The days top stories from around the world, from politics and money, to sports and pop culture. On matters that have nothing to do with the campaign. I think that even mr. Manafort as i read it had requested that there be no mention of his brief tenure at the Trump Campaign several years ago. This has nothing to do with collusion, russia, nothing to come with the Trump Campaign. Reporter the case centers around his past lobbying work for the pro Putin Ukranian government for which prosecutors say he received 60 million. The government alleges manafort hid millions and failed to pay taxes while still spending the money on real estate and luxury purchases, including homes in manhattan, virginia and the hamptons, expensive suits, and baseball tickets. And prosecutors will present hundreds of emails, photos and financial records to prove it. Prosecutors say manafort also lied to banks about his income to secure more than 20 million in loans. And this trial now underway, it is expected to l
the foreign agents registration act. fara back in 2019. he d been working for ukraine now at almost exactly the same moment. paul manafort s, who hired greg craig to work on ukraine, was convicted of violating the same law. fara on the same account for ukraine. how does that work exactly? it seems like a double standardb and it is a doublee standard, but it s a consistent standard. we ve seen it again and again and again. former clinton attorney michael sussmann was just acquitted by a dc jury for lying to the fbi. that happened in may. the theory was that really who knows what michael sussmann told the fbi about non-existent russian servers fbi? trump tower. okay,ok as longay using thatll theory, does it work for everyone? well, it didn t work for george poppit topolice didn tp work for michael flynn. on the other hand , neither one of those guys had a key l card to fbi headquarters like michael sussmann did and that came in handy, that relationship. but mike flynn didn t have
promising only appropriate stance. once manafort and trump s team got involved. that was a big victory for the russians and it underscored their sense that they were going to really win big if trump won the white house. that they would have a major ally in the white house. reporter: trump denied any direct involvement with the change of platform language. i was not involved. in. i was not involved. i was not involved. reporter: once in office, trump pushed the notion the u.s. had moral equivalence with russia, even as perceived opponents of the kremlin kept ending up dead or poisoned. putin is a killer. a lot of killers. you think our country is so innocent? reporter: trump argued russia should be given back its seat even though it had punished ukraine. i would rather see russia in the g-8 as opposed the g-7.
crimea from what i ve heard, would rather be with russia than where they were. that was not the issue. the issue was that it was annexed illegally against all international laws. reporter: paul manafort s, trump s second manafort has done an amazing job. reporter: he was there for roughly a decade and was paid in part by russian old gargs, according to a 2020 senate intelligence committee report. during manafort s time as campaign chair, the campaign pushed sometimes bizarre and seemingly random disinformation that could have been written by the kremlin. you had the nato base in turkey being attacked by terrorists. you had a number of things that weren t appropriate to this campaign, were part of what mr. trump has been talking about. reporter: when the republican national committee s 2016 platform proposed to provide lethal defensive weapons to ukraine in the face of the russian threat, that language was quickly tabled and softened,
i would say the g-8 is a more meaningful group than the g-7. absolutely. you have trump lining up very clearly with russia. you have him at a meeting with g-7 leaders, telling them just forget about ukraine. ukraine is russian. let it go. reporter: and of course, the day after trump fired fbi director james comey amid the investigation into possible coordination between russia and the trump indication that, the then president met with russian prime minister serge delay lavrov and trump revealed highly classified information to the pair. we had a very, very good meeting with mr. lavrov, and it was, i thought it was very, very good. reporter: special counsel robert muellerer s report found manafort and michael flynn who had been paled by russian entities to attend and speak at this 2015 gala where he literally dined with putin, together pushed the nonsensical