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Like this, a white collar case, where the charges and the conduct is so similar that you would have both sentences run consecutively. so if he's only going to get a few more years anyway on the d.c. case, it a-- it's a lot of time, a lot of efforts, a lot of resources and a lot of witnesses that you're putting on the stand that can be cross examined on their testimony later that you might want to avoid. there's a lot of reasons short of cooperation why bob mueller would want to avoid this trial and agree to this. >> glenn, i'm still hung up on this. manafort is only pleading guilty to two coun...

Counts, so when we read this criminal information, there is 38 pages cataloging paul manafort's crimes, and he is admitting to doing everything in those 38 pages of a criminal narrative, plus as dan said, some of the conduct that he was already tried for in virginia. so here's what i think is really important about today's plea, whether it's with or without cooperation, this, to my way of thinking, puts another nail in the coffin of the witch hunt argument, because what manafort is announcing by his guilty plea is that bob mueller was spot-on with respect to each and every criminal charge he b...

Criminal information. that's like an indictment except that manafort is not contesting it being filed. in that information, the special counsel outlined a host of charges, essentially all the conduct manafort's been charged with in virginia and washington, d.c., money laundering, bank fraud, tax fraud, witness tampering, obstruction of justice. then at the end it says essentially that he's pleading guilty to two charges, conspiracy to defraud the united states and obstruction of justice as you said, but he's going to have to admit to all that other conduct in court at 11:00 a.m. behind me. tha...

Gets is that his sentencing exposure is reduced because that broad conspiracy for all of that conduct only has a five-year maximum sentence that he could get, and then when you add on the second count, which is another conspiracy count, conspiracy to commit witness tampering, his total sentencing exposure is ten years. on his original indictment it would have been dozens and dozens of years. that's one benefit that he gets. what really is striking to me about this information that jumps out to me is yes, he is pleading guilty to what he's charged with in washington, d.c., but he's also pleadin...

Government. ultimately other people, third parties can make a claim to it, including some of the banks that had to foreclose on these homes. they would have a right to get it. but it initially does go to the federal government. yes, you would calculate this netted out, and certainly the federal government made more money off of this investigation than they have spent to this point. but that's another key thing. he has to forfeit all of his homes that were really the subject of the trial in virginia wells a number of bank accounts. there is very, very little give by the special counsel's office...