republicans to blow this up as bombshell and why not focus as josh pointed on actual results. right. three investigations republicans blew up. harris: democrats did it, too. mueller became a verb at the dinner table. found no pattern of abuse. the republican-led intelligence committee, the republican-led intelligence committee looked into this russia investigation and found that there was no role for the ukrainian government and now we have this, that was find political bias and found none. one thing. bill barr should meet paul manafort s lawyer, they admitted, not mainstream media, not the left, manafortmet with russian spy in august of 2017, gave him secret polling data to enable the russians to figure out who to target in the 2016 16. that is textbook collusion, he doesn t like to admit it.
with turkey, correct? yes. that could open him up to compromise, that financial relationship. i presume. he also lied about his discussions with the russian ambassador and since the russians were on the other side of that conversation, they could have exposed that, could they not? yes. if a presidential candidate was doing business in russia and saying he wasn t, russians could expose that, too. i leave that to you. i will look more closely at the trump campaign chairman, paul manafort. your investigation found troubling contacts between mr. manafort and russian verdicts during and after the campaign, correct? correct. manafort met with constantine konstantin kilimnik nick,. he shared private trump
we are back. you re watching cnn. i m brooke baldwin. just in, attorney for president trump s former campaign chairman paul manafort are responding that manafort lied to the special counsel s office investigating russian election meddling and breached his plea agreement with robert mueller. shimon prokupecz is with me now. walk me through this court filing. reporter: something remarkable here as happened in these court documents. information that we were not supposed to see that wasn t properly redacted by paul manafort s attorneys reveals some really startling information in that, paul manafort, it says that manafort met, traveled to madrid and met with a russian intelligence official, someone the fbi has simply said was working for the russian government at some point and shared polling data from the presidential campaign.
submission that he chose to provide to both houses of congress ahead of his appearances. these circumstances show a deliberate effort to use his lies as a way to set the tone and shape the course of the hearing in an effort to stymie the inquiries. okay. so the special counsel s office here is saying that covering up the moscow project, covering up the whole trump tower moscow thing wasn t just something that he panic and did on the spur of the moment. it was a deliberate, considered planned process, which of course raises the question of whether or not it involved other people. it turns out, yes, in a way, they re saying it did involve other people. quote, the defendant amplified his false statements by releasing and repeating his lying to the public, including to other potential witnesses. ding, ding, ding. the defendant was scheduled to appear before both intelligence committees in closed sessions prior to testifying. the defendant made a public appearance at the u.s. capitol and re
them and trying to work this out so manafort can stop lying, so he can clean up what he s been lying to them about. but according to prosecutors, quote, in none of the communications with manafort s counsel was any factual or legal argument made as to why the government s assessment of manafort s credibility was erroneous or made without good faith. okay. so what this is this is mueller s office, the special counsel s office saying paul manafort keeps lying to us. we ve got him before the grand jury. we can t have a lying witness before the grand jury. we confronted him. we confronted his defense counsel with the fact that he s been lying. they were not able to talk us out of that determination or fix it in any way, so now, judge, we are ready to tell you, we are ready to prove it in court if you need us to, we are ready to maintain to you that he has been lying to us about five different things. and this is the part of this ten-page filing about manafort where you end up seeing some o