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Judge in virginia who's weighing paul manafort's sentence, he's not supposed to be sentencing paul manafort on whether or not paul manafort colluded with russia. that's not in this case. this is tax fraud, bank fraud and foreign bank accounts. there's no reason to believe that the no collusion, no collusion argument is going to have any impact on how the judge interprets the sentencing guidelines in this case, and figures out how manafort's conduct and these crimes might map onto those sentencing guidelines. because of that, because they're making this argument, this no collusion argument, tha...

I mean, this judge, this federal judge in virginia was weighing paul manafort's sentence, he's not supposed to be sentencing paul manafort on whether or not paul manafort colluded with russia. this is tax fraud, bank fraud and foreign bank accounts. there is no reason for manafort or his lawyers to believe that the no collusion, no collusion argument is going to have any impact on how the judge interprets the sentencing guidelines and figures out how man manafort's conduct might bond to the sentencing guidelines. because of that, because they are making this argument, this no collusion argumen...

Manafort's guilty plea in the district of columbia case includes no charges that he colluded with the russian government. footnote two. the special counsel's strategy in bringing charges against mr. manafort had nothing to do with the special counsel's core mandate, russian inclusion. and then, again, later on in the filing, your honor, let's come back to our main point. the prosecution in this case did not charge him with anything related to russian inclusicollu. and did we mention he was an altar bar who did no collusion. which is an even better way to do no collusion. this federal judge in ...

That suggests there may be unknown witnesses that the special counsel investigation has talked to and maybe still is talking to and maybe is still talking to in trump's circle. finally, you've got the factual predicate of one of his assertions about flynn is that flynn testified first hand about interactions between the trump transition team and russian government officials. that may be not collusion but it makes trump's no collusion argument pretty threadbare when they are asserting that interactions took place between trump's team and the russians. >> fascinating range of analysis there. the...

Case for a collusion argument than we've seen in a very long time. it's fascinating. >> even though michael cohen was president trump's fixer, said he would take a bullet for him for years, he's quite different, at least in the last few months, than stone and corsi. implicated as the unindicted co-conspirator. but in the last few months, he's on social media, complimenting michelle obama's book, trying to put forward that he's turned over a new leaf. and president trump has turned on michael cohen. minimizing him as he was a business guy, i knew him a little bit. so michael cohen has a very di...