manafort and rick gates. manafort has been accused of a laundry list of financial crimes and fraud. gates has been accused of similar crimes. gates, however, has pled guilty while manafort has denied all those allegations. it was actually tom barrack who introduced paul manafort and trump. barrack was offered a top role within the administration that he essentially turned down, at least reportedly. unclear exactly what details were gathered by the special county but barrack was asked about his relationship with paul manafort and rick gates. we are told that barrack was told he's not a target of the investigation. >> boris, all this happening as there's this new reporting in "the new york times" involving the president and when he knew about that hush money payment to stormy daniels. give us the latest. >> reporter: yeah, ana, two sources have cotold "the new yo times" that the president has been aware of this arrangement