but with paul manafort, want anything that has anything to do with paul manafort. thank you american press corp. since last july at least known with increasing specificity and frankly increasing alarm that donald trump didn't go out and find a normal republican or radical republican to run his campaign last year, for some reason the guy he picked works with the russian military intelligence guy and putin linked oligarchs to promote the russian government and unexplained debts and russian payments to pro-putin political parties. we know investigators are all over him, we still don't know why trump hired him. only reason we know any of this at all is america has great reporters and free press. today of all days, if you don't subscribe to local paper, fix that. going to play a commercial now. get online, pay to get behind the pay wall at your local paper. seriously, your country needs you. but at home. she thinks she's the boss. she only had me by one grade. we bought our first home together in 2010. his family had used another insurance product but i was like well i'

and something about how much they knew about paul manafort before manafort became trump's campaign chairman. how much they knew about him and his previous work and his money. all right? they were already deep into paul manafort before the campaign started. and that surveillance on him starting in 2014 was totally unrelated to his work on the trump campaign. now, according to cnn, at some point last year, that surveillance on the ukraine stuff stopped. fbi no longer had the evidence to be able to convince a court that they ought to be able to continue to listen in on paul manafort talking about matters involving money looted out of ukraine. the surveillance some point in 2016 stopped. but then we also know last year the fbi started a new investigate that you have heard of related to the russian attack on last year's presidential election to try to influence the election in donald trump's favor and also the fbi's investigation that started last summer into whether or not the trump campaign or trump associates might have somehow be in cahoots with the russian attack. remember the origin story.

and something about how much they knew about paul manafort before manafort became trump's campaign chairman. how much they knew about him and his previous work in the former soviet union and his money. all right? they were already deep into paul manafort before the campaign started. and that surveillance on him starting in 2014 was totally unrelated to his work on the trump campaign. now, according to cnn, at some point last year, that surveillance on the ukraine stuff stopped. petered out. fbi no longer had the evidence to be able to convince a court that they ought to be able to continue to listen in on paul manafort talking about matters involving money looted out of ukraine. the surveillance some point in 2016 stopped. but then we also know last year the fbi started a new investigation you have that heard of related to the russian attack on last year's presidential election to try to influence the election in donald trump's favor and also the fbi's investigation that started last summer into whether or not the trump campaign or trump associates might have been in cahoots with the russia

but with paul manafort, want anything that has anything to do with paul manafort. thank you american press corp. since last july at least known with increasing specificity and frankly increasing alarm that donald trump didn't go out and find a normal republican or radical republican to run his campaign last year, for some reason the guy he picked works with the russian military intelligence guy and putin linked oligarchs to promote the russian government and unexplained debts and russian payments to pro-putin political parties. we know investigators are all over him, we still don't know why trump hired him. only reason we know any of this at all is america has great reporters and free press. today of all days, if you don't subscribe to local paper, fix that. i'm going to play a commercial now. during the commercial get online, pay to get behind the pay wall at your local paper. seriously, your country needs you. endless shrimp is back at red lobster. and we went all out to bring you even more incredible shrimp and new flavors. like new nashville hot shrimp, drizzle

manafort and wiretaps, go back to the point where paul manafort is hired to work on this campaign. a presidential candidate is hiring someone who is under fbi investigation when he hires him to go to work on this campaign. >> that's right. you're seeing paul manafort at the fringes of politics come into the campaign at a high level and other people taking a pass on donald trump because they didn't think he was a serious candidate. paul manafort had political experience with the russians and ukrainians and talking about people who know how to broken connections between vladimir putin and the trump campaign, paul manafort is the perfect candidate for this. >> thank you both for joining us. ron, we'll talk to you coming up. >>> up next, we have a tie, it's an actual tie now, in washington for the two worst lawyers in washington. and they both work for donald trump. and they both talk very loudly at washington restaurants about their client donald trump and the trouble that he's involved in right now. and anyone can hear them including "the new york times" reporters. we'll have that st

