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_Published 2017-03-22. Former Trump Campaign Aide Paul Manafort's mentions of his or the campaign's connections with Russia leading up to the election._


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## Transcript

Agreement that I negotiated for Ukraine. And there's no basis to it. I'm always careful of the clients I take. Now you got Trump who's saying nice things about Putin, and he brings in a guy who was helping someone who is connected to Russian bad guys? We can sit down and talk foreign policy if you want any time cuz it's a very complex thing. But at the end of the day, the agreement that the current president, who I also helped get in power, signed was an agreement that I negotiated for Ukraine with the European Union. And that's the reason that there was a document for Poroshenko to sign. The work that I was doing in Ukraine was to help Ukraine get into Europe, and we succeeded.

But I'm not working for any clients right now other than Mr. Trump. And are you going to make a promise in the future that if he's president, you'll be careful what clients you take? I'm always careful what clients I take. Are there any ties between Mr. Trump, you or your campaign, and Putin and his regime? No there are not. It's absurd, and there's no basis to it. We have no relationship. This is an absurd attempt by the Clinton campaign to try to get the focus off of what the real issue is. The real issue isn't even the Democratic National Committee server being hacked. The real issue is her server.

The Republican Party's views when it comes to Ukraine. How much influence did you have on changing that language sir? I had none. In fact, I didn't even hear of it until after our conversation was over. [ BLANK_AUDIO ]

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