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What are you hearing? >> reporter: the judge now taking the bench. she is speaking. she's saying that manafort is not victim number one. she's saying these proceedings will not incriminate anyone in the ongoing investigation. obviously a lot having to do with russia collusion, interference. she then says any conspiracy, collusion was not presented in this case. therefore, it was not resolved by this case. and i think that is an important point. we're all looking to see when is this collusion question going to be resolved and the judge right there saying it's not resolved and it's not going to ...

Still isn't any serious evidence of collusion, and it doesn't appear as far as we know that any such charge or claim of conspiracy or -- will be brought. although i do think, bill, that mueller is going to have to say something about this collusion question because part of his original charge was to investigate that very thing. and so i think he will have to reach some conclusion about it whether there is any criminal involvement or not. we'll know what he found and did not find on that very count. and it looks as if they didn't have much to go on to start with and may soon find out they don't...

He played a really significant role at a really significant time. the administration and donald trump has tried to downplay that, saying that he wasn't there for very long, and he wasn't a major player, but he really was. and the president could be thinking that if this whole thing is a witch-hunt, as he has said, pardoning paul manafort would exonerate him in some way. no collusion for paul manafort means no collusion for him. >> and harry litman has been going through, katy, the grand jury in this manhattan district attorney's case from the indictment itself, as you have now read it, unseale...

But the indictment pretty much speaks for itself and covers a significant amount of events we have discussed on air. the significance, of course, is what you've been discussing over the last five or ten minutes, which is that this impervious to any sort of pardon power that the president could, could take advantage of with respect to paul manafort. so paul manafort's legal troubles, chapter is being closed today on the federal end of things, but on the state end of things, chapters are being opened. obviously it's far too soon from manafort's side what they think of the charges. i would add, a...

At paul manafort's trial and part of public exhibits that were found and developed as a result of search warrants, investigative efforts by special counsel's office and their own investigative efforts at the manhattan district attorney's office. in addition to that, these surround properties and business transactions that we reported prior to any manafort indictment involving several of his properties in new york state, in the city of new york. in addition to that, andrea, things such as his statements regarding season tickets to the new york yankees and statements provided to american express...