and paul manafort, as was reported by the daily beast, paul manafort was still advising trump through the tran tigs. as we get deeper into the investigation, as it broadens its scope we're going to see that habit that donald trump has of keeping people with problematic things around him is going to be detrimental. >> the posture of the folks in the white house around this investigation, i can see it going a number of different ways. one is okay this is a witch hunt there's nothing there we'll be fine. it's going to blow over. the other is, the shoe is going to drop any day and someone is going to show up at my condo and pick the locks. how are people thinking. >> in terms of public, it's the former. in terms of of what's going on in their own heads and hearts is the latter. olivia brought up paul manafort earlier. he's an interesting case in terms of trump's inner circle and white house officials working there because they greatly resent mr. man sfwoafor many of them blame, fairly or unfairly, for the widening scope of the investigation into the finances of the president and his famil

paul manafort was. now, whether or not some of paul manafort's conversations with, you know, then candidate trump are sort of put into that wiretap, we don't know. we don't know the answer to that. but i just want to comment to what everybody else says. the idea that president trump's campaign chairman will get indicted, that's a big problem politically for the president, for the administration. not just for paul manafort. this is something that this investigation has been going on for months and months. we've seen a lot of smoke. we haven't seen a fire yet, but if there's an indictment, there's a fire. and that's a problem. >> listen, i was speaking to rick san torah earlier. and i think that's the conversation you heard, mike. the conversation was about whether the president's tweet was justified or not, and that's really not the question. the question is whether he thinks the trump administration should take the latest reporting very seriously, something they should be concerned about, mike? >> well,

if paul manafort were a named intercept interceptee. was he an incidental target or otherwise, i request guarantee you it went to the attorney general level for review and approval. >> this is actually really crucial what you just said. the reason why is because of this, let me give a moment to explain. we remember those tweets on march 4th, for anyone who's just joining us. just found out obama had my wires tapped. how low has president obama gone to tap my phones during the sacred election process. bad [ or sick guy ] he was derided for this, is he somehow vindicated? >> no, i think what we're seeing is president trump, he distorts the facts, creates a smoke screen tries to twist the facts in a way that will only be beneficial to him. his phones were not tapped. we don't know if his conversations were picked up on the intercept with paul manafort, they could have, but we don't know that yet. if they were, they weren't directed at him specifically. however, if there was discussion where president trump acknowledged what paul manafort i

but in ukraine, paul manafort was on the pro russia side. so your committee is seeking information about that body of work and whether it continue ed during the trump campaign? >> we're seeking to interview paul manafort, not speaking for the others, but i want to understand just what was the degree of those relationships and did they continue when he worked for the president and his campaign and whether he was in contact with russians throughout the campaign. we know that he sat in on that june 9 meeting with don jr. and jared kushner. we know that he allowed carter page to go over to moscow during the pcampaign and we know that e decided on the platform change during the convention and ambassador kislayak was present and attending the convention. so he was a central figure with prior relationships with russians and pro russian ukrainians, and it seems like that may have continued while he was working on the campaign. >> there's certainly a lot of pro russia connections there. the "new york times" detailing, i don't know the technical work

paul manafort was. now, whether or not some of paul manafort's conversations with, you know, then candidate trump are sort of put into that wiretap, we don't know. we don't know the answer to that. but i just want to comment to what everybody else says. the idea that president trump's campaign chairman will get indicted, that's a big problem politically for the president, for the administration. not just for paul manafort. this is something that this investigation has been going on for months and months. we've seen a lot of smoke. we haven't seen a fire yet, but if there's an indictment, there's a fire. and that's a problem. >> listen, i was speaking to rick santora earlier, mike, and i think that's the conversation you heard, mike. the conversation was about whether the president's tweet was justified or not, and that's really not the question. the question is whether he thinks the trump administration should take the latest reporting very seriously, something they should be concerned about, mike? >> w

officials wiretapped paul manafort from a secret court before and after the election. joining us is page la brown who broke the story and have the details about why the government was listening to someone so close to the president. pam, what have you learned? >> and rson, sources tell us that the fbi got permission to monitor paul manafort before and after the election. this is an extraordinary step for the fbi to do surveillance of a high-ranking campaign official. and, of course, manafort is at the center of the russia meddling probe. we're told that are intercepted

