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>>> PAUL MANAFORT'S SECRET MEMO MAKING HIS CASE FOR GETTING A
JOB WITH DONALD TRUMP. WE HAVE MANAFORT'S ACTUAL MEMO.
THIS IS A DOCUMENT WHICH HAS NEVER BEEN PUBLISHED IN ITS
ENTIRETY. IT IS ACTUALLY A FASCINATING
READ. ESPECIALLY GIVEN THAT WE NOW
KNOW BOB MUELLER'S INVESTIGATORS WARNED MANAFORT HE COULD BE
INDICTED. WE HAVE THE FIVE PAGES THAT
MANAFORT WROTE IN 2016. THIS IS FROM "NEW YORK TIMES"
REPORTER GLEN THRUSH. HE FIRST WROTE ABOUT MANAFORT'S
WRITTEN APPEAL FOR A CAMPAIGN JOB EARLIER THIS YEAR.
THRUSH DID NOT RELEASE THE ENTIRE HELP OVERS AT THE TIME.
AND THE MEMO SHOWS MANAFORT MAKING HIS CASE AS A VOLUNTEER
LABORER WHO WOULD FIGHT THE WASHINGTON ESTABLISHMENT.
IT SHOWED HOW HE PLAYED DOWN HIS LINKS TO RUSSIA OF MANAFORT
PROEMPT HIM IN FEBRUARY. TRUMP WAS FACING THE REVOLT FROM
THE ESTABLISHMENT WITH HEARTBURN OVER HIS RACIAL CONTROVERSIES OF
THIS IS THE HEADLINE THE DAY OF MANAFORT'S MEMO.
>> TONIGHT THE KLAN CONTROVERSY EXPLODING AROUND DONALD TRUMP
AFTER REFUSING TO COULD NOT DEPP THE KKK'S FORMER LEADER.
WHAT HE'S SAYING NOW AND WHAT WE FOUND HIM SAYING YEARS AGO.
PLUS, TENSIONS BOIL OVER AT TRUMP'S RALLY AND TONIGHT SOME
REPUBLICAN LEADERS LARPD. SCRAMBLING TO STOP IT.
>> MANAFORT WROTE THAT VERY DAY, TRYING ON PLAY ON TRUMP'S VERY
EGO, AND PROMISING TO DEPLOY THE 60s OF AN INSIDER.
HE SAID CONTINUE TO MANAGE THE CAMPAIGN THE SAIL.
NOTHING REALLY NEEDS TO CHANGE ON WHAT MANAFORT CALLED TRACK
ONE, WINNING THE PRIMARIES. BUT HE WARNED, THE CONVENTION.
HE WRITES THE PARTY ESTABLISHMENT WOULD FIGHT HIM
THERE. USED THE PLATFORM TO UNDERMINE
TRUMP'S POSITION ON KEY ISSUES. REMEMBER THAT.
BECAUSE BOB MUELLER MAY SCRUTINIZE WHY RUSSIA GOT SOME
COZY TREATMENT IN THAT PLATFORM. THAT'S THE WHY.
THEN THERE IS THE WHO. MANAFORT SAYS HE WAS.
THIS SECRET MEDICAL OVER SHOWING MANAFORT PITCHED HIMSELF AS THAT
RARE SPECIES IN CONSULTING, AN ALTRUISTIC FREE BIRD.
I'M NOT LOOKING FOR A PAID JOB, HE WROTE.
AND MANAFORT ASKED TO USE THAT TO MAKE THE CASE.
WHILE IT IS LEGAL TO VOLUNTEER FOR A CAMPAIGN, IT IS NOT LEGAL
TO DONATE YOUR SERVICE THAT'S THE THEY WERE COMPENSATED BY ANY
ILLEGAL SOURCE. AND FINALLY, THERE'S WHO
MANAFORT SAYS HE WAS NOT. HE WROTE HE WAS NOT A PART OF
THE WASHINGTON ESTABLISHMENT. NOT SOMEONE WITH CLIENT
RELATIONSHIPS DEALING WITH WASHINGTON.
NOT SOMEONE WITH WASHINGTON BAG ANG AND NOT COZY WITH POLITICAL
BLIPT OF THE HE WROTE MY BLOOD ENEMY IS KARL ROVE.
