team reached an historic four-year deal with u.s. hockey. the deal significantly increases players income and also gives money for girls developmental teams. now to an nbc news exclusive involving former trump campaign chairman paul manafort. manafort has drawn scrutiny for his ties to russia and he has volunteered to testify before the house intelligence committee. well, now we have exclusive new details about manafort s extensive business dealings in a small island nation that has u.s. authorities asking questions. nbc s chief foreign correspondent richard engle has been looking into this. richard, what did you find out? well, good morning. specifically our reporting focuses on a series of offshore bank accounts and companies linked to manafort that are now being looked into. he s a central figure in the investigations into donald trump s inner circle, and possible ties to russia. it was manafort. paul manafort.
this morning there are new questions over former trump campaign chairman paul manafort s business dealings overseas. joining us now from london nbc news chief foreign affairs correspondent richard engel. richard, what are you learning? good morning, mika. specifically we re reporting on some offshore bank accounts and companies linked to manafort that are now being looked into. he s the focus of multiple investigations into president trump s inner circle and their possible ties to russia. paul manafort. long before he was president trump s campaign chairman, manafort was paid millions by a russian oligarch close to vladimir putin. according to one report, man manafort promising to greatly benefit the putin government by influencing politics and media coverage. nbc news learned u.s. treasury department officials are now following manafort s money
chairman paul manafort has agreed to testify before the house intelligence committee hearings on russian interference in the 2016 election. nbc news has excsive details on manafort s extensiveusiness dealings in the small nation of cyprus, which has u.s. authorities asking questions. richard engel joins us. richard, what did you find? reporter: katie, there s been a lot of discussion about paul manafort recently. but not a lot of concrete information. we ve been looking specifically into the financial aspect of this story, specifically a series of offshore bank accounts and companies linked to manafort that are now being looked into. he s a focus of multiple investigations into president trump s inner circle, and their possible ties to russia. paul manafort. and long before he was president trump s campaign chairman,
well. we may be able to reveal things about, for example, putin s finances, in the wake of the panama papers. he may not like that, it may not be comfortable and may not come from the officials sources. if we to play asymmetric war fare. we don t play it that obviouso that well, frankly, but if we want to push, we can. you used to be with the treasu treasury, and we could start revealing some of their offshore bank accounts of the oligarchs. we could make it uncomfortable, expand iing them around war crimes in the syrian context. we could reveal the financial holdings of putin in and his inner circle in way that is haven t been revealed and make it very uncomfortable for them
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