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I got to run. have a great weekend. this is "cnn tonight." i'm don lemon. we have big news to get to on the mueller investigation tonight involving three key players on team trump. first up, we have paul manafort to tell you about. prosecutors want the former trump campaign chairman to get up to 24 1/2 years behind bars for financial crimes, which would amount to a life sentence for a man who is nearly 70, not in great health. they laid out just how serious his crimes were, saying, quote, manafort acted for more than a decade as if he were above the law. let's not forget he's still facing a ...

Special counsel saying that they have roger stone's communications with wikileaks. he's denied that he's ever directly spoke to them or communicated with them. this is big, right? >> this is huge, don. i think this is even bigger than manafort because this is even more direct evidence of collusion. i mean, look at what was said in the court filing that was released today. the government obtained and executed dozens of search warrants on various accounts used to facilitate the transfer of stolen documents for release, and also discussed the timing and promotion of their release. what that is sa...

Communicated with them. this is big, right? >> this is huge, don. i think this is even bigger than manafort because this is even more direct evidence of collusion. i mean look at what was said in the court filing that was released today. the government obtained and executed dozens of search warrants on various accounts used to facilitate the transfer of stolen documents for release, and also discussed the timing and promotion of their release. what that is saying is that roger stone was communicating with wikileaks, which was a russian intelligence front organization, to discuss the timing of ...

Roger stone for a long time, going back many elections, wanted donald trump to become president of the united states, and that they would talk routinely even after roger stone left the campaign. it's hard for me sitting here to believe that knowing all of that, that roger stone had this information from wikileaks and told everyone but donald trump. it just doesn't really add up. >> he testified before your committee, house intelligence. did he lie about those ties to you? is that what you're saying? >> well, he's already been, you know, indicted for some of the lies that he's told to us. but i...

Get any credit for or any break because of his age. they say that he has acted for a decade like he was above the law and that they should essentially throw the book at him. >> they didn't really know how to define the sort of activities they're claiming he's guilty. thank you, evan. i appreciate it. have a great weekend. joining me now is congressman eric swalwell, a member of the house intelligence and judiciary committees. good to see you on a friday evening. >> you too. good evening, don. >> roger stone has insisted that he communicated with wikileaks only through intermediaries, but now p...