Hello and welcome to Trumpcast, I'm Virginia Heffernan.

Today's show is about the never-not-centulating topic of everybody's favorite rat, Paul Manafort.

Manafort, as the world of Trumpcast listeners well knows, flipped on President Trump, his

former boss, and agreed to tell Robert Mueller's investigation everything he knows.

But what does Manafort know?

That's what Rachel Weiner, a terrific reporter at the Washington Post who's been covering

the Manafort trial, is going to talk about today.

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Rachel, welcome to Trumpcast.

Hi.

So you know how the 11 o'clock news starts with scary bleeding stuff and then goes at the

end to like surplus daisy crops and twins who are reunited after 20 years.

Well on Trumpcast when bad news is happening elsewhere, we tend to focus on the Manafort

flip.

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