which is what he s running and trying to bring ukraine into what he tlihinks is a version o the old soviet union. i said this in my analysis of the war. the yooups are going to fight and they fight to win. they are a modern army. they are like being near the u.s. armed forces in the way that they maneuver on the battlefield. they needed help with man power and people with combat experience and skill. i came to give them what assistance i could. well, malcolm, i think it s so important to hear your voice on this. i am in awe of your commitment. i thank you for your service. this is really extraordinary what you re doing. we appreciate you taking the time to talk to us about it. well, i m glad that i can help spread the message. you know, i m going to go back to the front and, you know, the people of ukraine need our assistance. so, if you can lend a hand, lend a hand. so, with that, slava ukraine. thank you, sir, so much.
interfere with a separate irs investigation of manafort. we re told that the irs and the fbi initially were cooperating on their own manafort probe well before last year s election and before mueller was appointed. the special counsel s office did go ahead with the search of manafort s home with only fbi agents carrying it out. that s kind of unusual for the irs to sit out a search in an investigation that centers on tax and financial matters. absolutely. when you re talking about an investigation, tax, financial matters, money laundering, whatever it might be, does that mean bob mueller now has access to tax returns, not just paul manafort s but possibly the president of the yooups s tax returns? that s the big question we have been asking here for months now. not clear whether the special counsel has asked for or obtained president trump s tax returns. sources do tell us that if mueller s office does have trump s tax returns, then the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein, who o