jeremy says that one of the things the investigation is going to have to answer in light of this manafort news, that two fisa warrants were obtained to surveil him is whether or not russia placed him in the donald trump campaign. is that of interest to you? it s certainly of interest of whether the trump campaign, people who had prior relationships with ukrainian or pro ukrainian groups continued those relationships when they started working on the campaign. so that s something that our committee is also seeking to understand. that was one of his clients, the pro russia side of what would amount to a domestic debate in this country. but in ukraine, paul manafort was on the pro russia side. so your committee is seeking information about that body of work and whether it continue ed
and they tried to manay ed tiede campaign, through agents of influence. do you think it s possible if they re going to want to find out if manafort was a russian plant? is that one of the questions they want to answer? they re going to want to know if there were ties between paul manafort and russia, whether they were financial or otherwise, that caused him to in effect do russia s bidding. and whether wittingly or unwittingly doing work on behalf of the russians. and did trump know about it, did he know what manafort was doing, and did he know what flynn was doing and when he found out about the investigation why did he try to it s always this sort of incomp tense defense. is that a legal defense, we