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>> so the criminal defense lawyer -- sometimes you have to hit pause and hang on. the criminal defense lawyer representing the dude who is so dirty that no campaign from ronald reagan on touched him, so dirty and i worked on a few, im old. no one touched him. trump, like lets shine off this dirty, dirty penny and use him, is saying the same thing as the criminal defense lawyer for that bad, dirty guy. >> and more importantly what the judge said was collusion was a non sequitur. she said were not...

Offer at the appropriate time in the appropriate way in the lawful program that he was offered, which, by the way, was initially lighter and nicer tha lighter and nicer than many other people who dont look like mr. manafort and have the benefits and wealth of mr. manafort. i think what were seeing in his last ditch argument today, craig, to paraphrase the great atlanta philosophers outkast, im sorry, miss jackson, were not buying it. >> youve been working on that for a while. this is from miss j...

>> this is a two-by-four, described as out of court pardon strategy. we watch hid lawyer walk out of one of the best days they had last week, where they got a light sentence, which is a amount of lawyering progress. instead of look what we got, what does it say about the case, mr. downing committed what miss jackson has recorded from the courtroom, a non sequitur, an insult, saying there was no collusion. you were on trial for collusion but undermining the system, tax evoegs, all these that many...

Sentence that is totally unnecessary, much like this. >> youre not lawyers, youre liars! >> youre lying. thats not what she said. >> as you can see, mayhem outside the courthouse. protesters, one sign reflecting vladimir putin. you saw shouts of liar, liar. harry litman is here. we just were talking to senator blumenthal about whether local prosecutors could come in behind the feds. with a pardon being dangled suggesting from these comments, here kevin downing came out and was again misstating w...

Have been re-elected. you would expect it to come after his election, whether hes re-elected or not. he has all the people in the orbit, it may end that rational for donald trump. >> sheriff arpaio. the judge was establishing a political argument. facts matter, this is not an issue. this is not a verdict on robert mueller yay or nay. she was really rebutting a lot of the white house and defense arguments today. >> andrea, she made a number of points that reached well beyond the manafort prosec...

Months behind bars bringing his total sentence to 7.5 years in prison. notably judge jackson says the court is one of those places where facts still matters. she questions manaforts contrition and made it clear the question of collusion was not relevant in this case. she says the no collusion refrain runs through the entire defense memo is entirely unrelated to the matters at hand. the no collusion man ta is simply a non-sequitur. the investigation is still ongoing. probably a reason that begins...

His other interass gets to the heart of the mission of the special counsel, which is of course proving or investigating collusion with russia. that said we did not see anything reflejting that -- the heart of that mission in the charges against manafort. and soi think that is giving the grounds for trump and for manaforts lawyers to say this was not about russian collusion. the judge seemed to bristle at times sawing thats a non sequitur. but its notable given the special counsel tried to take t...

Kind of sentence paul manafort got, one that shocked even veteran prosecutors, because paul manaforts sentence of nearly four years in prison on eight felony financial fraud counts was far less than the 19 -- 19 1/2 to 24 years that were recommended by the federal sentencing guidelines for his crimes. far less than weve seen people sentenced for for anything from mistakenly voting in an election with a previous felony conviction or being convicted for marijuana possession. for a lot of people wa...

Of his life in prison. he has nothing to lose at this point. >> max, let me bring you in because the defense team is also emphasizing that the special counsel hasnt charged him with any illegal coordination with russian government officials in 2016. theyre making the claim that there is no evidence of collusion. your reaction here given what we know about manaforts interaction, especially with konstantin kilimnik. >> this is really the last refuge of the scoundrel in this case, don, to claim, oh...

He has nothing to lose at this point. >> max, let me bring you in because the defense team is also emphasizing that the special counsel hasnt charged him with any illegal coordination with russian government officials in 2016. theyre making the claim that there is no evidence of collusion. your reaction here given what we know about manaforts interaction, especially with konstantin kilimnik. >> this is really the last refuge of the scoundrel in this case, don, to claim, oh, you know, i committed...