meetings, but the fact he didn t disclose them to the senate judiciary committee. that s the heart of the criticism against all of the trump campaign officials. a lot of them were businessmen or had existing lobbying businesses that took them to contact with russian officials, but the fact that they seem to have gone to certain lengths to cover up those contacts. is what has raised questions among these trump critics. it certainly does. and david you touched on this in your last answer and i want to do a deeper dive, kind of going through these meetings between members of trump s inner circle and russian officials, so let s take a look at this list here. attorney general jeff sessions we now know, the president s son-in-law, jared kushner, ousted national security adviser, michael flynn. the campaign s national security representative, jd gordon. adviser david page, and adviser as well. many of these people have previously denied any such
monday than 20 percent of their work time on lobbying to register with the senate. but it is never enforced. no one has to declare themselves a lobbyist and what has happened, a number of people would clearly engage if lobbying who run lobbying businesses are not registered and, therefore, are raising money for the white house are having events for the president. for example, the head of the lobbyingship of pfizer has raised more than $500,000 for the president and has held events and has been at the white house. the head of the lobbying shop of comcast, the television giant, has done same. a number of people would head small law firms and consulting firms that are exclusively devoted to lobbying have done the same thing. the difference is they are sometimebly not registered as lobbyists. alisyn: a problem as you know you cannot swing a dead cat
of dollar amounts, so the pressure and the stakes are going up and up on manafort. now, until he has a trial date, and push comes to shove, he may continue to wait this out and hope against hope that there might be something that would go wrong with the case or maybe some kind of shocking pardon would come down for him. okay. but again, it s financial crimes we re talking about in these two people with their instances. so does any of this lead muler to the preside mueller to the president s door? not likely. these indictments have to do with manafort s lobbying businesses and his work in the ukraine. it s a very serious case. it looks extremely strong. it puts a great deal of pressure on manafort. but it really only puts pressure on others within the russia probe indirectly. that is, if manafort were to cooperate with information not in these indictments, he can t