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Life in jail, i killed people, it's not exactly like i have a moral compass at all. i would say whatever youou want me to say. now, the main, the lead prosecution witness in the manafort case is his partner, rick gates. he is an admitted lawyer, embezzler, cheat, involved in everything thatve t supposedly paul manafort has done for the most part. he is their star witness who is facing 100 years in jail and everybody else that testified got immunity. that sounds, to me, like well, mueller is basically bribing rick gates with a get out of jail free card. and, frankly, i can't put any faith or cr...

I would say whatever you want me to say. now, the main, the lead prosecution witness in the manafort case is his partner, rick gates. he is an admitted lawyer, embezzler, cheat, involved in everything that supposedly paul manafort has done for the most part. he is their star witness who is facing 100 years in jail and everybody else that testified got immunity. that sounds, to me, like well, mueller is basically bribing rick gates with a get out of jail free card. and, frankly, i can't put any faith or credibility in anybody that gets off 100 years in jail potentially. >> right. you hit the na...

Really spending his remaining active years in federal prison, not a good proposition. >> when you look at the team that robert mueller has assembled. for example, andrew wiseman, he's expected to be an expert on colleagues. the go to guy when it comes to appeals cases. greg andreas who once managed a justice department program, targeting illegal foreign bribery. if you have papadopoulos as a cooperating witness, what do you have him doing? >> if it were my cooperating witness, don't forget, he started cooperating in july. i'd have him start playing dial a crook and meet a crook, wearing a wire...

About, you know, the president taking action that might affect mueller's investigation. and so they have -- you know, they want their -- they're thinking about introducing, you know, potential legislation to curtail that ability. >> it's a stunning piece and may turn out to be a significant turning point in the investigation. thanks so much for getting on the phone with us and talking to us about it. let me bring matt miller back on to the line. matt, do you know -- you know, this individual that i asked about, the quote here is that people like greg an andreas don't leave private practice wil...

Counsel recruits people into efforts like this and what the addition of someone at this phase might signify? >> yeah. that's exactly right. i worked with greg andreas, he was one of the most respected prosecutors in the department. put mobsters in jail. did overseas bribery cases. very experienced prosecutor now making probably millions of dollars in private practice. this -- what bob mueller has been doing is a little bit like if you watch some of the avengers movies, at the beginning of the movie they're assembling from across the globe to take on a new threat. mueller has been doing that. i...