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Claiming manafort led a life otherwise blameless suggests judge ellis is patently ignorant of the basic facts of the case and angling for a presidential judicial appointment." im not sure what he could be angling for, mieke, at age 78. but theres congressional reaction building. what do you think is the possible future of paul manafort as a subpoenaed witness in congressional hearings? >> i think its very likely he has a lot of light to shed on what exactly whats going on in the trump campaign, ...

Im not sure what he could be angling for, mieke, at age 78. but theres congressional reaction building. what do you think is the possible future of paul manafort as a subpoenaed witness in congressional hearings? >> i think its very likely he has a lot of light to shed on what exactly whats going on in the trump campaign, specifically in their dealings with the russians. what hishe dealings were with konstantin kilimnik, who was a russian intelligence officer. you know theho house intelligen com...

Three years of supervised release after histh sentence. paulr manafort will face a secd sentencing session next week before a federal judge in washington, d.c., judge amy berman jackson, could add as much as ten years to paul manaforts prison time. leading off our discussion now, jill wine-banks, former assistant watergate special prosecutor and an msnbc legal analyst. nelson cunningham, a former assistant u.s. attorney in the southern district of new york. he wast also general counsel o the sen...

Michael cohen was of being repentant and trying to get right with the law andpe tryingo make clear -- let the american people know what happened. hesle still on the lying campaign. and i think -- so i think thats going toth make it very difficu for him to be very useful to the congress. >> jill wine-banks, nelson cunningham, ron klain, mieke eoyang, thank you very much for starting us off tonight. this is exactly the panel needed to get thisne going. we are joined now by g one of t jurors who fo...

Manafort, a washington lobbyist, "lived an otherwise blameless life." the judge also fined paul manafort $50,000 and imposed three years of supervised release after hiseence. paul manafort will face a second sentencing session next week before a federal judge in washington, d.c., judge amy berman jackson, could add as much as ten years to paul manaforts prison time. leading off our discussion now, jill wine-banks, former assistant watergate special prosecutor and an msnbc legal analyst. nelson c...

That everybody feels that they are standingdy before a blind justice and have the same chance as anyone else for a fair trial and a fair sentencing. >> and nelson, for the judge to talk about, you know, he was charged with 18 counts, he was convicted on 10, and using that in his calculation of what was in front of him, paula duncan, whos the juror whos going to join us, did speak publicly after the conviction. she revealedr among other thin that she is a trump supporter and she actually went int...

Decisions in these arenas are supposed to be made on the merits. not because of your standing with the president. and the way he corrupts them has long standing deleterious effects. >> house democrats said theyre going to investigate this, nelson. this is just another component of what they plan to investigate. they had michael cohen on the hill this week. michael cohen has been compared to john dean during the nixon era. and john dean wrote an op-ed, and said what is most similar about my and m...

That made mr. trump president. these people who facilitated his rise will remain long after mr. trump is gone. nelson, what do you think? >> well, cohens testimony wednesday was riveting. and dont forget, that was only one-third of the testimony he gave this week. he spoke tuesday to the house intelligence committee. he spoke wednesday in public. and we all saw that. thursday, he spoke to the senate intelligence committee. we only saw one-third of it. think about this. all of the pieces we have ...

Investigating white-collar cases. theyve got very practiced fbi agents who know to go after -- how to go after transactions like that. but what mueller has is hes got the direct connection to congress. as matt was saying, congress will find a way to get their hands on the mueller report. they will find their way to get their hands on the evidence. it happened in watergate when the house judiciary committee subpoenaed leon joworskis evidence. mueller holds the political risk for trump, but the so...

Matthew miller, for the justice department. and nelson cunningham, former assistant u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york. also a former counsel to the senate judiciary committee. michael, when you look back at this week, which like so many weeks, has felt like a month. and you think about what happened, donald trump went to vietnam and came back with no deal. >> right. >> and praised kim jong-un at the detriment of the death of an american student. michael cohen testified for thre...