is he a kind of putin s oligarch. and live a life like other oligarchs lead. chap nin worked with him in a orthodox church. once he rose to the highest rank of patriarch 13 years ago he restructured the church to be more autocratic and in line with putin s vision to recreate imperial russia. is he using religious language for political reasons. after the soviet collapse, the church gained power by promoting conservative values like traditional marriage and gender roles. critics say he justifies supporting the invasion by calling it a pushback against western decadence and liberalism. so the violence that putin is unleashing in ukraine is designed to protect russian speakers from the godless west. church observers sees himself
konstantin kilimnick. manafort spent a decade working with him. prosecutors call him an intelligence asset for russia and whose meeting with manafort is at the heart of the special counsel s investigation. the other is so connected in russia, he s called putin s oligarch. manafort he was in deep with him. personality and financially, why did manafort offer him private briefings while running trump s campaign. the polling data. that s where that comes in. we haven t heard any of this from mueller. was he going rogue bypassing it to him? sure looks like the type of information, what we call the places and faces, where and whom to target, that could explain why the russians managed to target the same groups on social media that the trump campaign was after. manafort s sentence today was about tax issues. something the president makes sure that you know, also had nothing to do with him. they went back 12 years to get things that he did 12 years ago?
with him. prosecutors call him an intelligence asset for russia and whose meeting with manafort is at the heart of the special counsel s investigation. the other is so connected in russia, he s called putin s oligarch. he was in deep with him. personality and financially, why did manafort offer him private briefings while running trump s campaign. the polling data. that s where that comes in. we haven t heard any of this from mueller. was he going rogue bypassing it to him? sure looks like the type of information, what we call the places and faces, where and whom to target, that could explain why the russians managed to target the same groups on social media that the trump campaign was after. manafort s sentence today was about tax issues. something the president makes sure that you know, also had nothing to do with him. they went back 12 years to get things that he did 12 years ago?
declassify the bureau s records about ohr and the warrant applications. in washington, i m garrett tenney, fox news. ed: thank you, garrett. let s dig deeper now with fox news legal analyst mercedes cowan and defense attorney richard st. paul. thanks for joining us this weekend. thanks, ed. ed: i started this investigation started with allegations that there were russian collusion between candidate donald trump and the russians. instead you see the new york times today saying wait a second, bruce ohr an obama administration justice department official, now a holdover and a trump official was trying to flip russian oligarchs including one who was known as putin s oligarch. was there collusion going on between people inside the justice department and the fbi trying to flip russians? it s amazing because there s so many tentacles to this investigation. we really don t know all the twists and turns that are
oligarch, deripaska. you know, got a lot of money, lot of connections to vladimir putin, and it s interesting that now you have somebody inside the justice department in bruce ohr who was working with a man in deripaska who is known as putin s oligarch. so you hear the president saying there s collusion on the other side, yet it doesn t seem to get any traction. that s right. the longer this investigation goes on, the more that we find detrimental information about the doj and fbi in the way they handled the investigation and less detrimental information about the president. bruce ohr created a back channel with christopher steele who of course was compiling this dossier funded by the democrats. when the fbi had already said they didn t find steele to be credible in that he had had improper contact with the media. so everything in this investigation seems to be undermining the president s point that it s been biased against him from the start. bruce ohr s contacts, the peter strzok a