again, campaign chairman, paul manafort, out, robert. what does this mean for the campaign moving forward? >> manafort issued his resignation today to trump, and it's really about manafort recognizing that though he thought earlier in the week he would stay on as an outside -- an inside adviser on the campaign, and helping steve bannan and kelly ann conway, he feels it's best for him to leave to let them execute their own strategy. this was told to me by a close associate of manafort's who is familiar with his thinking. manafort is a veteran republican, he realizes he has done what he could for the trump campaign and now he thinks it's time to let others take the wheel. >> was he forced out? >> based on my reporting at this moment, he was not forced out. but he saw the writing on the wall in a sense that he had been layered in a staff hierarchy. what makes the situation interesting is that manafort has never had a falling out with trump personally. his relationship with trump the candidate remains solid. and i've heard from my sources at

a report about paul manafort, ledger of cash payments. millions upon millions of dollars. from a pro-russian party in ukraine. manafort says this is unfounded. says it's nonsensical. buck, i want to start with you. do you see a big problem here? >> yeah, manafort's had clients in the past, including the dictator of the philippines, he's had a number of clients which would be problematic. this is now unproven. this allegation hasn't been shown beyond a reasonable doubt that he got this money, but the connections to the yanukovych regime -- is tied into russia would be something a lot of people look at given the -- for the trump campaign to say pro-putin things. that's concerning. i do think that trump actually has some damage control to do on this issue or will continue to have damage control to do on this issue. i think for manafort, we'll see what else they can found. there's a lot of hacking, a lot of interesting stuff being leaked these days. >> bakari, what's the response from the clinton side? >> bakari, what's the response on the clinton side? >> i actually agree with

do you think paul manafort has any influence on his views of russia which are surprisingly rosey for a republican or any political figure for that matter? >> i have no idea. never met mr. manafort. don't know what he knows. i do think the key issue with respect to russia is that we may need to try to work with them against isis. just as we worked with stalin against hitler in some 50, 70 years ago. i think that will put a lot of tension on the american system because any of these east european and reaches all the way to russia countries in which you have former kgb people in positions of importance, can certainly end up with a lot of corruption and so forth. and i've got to say just personally, not because i know anything about this particular case, but it does seem to me that this presses release is pretty early. that is one somehow ought to do some investigation of whether as manafort apparently says any money that he got was for his entire establishment which is expensive, et cetera, et cetera. one ought to get on top of the facts here, i think, before we start drawing judgments ab

any last words for paul manafort, corey? >> i wish him the absolute very best and he is a true professional, and i know how thankful i was to be able to work next to him as he worked to secure the delegates needed and secure the convention. >> corey lewandowski, thank you, great to hear from you. >> thank you. >> thanks for calling in. there you have it. thank you for calling in. let's discuss. our panel is here now. john phillips, cnn political commentator and a donald trump supporter. former representative becari sellers, also a political commentator, supports hillary clinton. cnn political commentator margaret hoover who is the veteran of two presidential campaigns. and matt latch, now the chairman of the american conservative union. guys, thank you so much. a lot to go through. was that corey lewandowski taking a victory lap, margaret hoov, without calling it a victory lap? >> look, i've been on a political staff, these things are heartfelt. but of course it was. honestly, yes, of course it was, kate. i think corey was -

>> we're investigating all this ledger, including the name paul manafort in this case. taxes and so on. >> reporter: the prosecutor confirmed that appears 12 times for 22 different entries are, totalling $12.7 million between 2007 and 2012. manafort has denied receiving any cash payments and it's not his signature on the ledger. investigators say they're tracking down those who did sign for the cash. the ledger itself is held at the anticorruption bureau. page. on october fifth, 2012, paul manafort 's name appears against the sum of $400,000 designated for exit polling and another alth 812,000. the new tenants told us that office has been empty for more than two years. before he was trump's man, he spent the decade rebrandingian covech. he's now exiled in russia. prosecutors told us they will consider bringing criminal charges against paul manafort, just like every other name allegedly on that list if they believe there's been any wrong doing. her new roll on "cbs this morning." >> welcome. >> thank you. >> are you going to do what a campaign manager does in terms of wha

