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Income tax returns, one count of failing to file a foreign bank account report, and two counts of bank fraud and mr. manafort acknowledges he received aand a victim and submits it to aid the court in determining an appropriate sentence. the u.s. probation office under sentencinga sentence range of 19.5 to 24 years. this range is clearly disproporti disproportidispoor -- dispo disproportionate. we get 40 or so more page what is paul manafort did is really no big deal and lots and lots of letters of support from his

How much time do you think manafort might end up serving? i mean, you know, beyond any question of a pardon, just in terms of sentencing? it's very likely he could spend the rest of his life in jail. in prison. >> the reason for that, he's 69 years old. he turned 70 in april. look, the prosecutors, as a lot of people have described with respect to -- remember, he has two cases. he refused to waive the venue requirement that the government is supposed to meet. so he had a case in virginia and a case in the district of columbia. with respect to the other case we talked about a couple of weeks ag...

Respect to -- remember, he has two cases. he refused to waive the venue requirement that the government is supposed to meet. so he had a case in virginia and a case in the district of columbia. with respect to the other case we talked about a couple of weeks ago, the sentencing guidelines, as determined by the probation department with respect to his report that happens in every case when anybody is facing sentencing in the federal system, said that the guidelines range is 19.5 to 24.5 years. that's on the one case. on this other case that we're talking about tonight, he can face additional ti...

Sentence in the other case so the second case wouldn't dramatically increase his exposure. but one of the counts on which he's going to be sentenced in the case we're talking about tonight, the d.c. case, was a conspiracy to obstruct justice in connection with witness tampering. that will likely be on top of whatever he gets in the other case. and in the other case, although the sentencing guidelines call for 19.5 to a 24.5-year sentence, i don't think that that will happen. i think that that seems excessive. and it's largely driven by the dollar value of the tax evasion that we're talking abo...

Agreed, that some of that conduct was overlapping. with respect to the conduct overlapping like the tax evasion and those sorts of things that the sentence in the one case should be concurrent with the sentence in the other case so the second case wouldn't dramatically increase his exposure. but one of the counts on which he's going to be sentenced in the case we're talking about tonight, the d.c. case, was a conspiracy to obstruct justice in connection with witness tampering. that will likely be on top of whatever he gets in the other case. and in the other case, although the sentencing guide...