PLAYING DOWN THE CLIENTS HE HAD, DICTATORS LIKE FERDINAND MARCOS
AND DICTATORS, AND OLIGARCHS. THE ONLY TIME MANAFORT BROUGHT
PUP WORK IN THE MEMO WAS TO DISTANCE HIMSELF FROM IT SAYING
HIS WORK WITH BLACK, MANAFORT, STONE WHO SPOKE WITH
INVESTIGATORS TODAY, WROTE, I HAVE NOT BEEN PARTNER WITH ROGER
STONE SINCE 1992 OF THE HAVING BEGUN THE MEMO BY PROMISING
TRUMP THAT HE DIDN'T HAVE TO CHANGE, SAYING IT CLOSED WITH A
FLOURISH OF I LIVE IN TRUMP POWER ON FIFTH AVENUE, EVEN
INCLUDING THE SPECIFIC APARTMENT NUMBER IN CASE YOU WANTED
CLARIFICATION. AN OUTSIDER.
A SUPPORTER. A TENANT.
THOSE WERE THE CORE MESSAGES MANAFORT DELIVERED TO TRUMP
BEFORE THEY TEAMED UP. NEITHER MAN COULD HAVE KNOWN HOW
QUICKLY THEIR PATHS WOULD DIVERGE.
MANAFORT FINDING HIS HOME RAIDED AND HIS LAWYERS TRYING TO SPARE
HIM INDICTMENT AND ANY RISK OF
BECOMING -- >> GLEN, HOW MIGHT INVESTIGATORS
LOOK AT THE WAY THESE TWO MEN LINKED UP AND WHAT WE'VE LEARNED
FROM YOUR REPORTING HERE? >> WITH, WHAT YOU HAVE TO VIEW
THIS THROUGH IS THE PRISM WE'VE SEEN THE LAST COUPLE WEEKS.
WE KNOW THAT BOB MUELLER HAS SIFTED THROUGH TENS OF THOUSANDS
OF PAUL MANAFORT E-MAILS. HE REPORTEDLY OFFERED THIS
RUSSIAN OLIGARCH WEEKLY BRIEFINGS ON WHAT THE TRUMP
CAMPAIGN WAS UP TO. SO IT IS CLEAR THAT HE WAS
MIFING BOTH OF HIS BUSINESSES. WHAT IS LESS CLEAR AND WHAT WERE
HIS MOTIVATIONS? NEFARIOUS?
COMMERCIAL? JUST RELATIVELY INNOCENT?
IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO TELL FROM THE INFO OUT THERE WHAT HIS
MOTIVATIONS WERE OF THE THIS MUCH IS CLEAR.
PEA AT THE TIME, ON THE CAMPAIGN, WONDERED WHY THIS GUY
WAS HANGING AROUND. WHY HE WOULD HAVE PULLED HIMSELF
INTO AMERICAN POLITICS TO JUMP ON THE CAMPAIGN OF SOMEONE WHO
WAS CERTAIN TO LOSE. AND TOM BARRETT IS A LONG TIME
FRIEND OF THE PRESIDENT'S. CHAIRMAN OF THE INAUGURAL
COMMITTEE SOMEBODY TO WHOM THE PRESIDENT SPEAKS TO.
HE ALSO HAPPENS TO BE FAIRLY CLOSE TO IVANKA TRUMP AND JARED
KUSHNER. AND THIS LETTER IT'S TEST YOU
HOW IT WORKS. BARRACK GOT IT FROM MANAFORT AND
BARRACK HANDED IT TO VAURNG HOW HAND TO IT DONALD TRUMP WHO
LIKED WHAT HE SAW. AND MY SOURCES AT THE TIME, I
WROTE THAT STORY, TOLD ME TRUMP WAS ESPECIALLY IMPRESSED BY TWO
FACTORS. THAT MANAFORT WANTED TO WORK FOR
FREE. TRUMP LOVES IT WHEN PEOPLE WORK
FOR FREE. AND THAT MANAFORT HAD ALREADY
GIVEN HIM MONEY IN THE FORM OF PURCHASING A CO-OP IN TRUMP
TOWER. SO MANAFORT RANG ALL OF TRUMP'S
BELLS. SO THUS A RELATIONSHIP WAS BORN.
>> HE MAKES THE POINT THE MONEY WAS NOT COMING IN WITH THE
CAMPAIGN AND THERE WAS MIXING. IS THAT AN AREA?
WHEN DOES MIFING BECOME MISCONDUCT?
WHEN DOES IT BECOME MISCONDUCT? >> WITH, IT WAS A VERY
INTERESTING REG READ. AND I THINK MUELLER'S TAKE WOULD
TAKE A LOOK AT WITH IT GREAT INTEREST.