paul manafort retains his title and paul and stephen bannon and i yesterday were together. >> but now you have three leaders, it appears. somebody has to making the call. >> i'd say it's a combination of us and donald trump has made it very clear who it is. i respect him tremendously. he's the candidate. i would never have the fire in to do what he has done, which is build a movement. >> paul manafort famously said if this campaign becomes a referendum on donald trump, it has failed. it it has been a referendum on donald trump. >> i agree with you and i made similar remarks during the democratic convention last month because i noticed the democrats -- when hillary clinton and her supporters are asked tell us what you're going to do they talk about donald trump. so, hillary clinton wants to talk about donald trump. we want to talk directly to the american people. that's the difference. >> and you want to talk to women in particular. you were talking about having a good messaging week. donald trump said "she lacks the physical stamina to take on isis and all the many adversaries we face

it sounded as if paul manafort believed he was going to stay in the campaign. exactly what say happened because we're still trying to report that. it sounds like there was some hours over the last 36 that brought this to a finale. -- finality. >> you wrote about this in your book. how the candidate needs to essentially build on their base and expand the electorate. that seemed to be one of the goals the trump campaign had. is it safe to say that based on the development today, the campaign is taking a different approach? is the certainly speculation. it remains to be seen exactly what they are going to do. the indications are that because we know some of the history of stephen bannon and he is a fighter and he wants to stir things up and he is antiestablishment. paul manafort is an establishment kind of republican. those two people to coexist is questionable. conway has helped republicans figure out how to be more appealing to female voters. this has always been a deficit for many republican candidates. it is a particular weakness for donald trump. 's efforts w

when paul manafort was brought on board, that seem to be one of the goals that paul manafort had. onit safe to say that based the developments today, the trump campaign is taking a different approach. >> that certainly is the speculation. i think it remains to be seen exactly what they are going to do. that,dications are because we know some of the history of stephen bannon, that he is a fighter and he wants to stir things up, and he is antiestablishment. man afford is very much an establishment kind of republican. in a sense, the ability of those two views or people to coexist is questionable. kelly and conway is somebody who figureped republicans out how to be more appealing to female voters. this has always been a deficit for many republican candidates and a particular weakness of donald trump. we have to see how this begins to play out. certainly, paul manafort's were aimed at tempering donald trump style. donald trump made it clear that that was -- that he was not happy with that idea. when he did last night was a departure from what we have seen in the past. he has been tota

they put out their -- trump's son to explain paul manafort's departure and he used the word distraction. here is more of what he had to say. >> i think my father didn't want to be distracted by whatever things that paul was dealing with. paul was amazing and he helped us get through the primary process, helped us get through the convention and did a great job with the delegates and now you look at kellie anne and some of the other people coming in and they're absolutely fantastic and are going to be the ones that bring us through november 8th and the victory and again i don't think my father wanted the distraction looming over the campaign an quite frankly all the distractions hillary clinton is dealing with right now. >> reporter: that looming really caught my ear right now. no campaign wants to be in a position of explaining than a position of power, and attention on a staffer rather than the candidate. >> thank you for that report. while hillary clinton's team has been in place for months this is the third major shakeup for donald trump in months the first you had corey lewandowski o

paul manafort resigning earlier today.ng a week of dramatic changes for the republican presidential nominee. the olympics has generated a ton of public interest, but it did not translate in the ratings. primetime broadcast viewership has been down 25% among a key group of viewers. vonnie: let's check on the u.s. the s&p 500 at 2182. .1%.asdaq down this is bloomberg. ♪ vonnie: time now for the bloomberg business flash. world bank of scotland will charge more than 60 of its biggest trading clients as a consequence of low central-bank interest rate. those claims will pay interest -- theateral for trading lender has already informed clients about the move. -- dalio's hedge losses to 9%.its the fund had lost close to 12% through july. d --and for f discussing conducting a strategic review. it could result in a sale. let's turn to politics now and get another reset for the trump campaign manager paul manafort has resigned as campaign chairman, following reports that he helped the u.k. and then pro-russian government. steveomes j

