(CNN) Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort told Fox News host Sean Hannity that he would never give up information on President Donald Trump or senior White House adviser Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law, according to newly unsealed texts between the two men in 2017 and 2018.

A court unsealed more than 50 pages of texts that show Manafort was scared and defiant and did not think special counsel Robert Mueller would cut a cooperation deal with him because Manafort wouldn't give up Trump or his family.

"They would want me to give up DT or family, esp JK. I would never do that," Manafort texted.

Hannity replied, saying, "Understand. There is nothing to give up on DT. What did JK do?"

Manafort wrote: "Nothin, just like i did nothing. They will want me to make up s--- on both."

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