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Lawyer immediately after being sentenced to federal prison today. you can hear all the people yelling over him. that's not what she said, right? i mean, manafort's lawyer says judge jackson conceded there was absolutely no evidence of any russian collusion. people that's not what she said. that's not what the judge just said in court. i mean, this is manafort's lawyer on the courthouse steps, lying what that judge just said in court. the people who were shouting him down, whatever you think of the fact they were shouting him down, on the facts they were correct. because we know what judge jack...

But upon the handing down of that multi-year prison sentence on those felony counts, paul manafort's lawyer walked out on to the courthouse steps and said this -- >> for anyone who was in the courtroom today, what i'm about to say will not be a surprise. judge jackson conceded that there was absolutely no evidence of any russian collusion in this case. and that makes two courts. two courts have ruled no evidence -- >> traitor! liar! >> of any collusion with any russians. point number two -- >> that's not what she said! >> manafort's a traitor. >> you guys are liars, man. you're not lawyers, yo...

From mueller's office. i'm not surprised there's some level of coordination. just because there may be coordination doesn't mean there aren't legitimate state crimes to be prosecuted there. as i said, the state crimes aren't subject to a pardon. to me this is why the lawyers for manafort need to be careful what they're asking for when they go out on the courthouse steps and do this performance art with alternate facts, they're raising the ire of federal judges and not to mention state judges. >> as we anticipate how he's going to be farming out pieces of stuff he has found to state and formal ...

Years overall in both cases and he walks away with 7 1/2 years, still nothing to sneeze at in the federal bureau of prisons but overall i felt it was a bit of a lenient in lenientin manaf attorneys go out on the courthouse step and say there was no conclusion sounding like the what did you make of that? what are his attorneys doing there sp. >> maybe i am forever naive but lawyers are officers of the court. weep are ethically bound not that stand on courthouse steps and tell blatant lies. when i heard judge jackson say pointedly and repeatedly this case has nothing to do with

To someone linked to russian intelligence. he made the calculated decision to do that and risk getting caught and risk getting a much greater sentence. why would you do that? you would do that if you felt that if you gave that evidence that goes right to the issue of collusion, there is no innocent explanation for giving internal polling data, raw data to the russians or someone linked to russian intelligence, that it would effectively kill any chance of a pardon. and so instead of -- instead of revealing this information, he chose to lie about it and then go out on the courthouse steps throug...