maybe it was paul manafort's decision. they had said you can stay, you know, in a slightly different role, and maybe he said, you know what? i don't want to stick around, i'm done and resigned. i guess the rest of that story will be told in the coming days, no doubt. there's the trump plane on the tarmac. this, obviously, is part of the new thrust to have people see him as more presidential, and it's quite obvious the president is golfing in martha's vineyard, and the image today will be this one that we're looking at, or chris. >> well, there is -- when george w. bush wouldn't go someplace and he'd be on vacation, democrats would say you're the worst, you're horrible and beat him up for that. and now when bad things happen when president obama's on vacation, republicans say the same thing. it creates an opportunity to criticize the other guy. he is just golfing or, in bush's case, he's just clearing brush in texas instead of caring about people. it comes with -- when you're president, every time you take a vacation, every

interestingly, paul manafort though has, campaign sources telling our cnn dana bash, that paul manafort told donald trump that manafort said, look, i've been becoming a distraction here and i want this to end, that leading in part to the resignation. the clinton campaign hasn't wasted any time coming out with a statement about this resignation. they say that the resignation itself will not eliminate the questions about the ties between trump and putin. in fact using some flowery language saying that this doesn't end this strange bromance has trump has going on with vladimir putin. >> jessica, thank you in dimondale, ahead of his rally there. rosa flores has been in louisiana for days as we've all been covering the disaster. you were wading in water, now you are standing in front of a number of items that were all donated by mr. trump? >> reporter: you're absolutely right, brooke. one of the officials here told me during an interview that donald trump had donated an 18-wheeler full of stuff. of course, my cure yo is it, here we go. let me show you all of this stuff. this 18-wheeler we ar

paul manafort has resigned as donald trump's campaign chairman.ts. for a look at the next steps for team trump, let's head to washington. welcome. a big of a mess as it looks like? >> you don't want someone to be running a campaign that is essentially a foreign agent or has been a foreign agent for people sympathetic to russia. where he washing supposed to register as a foreign agent and didn't. this is something that has dominated the conversation in washington for several days. that is not the reboot that donald trump was looking for. comes onresignation the heels of the trump campaign having brought in some new blood at the very top that some interpreted to be at the motion for paul manafort. how much of this resignation is the to the fact that writing was on the wall and he was no longer in charge? how was the bringing end of the new blood and acknowledgment of bad news to paul manafort, ukraine ties, what was the cause and event here? i'm certain it was the news coming out about ukraine that would be the cause for this resignation. easier tha

willhile, paul manafort stay on in his current position.he campaign manager who paul manafort ousted was corey lewandowski. so, what does cnn enlist corey lewandowski think of the latest developments? >> is a candidate that wants to win. this is a clear indication of that. if you look at what they have at breitbart, it is win at all cost. it is important that kelly and is with them as much as possible. she has done this for a long time. she had a very successful polling company. she also brings a sense of calmness. i think she has been lacking. leadership on the plane. mark: so they join the top of the trump campaign. why is he making these changes and what does it mean? >> he is making them because he is losing. he's continuing the same behavior and expecting a different outcome. he has found his ultimate brand matchup. he wants to go back to where he started, which is the outsider, which is the flamethrower. nudge had to post primary and play a little bit with republican party and you can see he is not comfortable and it is not working an

is it paul manafort frustrated with the candidate or the candidate frustrated with manafort? >> well it's a little bit of both in states where they typically lean republican, you're seeing closer and closer numbers between donald trump and hillary clinton. now, because of this, there was tension between paul manafort and donald trump. so much so that sources tell cnn that they felt that there might be a shake-up. that a shake-up was imminent. and that they heard that paul manafort and donald trump were both telling friends about the friction within their relationship. all leading to this shake-up. and this is the second big shake-up that the campaign has had in two months. it was just barely two months ago, we were sitting here talking about how trump had ousted his campaign manager corey lewandowski. so now her we are again, we were told at that point that paul manafort would assume that role as well as chairman. but now he's brought in kelley anne conway as the campaign manager a long time associate of trump and mike pence. and steve bannon, also a longtime associate of don

