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Combination of health care and climate change. i get im most surprised about how little people are concerned about the investigations into president donald trump. i heard one voter here in wisconsin bring up whats happening with the manafort sentencing. theres a little bit of concern here. but on the climate change, its not cut and dry. i think voters are reckoning with a changing climate. kasie r, that doesnt mean they believe full stop in climate change the way the scientific community describ...

Trial. shimon prokupecz, what happened today? >> the judge, we waited to see if she would take up the issue of the violation of the gag order. the judge decided today was not the day she would take up this issue. she wanted to keep it to a scheduling conference, which it was always supposed to be about. she set a trial date. november 5th. there was also some scheduling issues she took up. that was it. the big question on whether or not roger stone violated the gag order concerning this release o...

In jail and criticizing his defense from the bench at yesterdays sentencing. >> i do happen to think, once again -- i dont know why this judge has not recused herself. but thats just me. i dont get it. i dont get how it -- especially yesterday with what she said at the manafort sentencing. it seems to me that she cant be nonbiased if they get to a sentence. >> harris, thats all it got for you. [laughs] s be when you have done so much the last couple days on this. great job, catherine. thank you ...

He is still free to fund raise for his defense and his innocence but cannot discuss the special counsel case charges he lied to congress about his communications about the hacked democratic emails. for now, judge amy burman jackson sit aside the issues surround go ahead stones book the myth of russia collusion and whether it violated the gag order. outside the court special trump aide questioned whether the same judge could be neutral after handing paul manafort another three years in jail and c...

Evidence and indictment, their attorney would be telling them, you dont stand a great chance at trial. your better option is to plead. he has an option not available to most defendants and thats the president of the united states holding out the opportunity for a pardon at the end of this. the usual calculus a defendant might make is up ended here by the fact he has a chance for no jail time at all if he just never cooperates and talks about the president, and the president, you know, comes thro...

Says it, you know, is sort of irrelevant at this stage. what we have to understand is donald trump has the only defense strategy that donald trump has at this stage is what ill call tlp, tweets, lies, and pardons. thats all hes got left at this stage. so the fact that he is going gang busters on the first two at least, you know, the couple dozen tweets this morning, the lies about what was said today in the manafort sentencing, and the dangling of the pardon, of which of course we know sarah san...

Sentencing. what is the biggest thing you have your eye on in the next few days? >> well, i think first of all, its important to note that the mueller investigation fathers to be far from over. while manafort may have his final day in court today. everybody was talking about a light sentence last week, he could get a lot more time this week. and this one is arguably more directly tied to the mueller investigation. so, its important to sort of keep -- not lose the forest for the trees. the tree b...

A case, and well be talking about the u.s. attorney, the justice department up in the massachusetts district bringing this case about parents and colleges. you know, theyre amassing evidence and telling a story and theyre making a case. here you have mueller who is investigating, no matter where that takes him. and in the end he gets a cooperator in manafort, and maybe that has limited value, maybe it has more value, well find out ultimately. but it plays out wherever it takes him. its not in se...

Closer to the 9th inning than the first inning. why mueller is asking for more time, thats strategic caution. obviously, his folks feel he has given a lot of cooperation and the longer this goes and the tempers cool, the less likely he can be lumped in with the kwauld so-called bad guys judge jackson will look at as we discussed as someone who blatantly wantonly repeatedly violated the law and look as a good guy that tried to fix it and given credit for good time. i think its extra cautious they...

Them? >> reporter: yeah, theyre not worried insofar as they are not directly involved in the manafort sentencing. clearly, president trump is paying close againstattention. he has been for months now quite sympathetic to paul manafort, not shut the door to a pardon of paul manafort. i would expect the president will be following news today and will comment on it in due time and of course some of the questions reporters are going to be asking whether he would consider pardoning his campaign chair...