paul manafort responds. he is now punching back after reports that he was allegedly wiretapped before and after the election. here is a new statement just now into our newsroom from manafort's spokesman. he said if true, it is a felony to reveal the existence of a fisa warrant regardless of the fact no charges ever emerged. the doj's inspector general she immediately conduct an investigation into these leaks, which i'll explain, and to examine the motivations behind a preef administration's effort to surveil a political point. manafort also demanding right now that if there are transcripts, the doj should release them now. the context, these alleged wire attempts were continuing into this year when manafort was flown to speak he with president trump. unclear if president trump was picked up on that surveillance and that's not all. the other bombshell story reverb celebrating saying after that early morning raid in july, mueller's team informed manafort they did plan to indict him. meanwhile, another top aide

if paul manafort has a residence in trump tower and paul manafort was being surveiled and wiretapped, trump tower was wiretapped. >> no, it wasn't. >> how do you know? >> well, i don't know, but what we know is that -- unless you're saying that he owns every single thing in trump tower. >> that's what i'm saying. >> people who own their coops or condos in that building. number two, he used that tweet to suggest that the surveillance was political and his word was witch hunt. to jeffrey's point it was a fisa court warrant. >> hold on a second. to go back to the original tweet march 4th at 6:35 a.m., obviously president trump heard something, maybe from officials. >> this is actually an important point. there's two questions here. one is whether he read this in breitbart, which had a piece being pushed around, somebody put on his desk or whether he knew from something internal within his own government. >> yeah. >> that raises its own questions. >> let me just go back. >> no, but if he was told that, that raises other questions, too, about propriety of information. >> all true. however,

ken dilanian, i want to go to your reporting for nbc news about these paul manafort notes. walk us through that. >> sure, lawrence. one of the most interesting things about it is that we learned that paul manafort, while he seemed to be on his phone during the meeting according to some of the participants, he was actually taking notes on his phone. and those notes are now in the hands of the house and senate intelligence committee and in the hands of special counsel robert mueller. what we're told is that those notes are rather cryptic. they're not sentences. they're fragments. they're words. some of those words included a reference to the republican national committee, as you said, and a reference to political donations. and the context is not clear according to my sources. but it raised enough alarms that people want to look more closely into this because, of course, it's illegal for russians or any foreign source to contribute to a u.s. political campaign. it's an illegal for an american political campaign to accept foreign donations. so if there was any hint of donation

and now with paul manafort's revelation, we know that's true. it wasn't just paul manafort. it was everyone paul manafort was talking to. everyone he was talking to.. not just president trump. >> sean: i might have made a call or two. hi, guys. good to talk to y'all. >> you are in there. this is a serious, serious violation of our fourth amendment rights and when you think about what cheryl atkinson wrote, this is what is so important. you can't target american

paul manafort was the campaign chairman. the fact that they are focused on him has pretty severe implication implications. >> the pressure that is on him and the fact that they're looking at all these crimes and are willing to charge him in court that they believe that he is essentially some kind of hub in agreement or activity going on between the russians and anyone else in the united states whether or not they were connected to the campaign. i think that he holds the key and that's what they wanted known and that's probably why he's being very reluctant. and i think that, you know, the tactics that are being used are probably -- they're being used because he's not being as forthcoming as they would like him to be. and they need to go in and do it more aggressively. >> interesting possibility. we'll get into that much more coming up. jeffrey, asha, david, thank you very, very much. >>> backdrop for president trump. in a few hours, he will take center stage at the united nations and address the general assembly for the firs

. >>> and then wiretapping paul manafort. in about two hours president trump is expected to give his first address to the united nations general assembly. it will be, we are told, a deeply philosophical speech, that's what the white house says, and include warnings for north korea and iran. we have this all covered for you this morning. let's begin with chad meyers tracking hurricane maria. >> yeah, category 5 as of 5:00 a.m. the hurricane hunter flew in and said this is back to 5, it's not a 4. up to 160 miles per hour, and totally devastating dominiqua overnight, and puerto rico and the u.s. and british virgin islands under the gun as a category 4 or 5, right there between 155 and 160, and to me, what's the difference. it will bear down on st. croix and puerto rico and make landfall tomorrow morning. there will be rainfall but the real damage will be surge and wind damage. this area here, puerto rico all the way through the british virgin islands and u.s. virgin islands and the country through dome tphaebga. we could see mu

