two, wikileaks. now remember, big picture, we all knew paul manafort had long and extensive links to the russian government-affiliated oligarchs. what is new is this reported meeting with that other group you don't want to have contact with, wikileaks, specifically, its leader julian assange. this meeting manafort took a bit after he first began trying to get a job with the trump campaign in february 2016. there was that memo offering to work for free. tonight for the first time we now see the report that he met with assange that next month, march, and it was in that month that trump took manafort up on the offer, hiring him to work at the republican convention. manafort hadn't done that kind of work in years. he had a reputation with controversial dealings, authoritarian business. but none of that held him back within the trump campaign. by may, he was campaign chair. one month before the infamous trump tower meeting where all those people met with the russians in an effort to get dirt on hillary clinton. and then consider this. it was the very next month that the republican platform

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