that would be con tan teen kilimnik, long-time business associate of paul manafort the u.s. government says is a russian intelligence agent. just last month the u.s. government asserted that manafort shared those polling data with kilimnik and kilimnik shared them with russian intelligence. we have long known the broad outlines of this story we now know from these newly reunredacted filings that number one, manafort lied to prosecutors about the nature of the data he was sharing. he insisted it was no big deal. it wasn't internal, valuable material. it was all just stuff you can get publicly any way. that was a lie. also, he lied about whether he was giving it to someone who he knew would pass it on to the russian government. here is the judge, quote, the event we are discussing involved sharing internal confidential polling data covered by a nondisclosure agreement not only outside the campaign but sharing with it a foreign national with a specific understanding and intent that it would be passed on to other foreign nationals in this case russians. why would donald trump's k

you'll recall his name is paul manafort.es including tax fraud and bank fraud. much connected to millions of dollars in secret payments he got from his former employer, a pro-putin authoritarian leader who used to rule ukraine. manafort served a small portion of his federal prison sentence before president trump pardoned him right on his way out of office. but there has remained a sort of enduing mystery around manafort's short-lived cooperation agreement with robert mueller and why it collapsed. prosecutors allege manafort lied to them about a whole bunch of things and in lying to them, that voided his deal. it voided the cooperation agreement that he had made with them. the judge looked at all the evidence of that and agreed with prosecutors, but much of the court record of that episode has remained unredacted. until now. when they sought to void manafort's plea deal and have them effectively locked up and had the key thrown away because he shouldn't get any credit for cooperating given he wasn't really cooperating since h

process of trying to get that done, mueller's lead prosecutor, andrew weizmann, told the judge that paul manafortes about -- manafort had told a series of lies that were redacted. speaking about those lies, weisman told the court quote, the issue of blank, blank, blank is in the core of what it is that the special counsel is supposed to be investigating. of course the core of what the special counsel was investigating are connections between the trump investigation and russia and russia trying to help trump win. that's what we have. now, the court has released less redacted versions of that transcript. so now we know today, in black and white, white trumps cane -- trump's campaign chair lied to prosecutors about. the pain of federal prison time for doing. then here's andrew weizmann speaking to the judge -- to the judge -- that is constant teen colin nick, the u.s. say isn't russian -- 't russian -- manafort lied to prosecutors about the nature of the data he was sharing. it wasn't internal, valuable data, that was a lie. also, he lied about whether he was giving it to someone he knew would pass

the newly unredacted -- well, we, the public, learned in these newly unredacted documents about paul manaforte kept lying to them about konstantin kilimnik? >> well, it's pretty interesting in two respects. first, you're right. it shows manafort was a bigger liar than we knew, and we knew he was a pretty big liar to begin with. but it also shows the degree of collusion between the campaign chairman for donald trump and russian intelligence. here manafort and gates, his deputy chairman, are repeatedly giving an agent of russian intelligence internal polling data, internal strategic documents about their efforts in battleground states and key demographics within those battleground states. so, you know, this is going on while the russians are doing a secret social media operation to help the trump campaign. and so it's hard to find something more graphic than that in terms of collusion between the trump campaign and the russians and the same russian intelligence that's working on the social media campaign. but what's also interesting about it is this is now the second federal judge in ordering t

and that worked in the case of let's say roger stone or paul manafort. that conversation can no longer be had. so the conversation with a good defense lawyer is talking to weisselberg about what are the potential criminal charges and what's the level of prooch. that is just a classic conversation. the stronger the proof the more a good defense lawyer will say, look, you really need to think about yourself and you need to take responsibility for what you did and if you cooperate you can really end up doing less time in jail if you testify truth think so i think everyone benefits. that's the conversation you have. >> what do you think the criminal exposure is for a person in a job like weisselberg's? he is in every tape that's been leaked and everyone recorded each other in trump world. it's always whether it's hush money or anything else. go ask allen. if it wasn't so sad it would be funny but he is like the trump organization. what kind of exposure could he be facing? >> two things. one is exposure in terms of what he did as part of the trump organizatio

