we know mueller is investigating why manafort sharinternal polli data with a russian operative while he was running the campaign. reporter: special counsel robert mueller s investigators interviewed tony if a breeze fa year. this is a discussion that possibly takes on new importance now that we know that the mueller investigators even recently were asking questions about internal polling data that paul manafort, the former trump campaign share man, shared with a former business associate who the special counsel says is keskted e connected to russian intelligence. manafort s lawyers this week accidentally made public in a court filing that prosecutors had claimed manafort was lying to them about sharing the polling information about his business associate konstanin kilimnick. we don t know why that information was being shared and whether any of that data ended up with the russians who at the time were trying to launch
daniels? prosecutors say trump directed illegal hush money to two women. when during the campaign i would say mexico s going to pay for it. obviously i never said this and i never meant they re going to write out a check. they may even write out a check by the time they see what happens. they may. mr. president, did you know paul manafort was sharing polling data from your campaign with the russians? no, i didn t know anything about it. nothing about it. so he denied knowing about the stormy daniels pay off. he denied knowing mexico would write a check for the wall and he did know that. and he denied knowing his campaign was sharing polling information with russia. it is friday. along with joe, willie and me, we have national affair analyst
says there s going to be an open hearing like this, where you have live tv cameras inside? typically we would absolutely expect that kind of coordination and the last thing the dems want to do is compromise or in any way harm mueller s inquiry. there s another development we re watching, sabrina. cnn has learned that the main pollster for the trump campaign, tony fabrizio, he was called to testify last year before mueller and his team on the polling information. we now know that paul manafort, the campaign chairman, was secretly providing sensitive, internal campaign polling information to the russians through this individual. what does this all mean? this meeting took place in february 2018, almost a year ago. it was previously unreported. it obviously does take on new significance, following the revelations that paul manafort shared internal campaign polling data with an associate of his who has known ties to russian
yet. i d be curious to know what is the nature of the polling information that was shared with russians or potentially shared with russians, and again, there s also the real question we have to ask, paul manafort obviously has been convicted and it was a deeply compromised figure. what we don t yet know is the extent to which he was trying to privatize trump campaign information in order to help his own business interests or whether he was actively doing this on behalf of the trump campaign. got it. hi, max. so the top democrat on the senate intelligence committee is mark warner. he says this is the closest thing that we have seen to collusion. and you agree, the headline to your new op-ed is called the collusion case against trump just got a lot stronger. can you explain to me why? this is the definition of
anxieties about this. i do think that gives some comfort. but i hope that the senators push on that in a public forum in testimony under oath. i hope that bill barr is pushed for commitments that he will not shut down the mueller investigation, he will not starve it as resources. that he he will make public a report as far as he can and the american people can hear that directly from bill barr s mouth because that s going to be very important going forward. this will be a public hearing next week, bill barr speaking to the american people and the senate as well trying to tell them that the mueller investigation is safe. phil, while we have you here, i do want to ask you again about the manafort information we received, the idea that hend d handed private polling information on to someone known to be russian intelligence. this investigation from the beginning, the mueller investigation before that when the fbi was doing it was a legal and counterintelligence investigation. from a co