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Your lawyer walks outside to the courthouse steps and says "i am the defense lawyer for the notorious pamburglar. and i'm here to tell you that we feel vindicated today, because, yeah, i know, my client just got convicted on all these reckless driving charges, but this court turned up no evidence that my client burgled any hamburgers. no verdict on intent to still any hamburgers. he is not a beef thief. he is not a burger burglar. and yes, he is going to prison for a long time on this reckless driving thing. but he is vindicated. he is a hamburglar in name only this is a terrible smear. it has...

Into a guardrail, knocking down a street sign, causing other cars to crash in your wake. you're awful. maybe it was because you were ravenously gobbling down purloined hamburgers, i don't know, but you were reckless driving, and you got caught for it, and you got prosecuted for it. and you, in court, get convicted for reckless driving. now imagine that upon you being convicted of reckless driving, your lawyer walks outside to the courthouse steps and says "i am the defense lawyer for the notorious pamburglar. and i'm here to tell you that we feel vindicated today, because, yeah, i know, my cli...

Today when she absolutely didn't have to, but as she explained today, as she was about to sentence paul manafort, manafort really has been putting on this weird public display, this kind of performance by his lawyers that's running alongside his criminal trials in which he publicly claims vindication for something he was not actually tried for at all. i mean, even as he is convicted of lots of other felonies and sent to federal prison for years, his lawyer's out on the courthouse steps saying manafort is vindicated. today the president's campaign chair was in fact sentenced to federal prison f...

Is forced to consider, has to consider, to come up with a fair sentence but systematically taking apart arguments manafort and his counsel made, saying that a significant portion of his life was spent gaming the system. saying that while he did technically take responsibility in the fact he did plead guilty, after the time he pled guilty, he continued to lie to prosecutors and the grand jury. especially she made a really important point that this argument his attorneys keep making in court filings and on the courthouse steps, that there is no collusion, that's not a question, number one, prese...

Sentence? >> was he involved with collusion with anybody else in russia who wasn't a government official? also, why bring that up? and why is that the most important thing? i think most important, what you saw today, is that the most important thing? not only was manafort not charged with anything have to do with rush ssia in this case, th was the trial judge ellis banned any discussion of russia collusion at all in his courtroom. so nobody could have tried to prove anything like that against manafort in this trial in virginia. no collusion, no collusion public arguments from the manafort defe...