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And here we are today in this final sentencing, the stakes were high. because in some ways, the prosecutors wanted to use today to sort of justify their work over the last nearly two years in this high-profile case. manafort has been a central figure in all of this. and so, certainly, it is a big deal, as we near the end of the mueller probe, by all accounts, our reporting is that it is nearing the end. that it won't be long before the attorney general announces he has received mueller's confidential report. and so the stakes were very high today. it's certainly a momentous day in the mueller ...

Taking number of questions from reporters following his announcement that they are issuing an emergency order to ground all boeing 737 max 8s and max 9s after the two crashes involving that same kind of aircraft. the president also asked about manafort and despite the obvious falsehood that the democrats are for crime and the falsehood that no collusion was prooumven toda the president also saying that he hasn't given thought to pardoning manafort. the man who led president trump's presidential campaign was sentenced today to additional time in prison. that brings manafort's total sentence to ...

Notion that anyone would even be thinking about interfering in a case, right? you have the president, how can he possibly help michael cohen if michael cohen is in the sights of federal prosecutors? there's no legitimate appropriate way for him to help michael cohen. what he needs to do in that circumstance is just to say, you deal with your case, good luck to you and your family. and that's it. >> unless they are involved together in some nefarious activity. how do you interpret these e-mails? what stands out, caroline? >> right, well, i agree with jenna for that -- look, a unique feature of ...

Boeing board. there is a lot of cross-pollination here between boeing and this administration. many people were saying, that's why he wouldn't do anything. obviously, that's not the case, or at least not the case now, that he has taken this action. but to your basic question, did he have a choice? yeah, he did have a choice, but that choice was getting narrower and narrower and now it seems like it would have been a bit of a quixotic thing to say, oh, we're going to keep standing up against this when the whole world is saying, let's get some answers first. especially, and don't forget, we're o...

Defraud. it adds a new level of legal issues for manafort and while we talk a lot about the manafort case, it's always kind of looming in there as part of the defense has been that he's looking for a presidential pardon. the key thing here with these state charges is that the presidential pardon doesn't apply. they're essentially pardon proof. now, the district attorney's office would have to approve these cases, these charges in trial or manafort will have to face them, and that will take some time, since he is currently in a jail here in alexandria, virginia. but it adds a whole new level of...