paul manafort, he was sentenced to more than seven years in prison. this adds to that frothing water around donald trump. the question is what is on those devices? what will investigators find? could it have bearing on january 6th? we'll see. >> will rudy giuliani look less credible to some grouping of americans? you don't generally want your face of an argument about what's wrong with the government tore the election to be under this much legal strain and have his homes raided. if you're pro law enforcement, you're going to wonder and defer to whether they might actually be just doing their jobs and be worried about crime. >> this all gets back to where you get your news and information and are you listening to donald trump still? are you in that section of the eco sphere or are you listening to the news the rest of us are watching and how much of that spin are you buying? donald trump's platform has been reduced because of what happened on twitter and facebook. in a couple days facebook is going to determine whether or not donald trump is allowed ba

you spent many months of your life investigating paul manafort and others and their trump campaign's i think it's important for your viewers to -- when they -- i think it's important for the viewers, when they think about ukraine, they really need to be thinking about russia because ukraine, for decades, is torn between the east and the west and the influence of the east and russia is because they have essentially ukraine by the energy stranglehold, so they have enormous kmuns there. so, rudy giuliani really can't credibly say that he didn't have any idea who he was dealing with, and it makes sense that there would certainly be russian faction in ukraine who would be trying to influence the election in the same way that there were russians who were directly trying to do that and have been shown by bipartisan reports in the senate as well as by the special counsel report. >> and andrew, what are we to make of the fact that the end users of this information include the ex-president? i mean, and again, in this investigation, rudy giuliani is not a subject of the probe, but they are exam

also, i raised concerns about the work for ukrainians like paul manafort and the poo dose is that group, also involved with the foreign agents registration act -- or maybe they should have been involved with it. i even raised concerns when the firm behind the discredited steele dossier failed to register for its lobbying work to repeal u.s. sanctions against russia. i subpoenaed paul manafort to testify at the judiciary committee hearing on lax foreign agent registration act enforcement. i praised mueller for dusting off the law that had been ignored for so long. i want to remind my colleagues that we make laws to be equally enforced, no matter which power -- party is in power. the foreign agents registration act isn't a right or left issue. it's about foreign influence, about foreign control and the preservation of our sovereignty. without our sovereignty, we fail to even exist as a nation. the last congress, getting back to my attempt to make a unanimous consent request, at that time senator menendez did what he had the authority to do and the right to do. he objected at that particul

remember, general flynn, paul manafort.hey all had the book thrown at them for most cases, processed crimes over the russian live conspiracy theory and hoax. now america's mayor has his home and office rated by the feds. zero experience hunter can fly around the world raking in millions with no experience. from the sketchy us to foreign nationals while his own dad is vice president of the usa. now, the feds weren't even interested in the copy of hunter's infamous drive. what would happen, imagine for a second, what if it was vice president donald j. trump? donald j. trump leveraged a billion taxpayer dollars to get a prosecutor in ukraine fired that was investigating don jr. or eric trump. what would happen if any trump supporter lied on a gun purchase permit like hunter biden appears to have done? what else is on hunter's laptop? now that the lawyers have admitted it is his, don't we have the right to see it? why would investigators allow mayor giuliani to keep that electronic device? okay, they were there to recover every

ever manhattan, this guy stood up and had a press conference the day paul manafort was sentenced federallynounced he won't escape new york justice on a charging document that violated new york's double jeopardy provisions and it got dismissed. they were grandstanding at trump's against but none of them delivered anything to show there is meat behind the accusations. elizabeth: jim trusty, thanks for your insights and perspective there. good to see you again. 678 come back soon. >> you too, liz. elizabeth: sure, to israel where there appears to be no end in sight between hamas and israel despite president biden telling israeli president benjamin netanyahu the u.s. expects a significant de-escalation. let's get to fox's trey yingst with details and more from southern israel. trey? reporter: strong words from israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu who said he will not rule out reoccupying gaza if needed. netanyahu responded to a fourth call by president biden to cut a cease-fire deal to end the fighting. conflict with israel and hamas entered the 10th day. overnight the israelis campaigned

