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Matter and refused to cooperate, on his last day in office. so i think when that last day comes, that's what paul manafort is waiting for. >> how do you explain joe arpaio, then? >> i don't think arpaio was as controversial as manafort would be because manafort was so integral to the russia investigation. so, you know, the controversy would be about the president issuing a pardon for somebody involved in the investigation of him. arpaio doesn't fit in that category. so, look, it would be too politically explosive at this point for trump to pardon manafort, but down the road when he's about to ...

Is waiting for. >> how do you explain joe arpaio, then? >> i don't think arpaio was as controversial as manafort would be because manafort was so integral to the russia investigation. so, you know, the controversy would be about the president issuing a pardon for somebody involved in the investigation of him. arpaio doesn't fit in that category. so, look, it would be too politically explosive at this point for trump to pardon manafort, but down the road when he's about to leave office, sure. >> all right. i feel you. laura, not even an hour after manafort was sentenced, the manhattan d.a. char...

Than that, that he should get no jail time at all if possible. the reason they are saying that manafort should get as little jail time as possible is because of all the bad things paul manafort didn't do. manafort's case they opened up a submission by saying manafort's case is not about murder, drug cartels, organized crime, the madoff ponzi scheme or collapse of enron. okay, i didn't do any of those, either. his crimes are also, manafort's lawyers claim, not related to the primary focus of the special counsel's investigation, i.e., any links or coordination between the russian government and ...

Associated with donald trump. never nevertheless, these offenses led to mr. manafort being vilified in a manner this country has not experienced in decades. manafort's lawyers argue the special counsel's office charged manafort with the crimes he eventually pled guilty to only because they couldn't establish that manafort engaged in any quote russia collusion. in other words, what manafort is going for in the filing tonight is the argument that he didn't do anything that bad, that he's the victim of a political prosecution and even though his defense is sort of constrained by the fact that man...

Place you have a judge who has been borderline hostile to the prosecutors, prosecutors who overreached with respect to what they charged. introduced too many exhibits. the totality to what has taken place in this trial, and they are leaning towards finding not guilty. we don't know what is going on in the deliberation room but this trial has seemed cursed from the beginning. prosecutors have unclean hands, charged manafort, testifying against the president, he was not willing to do that and then they have to prove the case rather than trying it but they are losing. shannon: the judge has been ...