that's paul manafort's problem. i think you started to see the white house already kind of set the groundwork for that story line. as this kind of plays out. >> where's this thing going next? because i already see guys like roger stone on twitter saying, see, they were eavesdropping on us. but they may have had absolute legal authority to be listening in on paul manafort's conversations. >> sure, and this is in regards to that cnn report that there was a fisa wiretap on paul manafort and certainly, if true, you can't get a fisa wiretap warrant unless you persuade a federal judge that not only is there evidence of some sort of criminal wrongdoing but this person is an agent of a foreign power, illegal agent of a foreign power. existence of a fisa warrant just really would underscore how seriously the justice department has been looking at paul manafort for quite some time. >> robert mueller, this man is getting to work. thank you so much. great reporting. if you haven't seen it yet, you got to get to this piece, it's

and paul manafort, as was reported by the daily beast, paul manafort was still advising trump through the transition. as we get deeper into the investigation, as it broadens its scope we're going to see that habit that donald trump has of keeping people with problematic things around him is going to be detrimental. >> the posture of the folks in the white house around this investigation, i can see it going a number of different ways. one is okay this is a witch hunt there's nothing there we'll be fine. it's going to blow over. the other is, the shoe is going to drop any day and someone is going to show up at my condo and pick the locks. how are people thinking. >> in terms of public, it's the former. in terms of of what's going on in their own heads and hearts is the latter. olivia brought up paul manafort earlier. he's an interesting case in terms of trump's inner circle and white house officials working there because they greatly resent mr. manafort and many of them blame, fairly or unfairly, for the widening scope of the investigation into the finances of the president and his fami

in addition to president trump, who else was paul manafort speaking to. i'm sure there's a lot of people out there tonight wondering if they're caught on those tapes. >> absolutely. the fbi restarted surveillance after getting a new feesa warrant. getting one is not easy to do. what does that tell you at the investigation. >> at the outs it means the government was able to prove to a judge that they had probable cause that paul manafort was the agent of a foreign power. the definition can encompass a lot of different activities, but typically it does indicate there's some evidence here of there being criminal wrongdoing. >> so considering the surveillance was discontinued at some point last year for lack of evidence, it means when they got the fisa warrant again, they must have learned something new, right, something that would -- that rises to that level that you just started. >> right. so it does appear as though obviously there are connections here. there are two separate investigations. one is a previous investigation related to mr. manafort's contact

yafrts wiretapped paul manafort after the election. joining us is page la brown who broke the story and have the details about why the government was listening to someone so close to the president. pam, what have you learned? >> anderson, the fbi got permission to monitor paul manafort before and after the election. this is an extraordinary step for the fbi to do surveillance of a high-ranking campaign official. and, of course, manafort is at the center of the russia meddling probe. we're told that are intercepted communications whether manafort was encouraging russians to help with the campaign. other sources cau

before paul manafort went into trump world this was -- this was going on. so you know, it sort of begs the question, you know, obviously we have no idea if anybody from the president on down knew that he was under this kind of investigation, certainly it's impossible to think they did. if you take a step back and think about the whole question of russian interference in the election, and poof, suddenly this guy who was, you know, so under surveillance that they got this warrant, which you said is so hard to get, and then appears in the trump campaign after not working in politics for decades is very, very curious. >> our excellent reporting, we have shown it, but "the new york times" has strong reporting suggesting that manafort, the special counsel, robert mueller and his team have had scare tactics, go into paul manafort's home and picking his lock and going through his clauseeosets taking documents. this is big time. >> it is big time. it's not only what do they have on him, but what do they want to get on other people. you are going after somebody like

>> you need to distinguish between the tactic he's using against paul manafort and paul manafort's aides which is highly aggressive strictly defined to get enough pressure points on paul manafort that he flips and the tact that is being user for white house aids with which reporting to "the new york times" reporting and everything else we're hearing is much more at a distance, what you would describe as by the books, trying to build relationships of trust. perhaps not trying to push the investigation into a adversarial investigation. and i think that's done by design. part of it is just that he feels like there is more vulnerabilities perhaps outside of the white house with paul manafort. part of it is just a process you use when you're a white collar criminal defense lawyer. i'm sure other panelists can talk to this than the nonlawyer. he's smart about this. according to the daily beast he's compartmentalized his staff. there are others looking at paul manafort, and others in trump orbit. designed squarely to look at the social media aspect of this investigation. he's not dumb. he's qui

