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Carl Bernstein is speaking as I write on CNN. He is reporting that Robert Mueller has been probing a May 2017 meeting Paul Manafort held in Quito with the then-President Elect of Ecuador Lenin Moreno. That meeting has been known for well over a year. At the time it was presented as Manafort’s effort to rustle up some new business on behalf of some Chinese clients. The questions seem to be over whether he was there, at least in part, to discuss Julian Assange.
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