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There is a guideline commission that came up with these guidelines, a lot of deep thinkers, former lawyers and former judges and so what they did was they said, okay, for this kind of offender, paul manafort and for these kind of offenses, what is an appropriate guideline range? that's not mueller specific. that's every federal court in the country and a guideline range for this offender and these crimes came out to be 19.5 to 24 years. now there are ways that judges can go below that, one way is if somebody apologizes and takes responsibility for what he did. the judge said he didn't do that....

Numbers get to be astronomical in a real hurry and that's why he was facing a 19.5 to 24 year sentence. >> also because mueller was upset he broke his deal and lied to them. >> that's right but there's also another component to it and that's the part that remains in the district court in the district of columbia. so i think you can expect and that the judge will have to speak to as to which portion will run concurrent and which consecutive. >> that time counts while you're serving and the other time is not additional. >> because there are other charges. >> i would expect, even given what some ...

Calculation meaning how much money was involved and the numbers get to be astronomical in a real hurry and that's why he was facing a 19.5 to 24 year sentence. >> also because mueller was upset he broke his deal and lied to them. >> that's right but there's also another component to it and that's the part that remains in the district court in the district of columbia. so i think you can expect and you have already teased this appropriately that there will be punishment added by the district judge in d.c. >> there will be a portion of it that the judge will have to speak to as to which portion ...

69-year-o 59-year-old manafort could spend the res of his life in jail. ken, how much time do prosecutors think that manufacture should spend his jail and what are had his lawyers saying in response to that? >> that was a terrific summary of the case. he will not oppose a sentence of 19.5 to 29 years, that's what guidelines call for. the judge doesn't have to adhere to those guidelines, but that's what they say. manafort's lawyers say that would be disproportionate. mueller's team says that he was committing crimes for ten years. they call him a remorseless

Calculated an advisory sentencing range of roughly 19.5 to 24 years. this range is clearly disproportionate to the conduct for which mr. manafort was convicted. the defense submits that a sentence substantially below the range calculated by probation is warranted. and that's how it starts. thereafter we get 40 or so more pages of how -- what paul manafort did is really no big deal. and we get lots and lots of letters of support from his relatives about what a good guy he is. on page 11 of this new filing tonight, we literally get a reference to paul manafort being an altar boy. there's the ine...