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That concerned about his social media presence. he doesn't strike me as mr. twitter. i don't think that's going to matter much, frankly. i think it was a miscarriage of justice. it was way too large a departure. it doesn't surprise me there was some departure because judge ellis never liked the case, he doesn't approve of the special prosecutor, he was hostile to the prosecutors in the courtroom, but it is a huge departure that strikes me as wrong and it highlights not only that he has too much discretion in my opinion, but also that white collar cases are treated differently than street colla...

People convicted of stealing $100 worth of quarters saw lenient sentences. the issue is less should we have thrown the book at manafort and really why are we throwing the back at other people and can we look at these guidelines and say they're overwhelmingly too harsh. the manafort case is good in that it illustrates this disparity, but i'm not sure we should be saying let's be more harsh to white collar criminals but instead focusing on the poor, the vulnerable, people of color who really do bear the overwhelming burden of our expansive and overreaching criminal justice system. >> leah, all o...

Up. >> we don't have to go around and being climate deniers. we can empower women by talking about the elder care client which negatively impacts women and takes them out of the workforce. younger republicans recognize this. i think you see people who are ready to take leadership at the appropriate time and lead on these issues. >> speaking of that, i've noted what happened in iowa this week. a number of different things that took place. you had mike pompeo who was there, but he also made the rounds when it came to radio and tv interviews. i think it was five interviews that he made by my coun...

Miscarriage of justice. octoberively, it's a miscarriage of justice. >> jill, i want to get your reaction to this. there's been so much focus on this judge, reagan appointee, doesn't like special counsels as a whole so he's not especially keen about this investigation as well. do you see this as an outlier or when you look at prosecutionings for white collar crime, is it something that's in line with what we see? >> this case is certainly an outlier. 4 out of 5 cases like this, criminal cases, the sentences the judge hands down are in line with the sentencing guidelines. that said, i think the...

Pretty tough. you saw how she dealt with roger stone. i think she's going to rectify this, not because she's on a policy rant or some social justice rant but because she gets the next shot at this. >> amy jackson there in d.c. will be taking up the manafort case on wednesday. we'll be taking up that gag order against roger stone on monday. many people are saying that the mueller team took an "l" here, that they took the loss. >> the mueller team has a bye that this is not their case. they handed off a fair amount of the, you know, criminal side of this to federal judges and they, you know -- t...