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Of trying to tamper with witnesses after his indictment and that is exactly why he was charged with obstruction about eight months later on june 8th, 2018. manafort has been behind bars since that date. he's been in a virginia jail in solitary confinement and he went to jail to try actually in his virginia case in august. the jury there convicting him on eight counts of bank and tax fraud. there were 18 counts total but the jury deadlocked on the ten other counts that were eventually dismissed. then just a few weeks later in washington, d.c., paul manafort entered into a plea deal with prosecu...

Me that strikes out on the first read that any sort of ongoing investigation that is still being protected here. >> all right. we'll have tom continue to read through this document. i have a copy of it right here in the studio. its 25 pages long in essence as you see right here. but there are some 800 pages as part of attachments and such. a lot of it is redacted as we mentioned. one thing of note on the first page, it says based on his relevant sentencing conduct, manafort presents many aggravating sentencing factors and no warranted mitigating factors. manafort committed an array of felonies...

This memo that stood out. manafort committed an array of felonies for over a decade up through the fall of 2018. manafort chose repeatedly and knowingly to violate the law, whether the laws prescribed garden variety crimes such as tax fraud, money laundering, bank fraud or more, esoteric laws he was nevertheless intimately familiar with such as the foreign agent's registration act. you read that paragraph there, those paragraphs there and you say what? >> it's important for the government to bring to the attention of the court the relevant conduct and it's required to under the statutes that r...

Campaign. or campaign activity. >> manafort pleaded not guilty. confined to house arrest in virginia. the master at shaping public opinion attempted his own image make over. through his attorney kevin downing. >> mr. manafort represented pro-european union campaigns. he was seek lg to further democracy. and to help the ukraine come closer to the united states and the eu. >> manafort refused to cooperate. rick gates did. agreeing to a plea deal after additional charges of tax and bank fraud were filed in february 2018. manafort one time protege would cooperate. and testify against his former me...

Meant to convey the credibility and seriousness, that he's doing this on purpose, staying silent. >> i have spoken to enough representatives of mueller and his office to know it is very much a strategy. they are not talking to the press, period. how long that will last, i don't know. they have a trial coming up in may of 2018. manafort and gates will be tried in that case. there may be more indictments and guilty pleas and ultimately might be a report in the way that can a star file the report? but even that is not known how mueller will signify that his investigation is at an end. >> you're s...