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Would be you'd have to surrender your passport, but you would be released on your own recognizance. obviously, the -- the mueller investigation and the mueller team made the case to the judge that both of these gentlemen are flight risks and they are flight risks to leave the country where they can't be retrieved. so the judge agreed at least enough to impose really onerous bail conditions just short of locking them up. house arrest, you know, it sounds -- >> what does that entail exactly? >> it means you stay in your apartment other than sanctioned trips to a doctor, to a lawyer's office -- >...

Homes may be secured by an ankle bracelet which registers if they leave -- >> that's what you were thinking. >> yes? >> which is a more unpleasant and onerous condition of bail. so obviously, the judge was convinced that these two represented flight risks and took really rather severe steps to make sure they hang around the jurisdiction. >> presumably the pros cure the outlined in some way to the judge why he considers them flight risk, but there's another element of this that goes to everything we've seen today about this deadly serious investigation and the signals that mueller is making, an...

I think they are both waiting in the courthouse waiting for their appearance. >> they don't have to be in court for another three hours. >> they are waiting in a room somewhere probably with their counsel. waiting for their first court appearance. >> what are the conversations many the room? are they in a rom togethom toge? >> they are probably talking about bail. when they come in to enter the plea, the first question that becomes relevant is, are they held without bail or allowed to make bail? you would expect in a case like this, these two people aren't flight risks, they would be allowed t...

Know that there are a couple of people who could very well be indicted, in fact, one has been told he would be indicted, that's paul manafort. and the other is general flynn. i think both of those people though i can't imagine that there is an issue as to whether either of those individuals are flight risks considering that manafort has already been told he was going to be indicted. and flynn certainly knows that he's in the cross hairs of the prosecutor based on his false statements to the fbi concerning his meeting with the russians. so i think it's going to be extremely interesting to see e...

To release like there is in new jersey. >> the current money bail system fails in two ways. it keeps locked up and takes the liberty away from individuals who are no risk to the public, no flight risk because they don't have money. that's wrong. it allows individuals with enough means and enough wealth and money who are dangerous and are flight risks to get out. that's the system that's fundamentally broken that paints a picture of a system that's failing. the jail door should not swing open and closed based on your ability to pay money. that's what it does now. we need to change it. >> what d...