good morning, everyone. it is thursday, february 14th. i'm ayman mohyeldin alongside yasmin vossoughian and louis burgdorf. happy valentine's day everyone. trying to spread the love. new in the russia probe a federal judge ruled paul manafort lied to the special counsel's team on at least three issues and now federal prosecutors are no longer bound by a deal to recommend a lighter sentence for trump's former campaign chairman. in a written order the judge ruled manafort lied to the fbi, the special counsel's office and the mueller grand jury about payments made by an unidentified firm a and to a law firm and the matter was material to their investigation. the judge also ruled that manafort made multiple false statements about his interactions and communications with konstantin kilimnik who the fbi has linked to russian intelligence and manafort made false statements in october of last year that were material to another justice department investigation. the judge said that prosecutors