Mapaul Manafort News Today

Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. No comment on cohen who was released on 500,000 bail. His sentencing, interestingly, is scheduled for december 12th. The judge noted that cohen could serve up to 65 years in prison, though we should hasten to add the prosecutess recommended sentence is something closer to four or six years. Manafort is expected to be...

Mr. mapaul manafort is disappointed. hes evaluating all of his options, at this point. thank you, everyone. >> that was paul manaforts attorney just moments after his client learned he could be facing decades behind bars. manaforts convictions carry a maximum of 80 years. thats just so far, remember. not counting his second trial in d.c. next month for money laundering and illegal foreign lobbying. he could still decide to cooperate with mueller or, as politico puts it tonight --

Youll note as of tonight, trump repeats calling manafort a good man. well, with us to talk about this is josh gearstein. because we extorted him with payments wired to an overseas bank, weve got daniel goldman to agree after a long day to spend even more time with us. thank you so much. josh, youve covered every day of this. was this the definition of ending with a whimper and not a bang? >> it did seem to be. i mean, i think everybody was eager to get the trial over with after four days of deli...

The stories that says trump and manafort kept talking for a while and lawyers told trump you have to stop talking. >> ken vogue elof the new york times is one of the print journalists we have on this broadcast quite often. his defense when asked were you unwittingly used as a plant, were these two lawyers who knew exactly what they were doing, they knew you were within earshot, ill paraphrase his defense and he said no, i know the crowd around trump. theyre not like that. these guys arent that k...

Was likely to destroy evidence. lawyers and a spokesman for manafort declined to comment for the story and its not the only illuminating report from the times on muellers investigation or the effect it is having. here is another headline. trump lawyers clash over how much to cooperate with russia inquiry. this story dropped during the emmy awards last night. the lawyers reportedly at odds are special counsel to the president ty cobb there on the left who was brought in to manage the response to ...

Are you surprised at this tactic or being used so publicly? >> well, you noticed to distinguish the tactic hes using against paul manafort and paul manaforts aides and even his own lawyer which is highy aggressive and seems strictly defined to try to get enough pressure points on paul manafort that he flips and the tactic thats being used for the white house aides which what were hearing is much more at a distance, much more what you would describe as by the books. trying to build relationships ...

What? >> well, does paul manafort think donald trump will pardon him if he hangs tough. theres a cnn story reporting on a fisa wiretapping which those things usually do not leak. i was thinking what will donald trumps reaction to the story will be, hes a pretty slud fighter in certain ways. he will attack these leaks, hell say theyre coming from mueller. i dont think they are, but the fisa leak came from somewhere. if he wants to go on the foepssive and at least rally his base to preemptively no...

The day 242 of the trump administration. this is suddenly a busy night, mostly because we have new reporting on the mueller investigation. "the new york times" tonight reporting mueller is using shock and awe tactics to intimidate witnesses and potential targets. the times tell the hyped the scenes story of that forcible entry raid on paul manaforts house a few months ago. the raid and the warrant to allow it were just the first prong, it turns out. then came a warning for the former trump campa...