again trying to minimize his role in the campaign, but also accusing the justice deparent of, quote, doing a number on him. i want to bring in nbc investigations reporter tim winter. we need to we need to first say that mr. manafort, tom, has pleaded not guilty. what is this new evidence against mr. manafort and what does it all mean? there s two cases going on against paul manafort. there s one in the district of columbia. there s one in the eastern district of virginia. he faces indictments in both. in the d.c. case last night, there s a filing from the prosecutors. and they say there was witness tampering that paul manafort attempted to do by reaching out to two former individuals that were involved in a lobbying group. he reached out to them at various different times and also through an intermediary, somebody he s worked with before, in an attempt to tell them, hey, i ve told people here your work was only in europe when, in fact, both men and
oppose, wait for it president trump s tariffs. they will use a free trade campaign to call for president trump to, quote, reduce or eliminate trade barriers through international agreements. the plan will be carried out through media buys, activist education, grass roots mobilization, lobbying and policy analysis. imagine if rich people didn t have to spend money on that. we could spend it on like great programs to improve schools. tim phillips is the president of americans for prosperity, one of the groups behind this push from the koch political net work and bill cohn back with me. lay out for me this four-pronged approach. what message do you want to get across? i m not criticizing using that process, i m saying like, god, imagine if you didn t have to spend the money to do it. well, actually, good schools and so much of what s prosperous about our country depends on free trade. i hear you. because free trade keeps consumer prices low. it creates jobs here at home. trade agree
manafort knew their work was also here in the united states. one of the reasons manafort faces the troubles he does is because there was lobbying work that s occurring here in the united states without him or his group and his representatives filing a registration with the department of justice saying hey, we re acting on behalf of a foreign agent. we re acting on behalf of a foreign government. so that s whatappened last night. the fbi says they were able to get corroboration and evidence on this from paul manafort s i-cloud, they were able to get a search warrant to get in there and look at his toll logs isn t this the judge that was really tough on mueller s team? the judge they primarily filed this with is in district of columbia in d.c. a virginia judge. another reason that s important is because if the judge here does in fact revoke his bail, essentially sends him to jail until and through his trial in d.c., that means that even if his trial is held this summer in the eas