paul manafort has resigned. ys in a statement that manafort offered and accepted the resignation from the campaign. the move follows a major shakeup among trump's campaign staff. manafort is under security for his work in europe, especially ukraine. trump's campaign is spending nearly $5 million on television ads. they will air in the next 10 days in ohio, pennsylvania, north carolina, and florida. andhe first ad, trump clinton are contrasted on immigration, border security, and syrian refugees. clinton reportedly told fbi agents that the former secretary of state colin powell adviser to use a private e-mail server. "the new york times" reports the information is included in notes with the fbi shared with congress earlier this week. news 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2600 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. this is "bloomberg." vonnie: for corporate story grabbing -- grabbing headlines, viacom has okayed in agreement ending a months long legal dispute between viacom ceo and controlling sha

are you investigating paul manafort? >> we are investigating all this black ledger, including his name, paul manafort in this case. we have a lot of questions. where is this money for paid for and taxes and so on. >> reporter: the prosecutor confirmed that ham 12 times for 22 different entries are totalling $12.7 million between 2007 and 2012. manafort has denied receiving any cash payments and it's not his signature on the ledger. the ledger itself is at the anticorruption bureau. we weren't allowed to film the pages because of the ongoing showed us a copy of one page. an october fifth, 2012, does uginated for exit polling. this is the last registered address for manafort's company here in downtown kiev. but they say it's been empty for more than two years. be right-hand man, he spent his name with yanakovic. and he's now exiled in russia. prosecutors told us it will consider bringing criminal charges against paul manafort, just like every other name on that list if they believe there's any wrong doing. kellyanne conway

paul manafort is still there as chairman. he retains his title and yesterday we were together. >> but now you have three leaders, it appears. >> and donald trump has made very clear who it is, so i'm fine with that. i respect him tremendously. he's the candidate. i would never have the fire in the belly or the biel in the which is basically build a movement. >> i mean, there is -- paul manafort famously said if this campaign becomes a referendum on donald trump, it has failed. this campaign has been a referendum on donald trump. >> and i made similar remarks during the democratic convention. i notice when hillary clinton and her supporters are asked in going to do about obama care? they talk about donald trump. so, hillary clinton wants to talk about donald trump. we want to talk directly to the american people. >> and you want to talk to women in particular. you talked about having a good message week. he says she lacks the physical and mental stamina to take on isis and all the many adversaries we face. presidential. how do

we mentioned, the campaign putting out a statement which reads, and i'm quoting, this morning, paul manafortffered and i accepted his resignation from the campaign. i am appreciative for his great work in helping us get us where we are today and his work through the process. paul is a true professional and i wish him the greatest success. this was signed donald j. trump. interesting to note we're hearing from sources manafort was concerned he was becoming a distraction. there were a couple of different news reports of course this week further broadening his involvement with different issues in ukraine. what is it specifically or what have you been hearing in political circles -- as we watch i believe trump's plane making its way into baton rouge. with 81 days to go now, the last thing the campaign needs is another destruction, sundlen. >> you're absolutely right. i think this is a clear admission by the trump campaign they were not on the right trajectory and this is a recalibration. there were of course questions and criticisms about paul manafort's ties to lobbying abroad. but it seeps t s

the trump campaign manager who was pushed aside is republican strategist paul manafort. and like many consultants, manafort hired out to campaigns in other countries. one of his clients was the pro-russian president of ukraine, who was later overthrown. now, manafort's name has come up in a mysterious ledger that suggests big payments for his talents. charlie d'agata is in ukraine. >> reporter: nazar kholodnytski is ukraine's new anticorruption prosecutor. leading the investigation into the secret handwritten ledger showing $5 billion in undisclosed cash payments that were allegedly handed out by the party of former president viktor yanukovych, paul manafort's client at the time. the prosecutor confirmed that manafort's name appears 12 times for 22 different sprees, totaling $12.7 million between 2007 and 2012. are his signatures there? >> no. there's no signature of paul manafort's but his name has been mentioned several time. >> reporter: manafort has denied receiving any cash payments. investigators say they're now tracking down each recipient who signed for the cash.

