mysteriously changed to be more friendly towards russia, and by that time, wikileaks had begun putting out hacked material from the dnc, and paul manafort was getting publicly pressed on what i mentioned, his ties to russia. >> are there any ties between mr. trump, you, or your campaign, and putin and his regime? >> no, there are not. it's absurd. there's no basis to it. >> to be clear, mr. trump has no financial relationships with any russian oligarchs? >> that's what he said. that's what i said. that's obviously what our position is. >> that may be what manafort's lies look like a little bit. that was july. and then i want to show you something that we dug up today. a truly epic tv moment on the same day manafort went on "meet the press" along with, on that day, julian assange. >> joining me this morning are the two top strategists from both campaigns. also, hack attack and the russian connection. i talk to wikileaks founder