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>> well, the lawyer's terrible. i don't think there's any question about it. not only do they not know how to do a simple filing. but the lawyering from jump street for manafort has been terrible. if you remember back when he was first indicted, there was a choice to have basically one trial or two and to split it into two jurisdictions and they picked two. well, that was dumb because that's like saying let's play russian roulette twice instead of just once. that was bad lawyering. it was bad lawyering to double cross mueller with this joint defense agreement. it was bad lawyering to have a jo...

Let me tell you what it means in terms of where we are. before paul manafort came forward and confessed he was guilty, a criminal, he had a joint defense agreement, you probably heard about these, where he would share information with trump. and one of those agreements is fine as long as you're still a normal defendant. now that was supposed to end when manafort flipped. his continued effort to try to double cross mueller and stay on team trump may have been a bid by manafort for a presidential pardon even as he worked with the special counsel in the hopes of a lighter sentence. that's how the...