will sit for it and i don t think the public will sit for it. interesting. thank you don, if i can jump in go on. so david raises a really interesting point here, which is mueller has never actually told us about this polling data hand off to ckonstantin kilimnik. we know this because paul manafort s lawyers can t refact properly. this is obviously something mueller raised in court filings mueller considers serious and yet has never come out publicly in way that mueller has been willing to make it part of the narrative that he s told us here. one of the things we should be looking for in the report is presumably mueller explaining why that polling data matters. i mean, david sort of made the point that there was this big russian criminal conspiracy that mueller helped uncover that aided the election of donald
rope and journey through the criminal justice system in the district of colombia and we don t know exactly why they are doing it except perhaps to try to create some sort of impression that maybe the issue of kilimnik being linked to russian intelligence is fuzzy and maybe manafort shouldn t be seen as the person who was linking the trump campaign to russian intelligence during the russian intelligence attack on the election. that is not an argument that is likely to matter to either judge within the four corners of these cases. but that s how they are finishing up. that means the audience is you and me and donald trump. so these legal cases continue. as of today, it is now march, remember when the mueller investigation was definitely never going to make it to march? it would be all over? it s march. and the mueller investigation is in tact and proceeds and these
and they may specifically be trying to say something to the white house about whether or not pardoning paul manafort would make it look like paul manafort was pardoning the guy to the russian campaign during the russian attack on the campaign. the special counsel s office said in court filings and prosecutors said in open court that this guy kilimnik, manafort s right-hand man, right? he is assessed by the fbi to have active links to russian intelligence. this big redactions fight happening in d.c., manafort s defense is insisting that other stuff about kilimnik needs to be unredacted to balance out that assertion that kilimnik is russian intelligence. specifically what they have been fighting to unredact in the filings and transcripts are their own assertions from the defense side that kilimnik is known to have met with u.s. personnel at the american
she appreciates the clarification of the record, however, this new information that clarified the record quote does not alter the court s determination that the defendant paul manafort intentionally made multiple false statements concerning his interactions and communications with ckonstantin kilimnik. it doesn t help manafort s case. dude still lied about his interactions with ckilimnik. this issue turns out to be a very key area of focus. i mean, this is the last thing that manafort appears to be fighting to the proverbial death over as his criminal cases come to an end and he literally waits to find out if he ll die in prison. this is the last thing that he s trying to do. right? no collusion, no collusion. he s arguing at the virginia judge. with the d.c. judge he s arguing everything he can about
kilimnik. over the course of this past week, manafort s lawyers have been fighting specifically in the d.c. case to get stuff about c konstantin kilimnik and court filings and remember, that case is done. it s over. why are theyun unredact all this stuff. nothing is redacted to her? why do they care whether or not this is redacted to the public? they may be having an influence to the other judge in virginia. they may also be trying to influence public opinion about paul manafort and his links to russia or specifically links to russian intelligence.