in addition to president trump, who else was paul manafort speaking to, don? i'm sure there are a lot of people out there tonight right now wondering if there's caught on those tapes. >> absolutely, and they should be wondering that. susan, the fbi restarted surveillance after obtaining a new fisa warrant that extended into 2017. of course getting a fisa warrant is not easy to do. what does that tell you about this investigation? >> so at the outset, obtaining a fisa warrant means that the government was able to prove that they had probable cause that paul manafort was the agent of a foreign power. the definition can encompass a lot of different activities but typically it does indicate there's some evidence here of there being criminal wrongdoing. >> so considering the surveillance was discontinued at some point last year for lack of evidence, it means when they got the fisa warrant again, they must have learned something new, right? something that rises to that level that you just stated. >> right. so it does appear as though obviously there are connections

it seems to me they're trying to shake the tree with paul manafort. i've watched enough episodes of the wire to know this is how you turn the flip. i had nearly 20 years in law enforcement. >> it's getting weird. >> yeah. he got off twitter 24 hours ago. twitter provided a stabilizing platform. >> let's go back to paul manafort. >> it seems like they are attempting, when you do something like this publicly, it seems, i've talked to with bunch of people. >> should drunk be worried? >> he should be worried. he knows what he did. i thinker it is good for trump in this sense. short term, he will attack the leaks. he'll say a -- >> does that give him cover to say yes, trump tower was wiretapped. >> to say comey's fbi, can't trust those guys and i was right about that. i think ultimately trump, people like me seem to think where there is smoke, there's fire. but trump won't go down reading the newspapers and watching tv and saying they aren't coming after me. he'll attack they will and mobilize his supporters. and i think he wants to get rid of sessions and

. >>> private briefings a new report says paul manafort offered updates on the presidential race the a russian billionaire with close ties to the kremlin. >>> there's also a report that the special counsel wants documents on president trump's actions. >>> down to the wire. the senate is expected to vote next week on a last ditch effort to ree peel obamacare but with a deadline and array sor thin margin for support, will it pass. we welcome our viewers around the world. i'm wolf blitzer, you're in "the situation room." >>> this is cnn breaking news. >> we're following the breaking news, the entire island of puerto rico and 3 1/2 million americans are without power after hurricane maria unleashed what one official is calling total devastation. the strongest storm to hit the island in 85 years ripped trees from the ground and triggered widespread flooding. >> we're also following the search for survivors following a 7.1 earthquake in mexico city. and following a school where rescuers are searching by han to reach a young girl trapped alive. >>> in the white house, there's news paul mana

manafort through the fisa court having approved a wiretap for paul manafort. are you confident that there must have been enough evidence for this warrant to have been granted? >> yeah, i am. i think in -- in 2014, obviously, there was stuff going on that had absolutely nothing to do with donald trump because manafort had no association with him at that point. my interaction, my -- >> he was still on his birther campaign. >> my interaction with the fisa court, my office's interaction with him gives me a great deal of confidence from the time i was there from 2002 to 2009 that fisa judges take this responsibility incredibly seriously. and they know, especially when you're allowing fisa wires on american citizens. the standard is really high. i have a degree of confidence in that. once you get to 2016, i don't think those judges in my experience, would care about a campaign context -- >> or presidential candidate? that a presidential candidate could be indirectly -- >> but at least the law enforcement folks were doing it, have an absolute obligation to minimize t

so did you know about a fisa warrant against paul manafort at the time? >> i did not. >> you did not. okay. >> and again, i have to say that what we have is media reporting only. and actually, commenting on -- fisa's are classified and so, you know, even if i knew something about it i couldn't and i don't. and again, i will just conclude by saying i stand on what i said on the 5th of march. >> is it possible the president was picked up in a conversation with paul manafort? >> it's certainly conceivable. >> is it likely? >> i can't say. i wouldn't want to go there, but i will say it's possible. >> okay. the "washington post" is also reporting tonight that while paul manafort was working for donald trump, he offered to privately brief a russian oligarch on the campaign. how would the russians interpret that, mr. clapper? >> well, obviously perhaps a -- they would regard it perhaps as a witting akplis. again, as part of their overall campaign to interfere with the election. so if they had a witting and willing participant who would engage with them, talk to

