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I know most the people on his team. i've either worked with them or been around them in my career in the fbi and they are true experts as what they do. >> we keep repeating rule one in this kind of thing, never lie to the feds. yet we keep seeing that offense committed amongst smart people. >> that's right. i don't think they understand, their defense counsel surely do, but each individual count of 1001, what you're referring to, lying to a federal official or fbi agent, carries five years in jail. and a lot of the charges that you've seen placed on manafort are heavy, heavy hits. he is lookin...

The different articles coming out on the collateral aspects of this case. they're going to look at all the people that were around the president-to-be back around december, november of 2016, when these allegations first hit and they'll start looking at all the collateral players around his senior staff and people that were putting together his cabinet. and they'll dig into that. that's why you're starting to see these collateral charges starting to come out now. >> my theory is we're able to see between 1% and 10% of what mueller's doing. is that -- sounds like a pretty good estimate to you kn...

The fbi and they are true exp t experts as what they do. >> we keep repeating rule one in this kind of thing, never lie to the feds. yet we keep seeing that offense committed amongst smart people. >> that's right. i don't think they understand, their defense counsel surely do, but each individual count of 1,001, what you're referring to, lying to a federal official or fbi agent, carries five years in jail. and a lot of the charges that you've seen placed on manafort are heavy, heavy hits. he is looking at a substantial amount of jail time if all those go to court and he loses that battle. >> r...

I think it's sending a clear message people need to understand that he's looking deep and hard into this investigation. he's assembled, brian, one of the best teams i've ever seen. i know most the people on his team. i've either worked with them or been around them in my career in the fbi and they are true experts as what they do. >> we keep repeating rule one in this kind of thing, never lie to the feds. yet we keep seeing that offense committed amongst smart people. >> that's right. i don't think they understand, their defense counsel surely do, but each individual count of 1,001, what you'r...

Power, russia. but what they're going to do, you started to see it with the indictments with manafort and the different articles coming out on the collateral aspects of this case. they're going to look at all the people that were around the president-to-be back around december, november of 2016, when these allegations first hit and they'll start looking at all the collateral players around his senior staff and people that were putting together his cabinet. and they'll dig into that. that's why you're starting to see these collateral charges starting to come out now. >> my theory is we're able ...