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President of the united states over the year surrounded himself with odd people, many of whom are now heading for the slammer? >> harry, you look at the paul manafort case, the gag order that was put in place. you look at the roger stone case, i have been calling it a partial gag order, the circumstances of it. could it change the turn of that? >> i guess it could. the judge might consider placing further restrictions on him, maybe some modified home detention which is something that manafort wa...

It is stupid to put a picture of a federal judge overseeing your case on instagram. shes clearly angry. what now? >> hes going to get a talking-to on thursday. i think the judge has every reason to be angry about this. federal law enforcement, the u.s. marshals, are going to take this seriously. theyll probably have to increase her security because you never know if someone stupid will do something like this. roger stone, as you noted, hes apologized. he said he never meant to threaten the judge...

Came out, right? key part of the investigation. that gets to the ultimate question of conspiracy with the trump campaign and russia. we dont know that to be the case. you know, the special counsels investigation is a black box. were reading these signals. theyre like smoke signals coming from the black box. this is one of the smoke signals which could be ultimately significant. >> of course, remember, we know from the stone filing itself, senior trump campaign official was directed to contact st...

Or wasnt true. now she says the president says its not true or the president says this. i think thats one indication that shes learning that perhaps shes got to be able to say where things are coming from and theyre not coming from her. and i think, again, this tells us a lot about what this investigation has been looking at and this is part of the obstruction part of this case that the special counsel has been focusing on. >> obviously she was part of putting out those statements we got about -...

2020. this is a sentencing recommendation by the special counsel. it will ultimately be up to the judge to decide how to sentence manafort. in this case there will be a separate sentencing in a virginia court under a separate judge, but what the special counsel points out is that doing illegal things was a life-style choice for paul manafort. the sentencing memo details that manafort conducted these crimes over more than a decade. there were several kinds of crimes involved, they were not perpet...

Activity so long, yet this was the man president trump chose to be the chair of his campaign. >> thats right. josh, prosecutors say manafort deserves up to 24 and a half years in prison saying this in this document, quote, manafort acted for more than a decade as if he were above the law and deprive the federal government and various financial institutions of millions of dollars. the sentence here should reflect the seriousness of these crimes and serve to deter manafort and others from engaging...

Agreeing with federal probation officials on sentencing recommendation. but it will be up to the judge to decide. it is nothing but bad news for paul manafort. not only is this a potential life sentence for him but as sam alluded to, theres another whole case involved here. nothing looks good for paul manafort. >> no, it doesnt. lets pivot to someone else that it doesnt look great for. trump associate roger stone. the special counsel office revealing prosecutors have evidence that he communicate...

>> special counsel prosecutors say paul manafort acted out of greed. other federal authorities may put him behind bars the rest of his life. he was convicted for bank and tax fraud and other financial crimes related to working for a ukranian politician. a lot to roll through. sam, i want to start with you. you look at the 26 page outline of manaforts 8 financial crimes as outlienned, the special counl prosecutor said this about the manafort case. quote. given the breadth of manaforts criminal ac...

Prosecutors are asking the judge to do is to give him the rest of his life in prison. on bank fraud, financial crimes and they say essentially manafort acted for more than a decade as if he were above the law and deprive the government of various financial institutions of millions of dollars. this goes to the heart of the case. tax fraud, bank fraud that his supporters would argue would have nothing to do with the russia investigation. thats a fair argument. one of the things the special counsel...

Dumps by wikileaks. my question from the filing yesterday is whether e-mails that were part of search warrants found under the search warrants related to a russian hacking case shed any new light on whether theres communication back between roger stone and the campaign about timing of dumps. i want to remind viewers, when we talk about wikileaks and roger stone e-mailing with wikileaks, wikileaks is a nonstate intelligence service, something that secretary of state pompeo said when he was direct...