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Activity so long, yet this was the man president trump chose to be the chair of his campaign. >> that's right. josh, prosecutors say manafort deserves up to 24 and a half years in prison saying this in this document, quote, manafort acted for more than a decade as if he were above the law and deprive the federal government and various financial institutions of millions of dollars. the sentence here should reflect the seriousness of these crimes and serve to deter manafort and others from engaging in such conduct. the sentencing is up to the judge, there are multiple sentencing dates for him. d...

Agreeing with federal probation officials on sentencing recommendation. but it will be up to the judge to decide. it is nothing but bad news for paul manafort. not only is this a potential life sentence for him but as sam alluded to, there's another whole case involved here. nothing looks good for paul manafort. >> no, it doesn't. let's pivot to someone else that it doesn't look great for. trump associate roger stone. the special counsel office revealing prosecutors have evidence that he communicated with wikileaks in relation to release of the democrats' e-mails that were hacked. sam, before ...

>> special counsel prosecutors say paul manafort acted out of greed. other federal authorities may put him behind bars the rest of his life. he was convicted for bank and tax fraud and other financial crimes related to working for a ukranian politician. a lot to roll through. sam, i want to start with you. you look at the 26 page outline of manafort's 8 financial crimes as outlienned, the special counl prosecutor said this about the manafort case. quote. given the breadth of manafort's criminal activity, the government hasn't located a comparable case with the unique array of crimes and aggrav...

Prosecutors are asking the judge to do is to give him the rest of his life in prison. on bank fraud, financial crimes and they say essentially manafort acted for more than a decade as if he were above the law and deprive the government of various financial institutions of millions of dollars. this goes to the heart of the case. tax fraud, bank fraud that his supporters would argue would have nothing to do with the russia investigation. that's a fair argument. one of the things the special counsel points out in this filing is that manafort had all of the means to do things the right way. he cho...

Dumps by wikileaks. my question from the filing yesterday is whether e-mails that were part of search warrants found under the search warrants related to a russian hacking case shed any new light on whether there's communication back between roger stone and the campaign about timing of dumps. i want to remind viewers, when we talk about wikileaks and roger stone e-mailing with wikileaks, wikileaks is a nonstate intelligence service, something that secretary of state pompeo said when he was director of the cia. roger stone was e-mailing with a hostile intelligence service, and it is possible, w...