trump's top polster in the campaign. he was also an ex-associate of paul manafort. evan perez has more. >> reporter: they interviewed tony fabrizio last year as part of the russia investigation. this is a discussion that possibly takes on new important now that we're learning that investigators everyo s even rece asking questions internal polling data that paul manafort shared with a former business associate who the special counsel says is connected to russian intelligence. manafort's lawyers this week accidentally made public in a court filing that prosecutors claimed manafort was lying to them about sharing the polling information with his business associate konstanin kilimnick. we don't know why that information was being shared and whether any of that data ended up with the russians who at the time were trying to launch a campaign to try to help donald trump win the white house. the president was asked by