Over Manafort News Today

A recap of the days news. This is cnn tonight. Im don lemon. You want to Pay Attention to this hour. Weve got a lot going on. Its 11 00 p. M. On the east coast. Were live with breaking news tonight. A source tells cnn that white house staffers are stunned by todays news. The men who led the president s campaign for five critical months leading up to the election found guilty in Federal Court. Former Trump Campaign chairman Paul Manafort guilty of eight Financial Crime charges. A victory for Robe...

Busy news hour ahead of us. president trump is south florida arriving for day 172nd of his golf courses. his former campaign chairman is spending today at his done for much of the last nine months, locked up. paul manaforts reckoning could come next week when he faces a maximum sentence of ten years in prison in his d.c. case after pleading guilty to conspiring to obstruct justice and defrauding the government. still there is outrage, however, over manaforts shockingly lenient sentence of 47 mon...

Analyst. ronado marinotti. jessica schneider, cnn justice correspondent, also an attorney. jessica, what can we expect at tuesdays arraignment? >> ana, it could be a similar media circus-like atmosphere in d.c., the same one like we saw in florida on friday. you know, ive been to that courthouse numerous times. covered numerous court appearances at the federal courthouse including for paul manafort and rick gates. and there are always this flood of cameras positioned at the front doors so they w...

Wear street clothes just like he did during the trial. yesterday the judge, the federal judge who presided over manaforts trial who will preside over the hearing ruled, quote, no. they are not entitled to appear in sentencing or any other hearing in street clothing. quote, this defendant should be treated no differently from other defendants. so judge ellis denies paul manaforts request to wear a suit tomorrow. hell been in his jumpsuit, his green prison jumpsuit. the reason hes going to be in c...

From additional --, has been in with them at least nine times in the past four weeks. we may learn more about that today. the other issue on the table is what happens to the ten counts that the jury hung on, and the judge is pressing the prosecutors to decide to drop those charges or say they might retry manafort. prosecutors have initially wanted to leave that on the table so they could use that as leverages over manafort. they acquiesced to the judge, saying they would be okay dropping that as...

To do a deal with prosecutors. according to the reporter at the "wall street journal," manaforts defense team started conversations with muellers prosecutors about a potential plea deal while the virginia jury was deliberating over manaforts fate in his first trial. quote, paul manaforts defense team held talks with prosecutors to resolve a second set of charges against the former campaign chair. the plea discussions occurred as a virginia jury was spending four days deliberating tax and bank fr...

"vanity fair".com that the president is so committed to the idea of pardoning paul manafort now that he is willing to do it even over the objections of his white house counsel don mcigan. the president has said he is considering bringing in a new lawyer to draft a manafort pardon if mcgahn wont do it. in that context tonight, the "wall street journal" reports that he was trying to do a deal. manafort who would not flip. manafort, the guy going all the way to trial of not once but twice, the one ...

Michael cohen has information that would be of interest to mr. mueller, he said, okay, and again this is paraphrasing here. he said i wont call it a smoking gun information. someone would have to characterize it, but he does have information that would be of interest and it pertains to a crime most people would call the fbi about. >> well, don, i think the biggest problem right now for donald trump is that he has lost control. hes lost control over manafort. hes lost control over cohen. these tw...

Embarrassing and awkward enough for him that when it was first revealed in the american press, it got him fired off the trump campaign. but it remains of interest to prosecutors here in this country because of moneylaundering and tax evasion, and it remains of interest to prosecutors in ukraine because ukraine as a country and as a new post yanukovych government is trying to figure out what happened to all that money, what happened to their countrys wealth when manaforts guy was in charge and st...

Team and the ukrainians running their investigations into manafort. that anti-corruption prosecutor now says since he has lost the authority to investigate manafort, that offer to cooperate is now, quote, moot. so, bottom line for us here in this country, does robert mueller, does the special counsels office actually need these prosecutors in ukraine in order to nail paul manafort to the wall? judging from their progress, in their cases against him and two federal jurisdictions so far, probably ...