This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Thursday, January 24th, 2019.

I'm Caleb Brown.

There is some new information about the Julian Sanchez, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, comments.

There was a document filed by an affiant from the Special Counsel's Office that was laying

out for the court in greater detail their allegation that

Paul Manafort had breached his cooperation agreement by lying to the

Special Counsel's office about a number of different issues and in a way

maybe just the most striking thing is how much of it is redacted suggesting how much of

what the office is looking at is still not really part of the public record.

They didn't redact things that have already been reported on,

but there was an enormous amount of details, sometimes entire sections that were almost wholly redacted, mostly concerning Manoford's interactions with Constantine Kilminich, who is believed to be a former Russian intelligence officer, although as

is often said there's no one is really a former intelligence officer in in Russia. So a lot of the

concerned Manafort's alleged lies from at least falsehoods about not having met with Kilminick, not having discussed, for example, Ukraine peace

plans with him.

Kilminick is worth mentioning has also been charged with helping Manafort witness tamper by attempting to get people to

confirm his sort of false story about whether these foreign lobbying offices

were targeting propaganda at the US.

So for anybody who became familiar with Paul Manafort in 2016,

I think it was Betsy Woodruff who had the super long piece that just detailed how he was

essentially a lobbyist for tyrants, for authoritarians around the world. That was his job. So it shouldn't actually

surprise anyone that the activities that he was engaged in on behalf of the Trump campaign were at least

questionable.

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