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manafort or the trump campaign included with the russian government. the claim that maintaining offshore accounts to bring all your funds into the united states as a scheme to conceal from the united states government is ridiculous. i m joined by betsy woodruff, political reporter for daily beast who has been breaking her share of stories here. and brian wice who represented tom delay in a conspiracy in moneylaundering criminal defense appeal. go to you, brian. what is the best defense here for at least these two indicted individuals today? i hope you don t cancel my car service for saying this, but i spent lunch going through the 31 pages and it s difficult to come up with what passes for credible defense. this is not a murder case where theft or consent or security case involving the statute of limitations. this is a case that turns on a money trail and a paper trail. and that is not a situation
most of the attention this morning is regarding paul manafort and richard gates. let s bring in former deputy assistant attorney general. tom, let s start with how much prison time could these guys get? they are facing serious prison time. there are a number of federal charges. i think under the sentencing guidelines it could amount over to a dozen years in jail. at the same time as we know, prosecutors often will say, we will seek a reduced sentence if you cooperate. so i think this is a clsassic situation where mueller will say to the defendants look, cooperate because if you do that is a favorable deal. a if you don t cooperate, you will have serious prison time. today the president tweeted the case was quote, years ago. the indictment says lobbying lasting from 2016 to sorry, 2006 to 2015. does the president have a point here? i think the president has a point to the ex he tent that if
this case. a lot to follow along the way. not a good day for those two. can we isolate those two? even the wall street journal, who said months ago, president trump and your administration, please, be transparent as it relates to russia if you want a successful administration. kushner, don junior, manafort, flynn, all lied about involvement with russians. there is, across the board, a lack of honesty. well, i mean, as it relates to this, first thing we all did was read through the indictment to see what it says. that s the reason why there is an investigation going on, is to be able to take this conversation to that level. there are some who are reading the indictment and trying to connect other dots. there is an investigation that s still going on. there s more to learn. i don t know the full scope of where the investigation is right now. i don t know the full scope of the range of all the evidence. that is before the special
who is under scrutiny for his work with a pro-russian political party in ukraine. before the presidential election and according to the indictment today during the campaign. recent e-mails allege to manafort offering a putin-linked russian allah gart, quote, russian briefings. and before the council s grand jury like flynn manafort retroactively rej registered as a foreign agent. national security reporter ken delany, in addition to the indictments unsealed today against manafort and rick gates we learn of this other very interesting trump adviser. george pop dop louse who pleaded guilty to making false statements to the fbi. you ve got reporting that this case with this guy who nobody s ever heard of, might even be a bigger deal. that s right. for one thing because he is cooperating with the fbi,