investigators wiretapped paul manafort before and after the november election. sources say the surveillance continued into early this year. covering a period in which manafort was phone to be talking to president trump. the anybody h. fbi's interest in his communications with specd russian operatives. pamela brown is part of the team that broke this report. >>reporter: good morning. sources tell us that the fbi got permission from the secret surveillance court to monitor paul manafort, the former trump campaign chairman before and after the election. this is an extraordinary step for the fbi to do the surveillance of a high ranking official. we're told there are inser accepted communications that raised concerns among investigators about whether manafort was encouraging russians to help with the campaign. the now other sources told us that the intelligence was not conclusive, special council robert mueller has been provided all of the communications. we did not get a comment from paul manafort's spokesman but he has previously denied he ever knowingly communicat

just paul manafort during the campaign? was it just mike flynn, the national security adviser for the first month? or did it go as high as the president of the united states himself? >> we'll hear from senator chuck grassley now and something he said today. he is the chairman of the judiciary committee, trying to get manafort to respond to the judiciary committee. let's listen to this. >> from a layman's point of view, as chairman of the committee, not as a lawyer, we have tried to talk to manafort's lawyers for weeks and we don't get a phone call returned. that would mandate that we have a subpoena. i don't know whether it's worth issuing subpoenas when somebody's been indicted if there's any value in that if you get an outcome of the it. >> will be indicted? what is your understanding? >> all i know is what i saw on maybe your channel or somebody else's channel. >> jill, your interpretation of that? >> well, he's right. i heard it on msnbc that paul manafort was told that he would be indicted. and as i said, that's not th

>> well, you noticed to distinguish the tactic he's using against paul manafort and paul manafort's aides and even his own lawyer which is highy aggressive and seems strictly defined to try to get enough pressure points on paul manafort that he flips and the tactic that's being used for the white house aides which what we're hearing is much more at a distance, much more what you would describe as by the books. trying to build relationships of trust perhaps, but not trying to push the investigation into an adversarial investigation and i think that's done by design. part of it is he feels like there's more vulnerabilities outside the white house. part of is a process that you use when you're a white collar defense lawyer. he's smart about this. he's also as we've reported at the daily beast compartmentalized his staff. there are people who are looking strictly at manafort. there are people who are looking at other facets within the trump orbit, some designed to look strict lg at the social media. he's not did you mean. he's not new at this. this is something he's quite expert at and we're

he's the president that replaced the proputin dictator who paul manafort used to work for. the guy who replaced him himself would be thrown out. number two, russia would get to keep the parts when they invaded ukraine. that feels better and part three of the plan would be the u.s. would drop our sanctions against russia, which we leveed against them for invading ukraine and taking over part of that country. that would be quite a deal, all right? putin would get a, what he wants and b, what he wants and in exchange for that, he would get c, more of what he wants. get rid of a president he doesn't like. get to keep the stuff he stole and stop paying the price for it. nice deal. the details of this awesome deal were reportedly written up, putin into a sealed envelope, which president trump's lawyer hand delivered to the white house. quoting from "the new york times", a week before mike flynn resigned as trump national security advisor, a sealed proposal was hand delivered to his office outlining a way for president trump to lift sanctions against russia. michael cohen said he

that as cnn has learned exclusively the investigation into trump's campaign manager, paul manafort are examining activities that go back more than a decade. >>> and the gop taking action. another shot at repealing obamacare. we're going to tell you what's in this latest bill and what it could mean for your health care. that's a lot to cover this evening. we're going to begin, though, with hurricane maria. cnn's tom slater is live for us. let's go first to paten walsh. nick, the eye of the hurricane is expected to slam into puerto rico within hours. what are the conditions on the ground right now? >> reporter: don, it's a full ten hours before we really see landfall of hurricane maria where they're reporting speeds of 175 miles an hour. that would mean you'd have to be well over 98 years old to ever see anything like this in puerto rico before. the last time they saw a category 5 was 1928. but the risk now is potentially the vast amount of water hurricane maria will bring with it. i am just close to the beachfront. there's no way you can see it now behind those houses. there's a potenti

