is necessary to close out the russia investigation. trump s attorney admits the new york times admits to the time s there is not much of a chance mueller would agree to those demands. in the meantime, investigators are connecting the dots between paul manafort s bank trial and they say the former campaign chairman was given some $16 million in loans, who imthe banker who approved those loans was seeking a role in the trump campaign. let s talk about it all at a professor leave in our london bureau. i want to go ahead and start with a topic we started naj ibib. a lot at stake, let s listen to mr. trump sum it up through his base in a binary argument.