>> sandra: more news coming out of the d.c. federal courthouse. we're hearing robert mueller's team is arguing for a stiff sentencing. brit hume is fox news senior political analyst. good morning to you and thank you for joining us this morning. i'll tell you what weissmann just said. this was a sophisticated scheme to avoid a duty all americans have, which is to pay taxes as we await this sentencing, your thoughts. >> well, i don't doubt that's true. of course that's true. it is also true that manafort undoubtedly committed these crimes. he has acknowledged doing so. but there is one thing that's also true, none of this whole prosecution of him and the alleged crimes of obstruction of justice that he committed during the investigation would have happened had he not served as donald trump's campaign chairman. the main effort here, as the judge in virginia pointed out, was to squeeze him to try to