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Weve reported that in the past that david pecker was helpful to the investigation, another person granted immunity earlier on, and that -- to parse our way through the terms when youre granted you can come in and the statements you give to prosecutors or federal agents cant be used against you so its like a momentary confession, if you will, they continue come back and use those again in a grand jury proceeding or perhaps in a criminal case. both weiselberg and pecker were given those immunity a...

Through civil procedure, right, danny? >> thats right. >> its possible that he gets a pardon and stays out of the federal clink, but he will be broke in the end. >> the assets are essentially gone. >> yeah. >> he is not getting those back, even if he gets pardoned. >> talk about -- manafort would have had to have offered mueller something to get the plea deal in the first place. what is it that he would have offered and now hes saying hes lying about? in other words, i mean, i think there is a s...

You it is not uncommon for them to think they can put one over on the government. to lie, not tell the whole truth. theyve been scamming people all their lives. paul manafort was a career criminal according to the charges hes pled guilty to. to think he maybe could have gone in and told the partial truth not realizing mueller knows everything. thats one scenario. the other nehr yo as you mentioned, people are wondering whether some message was conveyed to paul manafort dangling a pardon in front...

Former prosecutors will tell you it is not uncommon for them to think they can put one over on the government. to lie, not tell the whole truth. theyve been scamming people all their lives. paul manafort was a career criminal according to the charges hes pled guilty to. to think he maybe could have gone in and told the partial truth not realizing mueller knows everything. thats one scenario. the other as you mentioned, people are wondering whether some message was conveyed to paul manafort dangl...

And then stuff that directly implicates the president. >> that is right. the first five counts, that is tax evasion. >> just to be clear, i want to hang a lantern on that. he pleaded today to stealing $4 million from the u.s. government. >> what would the taxes have been on that $4 million. yeah. that is what he did. and then you have another count where he says, and he has pled guilty to, where he lied about his liabilities to a bank in order to get a home equity. you came to me for a loan and ...

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One of the two people hes pled guilty to, they agreed to pay 150,000 fds they didnt publish, it right? hope hicks, a trump campaign spokesperson at the time, is this is in 2016, said of the agreement with miss mcdougal, we have no knowledge of any of this. she said miss mcdougals claim of an affair with donald trump is entirely not true. this is what michael cohen is contradicting. >> since then weve seen the president lose confidence in michael cohen. weve seen the changing attitude and tweetin...

And weve seen it for months is more energized thanks for joining us republicans as a whole. and independents, you know, who voted for trump have thrown their hands in the air because they hoped for the best and got this. and, yeah, i think it hurts politically a lot. particularly for trump who -- >> can we doing? i think i have this graphic. i want to set you up here. these are all the people and its sort of that have been about to be locked up or might be locked up. i mean, you hate to use that...

Now, though, now that hes taken this deal to cooperate, he has pled guilty to, quote, a single count of evading only $50,000 worth of taxes. and if he fulfills the terms of his agreement, hes looking at no jail time at all. just probation. as long as he tells them everything he knows. and that kind of bargain makes it clear why mr. freidman might have taken this deal, why hes cooperating now. but mr. freidman is apparently in all that legal trouble, at least indirectly, stemming from the years t...

>> unless -- wait a minute. hold on. i have something right here. hold on. unless you count melania trump funneling $26 million to a firm controlled by winston wolkoff who was not only a close ally but who directly worked for her government office. i guess you have to factor that in. >> ari, its always about the money. any time we had an opportunity as federal prosecutors to subpoena tax returns, to subpoena financial records, follow the money, thats what we were taught very early on. you can al...