today wnyc and nbc news published reporting -- new reporting on paul manafort's money.ecifically on paul manafort's real estate dealings. and the interesting large cash flows in and out of those investments. both news organizations outlining a chronology of real estate purchased by shell companies associated with mr. manafort in three separate instances mr. manafort used shell companies to purchase properties in new york city. each time for millions of dollars. each purchase was paid for in full so no mortgage. no loans. and in each of those three instances, the ownership of the property was later transferred from the shell company to mr. manafort for zero dollars. he then proceeded to take out huge multimillion-dollar mortgages against the properties, against these properties that were already paid for. why would you do that? it's a weird sort of intricate story but not that complicated a story but it's puzzling in terms of normal real estate deals. it's a puzzling portrait of the way he was dealing with large amounts of cash and expensive new york real estate. some ex

also joining us charlie sykes, co-host of wnyc's indivisible. charlie is also a msnbc contributor.here is donald trump down there negotiating the bill with his audience, saying i know you've heard some things about it that are maybe a problem. this is not the way we've ever seen anyone get any legislation done. you don't do the negotiating publicly, and you don't admit to all these cracks in the wall. >> it was just a couple of weeks ago he realized nobody knew how complicated it was. nobody had any idea it was this complicated. >> he really did then just zoifrt. you could tell that was genuine discovery on his part. >> i don't think anyone is ever going to accuse donald trump of being a policy wonk or of know organize having much interest in the details of an incredibly complex piece of legislation. i did think it was interesting. you saw the trump world media started referring to this as ryancare as opposed to trumpcare. and when paul ryan came out to remind everybody, by the way, the president was behind all this. i think he realized you were about to have a bailout by the trump

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