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The case against him, just based on my reading of the indictments, is overwhelming. i imagine one way or another he's going to end up with as a convicted felon. with gates pleading and flipping, it puts more pressure on manafort. will manafort plead? i don't know. he may be stubborn, may insist on his trial. one way or another he's going to end up a convicted felon. >> cluck is a warm person but that has the ability to chill the blood on your bones. the expression indictmeed and convicted in federal court is something you want to keep off your resumé. >> aside from the fact that a vast majori...

Sensible for a defendant, particularly one like manafort to end up pleading guilty and the case against him, just based on my reading of the indictments, is overwhelming. i imagine one way or another he's going to end up with as a convicted felon. with gates pleading and flipping, it puts more pressure on manafort. will manafort plead? i don't know. he may be stubborn, may insist on his trial. one way or another he's going to end up a convicted felon. >> cluck is a warm person but that has the ability to chill the blood on your bones.

The charges to you, sets a trial date. there are some other sort of perfunctory, you know, stuff that goes on but has to happen. question number two, is this an effort to get him to flip? well, let me take a step back. virtually all defendants who are charged in federal district court end up being convicted. the overwhelming percentage of those by guilty plea. so it's very rational, very sensible for a defendant, particularly one like manafort to end up pleading guilty and the case against him, just based on my reading of the indictments, is overwhelming. i imagine one way or another he's goin...

He'll spend the rest of his life in prison. even before gates pled. and now with gates pleading, his business partner, i mean, this is really trouble. the other thing not resolved right now is his bail situation. >> right. >> they haven't been able to get the right security for the bail. now, the courts will give him every break they can because our system, we provide bail and don't put people in jail. and the standard is pretty high to confine somebody. if they don't come up with resources and some reason for them to believe he will show up for trial he may well get confined even before his t...

Is basically two breaking stories for us, gates pleading, which is very significant given his senior role in the campaign and new charges against manafort. what does it tell you? >> it tells you that mueller has a very decided game plan, that he has amassed a lot of information and as he begins to acquire new koempcooperate forss able to very quickly marshall their information and put it to use. but it also tells you that mueller is staunchly defending the institution he loves and spent so much of his life working on behalf of the justice department and the fbi, going to lengths to include in ...