america, his ability to address the economy. and so the more he refuses to sit down with the mueller team as they obtain more guilty pleas and send more people to jail, i think that affects donald trump s ability to lead our country. did this development, as someone who has been on a committee investigating this, did this development today surprise you? no, no, but what i hope we can obtain from this as well, and i hope the mueller team is able to learn, is not just paul manafort s relationship to donald trump and what he knows of donald trump s knowledge at the time as to what the russian intentions were, and what donald trump gave as far as orders, but also how the russian intelligence network works. because it s clear that paul manafort was close to russian intelligence officers, based on other people who have been indicted in other press reporting. so we could really color in, i think, some gaps in understanding of, you know, how the russians work if paul manafort is able to co
trump s ability to lead our country. did this development, as someone who has been on a committee investigating this, did this development today surprise you? no, no, but what i hope we can obtain from this as well, and i hope the mueller team is able to learn, is not just paul manafort s relationship to donald trump and what he knows of donald trump s knowledge at the time as to what the russian intentions were, and what donald trump gave as far as orders, but also how the russian intelligence network works. because it s clear that paul manafort was close to russian intelligence officers, based on other people who have been indicted in other press reporting. so we could really color in, i think, some gaps in understanding of, you know, how the russians work if paul manafort is able to cooperate. it was striking to me the konstantin kilimnik, he reportedly fled to russia earlier this year, he shows up a lot in the information given in court today as a central figure in the witnes