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Affect the next federal criminal trial against trump campaign chairman paul manafort. if he's pardoned by the president which could happen at any moment, all bets are off in terms of what happens. provided he is not pardoned, whether paul manafort is acquitted or convicted by the jury that will deliberate his fate tomorrow, he is due to start a second criminal felony trial in washington, d.c. in just a few weeks. that's next month. that next trial will be before a different judge in a different courthouse in a different place with a dumpb jury and may even have some different lawyers arguing o...

That second trial. it is striking that prosecutors from robert mueller's office, the special counsel's office, they have steered this first manafort case to be much more about the trump campaign than we thought it was going to be at the out set. that may affect the president's thinking about whether or not he wants to intervene to spring paul manafort by pardoning him. this first criminal trial in the eastern district of virginia had its last witnesses on the stand related to something having to do with the trump campaign and the last motions related to something having to do with the trump ca...

Manafort was also in touch with one of the so-called russian olig oligarchs. i don't think we have ever seen yet because mueller's operation does not leak. we have no idea at this point of what we know about or what mueller may know about manafort's context with these individuals. that's why first manafort is potentially so important to mueller's case and second why the president who constantly says there was collusion wants to distance himself as far as he can from manafort. >> then there is the rudy giuliani factor. and then rudy giuliani floating this idea that the president may pardon some...