court filing almost all of the money came into the u.s. yes it was held in foreign banks for a while but eventually came here and they have nothing or very little in them. and secondly his lawyer said the government makes it out that paul manafort was trying to do this to avoid taxes but kevin downing says there s no tax evasion charge in the indictment. kristen, what s the white house saying today about news that jeff sessions isn t remembering something that is in court documents, isn t remembering a conference that he had at the very least a conversation that he dismissed with george papadopoulos, the foreign policy meeting? reporter: they are not commenting on the record about that, katy. but they are downplaying the significance of that meeting all together doing exactly what you heard president trump do today, which is to say there s nothing to see here. sarah huckabee sander has a number of days in a row said george papadopoulos was a low