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Receiving this information that was stolen by the russian intelligence services -- whether any of this amounts to conspiracy. we do not know. >> remember individual one was a person. now weve got organization one. individual one was the president. organization one is now wikileaks. >> exactly. >> prosecutors are also telling the court what they think former trump campaign paul manaforts sentence should be. what are they recommending? >> between 19 1/2. 24 1/2 years is what the guidelines are. th...

Communications between roger stone or anybody else connected to the trump campaign and wikileaks, which we know was receiving this information that was stolen by the russian intelligence services -- whether any of this amounts to conspiracy. we do not know. >> remember individual 1 was a person. now weve got organization 1. individual 1 was the president. organization 1 is now wikileaks. >> exactly. >> prosecutors are also telling the court what they think former trump campaign paul manaforts se...

President of the united states, and that they would talk routinely even after roger stone left the campaign. its hard for me sitting here to believe that knowing all of that, that roger stone had this information from wikileaks and told everyone but donald trump. it just doesnt really add up. >> he testified before your committee, house intelligence. did he lie about those ties to new is that what youre saying? >> well, hes already been, you know, indicted for some of the lies that hes told tous...

Prosecutors have obtained communications between trump associate roger stone and organization 1, aka wikileaks. stone has denied communicating directly with wikileaks. how significant is this? >> well, its significant that this is the first time weve seen prosecutors, special counsel prosecutors, making this allegation. remember, they didnt mention this in the indictment against roger stone, and theyre saying this is the first time were hearing them say that they have what they say are records o...

Go there. but theyre saying -- the prosecutors, don, are making the point that manafort shouldnt get any credit for or any break because of his age. they say that he has acted for a decade like he was above the law and that they should essentially throw the book at him. >> they didnt really know how to define the sort of activities theyre claiming hes guilty of. thank you, evan. i appreciate it. have a great weekend. joining me now is congressman eric swalwell, a member of the house intelligence...

I got to run. have a great weekend. this is "cnn tonight." im don lemon. we have big news to get to on the mueller investigation tonight involving three key players on team trump. first up, we have paul manafort to tell you about. prosecutors want the former trump campaign chairman to get up to 24 1/2 years behind bars for financial crimes, which would amount to a life sentence for a man who is nearly 70, not in great health. they laid out just how serious his crimes were, saying, quote, manaf...

Special counsel saying that they have roger stones communications with wikileaks. hes denied that hes ever directly spoke to them or communicated with them. this is big, right? >> this is huge, don. i think this is even bigger than manafort because this is even more direct evidence of collusion. i mean, look at what was said in the court filing that was released today. the government obtained and executed dozens of search warrants on various accounts used to facilitate the transfer of stolen doc...

Communicated with them. this is big, right? >> this is huge, don. i think this is even bigger than manafort because this is even more direct evidence of collusion. i mean look at what was said in the court filing that was released today. the government obtained and executed dozens of search warrants on various accounts used to facilitate the transfer of stolen documents for release, and also discussed the timing and promotion of their release. what that is saying is that roger stone was communic...

Roger stone for a long time, going back many elections, wanted donald trump to become president of the united states, and that they would talk routinely even after roger stone left the campaign. its hard for me sitting here to believe that knowing all of that, that roger stone had this information from wikileaks and told everyone but donald trump. it just doesnt really add up. >> he testified before your committee, house intelligence. did he lie about those ties to you? is that what youre saying...

Get any credit for or any break because of his age. they say that he has acted for a decade like he was above the law and that they should essentially throw the book at him. >> they didnt really know how to define the sort of activities theyre claiming hes guilty. thank you, evan. i appreciate it. have a great weekend. joining me now is congressman eric swalwell, a member of the house intelligence and judiciary committees. good to see you on a friday evening. >> you too. good evening, don. >> ro...