Interviews with political figures and news updates. Agreement that collusion, if you look in the law books, isnt a crime, but conspiracy is a crime. If you speak to legal analysts, and pete probably knows a whole lot more about this, they would say its a part of the broader question that investigators are looking into, andrea. And pete, at the courthouse, this is so important, because its not related directly to the russia probe, but its so important for mueller to have a really strong case going in. Reporter Jury Selection is under way now, andrea. And it could end today. We could get Opening Statements tomorrow, if Jury Selection slops over into tomorrow. Its expected to last three weeks. It has nothing to do with the time that manafort worked on the campaign or was campaign chairman. It has to do with his work for another president , viktor yanukovych, former president of
september, andrea. And just a fashion question, this is a man known for his very, very expensive customtailored
types. and one of the things that comes through is if you re money landering it s hard to get away from it so one negative thing, what if these individuals were doing suspicious stuff, aka alleged money laundering all the time? they did it before and after the trump tower meeting but it doesn t link back to the meeting. an interesting question. let s note that the attorney for ike kaveladze and the agalarovs say these transactions are above board. he would not get into details about these transactions. obviously if you have above board transactions you would withhold the information that might disprove the suspicions. that s normal. but to your other point, like manafort these individuals came under scrutiny largely because
for manafort. so either he s going to cooperate with mueller or he s awaiting a pardon which i think is the scarier prospect because if he doesn t participate and enters a guilty plea, then the president can potentially pardon him and as someone who was on the ground during the hillary clinton campaign, i think one of the things we should also be looking at is the way they were able to micro target the trump campaign was able to micro car g target voters. they didn t have infrastructure on the ground but they knew based on people s address which is person was vulnerable to be a trump voter in ways i have that never seen before and that s the scary thing when we look at these hackers and how they were able to manipulate the election. and you re saying that on a night when we re reporting on the doj making its grinding progress forward on another russian hacker. i want the panel to stay and we ll bring in a panel who broke this other story, the suspicious money transfers that came af
of where they were at the time. like manafort, he was under investigation by the fbi and the justice department back in 2014 when they were looking at yanukovych s money. he didn t get back into the cross hairings of federal law enforcement until after he became campaign manager and obviously when the probe started and i think the same goes for with this. the banks noted that when they were sending this to law enforcement that this is something that they did as sort of a lookback project on. that let me take that to elie. prosecutors build off of sars, suspicious activity reports, all the time. two things jump out of me. the timing, these transactions happened on june 20, the first set, 11 days after the trump tower meeting and which is the very day manafort gets named the campaign chair. this guy, as maya pointed out, with all this crushing dealt to
september, andrea. and just a fashion question, this is a man known for his very, very expensive custom-tailored suits. they took suits away from his closets when they raided his house. is he in a green prison jumpsuit there in court as the potential jurors are being selected? reporter: he is not. he is wearing a normal business suit. i didn t get a chance to look at his tie. my colleague ken dilanian is here, did you see what color tie paul manafort was wearing? he did not either, because he sat with his back to us. he was dressed in civilian lobbying clothes. i mean, it s interesting because when he was in court for a pretrial motion, he was in prison gauche. reporter: yes. mimi rocah, you ve been through so many of these. mueller under fire, rudy giuliani all over the place in the last 24 hours. obviously they are really going on offense. and he kind of dangled this possibility that there was a pre-meeting before that infamous trump tower russia meeting, then said maybe no