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Of zero to six months. the judge was free to go above that if the judge found good cause to do so. most often, alex, with a person with this sort of a crime with no criminal history whatsoever, they actually don't receive a sentence. here mueller's prosecutors went to court and asked for a custodial sentence which might not sound like a lot to us, but we're not the ones who have to go into federal custody for 14 days. and of course, there are all sorts of collateral consequences for conviction. including loss of rights to vote. your inability to own a firearm. >> is there anything that suggest...

And james comey said these were all very hard decisions. and i grant him that. but you're right. in the vacuum that was created by the absence of leadership, james comey stepped in, you can criticize that jump. he probably felt that he did the best he could under the circumstances, but the -- basically all of the sort of collateral consequences that flow from the lack of leadership from the top on down, that's the mess that was created that occasions this 500-page report. >> neil: robert, i remember the july 2016 lesser. it wasn't a presser, it was a statement. what have you. one of the things...

A deposition, even though the ruflz discovery are somewhere broad, expect trump's attorney to stop the questioning if it gets even close to anything to do with russia. they will stick their arm out to the client and say, jonathan, don't answer that question. and even if it's arguably a question that should be answered, his attorneys have to be mindful. they have o air on the side of you saying because a wrong answer may not be admissible in trial but it may destroy his mexico. >> is this an important aspect of the story or it's the violation? >> the part of about this case that's been interest...

National security team going through and making judgment calls about people on our hit list people targeted and lookinglook g looking at potential collateral consequences. each of the calls by the president he tilted towards trying to have as little collateral impact as possible. you could hear to some degree the anguish in president obama's comments as he kind of revealed the human face and revealed the mistakes made in this particular case. while this was a very important al qaeda target there are always another isis target or another that we have been in the process for many years of essent...

In a settlement anyway. what's the harm in that? but the problem is that all the arguments collapse when you compare it to the fact that other people are going to jail. so if you have people committing serious crime. especially -- fraud, for which poor people go to jail all the time for welfare fraud. none of those arguments make sense. they're morally unacceptable. >> it is also what eric holder suggested when asked by why, they haven't more aggressively pursued, crime at the executive and corporate level in some of the been banks:it would have a negative impact. you talk collateral consequen...