between the trump campaign and manafort and possibly trump himself. why did he lie about it? was it because he was involved in a cover-up that potentially was encouraged by others involved, whether it was roger stone or others who are trump associates. i still don t understand, if there was nothing untoward about the contacts between russia and all of these people around the president, why does why are so many of them lying about their interactions if everything is on the up and up? why not just tell the truth? well, that is sort of the question of the moment. after every one of these meetings or contacts there was deception about them. take for example, the trump tower meeting involving manafort and kushner and the others involved in the trump campaign, trump junior. the meeting was then followed by
joining us is richard blument l blumenthal. he s co-sponsored legislation to require robert mueller to provide his report in full to congress. does it make any sense to you? what does it tell you? well, what it tells me is that the lies were about connections between the trump campaign and the russians or between manafort and kilimnik and the russians which were not involved in the initial charges. in other words, he was charged initially with money laundering, tax evasion, false statements. now there is apparently proof of the connections between him and kilimnik and the so-called ukraine peace plan, which was attractive to the russians and possibly offered to the trump campaign. there are other connections
we have an adversary system. this is an important hearing. you ll be there friday. and with a suit. and you ll actually have to contest things. in the past he hasn t shown up and his lawyers have said things sp he s rebutted them later. she said that you have to play your part here. and not completely go limp. see you in court friday. mueller accused manafort of lying about contacts with russian agent. in a nine page filing. manafort s attorney says that mueller s evidence demonstrates a lack of consistency in manafort s recollection of certain facts and events. what do we know about the evidence against him? well, we haven t seen what evidence mueller has. but if he s willing to file this and he s willing to i understand to produce witnesses if he has to, he knows for a fact that
that was meant for investments. manafort resurfaced in 2016, offering deripaska private briefings on the u.s. presidential campaign, according to the washington post, asking a former business associate how to use his new position as trump campaign chairman to settle up with the russian businessman. last april, deripaska was one of seven oligarchs slapped with sanctions for, quote, malign activity around the globe. part of fallout from a nerve agent attack in england. three of his companies were also sanctioned. but the penalties were delayed by the treasury department. treasury secretary steve ma nuchen conveyed a willingness to lift the sanctions if deripaska s ownership stake dropped below 50%. but according to documents, deripaska plans to transfer millions of shares in one of his companies to vtb. that s a russian state-owned bank worth just shy of $800 million at the moscow exchange s
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