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Five people so far to plead guilty in the special counsels probe. paul manaforts been indicted along with 13 russian nationals. three russian corporations as well. we dont expect these russians to ever appear in court. what about paul manafort at this point? what does his future look like? >> this is a big revelation for me at least because manaforts argument, his complaint, that the mueller team exceeded the boundaries of their directive, was an interesting legal argument. it had some valid poi...

Of course the reason why he mentioned it is because he was sitting across the table from the leaders of the baltic states who hes about to hold a press conference with. they want him to do more to deter russia, especially by supporting nato forces in the region. thats an issue that has been talked a lot about -- talked about a lot today, and of course the president saying that hes been the toughest yet on vladimir putin. >> pete williams standing by for us as well. mr. williams, lets turn back t...

Proceedings, the judge sentenced him to 30 days in prison, pay a $20,000 fine, so it seems quite clear hell be back in time for prison. its interesting that just before pronouncing sentence, the judge noted that several members of alex van der zwaans family wrote letters to the judge, his wife, his mother, others, attesting to his good character and urging leniency. but the judge said that van der zwaan himself never did. his own expressions of remorse have been muted, craig. >> pete, lets also ...

Maybe thats something that manafort is holding out for. >> if all of the roads so far, if they appear to lead to paul manafort, and i think weve got an interesting graphic here that illustrates some of the players and how they are all int interconnected. if all of the roads that the point appear to lead towards paul manafort, where does manafort lead, ned? >> well, thats the question. when manafort -- when an indictment against manafort was announced last year, youll recall that the trump admini...

Elections. whats interesting about that document is two things. one is, it lists people by name. now, we only saw the manafort part of it. most of it is blacked out. but its interesting that muellers commission was to look at specific people. so they were already starting to look at. because of the fbis work. bac basically giving mul earl his homework assignment on what he should be teed up to do. secondly, its the commission from rosenstein to mueller specifically mentions this whole ukrainian ...