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Cards here. he was convicted in virginia, looking at a very long sentence. he was likely to be convicted in washington and the trial was starting next week. he had no options. mueller gave him a cap of ten years on a sentence. frankly, he probably was not going to get more than that anyway. and he has the opportunity now, mueller has the opportunity to have an inside view of the campaign at a very critical time when collusion, which is after all, muellers main jurisdiction, that is the time that...

>> i think he lost leverage, put us in an isolated position, farmed out american foreign-policy to other countries that have a greater impact on what happens in the middle east than we do. >> reporter: last night donald trump tweeted john kerry had legal meetings with the hostile iranian regime which served to undercut our great work to the detriment of the american people. he told them to wait out the trump administration. was he registered under the foreign agents registration act? bad. when a...

Elie, what jumped out at you? >> the most important thing we saw in the documents is this is all or nothing. thats the way federal cooperation works. i have experience in state system. sometimes in state system cooperation can be selective. in federal, its everything. >> meaning what? >> manafort has to come in and tell the prosecutors everything he knows about what he did and everything he knows about what everybody else did from the lowest ranking person all the way up to don jr. all the way u...

This was his last shot and the only leverage he really had was cooperation. and i think robert mueller stood firm until i got that cooperation. and he has not kept every case that exists out there, he has not kept michael cohen, he spun that off to others. but he did keep this paul manafort case because i think mueller knows that manafort has very valuable information to give. >> geoff bennett, i want to ask you about the decision here for paul manafort to do this. a bit of tape here from august...

All or nothing. thats the way federal cooperation works. i have experience in state system. sometimes in state system cooperation can be selective. in federal, its everything. >> meaning what? >> manafort has to come in and tell the prosecutors everything he knows about what he did and everything he knows about what everybody else did from the lowest ranking person all the way up to don jr. all the way up to kushner, all the way up to the president. >> and he has no leverage here. whats striking...

We have task force one from indiana and i want to make sure they know my firefighters have been out here and hurricane winds trying to save that one person that was transported and very, very difficult. >> was it an elderly person? >> its a bit offing operation that we had to do the way the tree fell. the tree is so heavy and there was a lot of leverage involved. there was a canopy in the tree and trying to figure out a way to lift enough of the tree to get the victim out. a number of air bags a...

Negotiated the iran nuclear deer and opposes their decision to withdraw the u.s. from it. >> i think he lost leverage. i think he put us in a isolated position. he farmed out american foreign policy to other countries who could have a greater impact that what happens in the middle east than we do. >> president trump quoted "john kerry had illegal meetings with a very hostile iranian regime, which can only serve to undercut our great work for the american people. he told them to wait out the trum...

Instead, and even though he is going back the jail tonight, and we will see if there is a bond of pardon at a later date. >> and one thing that we know of the second trial, like the first one, there is a mountain of oevidence in the pretrial filings, and 2,127 exhibits alone. but, lets talk a little bit or more about the cooperation agreement, and manafort agrees to plea guilty to two counts with a maximum of ten years in jail, and six years of supervised are release, and up to $500,000 in fine,...

More leverage in order to be more flexible on diplomacy. and in order to do that, they have to get tough on russia. they recognize that and this is what theyre trying to do. >> okay, thats strange, john. >> yeah. >> the president likes credit. >> he likes to be the front man. why the the one issue in which he doesnt want to be the front man and take the credit have to do with russia and election meddling? and the pushback, by the way, the senators are giving is that this should be done mandatori...

The prosecutors believe is so overwhelming that they would rather charge the person and then use that kind of leverage against that person. so in this case thats what ended up happening. in this case also we know that some of the talks began even during the virginia trial and they seemed to not go anywhere partly because paul manafort was trying to resist doing any kind of cooperation. you know, that happens once in a while, but in this case clearly as jeffrey points out, the leverage that the p...