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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...

Circumstance, the fact that 69.5-year-old paul manafort is now looking down the twin barrels of a sentence from this federal judge in virginia and then another sentence from this federal judge in d.c. that honestly is a crisis of his own making because it was man o manafort and his defense team that elected to not combine the two sets of felony charges against him into one single case in one jurisdiction before one judge. so manafort is now facing sentencing in two different jurisdictions by two different federal judges on two different sets of crimes and yes, he does face the prospect that th...

Lean jen lenient for manafort and argued for lots of aggravating factors that should cause the judge to be harsher and advised the judge on friday night in manafort's case in virginia they would not object to a 19.5-year to 24.5-year prison sentence for paul manafort. plus fines and restitution that ranged from millions of dollars to tens of millions of dollars. now keep in mind, though, that sentencing recommendation friday night was just for the one judge. just for the one judge whose hearing the paul fan fomanafort in virginia. that's not the on case against manafort. this week we expect th...

The special counsel is recommending up to 24.5 years in prison for trump's former campaign chairman paul manafort. many wondered whether trump would pardon manafort. one viewer asks can a pardon for the purpose of obstructing an investigation be a crime? >> one view is that of absolute presidential power. absolute executive power. the idea is the president is in charge of the executive branch which includes doj so he has the right to stop, limit, or start any investigation. whitaker wrote about that, ba are, r wrote about that, kavanaugh wrote about that. i disagree. i take the other view whic...

Picking up people close to trump. >> their recommendation is 24.5 yea years. do you think he'll be in there? >> i think that's the range. you never know, my guess, a lot of times you see judges hit somewhere in the middle. the problem for manafort is he has these other things that have sort of been out there around him where he's continued to do wrong. he hasn't come in and owned up to what happened and cooperated completely and it's going to hurt him. i think he is playing for a pardon. i think his hope all along is he can convince the president he's still on his side, he will cover for him, ...