years or more than that, a recently in a couple of high-profile situations attorney greg craig,s paul manafort suspicious start to dust off the old statute to use in select cases as troublesome and the fact that the southern district of newor york operating without main justice where they have the unit and the people who are responsible for. there is a lot to look at their. liz: the foreign registration act effectively kicked off the trump russia probe, peter strzok andtr james comey that the fbi used it to look into general michael flynn for lobbying on behalf of turkey, allegation rudy giuliani is that he was lobbying the trump administration to fire the u.s. ambassador to ukraine, the obligation he got a hold of hunter biden's laptop when the fbi was investigating hunter biden's laptop for money laundering and also were looking at tax evasion, the justice department, the u.s. attorney of delaware investigating hunter biden on this too. this is a very layered story, we want you to take a listen to rudy giuliani on what happened. let's listen to rudy giuliani. >> there is a clear money launde

liability for one of these lower level players, could they then get them to cooperate like we saw with paul manafort with the muller investigation. would they cooperate and talk about the key element here which is some level of knowledge or intent? that's really the question. donald trump is in charge of 500-plus entities within the trump organization umbrella. he can say listen i have hots of people working for me, i know nothing about this. >> the d.a.'s office has been trying to turn weisselberg into a cooperating witness for quite some time. now you have new york attorney general lee ticia james -- >> this was a clear shot across the bow from tish james. i think that statement was directed at alan weisselberg in particular. once the stakes are raised, once it becomes a criminal probe and the prospect of going to jail is on the table, people tend to evaluate their options differently. i agree with kim. prosecutors, this is a tried and true tactic that prosecutors use all the time. they are squeezing weisselberg to move up the chain to get a bigger fish. the reason this is a big deal is you don't

up until the trump years it was used against paul manafort and other prominent republicans.ni is being scrutinized for his actions around the impeachment trial and guliani is positioning himself to argue that everything he did was in his capacity as trump's defense attorney, not acting as a foreign lobbyist. those are the competing explanations for what guliani was doing in ukraine in 2019. eric: at the same time, even though that one specific infraction has not been prosecuted very often it seems, the whole issue of whether or not political influence was used to affect foreign policy, to undermine american democracy itself and to try to throw the election and damage candidate biden on behalf of president trump is at issue. some would argue that's a complete assault on the american democracy. here's what the wall street journal says about that. they apparently are looking at the ambassador, the removal of the ambassador. they say, quote, federal prosecutors pursued a theory that hinges on the idea that mr. giuliani's efforts to remove ms. denavovich were done at the behest o

jackson sentenced former campaign manager paul manafort to more than seven years for financial crimesned him too. manafort associate rick gates got 45 days plus probation as jackson recognized his cooperation with prosecutors, saying if people don't have the facts, democracy doesn't work. shan wu represented gates. >> her rulings whether it's a sparsely attended courtroom or packed with media, it's always the same. >> reporter: she became a defense lawyer, and in 2010, barack obama nominated her for the federal bench. she's handled cases tied to the capitol riot, the benghazi probes, and political corruption, taking democrats to task, same as republicans, telling one, as a public official, you're supposed to live up to a higher standard of ethics and integrity. and that's not unfair. you chose that role for yourself. it all fits into the role judge jackson has chosen for herself as a painstaking, thorough, and blunt champion of integrity in a town where sometimes there aren't many. jake? >> there certainly are not. tom foreman, thank you so much, appreciate it. >>> coming up next, a p

paul manafort was convicted of a whole bunch of crimes, including a lot of personal enrichment that you might say in fairness to trump didn't have to do with trump. it had to him lining his own pockets and evading taxes. trump still went in to help him and help roger stone. here's reporting from "the daily beast" that says trump, quote, has blown off giuliani's pleas for help, won't issue a written statement saying the work in ukraine was done on trump's behalf. and then of course no surprise, won't pay any bills. put the bills to the side for the moment, that's sort of trump 101. the fact that he won't do free things that he has done for others, does that tell you that donald trump thinks that there may be some actions that were taken vis-a-vis ukraine or the election that he doesn't want fingerprints on? >> absolutely. it may very well be that trump doesn't want to help giuliani because he himself is implicated in all of this. that's why i think giuliani is filing this letter today that we read. it really reads as a scared document. what he's trying to do is say i should get access to

