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That concerned about his social media presence. he doesnt strike me as mr. twitter. i dont think thats going to matter much, frankly. i think it was a miscarriage of justice. it was way too large a departure. it doesnt surprise me there was some departure because judge ellis never liked the case, he doesnt approve of the special prosecutor, he was hostile to the prosecutors in the courtroom, but it is a huge departure that strikes me as wrong and it highlights not only that he has too much discr...

People convicted of stealing $100 worth of quarters saw lenient sentences. the issue is less should we have thrown the book at manafort and really why are we throwing the back at other people and can we look at these guidelines and say theyre overwhelmingly too harsh. the manafort case is good in that it illustrates this disparity, but im not sure we should be saying lets be more harsh to white collar criminals but instead focusing on the poor, the vulnerable, people of color who really do bear ...

Up. >> we dont have to go around and being climate deniers. we can empower women by talking about the elder care client which negatively impacts women and takes them out of the workforce. younger republicans recognize this. i think you see people who are ready to take leadership at the appropriate time and lead on these issues. >> speaking of that, ive noted what happened in iowa this week. a number of different things that took place. you had mike pompeo who was there, but he also made the roun...

Miscarriage of justice. octoberively, its a miscarriage of justice. >> jill, i want to get your reaction to this. theres been so much focus on this judge, reagan appointee, doesnt like special counsels as a whole so hes not especially keen about this investigation as well. do you see this as an outlier or when you look at prosecutionings for white collar crime, is it something thats in line with what we see? >> this case is certainly an outlier. 4 out of 5 cases like this, criminal cases, the se...

Pretty tough. you saw how she dealt with roger stone. i think shes going to rectify this, not because shes on a policy rant or some social justice rant but because she gets the next shot at this. >> amy jackson there in d.c. will be taking up the manafort case on wednesday. well be taking up that gag order against roger stone on monday. many people are saying that the mueller team took an "l" here, that they took the loss. >> the mueller team has a bye that this is not their case. they handed of...

Collusion and so forth, so if you -- if youre thinking about the mueller case in terms of are they going to be able to pin something on the president, the manafort case was always sort of off to one side. we dont know yet and we didnt learn much, frankly, in the course of the manafort proceedings about what all of that separate line of inquiry was going to be, the manafort case was largely about things that manafort did before he ever went to work for donald trump and so its sort of -- you have ...

The democratic party has decided that the way to beat donald trump is a far left socialistic agenda that i think is a bad strategy. not only for defeating trump but worst than that, a terrible, terrible position to put the american people in and i think the american people are going to reject it. >> reporter: so you look at that and, a., you have to accept the idea there is a majority out there -- a silent majority that would be willing to flout the two-party system and then you have to accept t...

Heard of a person accused of a drug crime thats gotten such a sweet deal that we saw paul manafort get? >> it rarely happens. i appreciate the shoutout from mr. dellinger, who is a it legal legend, but its not just judge ellis. there was a rot last year that black men get 20% more time than white men. the reason is downward departures from federal judges, which is what happened in the manafort case. the other issue is overcharging by prosecutors. yesterday he saw jussi the e smollett charged wit...

>> i agree with everybody else. the president has refused to take a pardon off the table. as he said, why should i? clearly i thought the same thing when manaforts lawyer got out there and said theres no collusion, that was giving donald trump mr. collusion. remember, mr. president, were helping you here. what he said was really, really interesting. he said there was no collusion between paul manafort and any russian government official. government official. according to the filings in the manaf...

I think. >> it puts her in a tough spot thats unfair. she needs to look at it exactly the way she looked at it if judge elliss opinion did not exist. the sentencing guidelines are also very steep. theres a ten year max and make it a fair decision based on that, so we have, you know, capital "j" for justice. >> shes absolutely right and one of the things that makes the case coming up in d.c. very different is that in d.c., manaforts sentencing guidelines are actually way above the maximum sentenc...