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Going to rule on his sentencing next week. if youre judge berman jackson, what are you thinking about what just happened, and does it play any role in how you can about the sentence that you decide to hand down next week? >> yeah, that is an interesting and tricky question. muellers sentencing memorandum drops a footnote that answers that question yes. points to a provision in the sentencing guidelines and suggests that she can go up to ten years based on his overall conduct, in other words adve...

Years would have been justified. but then when you compare it to everyone else, it drives home this problem. it isnt unique to paul manafort that wealthy, white, powerful white crime defendants are just not treated the same as poor defendants, black and brown defendants, guilty of not just nonviolent crimes but violent crimes like drug distribution. >> i want to ask matt this question about what happens next. manafort is open to potential of being prosecuted by new york state in addition to bein...

He couldnt speak outside the court house. then there is the picture with the crosshairs, which the picture of a federal judge, you know, with negative comments is really extraordinary. i have never seen that before, and ive seen a lot. and then, then comes this incredibly disingenuous pleading last friday, which is we want clarification about the imminent release of the book. p.s., it was the book that had already been released. and in an extraordinary footnote in her decision, i mean really, yo...

Had given him, you know, about -- and you have to -- i do want to step back and say this judge was very cautious about the kind of order she was going to give him. there wasnt a gag order on him initially. it was only on the lawyers. he couldnt speak outside the court house. then there is the picture with the crosshairs, which the picture of a federal judge, you know, with negative comments is really extraordinary. i have never seen that before, and ive seen a lot. and then, then comes this incr...

Catastrophic events and why do you believe it? she will be unable to because the very studies she cites like the un warning we have only 12 years to live, in the footnote the studies they cite show so far there has been no statistically significant increase in the number of these catastrophic events. rob: you saw 60 minutes sunday and they had a story about climate change in this lawsuit kids are filing against the federal government and it had a lot of bad news for climate change deniers, basic...

Bad news for trump adviser roger stone. today a federal judge issued a new order, hauling stone back to court for possibly violating his gag order. based on an instagram post that attacked the prosecution. he abused the latitude, posting incendiary, threatening messages on instagram, an echo of witness threats he was originally indicted for. now stone must defend his statements in the new hearing next week, while muellers prosecutors suggest the violation was a problem for the gag order. they ha...

Involved in wrongdoing for years. putting aside whether or not theres a statute of limitations iss issue, that alone could mean that somebody like donald trump could be indicted. the underlying footnote is the fact that hes sitting as the president of the united states and whether or not federal prosecutors will abide by a long-time memo from years ago that suggests that you cannot indict a sitting president of the united states. >> that is the major question. i want to play something else for y...

Funds and purchase the life rights to the story from ms. clifford, or it was going to end up being sold to television, and that would have embarrassed the president and it would have interfered with the election. >> but the president has never amended his 2017 form to this day. while youre facing the consequences of going to jail, he is not. >> i believe they amended a financial disclosure form and theres a footnote somewhere buried. i dont recall specifically what it says, but there is a footno...

It was either we -- somebody wired the funds and purchase the life rights to the story from ms. clifford or it was going to end up being sold to television and that would have embarrassed the president. it would have interfered with the election. >> but the president has never amended his 2017 form to this day and while youre facing the consequences of going to jail, he is not. >> i believe that they amended a financial disclosure form and theres a footnote somewhere buried. i dont recall specif...

August 2nd, 2016 meeting between manafort and konstantin kilimnik where manafort dealt kilimnik 75 pages of polling data and at the same time discussed a peace deal for ukraine which was obviously also a sanctions relief deal and so we dont get any of those details. those details came from paul manafort and to some degree the judge. they dont come from mueller in this case, but that is the story. thats like the gut of the question of whether or not trump and his campaign were conspiring with the...