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. >> this is interesting that trump is going to cut michael flynn loose, he never cut paul manafort loose and roger stone loose. it's unclear what makes trump worry so much about somebody he doesn't cut them loose or decide they're of no use to him so he does. what do you think trump is thinking about with rudy giuliani right now. >> he's probably thinking about everyone conversation he had with him which might be -- might be incriminating. remember, rudy giuliani said something really interesting during the mueller investigation and the first impeachment and that was sort of this stray comment. when people asked rudy, well, are you worried about the president sort of turning on you? are you worried about your vulnerability and the president cutting ties with you? and he said i have some insurance. and it was a very odd remark and i wonder if that is something the two men are thinking about now. what is it exactly that rudy giuliani knows, he was his close confident during both impeachments and conservations about ukraine and pressure the campaign to try to influence that foreign governme

that trump doesn't have the ability to protect him, or if he did get in trouble pardon him a la paul manafort and roger stone? >> i don't think -- he obviously federally had that ability when donald trump was president. he didn't have the ability at the state level to pardon anyone because federal pardons don't apply to state cases. i think the main difference, steph, is we basically have two offices that are really ratcheting up their investigation by all public accounts. but it's a fair question to say where were they for the last four years? but all signs are that the drumbeat seems to be getting a lot faster when you look at who they're adding to their investigations and the information that is slowly creeping out in various ways about what they're doing. >> haven't we been saying this for five years? >> i agree. i'm not sure five is quite right. a lot of people think if you're in the real estate market in new york, as donald trump was, there are probably some shenanigans and things the new york attorney general was looking at from a civil perspective but you get the sense now they're dig

thought there were legitimate questions, liz, when the same kind of case was being made against paul manafortboth houses, i know the democrats don't want to probe this, but they ought to be sitting on the justice department and asking what is going on with this investigation. elizabeth: do you think this was another eric swalwell situation? >> i wouldn't per it to compare it to swalwell because swalwell is an official of the government getting access to security information because of the committee sits on. hunter biden is not a government official. he is a private person and his connection is the president who cannot be regulated in terms of classified information. i think it is a important situation but in many ways it is more troubling than the swalwell situation but i hate to bring this up, president biden was implicated in the paper trail and the witness testimony in connection with hunter's dealings with china. so that really needs to be looked in to. elizabeth: okay, andy mccarthy good to see you. >> thanks, liz. elizabeth: up next texas congressman tony gonzalez joins us next on the b

it has been trotted out in a couple high-profile situations, attorney greg craig, paul manafort, immediatelyart to dust off the old statute to use it in select cases is troublesome. the fact that the southern district of new york operating without main justice where they have the fara unit. there is a lot to look at this. elizabeth: the foreign registration act effectively kicked off the trump-russia probe. peter strzok and james comey's fbi used it to start looking into general michael flynn for lobbying on behalf of turkey. the al gauges with rudy giuliani is that he was basically lobbying the trump administration to fire the u.s. ambassador to ukraine. the allegation too is that he got ahold of hunter biden's laptop and that the fbi was investigating hunter biden's laptop for evidence of money laundering and also we're looking attacks evasion. the justice department, the u.s. attorney in delaware investigating hunter biden on this too. so that's, that's the, this is a very layered story, jim. we want you to take a listen to rudy giuliani on this, on what happened. listen to rudy giuliani

