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Up outside of the justice department. andrew weissmann, one of the first prosecutors to join mueller's team and lead prosecutor in the manafort case, will decamp to nyu law school. the special counsel's office confirming his impending departure with the now signature mystique when it comes to timing. quote, andrew weissmann will be concluding his detail to special counsel's office in the near future. but with mueller close to wrapping up, congress is agitating to get his hands on their work and all signs are pointing to all prosecutions and investigations into trump, trump org, trump inaugural...

Fraud, falsification of business records. it involves transactions part of the mueller investigation. and many of them were entered into evidence in manafort's virginia trial. some legal experts have raised the question of double jeopardy. you can't be charged twice for the same crime in the united states but it's common, though, for you to face state charges on the same fact pattern as federal charges. but new york has a tougher standard of double jeopardy. nonetheless, manhattan district attorney believes he'll prevail. also these state charges, i think loom larger in importance today becaus...

Weird posthumous pardon to jack johnson and then pardoned scooter libby. he definitely made public overtures that seemed to send the signal that, hey, he liked giving pardons and he was amenable to granting pardons, even not in the ordinary course. so i don't think it's that odd. >> gloria, when cohen was reassured by his attorney that everything was, quote, very, very positive, you are loved, saying, sleep well tonight, you have friends in high places, what do you make of the fact that cohen ultimately decided to cooperate with prosecutors anyway? >> well, the joint defense agreement was diss...

Sentencing on twitter, today doing it in person, insisting falsely that this proves that there was no collusion. i want to take you back to a week ago, the virginia judge during paul manafort's sentencing, he referenced collusion saying this case was not about collusion. and today in the d.c. court, amy bergman jackson, ana, she did it a lot more clearly in saying, forcefully, that this case was not about collusion. and this is exactly what she said earlier today. she said, any conspiracy, collusion was not presented in this case. therefore, it was not resolved in this case. so the president's...

Is a politically motivated prosecution. and it's not going to sit well with many americans. >> do you see it the same way, jennifer? >> i have a slightly different take which is, you know, he made no bones about the fact, cy advan vance, that they were proceeding with the case, pursuing the case and planning to charge it, and part of that is looking political because they're doing it to backstop the possibility of a pardon, but you have to wait until the federal case is resolved before you can put your charges in, because they're going to need to physically move him up to new york to face thes...