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President of the united states over the year surrounded himself with odd people, many of whom are now heading for the slammer? >> harry, you look at the paul manafort case, the gag order that was put in place. you look at the roger stone case, i have been calling it a partial gag order, the circumstances of it. could it change the turn of that? >> i guess it could. the judge might consider placing further restrictions on him, maybe some modified home detention which is something that manafort was sentenced to for a time. it is possible the conditions will be increased. she framed the gag order...

It is stupid to put a picture of a federal judge overseeing your case on instagram. she's clearly angry. what now? >> he's going to get a talking-to on thursday. i think the judge has every reason to be angry about this. federal law enforcement, the u.s. marshals, are going to take this seriously. they'll probably have to increase her security because you never know if someone stupid will do something like this. roger stone, as you noted, he's apologized. he said he never meant to threaten the judge. the crosshairs were not intended to in any way threaten the judge. he said somebody was a volu...

Came out, right? key part of the investigation. that gets to the ultimate question of conspiracy with the trump campaign and russia. we don't know that to be the case. you know, the special counsel's investigation is a black box. we're reading these signals. they're like smoke signals coming from the black box. this is one of the smoke signals which could be ultimately significant. >> of course, remember, we know from the stone filing itself, senior trump campaign official was directed to contact stone to get more dirt from wikileaks, right? we still do not know who that senior trump campaign ...

Or wasn't true. now she says the president says it's not true or the president says this. i think that's one indication that she's learning that perhaps she's got to be able to say where things are coming from and they're not coming from her. and i think, again, this tells us a lot about what this investigation has been looking at and this is part of the obstruction part of this case that the special counsel has been focusing on. >> obviously she was part of putting out those statements we got about -- you know, about the statement the president crafted on air force one about the meeting in tr...

2020. this is a sentencing recommendation by the special counsel. it will ultimately be up to the judge to decide how to sentence manafort. in this case there will be a separate sentencing in a virginia court under a separate judge, but what the special counsel points out is that doing illegal things was a life-style choice for paul manafort. the sentencing memo details that manafort conducted these crimes over more than a decade. there were several kinds of crimes involved, they were not perpetuated out of necessity, and the law wasn't deterrent. he engaged in illegal activity when already in...