his trial that he was especially out of the political game. he hadn t run a political campaign in years. he had devoted his life to flacking for this russian-backed ukrainian politician who essentially was opposed to american interests. i ve talked to people in the intelligence community that believe manafort was a russian asset, if not in name in function because he was doing the bidding of vladimir putin and enriching himself and could have taken the many millions of dollars he was paid by these ukrainians and lived a nice life but instead chose to massively evade taxes by routing this money through foreign bank accounts in cypress. this is entirely of his doing and he lived a great life. the $10,000 suits, we saw the ostrich jackets, the manicured landscaping and homes in the hamptons and elsewhere. no one should shed a tear for paul manafort in the sense he profited from his crimes and he s paying the price. counselor, further attempt at tear shedding, our friend jennifer jacobs
what we re talking about and witnessing is manafort s own doing from the start. my goodness, look, first of all, you know, when paul manafort crime to the trump campaign, i heard him portrayed as a master genius. the only client that he had was a russian back ukrainian oligarch. that s what he had been doing and exposed in his trial that he was especially out of the political game. he hadn t run a political campaign in years. he had devoted his life to flaking for this politician who essentially was opposed to american interests. i ve talked to people in the intelligence community that believe manafort was a russian asset, if not a name in pungs becau function because he was doing the bidding of vladimir putin and enriching himself and could have taken the many millions of dollars he was paid by these ukrainians and lived a nice life but instead chose to massively evade taxes by routing this
could come out in days or weeks. ken, remind us how much of what we re talking about and witnessing is manafort s own doing from the start. my goodness, look, first of all, you know, when paul manafort came to the trump campaign, i heard him portrayed as a master genius that they needed to corral delegates. the only client that he had was a russian back ukrainian oligarch. that s what he had been doing and that s what was exposed in his trial that he was especially out of the political game. he hadn t run a political campaign in years. he had devoted his life to flacking for this russian-backed ukrainian politician who essentially was opposed to american interests. i ve talked to people in the intelligence community that believe manafort was a russian asset, if not in name in function because he was doing the bidding of vladimir putin and enriching himself and could have taken the many millions of dollars he was paid by these ukrainians and lived a
i don t think anybody maybe it s easier for me to answer this question. maybe it s not. i work would rudy giuliani for a brief time he ran as president. and if he hadn t run for president i wouldn t have met my husband. but that was the lasting legacy in his presidential run. but besides that he say a pro-choice republican, an urban conservative, someone who reformed urban areas through conservative means like think tank. so when he became president he became a different kind of candidate. and by the way at some point he d survived cancer, gotten through 9/11. things happen in people s lives that change them fundamentally. see listen, today the former
is bloodied but unbowed. mitch mcconnell had something to lose, his post as republican leader in the senate. steve bannon doesn t have much to lose, he s on the outside now. him taking shots at mcconnell and funding candidates to run against establishment republicans, that s something that s going to be very difficult for the establishment republicans to stop unless they can cut off the spigot of funding to steve bannon, to cut off his ability to run a broadcast on sirius xm, cut off his ability to run breitbart news. this is a guy who has a lot of tools, he said when he got out of the white house he wanted his tools again. he s got them now. he s not backing down. his argument is roy moore would have won if mitch mcconnell and the senate republicans hadn t backed out at him. senate republicans would say roy moore, if he hadn t run, they would still have that seat.