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Sentence he delivered today, i dont know. he insisted it didnt but its a lighter sentence than many expected. >> to that point in terms of him insisting that wasnt a factor for him, a bunch of people who have argued trials in this courtroom and observed this judge over the course of his three decades on the bench told us to expect that any allocution today from manafort would be important, that its very important to the judge that people do accept responsibility, that they do express regret and ...

Right? then when youre done with that one, you can start this next sentence that im going to give you. you can start the next sentence thereafter. if that happened with the four years he got in virginia tonight, lets say he got five years next week in d.c. that would mean he would be looking at nine-year sentence in total. if the judge next week completely throws the book at manafort, that would be a ten-year sentence from that d.c. judge next week. if she gives him the maximum that she could gi...

Sentence. it seemed like the judge, judge ellis felt manaforts case was maybe a little more severe than a garden variety tax evasion case, but he wasnt buying the notion that this was an incredibly dangerous scheme that really needed to be punished with an extraordinary long sentence. >> senior legal affairs contributor. can i book you to go to the d.c. sentencing. are you busy? >> im planning to be there with bells on. >> ill talk to you then. >> thanks. former u.s. attorney barb mcquaid will...

Tried to raise this issue of him having spent tons of hours in meetings with the special counsel and trying to get him credit from the judge and prosecutors told the judge tonight the number of hours paul manafort spent with the special counsel, that number is not reflective of the value of the information we received. quote, he told us 50 hours of things we already knew. he did not provide us information that was useful. so thats important from the prosecutors perspective because it means they ...

Ask chuck because he used to be the u.s. attorney in the eastern district of virginia, we asked him what we should watch for today at the sentencing, what we should expect and chuck told us quote, if he goes low, dont be shocked. i dont know if im shocked by the amount of time that paul manafort is getting. i think i still remain the capacity just to be shocked by the fact that the campaign chairman for the sitting president of the united states is going to prison at all, but for some perspectiv...

Cooperate in the breach of that cooperation agreement. so shes looking at a very different case and so no, i dont think she should be considering what judge ellis did in his case but i think she can decide that ten years is an appropriate sentence in her case and that it is appropriate to make that consecutive to the sentence that judge ellis imposed. >> one last quick question, manafort as i was just discussing didnt really express remor remorse or take responsibility for his crimes the way a l...

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