representations no, specific individual or potential crime identified. defense lawyers for manafort are not asking for an immediate hearing, they say the allegations from the special counsel that their client lied can be addressed soon in the presentencing process. soon really comes down to probably about eight weeks. he s scheduled to be sentenced in two cases, one in d.c. and the other in virginia. dana: all right, catherine, appreciate that you keep all of this straight for us. i do my best. dana: the partial government shutdown forcing hundreds of thousands to work without pay, live at major airport with how it might be affecting air travel. democratic 2020 prospects quickly responding to the president s address last night as we wait for more of them to announce a run for office even today. . our plan is to make sure everybody gets a fair shake. first class problem to have. and i know that our democrats feel what they have in common is they re going to be talking about t
cooperate against the president he could prove a very valuable witness in terms of incriminating the president, putting him you know, talking about what kind of knowledge he might have about the june 9th trump tower meeting. if he has a deal that doesn t include cooperation you ll see a very slightly reduced prison sentence. bob mueller holds all the cards here. there s no reason he has to give manafort a generous deal if he doesn t fully cooperate. most people in this situation are rational actors. they will choose the path that gets them the shortest jail sentence or the shortest combination of short jail sentence and a low fine. if manafort doesn t take the path that gives him the lowest possible jail sentence, and that would be cooperation, it leads you conclude he has another path available to him. the only rational thing you could see that to be is a pardon. you re nodding your head, maya. i absolutely agree with matt. look, we know giuliani initiated the conversations with
that mr. manafort doesn t want to cooperate. he s willing to acknowledge what he did. he s willing to plead guilty. he s happy to put the charges in virginia that still linger, the hung counts behind him. he s happy to save some dough by not having to pay his attorneys for another trial in d.c., but it may just be that he doesn t want to cooperate, and at that point the mueller team is going to have to make a different and difficult calculation whether or not to try and compel his testimony. all right, daniel, let s talk about the money that manafort is forfeiting. 46 million bucks, a house in the hamptons, one in new york, one in virginia and a couple of bank accounts. for months and months we have heard from the president, he s complaining on and on about how much this investigation is costing. so now you re getting 46 million bucks from manafort. where exactly does that money go? because if it goes to the investigation, that thing just paid for itself. well, that is one way of l
america, which is what one former federal prosecutor called the mueller special counsel investigation. talk about what bob mueller could get from paul manafort. he already has his deputy, rick gates, he already has mike flynn. what would mueller want with manafort? what would mueller demand for any sort of leniency or any sort of deal for paul manafort? i have maybe a slightly lessen sags les less sensational, less interesting view of what the topic of these negotiations might have been. manafort doesn t really look like someone who has the ability to go in and engage in sort of the full cooperation that prosecutors would demand to complete a cooperation agreement. so what would manafort have that he could offer? prosecutors who just finished trying a case in the eastern district of virginia now have to gear up and go to trial again in washington. that s a considerable expenditure of time and resources, especially if they have the intention to work on
than just a possibility. this may have been a signal to the president that if i don t get those assurances, i have another out. joyce vance, the president called out flippers, that it ought to be outlawed. he also sent a signal to stay strong to his one-time security adviser, mike flynn. mike flynn has been cooperating, i believe, the longest with team america, which is what one former federal prosecutor called the mueller special counsel investigation. talk about what bob mueller could get from paul manafort. he already has his deputy, rick gates, he already has mike flynn. what would mueller want with manafort? what would mueller demand for any sort of leniency or any sort of deal for paul manafort? i have maybe a slightly less sensational, less interesting view of what the topic of these negotiations might have been. manafort doesn t really look