paul manafort owed this russian guy nearly $8 million, and this russian guy was really coming after him for it. and simultaneously for some reason paul manafort at the time was really scrambling to do what he could get his hands on millions of dollars in cash, and this was right up until he joins the trump campaign. he then joins the trump campaign, the pressure eases off a bit in terms of this guy coming off him for the money, and he starts communicating with this guy. can we use my position in the campaign. he accepts meetings and important messages from this guy about the future of his country. his country is russia. a month after manafort reportedly met with constantine to get these messages from deripaska, we now know from the indictment that rick gates