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Counsel sentencing memo today. the former u.s. attorney and current alabama law professor joyce vans joins me and midwin charles is back with us. joyce, let me begin with you. we've got some key pieces of information. what could they possibly be? what should we be looking out for? >> what's at stake here is whether or not paul manafort gets any credit for cooperating with the government at sentencing. he had entered into this deal with prosecutors where he would cooperate with them on other investigations they were working and receive a reduced sentence. but manafort's lies take that deal off ...

Manafort's portion of the joint submission that was sent to the judge along with prosecutors last week really didn't make a very good case. it was almost as though they seemed to be bent on conceding that he hadn't been fully truthful. it will be very difficult for him to salvage this situation. >> joyce, is paul manafort a lot to reveal in these documents, how he has helped federal prosecutors? >> so he can do that. prosecutors by the same token will be very alert to protecting any information that would either impact ongoing investigations or perhaps declassified. if we see portions come out...

Outrage and not become numb. >> it is tempting some days to ignore it and say, there he goes again, and then we have to remind ourselves that he is the president of the united states of america. joyce, thanks for being with us. joyce vance is an msnbc contributor. macron on the latest protests and riots. he's now promising more money, more minimum wage for the people of france to try to calm what he calls deep, unjustified anger. we'll be back after the break. you're watching msnbc. let's build something. let's do the thing that you do. let's do the thing that changes the shape of everything...

President of the united states of america is publicly announcing people are committing crimes, they should be in jail. private citizens. that's not okay, and if we become numb to it, we risk surrendering the norm. >> joyce, not only is it not okay, it is a badge often worn by dictators and despots in history, where they have targeted individuals, not institutions, but individuals for public scorn. >> the damage president trump is doing to democratic institutions in this country, i think, is incalc labl and that will be his lasting legacy. the question that we face is whether we can sort of sum...

Attorney joyce van. she's now a professor at the university law school and an msnbc contributor. let's just pick up right where james comey left off. the filing he's referring to, one of the three filings that came out on friday is the one that was filed by the united states attorney, southern district of new york. this is not the mueller investigation in which they make reference to something we already knew. michael cohen said he was directed to make these payments by donald trump or by individual 1 as it's referred to in the documentation. now the sdny is saying they believe that to be the ...