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Have been much easier for the president to pardon him. coming up, pilots apparent lirp wrapparently wrestled for control against the planes computer. youre watching "morning joe." well be right back. joe." well be right back. >> pardoning manafort would be seen as a political disaster for the president. there may come a day down the road after the politics have changed that youd want to consider an application for him like everybody else but now would be a disaster. t now would be a disaster. ...

Take a step towards caution and good sense? isnt it odd to have this leader doing it? lets appreciate the good sense, grounding the 737 max 8 makes sense. even if both are too often absent from this president. "all in" with chris hayes starts right now. tonight on "all in." >> i have not even give fn a thought as of this moment. its not something right now on my mind. i do feel bad for paul manafort. >> the campaign manager gets another three and a half years in prison and an indictment in new...

Defiance of u.s. requests is the latest sign of the worlds growing distrust of the united states on aviation safety issues. they cite as evidence the u.s. regulators who were insisting through today that these jets didnt need to be grounded, even as possible evidence to the contrary was starting to come in. well, that is our broadcast on this wednesday night. we thank you so much for being here with us. good night from nbc news headquarters here in new york. tonight on "all in." >> i have not ...

And another 16 state charges slapped on top of that. paul manafort was back uncourt in washington d.c. to be instanced for the second time in a week, this time for two counts conspiracy in which he pleaded guilty to fraud. judge amy jackson instanced manafort to another three and a half years in prison, brunging his total sentence to seven and a half years. unlike his virginia judge calling his otherwise blameless life, she rebuked judge manafort for his lies and parent lack of are morse, sawing...

Testified when he was the acting attorney general? >> i cant say for certain. i need to look at the testimony more carefully. again, there has been an extraordinary pattern of behavior of lying to people around the president to protect the president. of course, the president has probable misled and lied about this investigation more than anyone else. >> we also learned, of course, paul manaforts full sentence today, 7 1/2 years combining with the sentence he got in northern virginia, the sentenc...

Running. >> when he pled guilty it meant the prosecutors were not going to try him for more crimes in dd. krfrmt and would not try him for the additional counts. he got the benefit saying you dont have to go to trial. you lie and dont hold up your end of the bargain. you get a sentence that reflects. it was judge jackson who put him in jail because he was trying to avoid having justice served. >> and i want to mention also usa. today did an analysis sentenced in 2016 and found only one other fra...

Manafort would not be in this situation. jackson blasted that approach saying im sorry i got caught is not an inspiring plea for leniency. he said he lied to conditioning and the american people. if the people dont have the facts democracy doesnt work. she later rebuked manafort for lying afterh his arrest. judge jackson also took issue with the assertion that the charges he faced werent linked to russian collusion. she called them just one more thing thats inconsistent with any genuine acceptan...

Case. that makes two courts. >> wean the two sentences that manafort faced it could have been much worse for him. its very clear his legal team was not happy. one of his attorneys criticized the judges in handing down this sentence today. >> all right. thanks so much. lets go to cnn, the manhattan defense attorney. anouned this new criminal case just after he learned his prison sentence today. he seemed to have a message specifically for manafort. >> he did. these charges were announced moments ...

Taking number of questions from reporters following his announcement that they are issuing an emergency order to ground all boeing 737 max 8s and max 9s after the two crashes involving that same kind of aircraft. the president also asked about manafort and despite the obvious falsehood that the democrats are for crime and the falsehood that no collusion was prooumven toda the president also saying that he hasnt given thought to pardoning manafort. the man who led president trumps presidential ca...

>> that claim that no collusion or no conspiracy was proven today, thats false. what the judge actually said is matters of collusion or conspiracy were not being discussed in court. the judge admonished his attorneys for no collusion reference calling it a non. trump said he is right now in my mind. i do feel badly for manafort. >> an ally of the president is already warning him against pardoning manafort. graham said it would be a political disaster. manafort is now looking at serving several y...