 2016 campaign and maybe even affect policy once trump came into office under a parallel act of measures campaign by the russians, was using the kilimnik/manafort channel. one of the things in the reporting we saw from the prosecutor's document, the part that wasn't redacted, is manafort was trying to place people signed the administration. that could be trying to show somebody how much influence he has but also be a w

not only for manafort, but apparently from gates.rmation was turned over around the 16th of july was it. any way, they had a hard date on it and it was right in the middle of the campaign after he had emerged add the candidate for the gop. so i don't think that's going to work as a defense. >> having technical problem. i want to add one thing. who was manafort's main client? it was this russian oligarch. what's happening right now is that the treasury department under secretary mnuchin is easing the sanctions on him. so putin has won. i mean this is the thing. if it's not over. it's not over. it's that you know, putin's control, or i don't know about control, but his influence in the trump administration continues to this day and you can just draw a line from manafort to the easing of the sanctions today. >> putin is destabilized and continues to deb stabilize the united states. we keep asking what the hell happened in helsinki. we still don't know. it's all part of the same story and you can't isolate the mueller investigation from

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for trump, he has to try to hope the firewall stops at manafort and he makes it seem like manafort is just freelancing. >> what are the chances are for that famous or infamous micro manager? >> i actually think there should be caution around this finding here. it's not clear based on the language we saw in that document, if we're looking at an adjunct to russian collusion or more self-doling with paul manafort. he was in debt to this guy. he was looking for ways to make him whole. to draw an analogy, campaigns of on do special briefings for big donors and big wigs, they share polling data -- >> for governors. >> paul manafort had the right set of equities and campaign manager, he owed a bunch of money to a strong man in russia. we have to be open with the possibility what he was trying to do is service his client a different way. remember, this is a guy who was about to be under sanctions, the obama administration was gearing up and working on putting him under sanction, and he had a lot riding on who ended up in the white house. >> only $10 million, give me this polling data? >> talk