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kidnapping. on october 5th, 2017, the trial began in the kidnapping of amanda lindhout. feels like the biggest day of my life. reporter: dateline was with her that morning as she made her way to the courthouse. what was going through your head? what were you worried about? in those moments before entering the courtroom, i wondered if i could do it. i was so afraid to see this man again. the thought of seeing him? the thought of seeing his face. but i gathered myself. i needed to do that, as much for myself as anything. i just saw you gather yourself just there, when you said it. it s still hard for you? it is. and i expect it always will be. this is real life, like, pain. and then the doors opened and i walked into the courtroom, and adam was sitting directly in front of me. and i kind of crumbled. reporter: now came the moment
not just from a tweet from michael avenatti. what s so notable about this and i want your perspective on the legal implications is it s more than a tweet. this documentation either is based on something or it s somehow completely made up. these are very specific numbers. for example, with dates. october 5th, 2017. he alleges $99,980. that same amount. how do you think mr. avenatti could come into contact with this material? might it involve the fact the fbi is interviewing people and if there was misleading information that mr. cohen provided to the bank, is that a big deal or not? well sure. it really opens up all the
manafort forwarded that to someone saying let s discuss. we need someone to communicate that dt is not doing this trip. it should be someone low level in the campaign so as not to send any signal. from mid-june to mid-august, papadopoulos pursued this off the record meeting between representatives of the trump s campaign and putin s office. and that s just now that s now after the famous june 9th meeting in trump tower between the russians, trump s son-in-law, paul manafort at that, jared kushner, donald trump jr., and some russians. on august 15th of 2016, the campaign supervisor in communication with papadopoulos said i would encourage you along with another foreign policy adviser to the campaign to make the trip if it is feasible. on january 27th of this year, papadopoulos was interviewed by the fbi lying about the timing of the communications on this. he was arrested in july of 2017. he pled guilty on october 5th,