they certainly thought there was legitimate questions when the same case is being made against paul manafortusly important that the judiciary committee in both houses, i know the democrats don't want to follow this but they ought to be sitting on the justice department asking what's going on with this investigation. liz: do you think this is another eric swalwell situation? >> i would not compare to swalwell because he is an official of the government was getting access ton national security information because of the committee that he sits on, hunter biden is not a government official, he's a private person and his connection is the president who cannot be regulated in terms of classified information is aed different situation but in many ways iss more troubling than the swalwell situation, i hate to bring this up but president biden was implicated in the paper trail and the witness testimony connection with hunter dealing with china, that really needs to be looked into. o liz: andy mccarthy, good to see you up next texas congressman tony gonzales joined us on the border crisis. ♪ . that's

and one of the cases of former trump campaign manager paul manafort.he says that the decision not to pursue charges against former president trump and the mueller investigation was a foregone conclusion. she said barr had already made that decision before he received this memo. this memo was strategic and, therefore, it should be made public. now she also said that she believed this obfuscation was part of the pattern by barr and the justice department to mislead the public and congress. pretty extraordinary words from a federal judge. >> very direct. paula reid, thanks so much. >>> joining us to discuss, cnn legal analyst jennifer rogers. you've been involved in a lot of cases, including with the justice department. as you read this, and you look at the evidence here, do you see the former attorney general as having put his thumb on the legal scale as it were with this? >> oh, absolutely, jim. i mean, frankly, that isn't new news for any of whiteus who havn following the mueller investigation and report. but this is just another instance of the justic

he's kind of like the paul manafort of the russian investigation. and that's the way i compare him. he's in a position of knowledge and activity with respect to those tax returns that makes him absolutely essential. >> but it's broader than that, ari. >> go ahead, please. >> he's not just the tax preparer. he's the cfo of a corporation that is under investigation, not just for tax fraud but for accounting fraud in general and going back to the days of enron. the key witness in that case has always been the cfo, the coo. the next is really crucial. >> yep. >> he may not want to flip and they may have a case against him and this case may be people against allen weisselberg. there may not be a donald trump charge if weisselberg doesn't flip. >> we underscored that on the program. i'll go to libby then quickly. the fact that big people are involved is always intriguing. but if we want to follow the facts, it is important that everyone understand, they're investigating all these people. the person whose name on the front door may or may not ultimately be in the sauce. >> we don't know if

we've heard paul manafort. over the last five-plus years.llen weisselberg is someone who is kind of stayed in the background when it comes to trump organization in general. how does that change the dynamics for him being a witness? >> well, yeah. sorry to step on your question there, yasmin. >> no, go ahead. >> it's a different witness -- it's a different witness from a media perspective. the folks you named, like manafort and stone and cohen are all sort of high-profile semipublic figures and you hear them a lot and you see them a lot. weisselberg is different. he's an insider. he's the quintessential insider. but from a prosecutor's perspective, from a prosecutor standpoint, he's a very typical witness. he's the numbers guy. he's the cfo. he's been with the trump organization for a very long time. the trump organization, by the way, is quite small. they don't have a lot of personnel. and so, if you want to figure out what's going on inside the trump organization, this is exactly the kind of person you would want to talk to, and so for an i

roger stone and paul manafort back in 1989. atwater helped ronald reagan and george h.w.n cancer in 1991 at the height of his political career. recently new yorker's jane mayer got ahold of pictures written by atwater himself, and you can see the tactics of the republican party mirrored in that example. for example, here is what happened in the very first presidential campaign atwater managed, getting a friend of his elected as student body president. the campaign took a darker turn when atwater's sidekicks stomped on the feet of a hippie-like student until his feet bled profusely. afterwards they threatened to do the same on the younger students unless they voted for his candidate. he was proud and could participate in intimidating his fellow students. i was so fascinated by this, jane. first, i guess maybe i wonder if you could sort of explain the kind of singular importance of atwater as a figure in republican politics, and particularly republican campaign strategy and tactics. >> i mean, he really was the most famous political ontive of his day during the reagan years

