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Criminality, in order to clear her path to the presidency and on the very day he cleared her, he launched the investigation of donald trump meeting secretly with the author of the anti-trump dossier who was on the payroll of hillary clinton and he was off to the races to destroy trump. really, that is the thesis of the book, "the russia hoechst." >> sean: sara, you broken a lot of stories on this program. i am watching a 2005 case that ateven the judge says, we don't care about manafort's taxes. what you care about is putting the screws to manafort so he sings or a composes, so you can prosecu...

It's nice to have you, paul. let's get through this. first, when you look at what he is facing, what manafort is facing, we have learned his lawyers do not plan to argue in this trial before these jurors that their client is the victim in any way of political prosecution or that he was selectively or vindictively prosecuted. is that important and interesting. this judge, who is going to hear this case and preside over it, said a month or so ago to mueller's team about this case, you don't care about manafort. this is all just about essentially president trump and trying to lead to his prosecut...

The manafort case? saying come on, you don't care about manafort. you are just after trump. he wanted to see the scope memo to see what the definition of the scope's whole investigation is. now we understand that he has that. what is in there? joining me now jonathan turley a law professor and attorney. your thoughts -- this is paul's story. he is indicated there could be possible criminal charges brought against fbi and doj members in the hillary clinton case. >> we have to wait to see the report. if it's true that a criminal referral will be made, the most likely thing is that it's going to ...

>> in the case against paul manafort you said, you don't care about manafort's bank fraud but care about getting information that mr. manafort could give you to reflect on mr. trump and lead to his prosecution, impeachment or whatever. do you agree with the judge there? >> well, you have to break it down into political and legal, okay? politically, the judge gave him quite the tongue lashing and said, you are doing the legal venting. the judge made a strong point to tongue lash them and say, wait a minute? with the special counsel in new yo york, why didn't you give it to the eastern district ...

This whole investigation is set up on the pretense of protecting democracy and here we have an out of control special counsel in the federal government embued with these people. they are trying to obstruct what he is doing and abusing their authority to do it. and that's what the judge meant by unfettered authority. who holds them accountable? >> we've been warning about this team of democratic can donors. ethical problems that they've had. and when mueller's team is told, "you don't care about manafort's bank fraud from 2005. what you really care about is information manafort might give you t...