the ukrainian president eventually fled his own country to russia and to the safety of his friend, vladimir putin, in february of 2014. all the while continuing to be advised by paul manafort. manafort first hit the fbi's radar when the agency began looking into possible corruption and money laundering involving yan covirgin islands federal agents also discovered martin martin and two other consulting groups working with the ukrainians failing to register that work with the u.s. government, a violation of the u.s. foreign agents registration act his company was paid more than $17 million in just two years by the ukrainian political party. >> we talked about it and he felt i could help him and he made the changes the. >> reporter: in march of 2016 donald trump brought paul manafort onto the campaign, soon