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documents are paulta manafort designed to smear the trump campaign. a few weeks ago we got nellie ohr s testimony and we learned that same parliamentary member was the one feeding trump dirt to fusion gps, christopher steele and nellie ohr s firm. in the time frame when he was doing both of those things, leaking the documents about manafort, providing information to fusion gps for clinton campaign and dnc, he was receiving money, that s the suspicion, ukrainian prosecutors say, from a russian oligarch, then ended up buying an expensive apartment, just a few days after paul manafort was forced to resign from the trump campaign.ai beginning of an investigation in the ukraine.e. it s been announced, the prosecutors told me they are w looking at whether that russian money had something to do with his dealings on the trump campaign, the clinton campaign, and of course paul manafort. sean: unbelievable story. it i will be interesting to seef the media really cares about collusion. they don
trump campaign against the trump campaign. think about it, if the media mob really cared about collusion as they claim, this story would be every second, every minute, every hour of every day on every network on the front page of every newspaper. we will have more of this monologue in a moment. first, with more on this breaking report, the investigative report and of course editor at the hill john solomon. a lot of details, you have been on fire. i ll let you put it in your own words. you remember we said about a month ago the origins of the russia collusion narrativeth started in the ukraine. we ve learned lot of information since that time. in december the ukrainian courts ruled that the member that you just mentioned, parliamentary member, wrongly interfered in the u.s. election by leaking
investigation of martin luther king, jr., what was done there, i don t know, what the word is,, the blackmailing of dr. martin luther king. so, yeah, we were quite worried about that, quite worried how it would come off. we wanted to try and make sure to convey to the president-elect that s not what we were not doing. sir, we have this information, it came to us in a particular way, the press has it, it s about to come out, you should be alerted to that fact. we don t want to proceed on this basis without you being aware of those facts. we were worried about the hoover analogies and determined not to have such a disaster happen on our watch. sean: we ve warned jimbo, it s not a good look when your own general counsel is comparing you to j. edgar hoover. of course, the fbi chief who was famous for abusing power, spying on americans, and, yes, blackmailing his political adversaries. while baker expressed concern
he s trying to get to the bottom of this, and in the interview you heard he s not sure where it goes. that s part of it now. you get the rest of that conversation tomorrow. in addition, it talks abouter james comey, question about john brennan, and james clapper. not a lot of detail or information on that, but it s l clear they re looking at the trump tower meeting with comey in january of 2017. i would say also, sean, things to listen to tomorrow are his feelings about being called a liar, how he s defending himself on obstruction, whether there was witness tampering and how he considered that in a legal sense when judging the mueller report. there s a lot in this thing, sean. his conversation with nancy pelosi yesterday on capitol hill. you get the sense from bill barr that he knew he was going to be a target and he did not care. now, where does this go and where does it lead, we re not sure. you re going to find out more when you see that tomorrow. sean: we will be watching,