LIVES, IT WILL ALWAYS BE TRUE WE
COLLECTIVELY LIVED THROUGH AN
UNPRECEDENTED MOMENT IN AMERICAN
HISTORY IN WHICH THE IMMEDIATE
PAST PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES HAD TO PARDON HIS
CAMPAIGN MANAGER, PARDON HIS
LONGEST STANDING POLITICAL
ADVISER, HIS NATIONAL SECURITY
ADVISER, HIS FOREIGN POLICY
ADVISER, THE DEPUTY CHAIR OF HIS
INAUGURAL AND HIS DEPUTY
CHAIRMAN WENT TO PRISON AND HIS
PERSONAL LAWYER WENT TO PRISON
AND HIS OTHER PERSONAL LAWYER IS
UNDER FEDERAL INVESTIGATION AND
HE HIMSELF IS NAMED BY
PROSECUTORS AS AN UNINDICTED
COCONSPIRATOR.
AND HE HIMSELF IS CURRENTLY AS
WE SPEAK UNDER ACTIVE CRIMINAL
INVESTIGATION IN TWO STATES.
THIS IS OUR LIFE.
CONGRATULATIONS.
THIS IS WHAT WE HAVE DONE.
BUT EVEN AMIDST THAT CAVALCADE
OF INDICTED AND/OR IMPRISONED OR
PARDONS CONSPIRATORS OF THE
FORMER PRESIDENT, WHO WANTS TO
BE PRESIDENT AGAIN, HIS CAMPAIGN
CHAIRMAN SPECIFICALLY STILL
MANAGES TO STAND OUT, AND IS
STILL MAKING NEWS TODAY.
YOULL RECALL HIS NAME IS PAUL
MANAFORT.
HE WAS CONVICTED OF MULTIPLE
FELONIES INCLUDING TAX FRAUD AND
BANK FRAUD.
MUCH CONNECTED TO MILLIONS OF
DOLLARS IN SECRET PAYMENTS HE
GOT FROM HIS FORMER EMPLOYER, A
PRO-PUTIN AUTHORITARIAN LEADER
WHO USED TO RULE UKRAINE.
MANAFORT SERVED A SMALL PORTION
OF HIS FEDERAL PRISON SENTENCE
BEFORE PRESIDENT TRUMP PARDONED
HIM RIGHT ON HIS WAY OUT OF
OFFICE.
BUT THERE HAS REMAINED A SORT OF
ENDUREING MYSTERY AROUND
MANAFORTS SHORT-LIVED
COOPERATION AGREEMENT WITH
ROBERT MUELLER AND WHY IT
COLLAPSED.
PROSECUTORS ALLEGE MANAFORT LIED
TO THEM ABOUT A WHOLE BUNCH OF
THINGS AND IN LYING TO THEM,
THAT VOIDED HIS DEAL.
IT VOIDED THE COOPERATION
AGREEMENT THAT HE HAD MADE WITH
THEM.
THE JUDGE LOOKED AT ALL THE
EVIDENCE OF THAT AND AGREED WITH
PROSECUTORS, BUT MUCH OF THE
THATS WHAT WE HAD.
NOW THE COURT HAS RELEASED LESS
REDACTED VERSIONS OF THAT
DOCUMENT.
NOW WE KNOW TODAY IN BLACK AND
WHITE WHAT TRUMPS CAMPAIGN
CHAIR LIED TO PROSECUTORS ABOUT.
ON PAIN OF CONSIDERABLE PRISON
TIME FOR DOING SO.
HERES ANDREW WEISSMANN SPEAKING
TO THE JUDGE.
QUOTE, THE ISSUE OF INTERNAL
CAMPAIGN POLLING DATA BEING SENT
TO BLANK WHO THE DEFENDANT
CONCEDED IS EXTREMELY CLOSE TO
THE SENIOR LEADER IN RUSSIA, IS
IN THE CORE OF WHAT THE SPECIAL
COUNSEL IS SUPPOSED TO BE
INVESTIGATING.
ANOTHER NEW DOCUMENT.
NEWLY UNREDACTED.
MANAFORT LIED TO THE GOVERNMENT
ABOUT HIS SHARING OF INTERNAL
TRUMP CAMPAIGN DATA WITH
KILIMNIK.
THAT WOULD BE KONSTANTIN
KILIMNIK, A LONG TIME BUSINESS
ASSOCIATE OF MANAFORT WHO THEY
SAY IS A RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE
AGENT.
LAST MONTH, THE U.S. GOVERNMENT
ASSERTED MANAFORT DID SHARE
THOSE DOCUMENTS WITH KILIMNIK,
AND HE SHARED THEM WITH RUSSIAN
INTELLIGENCE.
WE HAVE LONG KNOWN THE BROAD
OUTLINES OF THIS PART OF THE
STORY BUT WE NOW KNOW FROM THESE
NEWLY UNREDACTED FILINGS THAT
NUMBER ONE, MANAFORT LIED TO
PROSECUTORS ABOUT THE NATURE OF
THE DATA HE WAS SHARING.
HE INSISTED IT WAS NO BIG DEAL.
IT WASNT INTERNAL VALUABLE
MATERIAL.
IT WAS ALL JUST STUFF YOU COULD
GET PUBLICLY ANYWAY.
THAT WAS A LIE.
ALSO, HE LIED ABOUT WHETHER HE
WAS GIVING IT TO SOMEONE WHO HE
KNEW WOULD PASS IT ON TO THE
RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT.
HERES THE JUDGE, QUOTE, THE
EVENT WERE DISCUSSING INVOLVED
SHARING INTERNAL CONFIDENTIAL
POLLING DATA COVERED BY A
NONDISCLOSURE AGREEMENT.
NOT ONLY OUTSIDE THE CAMPAIGN,
BUT HES SHARING IT WITH A
FOREIGN NATIONAL WITH THE INTENT
IT WOULD BE PASSED ON TO OTHER
FOREIGN NATIONALS, IN THIS CASE,
RUSSIANS.
WHY WOULD DONALD TRUMPS KREMLIN
LINKED CAMPAIGN CHAIR BE SHARING
PROTECTED VALUABLE INTERNAL
CAMPAIGN POLLING DATA WITH A
RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE OFFICER
WHILE RUSSIA WAS CARRYING OUT AN
ATTACK ON OUR ELECTION TO TRY TO
GET TRUMP ELECTED?
THAT WAS WHAT FULLY HALF THE
MUELLER INVESTIGATION WAS ABOUT.
WHAT RUSSIA DID TO OUR ELECTION
TO TRY TO ELECT TRUMP AND HOW
THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN WAS INVOLVED
IN IT AND PERHAPS ASSISTED IT.
WHAT WE THOUGHT HAPPENED
HAPPENED.
TRUMPS CAMPAIGN CHAIR, PAUL
MANAFORT, SHARING THIS KIND OF
DATA WITH A RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE
OFFICER IS THE PROVERBIAL
SMOKING GUN IN TERMS OF HOW THE
TRUMP CAMPAIGN WAS INVOLVED IN
IT.
GIVING RUSSIA MATERIAL THEY