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There is a guideline commission that came up with these guidelines, a lot of deep thinkers, former lawyers and former judges and so what they did was they said, okay, for this kind of offender, paul manafort and for these kind of offenses, what is an appropriate guideline range? thats not mueller specific. thats every federal court in the country and a guideline range for this offender and these crimes came out to be 19.5 to 24 years. now there are ways that judges can go below that, one way is ...

Sentencing and said the fact that paul manafort was a first time offender violating these tax codes, committing these tax and bank crimes. judge ellis said i have to follow what has been done previously here. and that is sort of this pushback to critics who say this sentence was too lenient. in court manaforts attorneys put forth examples of people who had stolen much more from the government but got much less. >> and ten of millions and d dot -- >> exactly. one woman took 47 million and put it ...

Sentencing next week? >> reporter: the district of columbia, the statutory cap under the law is ten years under the two conspiracy crimes he pleaded guilty to. so thats what the judge can do. she cannot do any more than that. the special counsel, the prosecution, argued that she should stack it on top of whatever judge ellis just gave him. in other words, since hes given just under four years, that she should stack her sentence to run subsequent to that. not concurrently. >> right. >> reporter: ...

April 1st. so it could be still a substantial sentence but of course people looking at yesterdays sentence saying wait a minute here. prosecutors are pushing for up to 24" years. e got less than 4. >> judges have a lot of power. jessica, thanks very much. lets discuss now with el le, former state andle from prosecutor. you wrote calling this ab injustice. make your case for that and i then i want to get to --. but first why is this an injustice in your view? >> ive seen a lot of federal sentence...

He didnt believe the sentencing guidelines spoke to what this crime was, the fact that paul manafort was a first-time offender here. manaforts lawyers really pushed this point as well because they submitted several other examples of people who had stolen much more from the government and paid much less when it came to jail time. they cited one woman, and this was incredible, who had $40 million in an overseas bank account. her sentence was five seconds -- five seconds and doesnt make sense -- of...

Before judge amy jackson, they expect she will throw the book at manafort and potentially give him the five years on each count. but she has the authority to slap temperature that would what ive been led to expect is maybe if she gives him ten, maybe five of that would add on. that would that would be a significant chunk of prison time for a white collar offender, for a 69 yoorld mabb. it could end up being live success people are who ailing are sthakled. i agree that she is much more by the boa...

Judges dont even realize their own blind spots? >> i dont know. judge ellis, ive never seen judge ellis unlike waxman. all i can say about the situation is that there are true disparities here. this is less than a four-year sentence versus 13 years for financial crimes. and judge ellis has noticed that the severity of these have consequences for the offender, for their families. all of that was the case with jefferson. the difference between 4 years and 13 years is really sizable especially in a...

That i not only do that i combat it. it does not. this proposal will not rebuke the offender. it will not rebuke ilhan omar for her anti-semitism for her unique bigotry. there is no penalty for a future anti-semitic congress person. there is no ejection to remove her from foreign affairs committees. this is a placebo. brian: this isnt a bad day. this has been her record when she was in the statehouse, all the way up until she got this job a couple of months ago. look who congressman akeen jeffre...

Anything about paul manafort. what are your expectations for the sentencing today? >> as has been pointed out by ken, it could change from being all consecutive sentences or being concurrent, and that will make a big difference. this judge is more lenient than the judge in d.c., and the d.c. judges opinion and decision about how long to sentence may depend on how long he gets in the eastern district of virginia. his crimes that he is defending saying im a first time offender, well, yeah, maybe s...

Sitting on my couch and ill be watching them and enjoying their tennis. one day but not now the first offender is attacking the next milestone one hundred ten titles that would beat jimmy connors record. and just reminder the top stories were following for you here today on news storms at least one tornado have swept through the u.s. state of alabama killing at least twenty two people already say they expect the death toll to rise as rescuers search the rubble of a wrecked building. and algerian...