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Sophisticated and you could argue, has really methodically laid out a case in ways that most folks hadnt even paid attention to. if you look at the manafort agreement, he basically said that the only line thats basically missing from his agreement compared to all the other witnesses, all the other witnesses say that they cannot have conversations with anybody else about the case. that is missing from the manafort case. and now youre finding leakage that his -- that his lawyers have been speaking...

>> you know, maria teresa, as e.j. was just saying, were probably in for a tumultuous december, but next week promises to be super tumultuous. on or before december 4th, which i believe is tuesday -- >> thats right. >> prosecutors are to file a sentencing memo related to michael flynn, and then on december 7th, a factual filing due on paul manaforts alleged crimes and lies, which in both of these instances, we are going to get, for the first time, i think, the clear outlines of what the lies are...

Manaforts case, theyre going to submit their detailed accounting of how exactly manafort had bes been lying to , how he breached his cooperation agreement with them. this week, between the manafort explosion and the michael cohen guilty plea about trump tower moscow yesterday, we have already had quite the rollout this week from the special counsels office about what theyve got and who else should be worried about the evidence that robert mueller and his team have assembled. well, now we know, a...

Russia. because its part of their deal. because sanctions and a huge financial deal for trump and lying publicly about the deal for trump and lying about contacts with the russian government, its all one thing. and it may have even all been run by the same guy, dmitry peskov, in the russian government. and so, on tuesday, mike flynn will be in court, and we will learn what robert mueller has come to know in his dealings with mike flynn since flynn pled guilty to lying to the fbi about sanctions ...

And i think that theres a sense that were going to have one heck of a december on this case, because a whole lot of things are coming together at once. first, there is a direct link now between trump and russia on this building, and a lot of people lied about it, which is the second thing here, and which may be the legally -- one of the legally actionable issues here. and third, democrats are about to take over the congress. and adam schiff has signaled that hes going to make a lot of things pub...

Filing about manafort, saying that he lied and committed new crimes. mueller said lets proceed to sentencing and manaforts attorney agrees with him and then mueller said were going to be filing something, judge, we are going to be filing a sentencing memo with you the details and im quoting mueller here "details all of the various lies and crimes that manafort has committed." i think mueller will take this opportunity. he is very limited in what he can say, unless he is doing it in a court filin...

Filing about manafort, saying that he lied and committed new crimes. mueller said lets proceed to sentencing and manaforts attorney agrees with him and then mueller said were going to be filing something, judge, we are going to be filing a sentencing memo with you the details and im quoting mueller here "details all of the various lies and crimes that manafort has committed." i think mueller will take this opportunity. he is very limited in what he can say, unless he is doing it in a court filin...

Today was one of those days when the breaking news was actually scheduled and expected because today was the deadline for the filing of a so-called status report in paul manaforts case. this is report in which both the prosecution and the defense explained to the judge where the case stands before paul manafort has to be sentenced. that status report was filed this evening, and the shocker came on the second page where the special prosecutor says, after signing the employee agreement manafort co...

Corruption cases, watching people creating more trouble for themselves by lying to the fbi and lying to prosecutors. >> absolutely, lawrence. but i do think it feels like we are getting even closer to a constitutional crisis tonight bauds i think, you know, manafort is at the center of the russian collusion issue. and is at the center of whatever went on between russia and the trump campaign. and if mueller has positive proof that he has lied about that in particular and if hes prepared to file ...

Him? how often do we see this? >> about 1 in 1,000, extremely unusual and more over we now understand the ten-day delay was for a final opportunity for him to in fact get straight. that has to be the reason for that very brief delay. they said we know youre lying, this is really it. you were just going to go and straight to sentencing and you will clearly -- and he clearly is be in far worse shape with no prospect whatsoever of ever getting out of prison if you dont play the hand completely open...