and fled first to eastern ukraine and moscow for his own safety, three weeks after yanukovych was ousted from power and fled the country, russia's man in ukraine, dmitry firtash, this billionaire they created by giving him all that natural gas money, dmitry firtash was arrested at the fbi's request. the fbi wanted him arrested in alleged involvement in a multibillion dollar bribery scheme. authorities in vienna weren't willing to arrest him at the fbi's request. but they have not been willing to ship him over to the u.s. to face trial on these bribery charges. first thing they did is they let him out on bail. guess what he paid his bail, he paid $174 million as his bail. hey, if you got it, why not? literally wrote a check, $174 million. that $174 million bail payment has kept him out of jail for i think, like, five years now. but they also haven't sent him abroad to face trial. he has been fighting his extradition from austria with the help of some of the most expensive lawyers that money can buy. and, again, if you got the money to spend, why not spend it on that? in 2017 around the ti

paul manafort cave yanukovych an extreme makeover. he remade this guy in his own image and he built this pro-putin under yanukovych. eventually manafort would get kicked off the trump campaign after the new york times reported documents discovered shows that manafort being paid more than $12 billion off the boo books. but, even then like from there on out, it was clear he was going to leave a trail behind him. even long after manafort was long in the campaign, before manafort was indicted, his ties to ukraine were still making national news for this country. it was weird that manafort got picked to be running a presidential campaign in the united states in 2016. the ukraine ties, after he was fired, they did seem like real liabilities for somebody who is brought in and led alone one resulted and putting a candidate in the white house. there was this article. the new york times, july 2017 by mike mcintire. he was in debt to business entities linked to two kremlins, linked to two oligarchs. one was a russian oligarch that's close to put

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yanukovych which was helped out to get elected by donald trump's former consigliere who now sits in prisonen you have a change to what should be democratic government but then you had this prosecutor in the new government that was problematic. can you explain that timeline quickly. >> it's confusing, but what happened was you had the really corrupt russia-leaning manafort protected, manafort advised guy that was advised by manafort, the ukrainian people went to the street and effectively said we don't want him anymore. after he shot 100 of the ukrainian people and the americans stepped in and cobbled together a government, the guy fled out of ukraine the russians went and as sized crimea. then you have a new government led by poroshenko. he was an oligarch, better than the previous guy, said he was going to root out corruption, he put in a prosecutor general who didn't move fast at all. so all of us in the obama administration were like, hey, poroshenko, you said you were going to reform this government, your prosecutor general is not moving fast enough. probably because poroshenko also wa

that oligarch was an officer in viktor yanukovych -- he was the corrupt russian former prime ministerrown back into russia. it was paul manafort who worked foran kovich, for which now, because of his dealings in ukraine, he's now serving a seven-year sentence. but the timeline doesn't even match up. when biden was trying to throw out the prosecutor -- his name is victor shokan -- in the ukraine, right, he was trying to throw him out not because he was aggressively investigating corruption. he was thrown out because he wasn't investigating corruption from the previous administration, and that happened a year after the case against the russian oligarch of which biden's son worked for. that happened a year before that case had been closed. so, what trump is now asking the president to do -- who, by the way, was elected on an anticorruption platform -- is to be corrupt and to open a ukrainian federal investigation against biden for which there have been no investigations. >> okay. let's bring in a legal mind now to the conversation, former assistant u.s. attorney for the southern district