Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20190310:21

Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20190310:21:49:00

understandably a lot of the questions this week were about manafort. you said this is perhaps the biggest blockbuster week of questions you received, one of them being what is the significance of the 40-month sentence he's already received? >> one of the best parts of doing this is you get to hear directly from viewers. our viewers were baffled and angered by this sentence and i think rightly so. i think this was an unjust sentence we saw from the judge in virginia. the sentencing guideline range, which is advisory, not mandatory, 19 to 24 years. i agree that would have been excessive given the facts but this judge went 15 years below the bottom of that range. i looked back on the cases i did as a federal prosecutor, hundreds, maybe thousands, i never once had a case other than cooperators, a different game, where the judge went that far below the guidelines. that is how rare this was. i think people were angry for two reasons. one, as i said before, manafort showed such disrespect for the law, he lied, tampered with

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