What’s Going On With Paul Manafort?

The Daily

The New York Times

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🗓️ 28 November 2018

⏱️ 21 minutes

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The special counsel’s office says that Paul Manafort, the president’s former campaign chairman, repeatedly lied to investigators, even after agreeing to cooperate in the Russia inquiry. Meanwhile, The Guardian is reporting that Mr. Manafort met with Julian Assange, the head of WikiLeaks, in 2016 — a meeting the special counsel seems to know nothing about. Guest: Michael S. Schmidt, who has been covering the special counsel investigation for The New York Times. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.

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0:26.0	From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro.
0:32.9	This is the deal.
0:37.1	Today, the special counsel's office says that Paul Manafort repeatedly lied, even after
0:48.2	agreeing to cooperate in the Russia investigation.
0:52.5	Meanwhile, the Guardian is reporting that Manafort met with Julian Assange in 2016.
0:59.2	A meeting that the special counsel seems to know nothing about.
1:05.7	What's going on with Paul Manafort?
1:14.1	It's Wednesday, November 28th.
1:21.1	Mike Schmidt, as of Tuesday morning, what's our reporting on Paul Manafort show?
1:26.1	On the show?
1:27.1	What do you mean on his?
1:30.1	He genuinely doesn't know what you said.
1:32.1	What is the show?
1:33.4	What is our reporting about?
1:35.0	I'm trying to get Mike Schmidt.
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