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Manafort breached his plea agreement by lying to them, each after he agreed to cooperate. that filing about manafort was one of the filings that we got on this past that we got this past friday night. and that one also had a bunch of redactions. in the manafort filing, though, the bits that we could read spelled out how prosecutors say manafort lied to them about, among other things, manafort s ongoing contacts with a russian business associate who prosecutors have said is linked to russian intelligence. prosecutors also said manafort lied to them about the extent of his ongoing communications with the trump white house, including communications with a senior trump administration official as recently as this year. those contacts were secret, and he lied to prosecutors about them. what s that about? well, tomorrow, tomorrow afternoon, 3:00 p.m. eastern time, manafort s defense team will appear in court in d.c. for the first time since prosecutors laid out their list of all the ways th ....
That filing about manafort was one of the filings that we got on this past that we got this past friday night. and that one also had a bunch of redactions. in the manafort filing, though, the bits that we could read spelled out how prosecutors say manafort lied to them about, among other things, manafort s ongoing contacts with a russian business associate who prosecutors have said is linked to russian intelligence. prosecutors also said manafort lied to them about the extent of his ongoing communications with the trump white house, including communications with a senior trump administration official as recently as this year. those contacts were secret, and he lied to prosecutors about them. what s that about? well, tomorrow, tomorrow afternoon, 3:00 p.m. eastern time, manafort s defense team will appear in court in d.c. for the first time since prosecutors laid out their list of all the ways they say manafort breached his plea agreement by lying to them. manafort apparently denies h ....
We keep putting up this graphic of the 14 people we now know, that s more than we knew before friday. people who the russians reached out to. these people may not have known they were being duped or that they were being manipulated but it certainly paints the picture that russia was looking for inroads to the trump campaign. as david gregory has said so often, they were open for business. that s right. and for the sake of those 14 and others, i hope that they haven t lied to investigators about those contacts. but clearly between the recent manafort filing, cohen filing and the flynn filing, there is apparently a lot of cooperation going on about the campaign s contacts with russia and with russians. i think phil is right, we just know a fraction of it at this point. i have to believe that much more detail is about to come. it s interesting. jerry nadler, who will be the house chair of the judiciary ....
Real really steeling themselves. two people involved, michael cohen and donald trump are very, very serious and so, i think there is a second piece on the chess board that is going on when you look at that filing today, it is not a filing by mueller, it is a filing of prosecutors in the southern district of new york that is significant. and i want to bring in jennifer rubin and also go to a broader point. jennifer is a washington post columnist and a conservative and a critic of donald trump. i don t want to wax too poetic here, but i wonder if we could begin by noting, jennifer, this is a president who has taken extraordinary measures identified by his own lawyers, some of them as potentially impeachable to try to shut down and undermine the doj and prosecutors and rule of law. i wonder if having gone through a lot of the details tonight, it s fitting to turn to you and ....
Primary one. and corroborate with us. cooperate with us, you will be in a better position, because if you don t, we will get you. stay with me everyone, there is another filing regarding paul manafort. heavily redacted but i want to get your view of what if anything that we gleaned from there. reporter: it is significantly redacted. we did learn that the special counsel is saying paul manafort lied. ongoing ties to russian intelligence, and there is a reference to a meeting to an individual whose name is blacked out. and the special counsel alleges that he lied about that. and also lied about a wild ....