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From manafort, theyre at war with each other. as far as cohen is concerned, although he, the special counsel recommended some leniency because he was getting some p cooperation, the u.s. attorneys office said really we want a harsh sentence of four to five years. eric: garrett tenney joins us from washington with more. >> reporter: the special counsel claims paul manafort repeatedly lied about a whole host of issues, before and after he signed a plea deal agreement. mueller says these were more ...

With more on all this in washington. >> hey, paul manaforted repeatedly lied on a number of issues both before and after, he signed plea counsel with robert muellers office, in court filing muellers team describe lies, not instances of memory lapses, the government is available to prove the false statements at a hearing. a lot of the key points in this filing to get full picture of what manafort lied about. muellers team lists 5 issues including 125,000-dollar payment through political action to...

But that meeting did not happen. this is what sarah huckabee sanders says -- the governments filings tell us nothing of value that was not already known. mr. cohen has repeatedly lied. as the prosecution has pointed out to the court, mr. cohen is no hero. paul mand afort, who did not fare much better, manafort told multiple discernible lies, not instances of mere memory lapses. im quoting here. the evidence demonstration that he had contact with administration officials, and way still in contact...

So, obviously the special counsel is making a case here that they cant trust manafort and they are going to go back and he told multiple discernible lies, it says. these are not instances of mere memory lapses. if the defendant contends the government has not acted in good faith the government is available to prove the false statements at a hearing saying they have the evidence to back it up. >> first of all, we know that paul manafort is not very discerning. he was nailed each before trial on t...

So its all tied together. >> yeah. and john, that point mimi just made about brett kavanaughs minimizing of his drinking is crucial to his defense because he cant admit he has any memory lapses because that opens up a theoretical window to does he have a memory lapse about dr. ford? and so we have his friends from yale going to a point of having to get together, write an op-ed piece -- they say we each asserted that brett lied to the senate by stating under oath he never drank to the point of fo...

Telling the truth, which by the way a lot of people thought she was after they heard her, and thats gotten erased. and most importantly they really needed to do a probing questioning of kavanaugh. he has not had that. that hearing was not a questioning. it was essentially him giving a written statement but orally. i didnt do it, i never did it but thats it. he was not pres said on it. he was not tested with facts about the drinking, which is relevant to the central issue of -- because if he admi...

Described as an aggressive and belligerent drug with memory lapses, that is connected to the accuser saying that that is the condition you were in when you sexually assaulted her, so lets just be clear, don junior has it wrong, this is not an indictment of college drinking, though it should be because we are having that conversation as well, but this is about sexual assault. >> we long talked about the little lies and big lies. whether it was life and law enforcement, if you want to lie about so...

Areas want other than delay, delay, delay. >> no. they want to know about memory lapses. thats relevant because christine blasey ford has a story about him being staggeredly drunk and maybe he doesnt remember it. >> theyre saying they dont necessarily believe his testimony. >> no, no. theyre saying that they know -- >> hold on. >> the real information, theyre saying they were his roommate in college. they knew him in high school. they were his drinking buddy. >> youre talking about jaime rosches...

Have information relevant for the fbi but they have not been contacted, are you comfortable with having a vote tomorrow? >> yeah, i am. this is not about drinking in college. if the story is about did somebody get drunk in college or drink too much in college we probably would not have anybody on the supreme court. >> its about credibility and whether or not he told the truth. >> jimmy roche doesnt know whether brett kavanaugh blacked out. >> he said he had memory lapses. hold on. you know if yo...

That covers everything. >> but not the memory lapse. he says he did not have memory laps. >> he says he did not blackout. theres a growing body of witnesses and evidence that he did drink too much and did have memory lapses. >> there are people that said he must have had memory lapses. its hard to prove he had it without getting in his brain. >> some classmates said he -- >> we have people that say they are aware of his memory laps. >> i think what it shows more than anything else is how brett k...