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Saying they want guidance on being hung on one count. theoretically, they could be having some dissension on other counts too. >> paul, one more quick question here. as a former prosecutor, if youre robert mueller and you know you have another manafort trial, youre under constant attack by the president of the united states, you have to decide what to do with the papadopoulos sentencing, the michael flynn sentencing. you know the other evidence you have or dont have, are still looking for. how i...

These are financial crimes. if im not a financial expert or a legal expert, it might take me a while to go through all of the charges and all the documents and all the evidence to make sure im the dog those "i"s and crossing those ts. >> tax cases are paper cases, so theyre really not terribly complicated. it seems daunting because of the amount of paper and the numbers and the complexity of the numbers. but ultimately where we talk about rick gates being the focal point of this case, this reall...

Case. i think jeff and phil asked the right question which is what is the defense, particularly where theres a cooperator that will say that was manaforts account. this strikes me as an incredible difficult case for manafort to beat, and when you talk about paper cases, you follow the money and the trail and you have a criminal prosecution that more often than not is successful. as to the time, i mean, each count can be up to 30 years. he is looking at a lot of exposure in federal prison for a c...

Appearing to lobby for a foreign country is something that is literally the least of the charges that manafort is facing, and its something that happens all the time in washington, and people try to correct retroactively, and they get sort and it seems like a really big overreaction to that charge. >> yeah, it is, but its probably the one place where he thought he could have some impact with the witnesses. if you look at the money launder charges, those are paper cases. those are transactions th...