contact us by the disgust he felt watching media coverage of the russia story. not only were most reporters getting it wrong, they were getting it backward. the russians were in fact deeply involved in american politics, but the real story had almost nothing to do with the 2016 presidential campaign. intrigued, we agreed to meet with at source today. he just left our offices here in washington a couple of hours ago. the story he told us is astonishing. we will be following up on it, confirming more of it and bringing you details about it this week and after. at first, here's an overview of what he told us. media reports describe paul manafort as a central figure in the russia investigation due to the several months he spent as donald trump's campaign chairman. according to our source, that's only half true. he is indeed at the center of this investigation, but not because of his ties to trump. in fact, paul manafort spent years working with the podesta group on behalf of russian government interests. that relationship extends back