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The manafort case, they werent interested in manafort, they were interested in squeezing manafort against president trump. turned out there was nothing against president trump. there was no illegal collusion, no collusion any kind with the russians and the investigation should have ended the day that the decision was made, but it continued on and on with collateral crimes, many of which were not even committed, and others if they were committed couldve easily been prosecuted by ordinary prosecut...

Looked like he was at a hunting lodge, to bob mueller? >> he was 100% right. mueller shouldve come to a conclusion. cthink if he had come to a conclusion, it wouldve been there was no obstruction of justice, he was probably pressured by his staff members not to come to that conclusion. he should have come to that conclusion very shouldve said that he didnt say is that there should probably no longer be any special counsel. the mueller investigation was the final nail in the coffin of special cou...

Obstruction of justice. even just with the failure to register, we see how aggressive mueller is being. only seven people have been charged with that crime in the last 40 years. so, again, its all about squeezing manafort. here this is when we understand that robert mueller knows a whole lot more than we do. rick gates, manaforts guy, is cooperating with mueller. i think hes got to have told mueller something. mueller really wants manafort to strike a deal to cooperate. >> is this because he nee...

Register we see how aggressive mueller is being. only seven people have been charged with that crime in the last 40 years. so again, its all about squeezing manafort. here this is when we understand that robert mueller knows a whole lot more than we do. rick gates, manaforts guy is cooperating with mueller. i think hes got to have told mueller something. mueller really wants manafort to strike a deal to cooperate. >> the question is. >> is this because he needs manafort to nail him on collusion?...

Its not uncommon for federal judges to slap the government around and then rule in the governments favor. a lot of legal observers are still expecting that to happen here. >> that he will still give the special counsel this leeway to charge him with extra crimes? >> yeah, because the hurdle to dismiss these charges is pretty high. but some of the things he said, you dont really care about mr. manaforts bank fraud, you really care about getting information mr. manafort can give you that would ref...

Near the end is quite mistaken. >> clearly, phil, you used to work at the fbi, squeezing manafort, robert mueller big-time. manafort, jeffrey toobin pointed out, is 74 years old. if hes convicted on all of these charges, he could end up spending the rest of his life in jail. he wants manafort to cop a plea, to cooperate, because there are others hes going after as well. >> no, thats right. and i agree with the comments earlier. i dont think were close to the end of the investigation. we may be m...