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I've been in that courtroom and she has some friction with his defense counsel. she had taken him to task a few times. she does not like the hyperbole or over complaints about the situation. those may factor into a harsher sentence. >> this emphasis on getting the facts, if the people don't have the facts, democracy doesn't work. i mean, these are big statements, big pronouncementinpronouncements that the judge is making. what's her message with this? >> i think there she's addressing the other part of the case. there's the obstruction of just s justice part of the case. but she's talking abou...

Undercut our country. she is taking it right to him right now. >> she is. we have to be careful here because it's easy to hear this and think she is really going to throw the book at him. but you'll remember last week judge ellis brought up the fact that pickpocketers in england centuries ago were hung. and then he gave him four years which was much less than the sentencing guidelines. we really have to wait and see what she is going to do but clearly she's really laying into paul manafort for his actions. >> reporter: if people don't have the facts, democracy doesn't work. strong words. >> th...

Showed little emotion as he spoke from a wheelchair in a d.c. courtroom. i am sorry for what i have done. let me be clear, i accept the responsibility for the acts that cause me to be here today. manafort said, your honor, i will be 70 years old in a few weeks. adding, please let my wife and i be together. manafort's lawyer painted his client in a sympathetic light claiming but for the 2016 election, manafort would not be in this situation. judge jackson blasted that approach to the case, saying, i'm sorry i got caught is not an inspiring plea for leniency. the judge spoke to manafort about hi...

Public relations, spin. she says there is something wrong with it if you're not simply advancing a position as part of a pr campaign. what you're doing was lying to members of congress and the american public. she is speaking directly, according to our producers inside court, to paul manafort now looking at him, talking to him. she's now saying if the people don't have the facts, democracy doesn't work. >> important words there. >> reporter: she's taking the climate into consideration, what this has meant for the country politically, the fact that his conduct through the years, his lies, his l...

Basis of the rule of law in our democracy. so forgot all democracies around the world must be inspired by the struggle for democracy. so i mean we heard there a stress test for spanish democracy now the spanish government is saying the same thing is this really a stress test. well i think that obviously for some on the dependent movement to do it is a whole a stretch of you trying to make the trial i believe those trials i think that one hundred one is government. is really to show us trust. can this is why for example the trial is broadcast live on t.v. and they want to show that you know bai...