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Concession to this team of prosecutors that robert mueller has put together looking at what judge ellis said about what theyre really doing in the manafort case. i dont trust them. >> theres no question that the mueller investigation is illegitimate in the sense that rod rosenstein should have never appointed mueller, who had a conflict of interest. he was interviewed for the fbi director and the next day he was appointed special counsel. brad rosenstein is either a witness or a coconspirator in...

Fueled not by rage, but by panic because more and more facts are coming out. you know, mueller has been very tightly sealed and we havent heard a lot. but recently more is coming out through cohen and through the manafort trial, et cetera. and i think its throwing trump into a panic. >> i think youre donald trump, youre sitting around hearing all this in the manafort case, a paper case. the guy has so much on paper that the case is very strong. youre trump, youre starting to realize even if you ...

From doing the same. according to politico, told them some interpret this as an attempt to keep them from talking about the trial on tv and to starve it from oxygen. it might leap over to him, this bad news from gates. and the white house is very careful to keep their fingers away from this thing. this manafort case. >> about the time the prosecutors give all of this information to manafort is the same time that giuliani starts to talk about how there was another meeting that gates was present. ...

Copies. >> let me jump over to josh. what would a smart defense attorney do. what is he going to say, i have on my hands all the dirt they have on me, but also the dirt they have on you mr. president. how about you give me a break like a pardon. >> a lot of people think the end game here is some kind of pardon. this is such a difficult case for the defense, they have these mountains of paperwork showing this guy was paying all these high, hundreds of thousands of dollars in personal bills from a...

Crime. similarly, they are overreacting to the manafort case. normally in a situation like this the white house goes quiet, the president stands back. he doesnt want to get engaged with a former -- >> why would he react to the manafort trial and say hes being treated unfavorably. >> by saying treated unfavorably hes giving himself a pass for the pardon. hes laying the groundwork for possible pardon. im not saying hes going to do it but he wants all his options open. >> if trump this made this re...

To the jurors and said, it is nott a crime to have a lot of money. this is how pernicious these prosecutors are, how unprincipled and unscrupulous theyey are. >> sean: sara, i look up his track record of a guy who is leading this case, and i think of what the president said, 13 partisan democrats. isnt one of them, not just andrew weissmann, jeannie rhee, how many -- tell me if im wrong. didif she ever worked for the clinton foundation as a lawyer? >> yes, sean. this should not be shocking to pe...

Himself said that he begrudgingly moved forward with this case, only because rod rosenstein gave so much latitude for special counsel mueller. he gave them all this latitude. lets not forget that andrew weissmann is in charge of this case, right? andrew weissmann, who, by the way, had met with "the associated press" the day before "the associated press" wrote that b big expose, this is befoe he joined the manafort team, and "the associated press" wrote that big expose on paul manafort on april 1...

We love you. we all come on to be on your show. >> sean: all right. heres what im worried about. i want to bring people inside the justice system. a different discussion. didnt they know he killed 19 people? okay. they gave him a deal. they said, if you testify -- i think it was against john gotti at the time. ifn you testified, we wont put you in jail for killing 19 people. some say 20. he then gets the government to give him a house in arizona and the witness protection program. in other words...

Impose this condition on funds authorized by the obama administration, and a democratic senate, when it turns out now the funds that are going to these west coast cities were authorized by the trump administration and the republican congress and it too neglected to put that condition on the receipt of the funds. >> bret: will follow this, you know judges, you read between the lines what they say. look at this manafort case, its about money and about bank fraud and irs evasion but when you read w...

Compose. what would you like me to say to give me out of jail? >> its the same with michael cohen. i sat on my show this weekend, that guy, hell confess to sinking the titanic because he wants to get out of jail. when the jury looks at him, they will say, the prosecutor makes a good case. they had to do this to get the evidence. otherwise they cant get the bad guy. >> sean: i dont believe bribery is the only way to get evidence. >> do you know what the conviction rate is? 97, 98%. >> sean: >> 65...