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Matter and refused to cooperate, on his last day in office. so i think when that last day comes, thats what paul manafort is waiting for. >> how do you explain joe arpaio, then? >> i dont think arpaio was as controversial as manafort would be because manafort was so integral to the russia investigation. so, you know, the controversy would be about the president issuing a pardon for somebody involved in the investigation of him. arpaio doesnt fit in that category. so, look, it would be too politi...

Is waiting for. >> how do you explain joe arpaio, then? >> i dont think arpaio was as controversial as manafort would be because manafort was so integral to the russia investigation. so, you know, the controversy would be about the president issuing a pardon for somebody involved in the investigation of him. arpaio doesnt fit in that category. so, look, it would be too politically explosive at this point for trump to pardon manafort, but down the road when hes about to leave office, sure. >> all...

Than that, that he should get no jail time at all if possible. the reason they are saying that manafort should get as little jail time as possible is because of all the bad things paul manafort didnt do. manaforts case they opened up a submission by saying manaforts case is not about murder, drug cartels, organized crime, the madoff ponzi scheme or collapse of enron. okay, i didnt do any of those, either. his crimes are also, manaforts lawyers claim, not related to the primary focus of the speci...

Associated with donald trump. never nevertheless, these offenses led to mr. manafort being vilified in a manner this country has not experienced in decades. manaforts lawyers argue the special counsels office charged manafort with the crimes he eventually pled guilty to only because they couldnt establish that manafort engaged in any quote russia collusion. in other words, what manafort is going for in the filing tonight is the argument that he didnt do anything that bad, that hes the victim of ...

Place you have a judge who has been borderline hostile to the prosecutors, prosecutors who overreached with respect to what they charged. introduced too many exhibits. the totality to what has taken place in this trial, and they are leaning towards finding not guilty. we dont know what is going on in the deliberation room but this trial has seemed cursed from the beginning. prosecutors have unclean hands, charged manafort, testifying against the president, he was not willing to do that and then ...

Felony charges. as of last month they were still executing new warrants against him. that said, when mueller first charged manafort he did allow him to turn himself in at the local fbi office and then walk right back out again. trump campaign foreign policy adviser george papadopoulos was not so lucky. muellers team stopped him and arrested him, right after he got off a plane at dulles airport in washington. they held him overnight in a cell. they took him to court the next morning. then there w...

Taken from that storage locker because they say that former employee had no right to open it up in the first place, and so thats something that judge is going to have to rule on. but clearly muellers team has been aggressive in executing warrants and conducting searches when it comes to paul manafort and others. just on friday we learned that the special counsel has kept on executing new search warrants relating to manafort right up until just a few weeks ago. even though manaforts already stand...