that paul manafort was the agent of a foreign power. the way that is defined involves the possibility of their being criminal conduct. these are really serious allegations and the mere fact that a judge thought there was enough to issue a warrant in two circumstances. the other question is the intervening thing that donald trump saw fit to hire him as his campaign chair. it does raise questions about the president's judgment and some of the questions about the contacts and behavior in the ukraine were known prior to the time he was hired to the trump campaign. it raises questions about the preexisting warrant and the reissuance. >> there is no assurance that the trump campaign or donald trump as a private citizen knew that paul manafort was under a fisa surveillance. >> he was not aware that there was a fisa warrant had been issued, but there was public reporting about the troubling nature of some of these connections. in fact the revelation of this ledger purportedly transferring funds into the ukraine and paul manafort had to step dow

michael flynn and paul manafort. us with you for joining the latest on this developing story. david: we will get reaction from chris van hollen of maryland. this is bloomberg. ♪ david: this is bloomberg markets. i'm david gura. shery: i'm shery ahn. the second worst day this month as investors assess the impact of president trump's tax plan on big companies operating overseas. oliver renick is here to discuss further. why are they getting hit so hard? need a huge reason to move even further down. this is a stock that has gotten pummeled all year. today i think probably perhaps on toptoday i think probably pes on top of fundamental concerns are what's going to happen with this company that has a lot of cash overseas. and of the big components of the tax plan we are expecting to get more details on is the plan for multinational companies to park their money overseas or take their earnings from overseas and keep them there. this is obviously a big topic. i'm looking at an equity screening function. you can basically e

he's reported extensively on paul manafort's activities working against u.s. foreign policy in crimea, ukraine and now more. thank you for being with us tonight. >> thanks for having me. >> you reported provocatively and interestingly with a lot of good documentation on paul manafort's connections to those u.s. marines coming ununder attack in crimea in 2006 frmt do you have any idea why the officials who spoke to you and the ukrainian officials that spoke to others why manafort may have been part of the effort to led to those attacks on those marines? >> it should be said at this point beyond what those officials and sources have said to us and have reported to other folks in the media, this is a pretty circumstantial case, all be it a damming one. we know manafort was working at that time for the party of regions. we know he was advising them to stoke the flames of russian nationalism in crimea and the ukraine where there is a large russian population. we know those officials particularly u.s. state department officials you can see it in the wikileaks of sta

manafort's house in july, prosecutors with the special counsel's office told him, told paul manafort he should expect to be indicted, they expect to indict him. you were a federal prosecutor until about five minutes ago. do prosecutors really do that? do they tell people expect to get indicted months before they actually do indict them? >> yes, i don't know about months before but yes. this is being portrayed as heavy-handed and a threat. i don't think that's how it's intended. you note it was prosecutors who told them, not the agents. prosecutors wouldn't have been on the scene at the search warrant and raid. that would have been fbi. my guess is what happened is there was a phone call or conversation that occurred later from the prosecutors who talked to his lawyers and said you should know your status, which you are a target of a grand jury and we intend to indict you. so that is conversation that often occurs as an opportunity to begin negotiations. what it means is unless you want to talk with us about what you know and cooperate and maybe we'll change our mind. so it's not unco

this situation with paul manafort is quite serious, and it's detailed. anyone who's been following this or following manafort's career knows he's been involved in some questionable business activity all the way back way before he had anything to do with donald trump, when he was with roger stone and the work they did, which is probably why mueller's going back that far. >> let's be fair. >> let's not forget the story cha that came out about manafort's name being written down in the logs in the ukraine when they raided those offices when things were falling apart there with cash payments to manafort. these are all things that connect in a very indirect way with russia and trump and that influence which is why manafort is such a target. >> right, but no one has charged him with any sort of crime before, so i think it's important to point that out%. and just the fact that mueller is leaning on him to cooperate against other people doesn't mean he has something to give on other people. remember, brother before did sh starr was locked up in an effort, and she

>> remember on the pardon of paul manafort, he can still be compelled to testify. he can with subpoenaed to testify. and he's been pardoned, what's his fifth amendment claim. and he can be compelled to testify at the state level which is why the special counsel's cooperation with the new york attorney general which is apparently ongoing is so important. >> the fact that the federal judge allowed the no-knock rule, allowed the fbi agents to show up ap dawn, pick the lock before the guy can get out of his bed, come barging in, what does that fell you about the fisa court and what they decided to do to allow this level of action? >> i think those are probably two different court orders. the warrant authorizing the overt search, i that was a criminal court, a regular federal district court that authorized that. separate from that is the cnn reporting that there were separate fisa orders that would have been separate -- >> are they wire taps? >> according to that report there were wire taps or possibly a search. it's unclear. >> communications, what does that mean? >> i

