WH attempts to minimize Manafort role

The White House attempted to minimize Paul Manafort's role in the Trump campaign after the former chairman was mentioned during the House Intelligence Committee hearing on Russian activity in the 2016 election.

[iqvan]

0:30 "I brought Paul in, because A VERY VERY SMART FRIEND OF MINE, WHO KNEW HIM VERY WELL, has said he is fantastic." And is Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin that friend by any chance?

[markgreen]

Trump said that he hired Manafort because a friend told him that he would make a great campaign manager. I wonder if that friend was Sergey Kislyak.

[Lioninthenight]

Manafort looks like a mob guy in a Twilight Zone episode.

[RL]

It only became limited when reporters started linking together his russian connection along with donald trumps so don't even try it