On Paul Manafort. A harsh spotlight just got brighter after a major bombshell report from the guardian yts. Manafort held secret talks with Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian Embassy during the president ial campaign. Quote, a well placed sourced has told the guardian that manafort went to see assange around march 2016. That would be the month manafort joined the campaign. The guardian says months later wi wikileaks release add stash of stolen emails. Manafort has previously denied involvement in the hack, this news coming a day after the special counsels office said it is seeking to break its plea deal with manafort. Bob muellers team says the onetime Campaign Chairman lied to them and the fbi quote, on a variety of subject matters. Manaforts team insists that he was truthful. The result speculation of a president ial pardon. Today the president attacked mueller in a series of three tweets. He put quotation marks around justice in one of those tweets, around justice department. He said