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everyone wants paul manafort indicted. >> sean: they really want the president but paul manafort is just collateral damage. you are right about the republicans, eight you are right about these investigations. they are not happening, though. the deputy attorney general -- he did not appoint a special counsel. i do not know what the attorney general is doing. there's a sense of -- okay, if we are going go after paul manafort and after a 30-year career military person like general flynn? ab you need to go after everybody else because the evidence against hillary alone, the questions about unmasking and surveillance leaks alone render a threat with the fourth amendment of the constitution and i don't see it. >> i am with you. attorney general sessions did not recuse himself from any of the things we are now discussing. he could instruct the fbi to open up a case but at the same time, i would say to the house and senate -- both parties, by the way -- when you start seeing the power of the fbi or the power of the cia, being suborned for political reasons, whether you are democrat or republican

and paul manafort. when it began clearly nothing to do with donald trump, it's the fact that he is shady and had dirty dealings. melissa: does it make it okay to wiretap him? >> we don't take those decisions, through the courts-- >> before and after the election. >> president trump was on the apprentice when paul manafort was originally wiretapped. it had nothing to do with president obama. maybe the ag knew. melissa: so it's all okay. >> is it all okay that paul manafort. melissa: you're not answering, you're dodging. >> i'm not dodging. >> so something good makes it bad. >> was not personally wiretapped. picked up in conversations, that's what happens on wiretaps. melissa: gary how do you think it plays in the court of american opinion. >> let's talk about leaks, it's not done by accident. it's to move the needle on witnesses. hoping that manafort has something on the president and maybe something comes out. and the bottom line is unfortunately, as a taxpayer, we have no say in the matter right here.

it's clear they have a big target on paul manafort. then you have all those people unmasking, surveillance, intelligence leaking -- thosee are crimes. all of hillary clinton's felonies. we've been over this many, many times. a leak a day. mueller and rosenstein and comey. where's the congress?nd where's the special counsel. what is the attorney general doing here and shouldn't he be playing a big role in investigating what seems to be real crimes and constitutional violations like in the case of sharyl? >> that they be doing that. sean, if it was done properly and there is an investigation going on, we would not know that. i would hope that the whole aspect of the leaking scandale that is taking place now for months and months and months including conversations that the president had with foreigne leaders -- this is not something that should be tolerated in any administration no matter what your political leaning is. it's outrageous and illegal. we know it was taking place. what we are hoping is that there is actually an investigation

they obviously thing paul manafort is a key figure. they have tried every possible way to intimidate him. in a white collar investigation which usually operating by grand jury subpoena and requests for evidence under penalties but to search someone's house at 6:00 in the morning as they did with manafort, that's a very aggressive tact. we'll see. will it pay off with a guilty plea and let's be fair to paul manafort? let's see whether he did anything wrong. nothing has been proven or even charged at this point. >> that's on the going to his house in the wee hours of the morning. the no-knock warrant. michael, what about our reporting on the manafort wiretaps. quickly, what would the feds have to show a judge just to get the green light to do a wiretap? >> they would have to give some indication that there was some evidence that a crime was likely being committed. it's not a simple thing to get a wiretap. my guess is they have had that for some time. whether that be through financial documents or other people talking or wires they picked

are you more interested in prosecuting paul manafort or flipping paul manafort? >> you know, we think of these as pure prosecutions so you start on the bottom and you work your way to the top. but when we look at who the bottom is, it's high level guys like paul manafort who was the campaign chairman and michael flynn who was the national security adviser. and special counsel mueller is going in on those guys. he's treating them like drug kingpins or organized crime dudes with the no knock warrant, with the search of the wife at the crack of dawn. and so, again, if this is the bottom it sounds like somebody higher up is at the top. and so, that's president trump. and his even higher level officials. >> is it too much of a paul to think that investigators would then start put together dots sort of separated as paul manafort's ties to russia and the fact that we now know that probably the russians, most likely the russians, breached 21 election systems? do they wind up getting put together inside mueller's investigation or more a matter for the national security in