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>> let's begin with the paul manafort getting this jail sentence and prosecutors slapping a new charge on him. do you view this as a lawful use of prosecutorial power? >> i due view it as an appropriate prosecutorial power and i believe his goal was to make it clear that no one, even though he said was beyond new york law, was clearly above the law. and considering there's been a a lot of talk and speculation about pardons with the federal sentences, i think he wanted to send a message that inthere is a pardon, mr. manafort's troubles aren't over. >> so it's interesting to hear you say that be...

Story would be around for weeks and just be tremendous. i'm afraid within a day or two we'll move onto 23 other scandals. you have the guy who ran the campaign for the president of the united states going to jail and 7 years, some people think is a light sentence. maybe it is given the gravity of the crimes. it's still a long time. he turns 70 on april 1st. he's looking at spending a tenth of his life behind bars. that's a big deal and it does reflect upon trump and the campaign and we can talk about the collusion aspect later as you want to do. >> we'll get to collusion. stay with me. walk us...

Court to face charges. scandal and controversy, doesn't it seem like everywhere you look. come on, aunt becky knew. we'll be back tomorrow. the beat with ari melber starts. good evening. we have a special show on this big news night. i'm going to begin with this legal fact. today, we reached an inflection point in both the mueller probe and the legal hunting of president trump and his most senior aides. last night president trump went to sleep with a potential pardon in his back pocket iffor the mo guilty, humiliated team. he faces a legal nightmare for an incup benincumbent. the first charg...

The table. >> is rudy fully aware that when he say it's is not under discussion right knew it is not taking it off of the football. >> that is a fair point. >> that is the bottom line, he also says that, look the president maintains his right to have the power to pardon, so he would never take that off of the table, but he should say that no one should assume that they would not get a pardon. again the language is certainly raising concern among some of the president's al lleys that think it would send the wrong message if the president was to take that action. >> i'm curious of the behavior o...

He'll get out of prison when he's 75 or 76 years old. >> paul manafort with today's news set for incarceration on the federal charges. this is important as you hear every one debate what bob mueller has done. that's the harshest sentence of anyone in the mueller probe thus far. it's close to the longest sentence for anyone in any special prosecutor probe which was about eight years in all of watergate. his lawyers know this is a lhug set back who has been trying to down play his own guilty and make these no collusion arguments aimed at the white house for a federal presidential pardon. that's ...