drop in bed with the russians and paul manafort, that's a conspiracy theory. i like stephen bannon quite a bit. he thinks outside the box. it will take this kind of thinking to overcome the clinton machine. that,to follow-up on roger, i met you. you don't remember this but we were both really young in 1988 to you were a partner then with paul manafort. that he is in some by stephenover bannon or kellyanne conway do think he maintains his vision as chairman? guest: it is not true. paul manafort has deep experience in presidential politics. stephen bannon, who i love, has none. kelly and six areas dates dates to ted cruz. they are all multi talented individuals. metaphor remains the chairman. job was to bring order to the campaign and he has done that. this is an expansion rather than a shakeup. guest: what impact do you think banning will have on the campaign? back toee trump going more of his old ways during the primaries? one thing i have written is this allows trump to fashion the campaign in his own image. do you agree with that and what impact do you think

paul manafort remains chairman but his power is likely diminished with these new moves. is an ardent critic of house speaker paul ryan. and trump making a pitch to african-american voters with his law and order speech. giving a speech near, butter not in milwaukee, just days after violent protests of a police shootings of an armed african-american suspect. trump made his appeal with very few african-americans present. he called for more police in poor communities. more police in poor communities and targeted hillary clinton as anti-cop. >> the war on our police must end. and it must end now. those peddling the narrative of cops as a racist force in our society, a narrative supported with a nod by my opponent, shared directly in the responsibility for the unrest in milwaukee and many other places within our country. every time we rush to judgment with false facts and narratives, whether in ferguson or baltimore and foment further unrest, we do a direct disservice to poor african-american residents who are hurt by the high crime in their community. >> our jason carroll has

the constant shooting at paul manafort is counterproductive. what do you expect from an advance man? he cannot seem to get over the fact that he really hurt this campaign. they lost months and that is why they are still building organizations in the state, things that should have been done months ago. if he is going to continue to attack the campaign and campaign chairman, i will continue to attack him. >> what do you know about the wikileaks founder suggestion that there will be an october surprise against hillary clinton and her e-mails from her to -- her two closest aides? i have seen you hinting. have you spoken with the wikileaks founder? roger: i think julian assange is a hero. he is taking on the deep state. i should say that i see that election in these terms. unlike any presidential campaign we have had previously, this campaign is insiders versus an outsider. it is the leadership of the elites of the republican and democratic party versus donald trump and everyone else. assange has been a deep critic of the bush administration. based

paul manafort's client at the time. the prosecutor confirmed that manafort's name appears 12 times for 22 different entries totaling $12.7 million between 2007 and 2012. >> are his signatures there? >> no. there is not any signature of paul manafort. but his name is being mentioned sever times. >> reporter: manafort denied receiving any cash payments. investigators say they're now tracking down each recipient who anti-national anti-corruption bureau, we weren't allowed to film it because of the on going investigation. a source showed us a copy of one of the pages. on october 5, 2012, paul manafort's name appears against the sum of $400,000. designated for exit polling. another $812,000 was marked for international observers. backed by russia, yanukovych was accused of corruption to fund a lavish lifestyle including a palatial mansion complete with a private zoo. he was overthrown in 2014. manafort helped yanukovych win several elections. and former co-worker, defended manafort. paul didn't run expensive technology projec

what you will not see is paul manafort's name. we are told by a spokesperson that in fact in the hundreds of pages, there are 22 mengs of manafort's name linked with $12.7 million in designated payments and there is no proof whatsoever that the payments were made or received by paul manafort. but no one is quite clear on are the document came from either jake. so it is all wrapped up in this anti-corruption drive that basically is trying to get the government of ukraine back in step with, i would say, western accounting. >> and drew the question of course we knew paul manafort had done this work for the former ukrainian government. would this be illegal in anyway if he was paid this money. presumably he was paid for the work. >> yes. he worked for the political party. that is no secret. and it is not illegal. so unless it is proven this is illicit money or under the table payments that were made out, by the way, i don't think we can draw any conclusions yet. and in fact this anti-corruption bureau has gone out of its way to say the

