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>> lets begin with the paul manafort getting this jail sentence and prosecutors slapping a new charge on him. do you view this as a lawful use of prosecutorial power? >> i due view it as an appropriate prosecutorial power and i believe his goal was to make it clear that no one, even though he said was beyond new york law, was clearly above the law. and considering theres been a a lot of talk and speculation about pardons with the federal sentences, i think he wanted to send a message that inther...

Story would be around for weeks and just be tremendous. im afraid within a day or two well move onto 23 other scandals. you have the guy who ran the campaign for the president of the united states going to jail and 7 years, some people think is a light sentence. maybe it is given the gravity of the crimes. its still a long time. he turns 70 on april 1st. hes looking at spending a tenth of his life behind bars. thats a big deal and it does reflect upon trump and the campaign and we can talk about...

Court to face charges. scandal and controversy, doesnt it seem like everywhere you look. come on, aunt becky knew. well be back tomorrow. the beat with ari melber starts. good evening. we have a special show on this big news night. im going to begin with this legal fact. today, we reached an inflection point in both the mueller probe and the legal hunting of president trump and his most senior aides. last night president trump went to sleep with a potential pardon in his back pocket iffor the ...

The table. >> is rudy fully aware that when he say its is not under discussion right knew it is not taking it off of the football. >> that is a fair point. >> that is the bottom line, he also says that, look the president maintains his right to have the power to pardon, so he would never take that off of the table, but he should say that no one should assume that they would not get a pardon. again the language is certainly raising concern among some of the presidents al lleys that think it would...

Hell get out of prison when hes 75 or 76 years old. >> paul manafort with todays news set for incarceration on the federal charges. this is important as you hear every one debate what bob mueller has done. thats the harshest sentence of anyone in the mueller probe thus far. its close to the longest sentence for anyone in any special prosecutor probe which was about eight years in all of watergate. his lawyers know this is a lhug set back who has been trying to down play his own guilty and make t...

Pardon proof charges today. take a look. >> theyre going after him for state taxes. >> theyre going after him in new york state. he faced federal charges. right after the sentencing took place here in washington, d.c. the manhattan district attorney filed state charges against him which would seize to be a way to get around the effect of any pardon. >> i dont know anything about that. ill take a look at it. >> david. >> i still think theres a value to a trump pardon with manafort. i dont know ho...

To coincide. >> kristin welker, i want to start with the presidents reaction on all of this. because he keeps saying he feels bad for paul manafort, why -- does anyone at the white house, can they explain why the president thinks that somebody that defrauded the federal government of $6 million minimum from one trial and another where he lied to the justice department of the united states of america, why he feels bad for paul manafort? >> no one could give a clear explanation, chuck, that is for...

Might tweet out a pardon for him and im not be e.g. gliing glib tweeted pardon is just as effective as the normal procedures. >> no no, understand this, all of the procedures that have been created like the pardon office and everything else are there to assist the president. it is defined in the constitution if knows few few restrictions. it could be done by a tweet. once given, there are no take backs. none. >> pardons, god love you, danny,

Michael, thank you so much -- >> thank you brian. >> -- for coming on the broadcast as often as you do. >> always. >> that is our broadcast for a friday night and for this week. we thank you for being here with us. have a good weekend and good night from all of us here at nbc news headquarters in new york. tonight we are reporting live on a mueller friday, and this is a big one. bob mueller is filing his final move against paul manafort tonight, making the case for a long jail sentence as news...

Did you at all think about the new york strip? that would have been a bad idea. you are right the rib eye the most favorable. back machined with more mtb deet. "the beat" with ari melber. >> where is the beef? the beef is on sunday. >> there you go. >> see you then chuck. >> tonight we report live on a mueller friday. and this is a big one. bob mueller is filing his final move against paul manafort tonight, making the case for a long jail sentence as news breaks that separately new york the pros...