I THINK YOU COULD PUT THIS IN CONTEXT OF THE RECENT REVELATION
WE HEARD. THAT THERE WERE E-MAILS THAT
MANAFORT SENT, ESSENTIALLY TRYING, APPEARED TO BE SELLING
ACCESS TO A RUSSIAN BILLIONAIRE. YOU WONDER WHEN SOMEBODY IS
WILLING TO DO SOMETHING FOR FREE, WHAT DO THEY GET OUT OF
IT? >> IT IS NOT A CRIME IN AND OF
IT SEVEN. IT IS A LITTLE BIT OF A COULD

IF HE IS CONCEALING WHAT HE'S DOING WITH THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN,
THAT COULD BE A CRIME. IF HE'S GETTING INCOME THAT HE'S
NOT REPORTING IN HIS TAX RETURNS, AND WE FOUND OUT EIGHT
THERE WAS FURTHER REPORTEDING THAT CONFIRMED WHAT WE KNEW.
THAT MUELLER WAS WORKING THE IRS TO GET TAX WORK.
IF HE WAS NOT DISCLOSING THE INFO ON HIS ATTACH RETURN, THAT
COULD GET HIM IN TROUBLE. I THINK THE ISSUE FOR MANAFORT
IS, WHENEVER YOU ARE HIDING ACTIVITIES YOU'RE DOING WITH
FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS, OR PEOPLE TIED TO FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS, IT
IS A VERY EXPLOSIVE THING THAT ULTIMATELY, A JURY WOULDN'T LIKE
AND A JUDGE WOULDN'T LIKE AT SENTENCING.
>> WHAT IT PAINTS IS THE QUESTION OF MANAFORT.
THE BIGGEST THING IS KNOWLEDGE. WHETHER TRUMP KNEW OR CAME TO
KNOW THAT AND HOW HE REACTED TO IT, OR THE BEST THEORY OF THE
CASE, THAT HE WAS OUT OF THE LOOP.
SOMETIME WE SHOW CLIPS ABOUT INCONSISTENCIES.
OTHER TIMES THEORY OF THE CASE WOULD BE WHEN HE LEARNED, HE
DINGSED HIMSELF. THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO
DO. DISTANCE YOURSELF.
>> PAUL MANAFORT HAS DONE AN AMAZING JOB.
HERE'S PAUL. PAUL MANAFORT.
OH, GOOD. YOU MADE IT.
PAUL MANAFORT HAS DONE -- >> PAUL MANAFORT WAS REPLACED
LONG BEFORE THE ELECTION TOOK PLACE.
HE WAS ONLY THERE A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME.
>> IT CHANGES FAST, GLEN, FROM VITAL TO WHO IS THAT GUY?
HE WAS HERE FOR A SECOND. DOES YOUR REPORTING SHED ANY
LIGHT ON WHETHER DONALD TRUMP CAME TO LEARN MORE ABOUT PAURT
OR REALLY KNEW THE WHOLE TIME? >> I DON'T THINK I THINK CLEAR.
>> THE ISSUE NOW IS IT IS OFTEN DONE THROUGH INTERMEDIARIES.
TRUMP DRIFTS IN AND OUT OF MEETINGS.
HE DEALS WITH THE VAGUORIES OF THESE THINGS.
MANAFORT WAS BROUGHT ON TO DEAL WITH THE ISSUES OF THE
CONVENTION WHICH WERE NOT SMALL ISSUES AT THE TIME.
TRUMP WAS FACING AN INSURRECTION.
WE SAW THAT PRETTY GRAPHICALLY IN TED CRUZ REFUSING TO ENDORSE
HIM DURING THE ELECTION. SO MY SENSE OF THIS IS, TRUMP
MAY HAVE BEEN A LITTLE MORE DISTANT THAN OTHERS IN HIS
FAMILY WHO DEALT WITH MANAFORT DIRECTLY.
>> THE ONE ELEMENT OF TRUTH, WHEN YOU WATCH THOSE CLIPS AND
THEY ARE ASTOUNDING. WE'VE SEEN IT OVER AND OVER
AGAIN. WHICH VERSION OF THOSE EVENTS IS
TRUE? WAS TRUMP TELLING THE TRUTH WHEN
HE WAS LAVISHING PRAISE ON MANAFORT?
OR WAS HE TELLING THE TRUTH WHEN HE SAID HE DIDN'T KNOW HIM VERY
WELL? THE ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION IS
THE ONE THAT TELLS THE STORY IN THIS CASE.
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