then paid russia agents to provide information and dirt on trump. i mean a british i don t want to go too far down this rabbit hole with you. i don t either. but i think my point to you, alisyn is, i want to look at all of it. and i think fair-minded americans say look at trump, look at clinton, look at the dnc, look at the rnc, we should look at all of russia s involvement here. but as you pointed out, as we ve seen this video of manafort this morning, it s serious for him. and me as a republican congressman, i look forward to see whing what the charges are how serious this is and does it bleed into the campaign of president trump and where does it go? thank you very much for joining us this morning. chris? duffy would be a lot more upset if he were as curious as these charges as he is about hillary clinton and the dossier. i ll tell you that right now. let s bring in some people who aren t going to be motivated by politics on this, but we now know as fact. cnn senior poli
actions? does the president move in any way to terminate the investigation? and if he does, whatever else whatever else hearings they re convening, do the republicans on the hill accept that and take the risk of accepting that into the 2018 election or move to block it? i think the argument and the actions now have to be seen through very different lenses. and the real possibility is that the house of representatives, under paul ryan, may impeach hillary clinton for being a citizen of chappaqua. because that s all she is at this point. and, you know, the idea that, you know, hillary clinton an investigation of her is a good use of their time. well, it works fine, politically. it works well with the base. gives them something to talk about on talk radio. every time he says hillary clinton, it s like in the mel brooks movie, every time they say nurse and you hear the horn go, whoo! so it works on that level. but renato, we re in much deeper water now. do you agree with je
collusion conspiracy thing, i think is an important thing for all the players the who are in the orbit of this investigation. right. well, that s also something that the talking point neglects. the idea of saying, this went back a long way, renato, so obviously it has nothing to do with the campaign. that is a naive assumption. because the theory of the case is, well, they made relationships during that time. how did those relationships come to bear? and that s why i go back to rick gates. because the trump team kept him around after manafort left, which, you know, politically, is now going to look like an even more suspect decision. he stayed in the campaign. he stayed with a central role. he was in the inaugural committee. and then when he did leave, he went into a lobbying firm that was still very connected to the white house. is it relevant if he stayed in contact with the wlohite house? if he s visited the white house? well, if they are transmitting information, sure. what d
door, which shows that this negotiation went pretty well, by his standards, right, renato, speak to this. because, again, they banged on this guy s doors with guns drawn to execute a warrant. that does not show that you re giving him much benefit of the doubt. this is a little bit of a different disposition. exactly right. so i will say, it is very highly unusual to execute a search warrant at all in a white collar case. and i spent many years investigating white collar crime. to have a no-knock warrant means that they had specific information that he was going to destroy evidence. we re just watching him walk up there. we re just replaying again him entering the fbi field office in washington, d.c. all we see is him approach from the curb. we re not sure how he arrived, but we see him there with his lawyers marching up and through the front door. continue. go ahead. okay. so, that meant that there s actually specific information that they had that they had to present to a judge