campaign supervisor who the washington post identified as clovis about a potential trip to russia to meet russian officials. the supervisor responded, encouraging papadopoulos to make the trip. papadopoulos account was unsealed the same day as indictments of former campaign chairman manafort and his deputy rick gates in relation to their lobbying work for the ukraine government. in the indictments, the government alleges that they received tens of millions of dollars for their work. and to hide that income, laundered the money through, quote, scores of united states and foreign corporations partnerships and bank accounts. manafort and gates have pleaded not guilty to charges which cover activities prior to trump s presidential campaign. there is now a proposed start date for the manafort/gates trial of may 7th, 2018. the trial is expected to last more than three weeks. that would take it into the summer of 2018 just before key midterm elections.