paul manafort has resigned as manager of donald trump's campaign.ove comes after donald trump sideline him with new appointments. some republicans had hoped he would be able to bring a more measured tone to the campaign. it is time for business news. and a legal dispute apples wagon -- bw is shaken up the carmaker -- vw is shaken of the carmaker again. chris: who had a thought that small suppliers could wreak havoc. but they can. they have slowed down production at factories in germany as to component makers are refusing to make parts. in the wake of the diesel scandal,vw is pressing them to lower prices and it did not go down well with the manufacturers. reporter: where, vw golf in a factory will grind to a halt on monday. vw is putting employees on forced part-time schedules in their factories. the reason for the standstill is a dispute between the largest auto producer and the supplier in the german state of saxony. it belongs to the prevent group and their fight with vw has thrown a wrench in the supply chain. the state of lower saxony has criti

he has decided he is not comfortable with paul manafort. has decided manafort's russian business dealings are hurting him and pushed him out. he's brought in a new team he has known for a long time. he's comfortable with them. in speaking to senior trump officials, they say trump realizes he is behind and needs to moderate and soften his image, win back some of the voters he has alienated. the only way he will do that is if he acknowledges i have made mistakes. i think that is what led to this unexpected and pretty remarkable concession trump made in his speech last night. margaret: are they trying to goad him? joshua: i think they are. he sought after the announcement manafort was leaving, his campaign manager literally said this does not end the strange bromance between vladimir putin and donald trump. they don't want to let the issue go. it may not go away. at least he has helped himself getting manafort out of the fold and stopping the story that hurt trump's campaign. margaret: the main question is how long it will last. let's reassess

paul manafort's office on a leafy street in central kiev and was all there and stuffed with paul manafort's personal stuff as recently as may of this year. the clinton campaign, for weeks now, including with joe biden making this intense multiple campaign push on national security to try to say donald trump is unfit, to try to convince voters if what you care about is the safety of this country, donald trump cannot be trusted to handle international relations and foreign policy on behalf of the united states and cannot be trust windy the nuclear codes. thanks to the "new york times" they hit him with something very specific. as soon as this went live, the clinton campaign at 11:00 p.m. demanded a statement to know whether the donald trump for president or any others are currently representing or being paid by russian entities or pro kremlin entities. because we don't know. in that political thriller you've been thinking about writing. when you get to the plot point where the campaign chair of a major presidential candidate is on the payroll for potentially hundreds of millions of dollars an

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what do you make of what paul manafort said? cts in the story are what they are. as drew mentioned, the ledger shows 22 payments over five-year period that are related to mr. manafort's name. who the money went to is not clear. it's the analogy of a bookmaker. >> they were calling a black ledger. it was found in one of the presidential offices, right? >> correct. basically, you know, they probably had two sets of books, one showed to the tax people and another with cash payments in it. so, the question is, did this money go to mr. manafort, to his firm, to his associates. >> he was helping the guy who became president get re-elected, organize the campaign election, stuff like that, which is why he said he never worked for the government itself. he was working for the campaign. is it possible, if the campaigns were made, they were legitimate payments for work done on a campaign? >> anything is possible. but, i mean, the question is, why were they cash payments? and how do those payments or that sum of money relate to the actual mo

the campaign's chairman paul manafort is now calling it quits as if nonstop controversies and tanking poll numbers weren't enough, politicians in ukraine apparently became what monfort and others considered a "distraction" at hands. he accepts the resignation and wishes him the best in his endeavors, the candidate and running candidate are in louisiana, and so far have had no comments on the shakeups. but -- phoned in with his take. >> it's difficult for anybody who changes jobs and have a position they have been vested in and put their heart and soul into it particular plly when yoe this close, but it is a reminder to me that donald trump will do anything it takes to win, and when you look at the last week, making speeches very well received from the public, saying things that have not been traditionally said by donald trump i think what you find is that this campaign is squarely focused now on attacking hillary clinton, on laying out their plan to make america great again, i think this is the best week that donald trump has had in a long long time in the campaign trail, this is a ve