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The possibility of a pardon is that sentencing, which is now going to come, leaves the possibility of paul manafort being sentenced to decades, multiple decades in these two cases that hes facing. this one in d.c. and the other one in the state of virginia, a federal court in virginia. if hes rational, he has to think theres some better deal than whatever the sentencing agreement would be with the special prosecutor. >> yeah, i mean i think its a hard choice, but its possible that the person who...

New high down the road. and up next congressman eric swalwell will join us with his reaction to this breaking news tonight in the manafort case. and later, donald trump as i said has hit his highest disapproval number in the gallop poll, and he is now lying about using tear gas yesterday on children at the southern border. yeah, this is bob barnett in chicago. (john foley) i was there when bob barnett made the first commercial wireless phone call. we were both working on that first network tha...

Give the full account. his case gets hurt somewhat as well. but its an extraordinary turn of events. as ron says either incredibly irrational or a pardon in hand, which would be problematic for a welter of reasons. >> harry, can we see anything in this development that tells us anything about how the new acting attorney general matthew whitaker might be handling this case? >> the short answer is no. i think this so far has been just mueller. to manafort, my best guess even whitaker hasnt had any...

And that goes to rons point if trump then pardoned him knowing that, you know, knowing what manafort could provide, knowing that hes not cooperating, you know, because of fears of retaliation by the russians, its just a really dirty, bad, ugly situation. you can call it a constitutional crisis, but its just -- it stinks on so many levels, you know, beyond the constitution. its just something we dont want in this country. we want to find out the truth, and that feels like that is what is being pr...

Of events especially in a case like this. and not one mueller would have wanted. i mean, mueller gets forced into it because manafort refuses to give the full account. his case gets hurt somewhat as well. but its an extraordinary turn of events. as ron says either incredibly irrational or a pardon in hand, which would be problematic for a welter of reasons. >> harry, can we see anything in this development that tells us anything about how the new acti acting attorney general matthew whitaker mig...

Constitutional crisis tonight because 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 that with the court in the near future, maybe itll be under seal as harry suggests and maybe we wont see it, but if its a public document and it makes the case manafort has been lying about russian col...

Multiple decades in these two cases that hes facing. this one in d.c. and the other one in the state of virginia, a federal court in virginia. if hes rational, he has to think theres some better deal than whatever the sentencing agreement would be with the special prosecutor. >> yeah, i mean i think its a hard choice, but its possible that the person who was in charge of president trumps campaign combined the ethics of the godfather with the execution of the three stooges, and he just bumbled hi...

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 committed federal crimes by lying to the federal bureau of investigation and the special counsels office on a variety of subject matters. the government will...

Rule of law was about and appointed mueller. and people in the department, i dont know if noel francisco is one of these people, i suspect that he is, is going to have some gravitational pull towards wanting to make sure that they dont become the person in history who shuts down an appropriate investigation. you know, whatever their other proclivities are. so i have some faith that there are going to be people who are not going to want to die on the sword of donald trump wanting to shut down the...

Suggests, would be a black mark against whoever did it. rosenstein also supervised muellers jurisdiction and said, you can investigate here, you can investigate here, and mueller has been fastidious about asking questions. and this is not something thats been public. we only know bits and pieces that came out, chiefly during the manafort case. if there is a new supervisor who is less protective of mueller, that person could limit muellers jurisdiction in ways that we will not know until very lon...