we saw paul manafort who was willing to do hard time and give up the goods and he was ultimately rewarded by donald trump. we don't know if they could ever prove how district that deal was because it's easier to do time if you know it is going to end after the election or not versus open ended. and then there are others who weren't going to do a day. go ahead. >> ultimately is not the right word. in my opinion, this was all a done deal, before, before. same thing anywhere else. >> you could say that -- let me just say, barbara, you might very well be right. i can't say it journalistically because we haven't true sourced it. we haven't confirmed it. you're saying you have deep knowledge of this man donald trump and that leads you to think they have struck a deal. but build out your point on that and build out your point on what that means for investigators pressing weisselberg if he's not someone that will do time but he knows about the money. >> this is my opinion. i don't know facts. but i do know donald, and i have seen him operate, and i have seen the organization operate. weisselberg

other countries, is that bad for giuliani, but in fairness potentially good for trump if, like paul manafort, there just may be some stuff here that is bad but is quote, unquote freelance with regard to his legal work for trump? >> it's entirely conceivable that it's bad for both of them. it's bad for giuliani because one isolated fara violation, that failure to register as a foreign agent could possibly be excused as an unknowing omission. but to the extent investigators are looking into multiple countries, romania has been mentioned, if there is a persistent failure, that would be bad news for the former president if, as giuliani claimed, he has insurance and of course we don't know and trump certainly isn't acting like someone who is concerned about what giuliani might have on him. but to the extent that giuliani could provide investigators with information about the former president's misconduct, then this really could be a bad situation for both of them. >> very interesting. and can i get you as our legal expert also on the matt gaetz developments? >> absolutely. >> let's do that -- all

look at paul manafort. look at roger stone. they could hold out for a pardon. that is no longer a power that donald trump has. and he does not have the power to fire the prosecutor. so we are in the usual situation of investigating somebody who has the power to pull the plug on the entire investigation, as well as our boss was somebody appointed by the president of the united states. all of that -- >> did that affect you guys? >> i'm sorry? >> did that affect you guys? >> yeah. well, certainly the power to pardon and i think the power to fire us also affected us. so i think both of those are powers that i think are really being important powers that are very unusual in any criminal case that dan, neal or i have ever been involved in. and now trump is just like any other person who is subject to a criminal investigation with no ability to control the prosecutors or to control the witnesses. >> and daniel, who can fire cy vance? >> well, theoretically the voters or in some cases, rare cases the governor, but that's just not going to happen, right? he's not runnin

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until the special counsel investigation and then paul manafort and rick gates and others were investigatedbeing actors in the united states for foreign governments and this is a statute that a lot of people in the senate are only both sides are saying really needs to be enforced more and i agree with that. in terms of what you are trying to get in doing a search of his house, of victoria toensing's house is looking for frankly leads. what you are really trying to get is what are all the ways that rudy giuliani communicates? what kind of applications does he use? we did this in special counsel investigation where you discover certain email accounts and certain applications that people use but you don't know all of them. there is nothing better than getting someone's actual iphone, their laptop and ipad so that you can see all of the different ways in which people communicate and then you follow that pain trail and get search warrants for those communication devices and go to internet service providers because the trail is going to be critical here. >> claire, what is your sense? all of the

they said oh, my gosh we have proof of the russia collusion hoax, paul manafort shared opposition researched with the spy chief of china, shared opposition research and whose talking about it? the answer is only us on fox & friends. i thought sharing opposition research was a big deal, with spies. not if you're a democrat. then they say okay, folks no worries at all. brian: crickets around the country. nobody wants this story. it's amazing. >> what a joke. what a joke. brian: no one denies it either. >> no, but why would they? only we're talking about it. steve: good question. ainsley: dan thank you so much. it's 47 minutes after the top of the hour, coming up a veteran in austin, texas takes on his homeowners association after he says they told him to take down the american flag he's been flying for nearly two decades he will join us live next but first let's check in with bill and dana. >> dana: that's a big fight in texas. >> bill: how about dan at twitter the allege ed social media company. [laughter] good morning, guys we got a big interview coming up bob baffort is the best horse tra