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Thats the combining of the denial with the collusion is not a crime narrative. The president was focusing on just the straight up no collusion point. You see it in all the tweets. Now it is roaring back because of the thursday Night Bombshell that the president s own former lawyer and fixer cohen is claiming despite all the denials, the president did know about the russia Trump Tower Meeting in advance. When that report drop, you know what happens next, they picked it up and whipped it around an...

Meeting. That trumps own son took it explicitly being promised damaging information on clinton and then the times gave the actual information. The meeting, if it is what you say, i love it. If you did that, you might need a wider defense than denial. In october came the multiple denials. October 30, the Special Counsel announcing the indictments against Paul Manafort who goes on trial tomorrow, plus his deputy, Campaign Manager rick gates. Mueller also announced guilty pleas of George Papadopoul...

Level. the presidential pardon couldnt absolve him from that. he was addressing president trump. >> ruled no evidence of any collusion. >> liar! >> very sad -- very sad day. >> "washington post" puts it, regardless of whether manafort is promised or asked for a pardon, it is clear his legal team would like him to be seen as a good soldier. once again, the president leaving his options open. >> will you pardon paul manafort? >> i havent given it a thought. its not on my mind. i feel badly for pau...

Band did, as you may know, and he had the recent posts which appeared to violate the gag order. she could jail him for that, also this week. as soon as that filing comes in, i can tell you well report it out for you. well tell you what it means. there are also developments kicking up in the mueller probe this week. wednesday manafort receives that sentence in the d.c. case that could be up to ten separate years in prison. then you have mueller and michael flynns lawyers providing an update that ...

>> reporter: so it is judge ts ellis. and remember judge ellis expressed a lot of skepticism. and so hes faced with the prospects of how many years to sentence paul manafort for these crimes. and the guidelines are very severe. they call for up to this years in prison. judge ellis by some accounts is known as not the touch youest sentencer for white collar cases. manafort is asking for leniency. and the bottom line, what really matters is what happens next week in washington, d.c. because that j...

Heartbreaking news. we are awaiting a judges ruling on whether manafort broke his plea deal with mueller. prosecutors say he lied after he agreed to fully cooperate hoping to get a reduced prison sentence. lets get incite from our political international security experts. we are expecting the judge to tell us whether or not she believes manafort lied. >> yes. we are hearing reports they getting ready wrap up. on monday whitesman aimportantly told a judge that this conversation between manafort g...

Questions of whether manafort lied. we are here and if the judge decides he did lie what would the consequences be? >> he could get more of a jail sentence here if the judge finds that he lies, that he was misleading the special counsel. so it could hurt him in the end on sentencing when you think about his age and how much jail time out of virginia possible sentence in this case is it really going to make a huge difference in his life? probably not. it could add a substantial

We learned that muellers team learned that manafort lied to them. he shared internal polling data. why would he do that? it is again perhaps evidence of collusion. it is not just meeting that. muellers team has argued that manafort lied about contacts with the trump administration. the special council sited text messages and other electronic communications to show outreach from manafort to someone within the trump administration. there is a lot more here. >> and has reported there was a lot of t...

That when they discussed this idea in 2016 during the campaign, manafort told him, it was a quote, crazy, unquote, requested. now were back in another sealed hearing. we do expect the judge to rule possible as soon as today on whether manafort breached his plea agreement and what implications that may have on her senten his sentencing. >> every filing raises more questions. thank you so much for bringing it to us. coming up, the deadline to avoid another government shutdown is now just two day...

Amount of jail time. >> they are suggesting that manafort had in early august 2016 right after the republican presidential convention with a russian national who was considered to be russian intelligence. it could become the heart of this investigation. >> and this is what the special counsels office spent lot of time asking manafort about. they wanted to know about this meeting. it took place in new york at a cigar bar kind of the grand havana room. it was in august while he is the chairman of ...