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Now he is being sentenceed. >> bill: is it possible you agree on the lying charge to avoid the possibility of another charge? >> sure, sure. that happens all the time. plea bargaining to one offense to avoid prosecution on another offense. i don't see the other offenses. what he said in regard to speaking to the russian -- no one would consider it a crime today. i don't understand what he was trying to benefit from pleading guilty to a crime which he could have won in court from day one. i said if he litigated this case he would be found not guilty by a jury. >> sandra: your piece on the hill,...

Since he did say he was going to step in and review this case. some saying that he may be exerting unlawful command influence. we have heard that from some military experts. however, a general weighed in on it and wrote an opinion piece published on fox news.com. president reviewing the case writing citizens and soldiers are innocent until proven guilty. the height of irony to deny a combat veteran the constitutional rights he so bravely fought for. what do you think will happen here with your husband? >> i couldn't agree more and from my understanding of the undue command influence kind of pr...

Don't remember. is that sufficient for you? >> it's sufficient if he agrees that he committed a crime. you've got two parties who agree here, the defendant and the government. there is no reason in this situation for the judge to challenge whether it really was a crime. >> bill: i listen to you, i listen to dershowitz and to napolitano, everybody comes at this almost from a gray matter. there is no black and white. >> there is little black and white in this case. particularly when you factor in the conduct of the f.b.i. agents who told flynn you don't have to have a lawyer, we don't want to in...

Eventually the mounting evidence is going to topple him because people will, like the juror in the manafort case, paula duncan said i think this is a witch hunt and a hoax, but the facts were the facts. the evidence is real and i voted to convict him on all 18 counts. >> yeah. >> i think at some point people will say enough is enough. individual number one is guilty and should be indicted. >> yeah. i mean, the difference between -- the reason that this is nixon and not, you know, clinton or john edwards is these are not lies to conceal a sexual affair from your family. they're lies to obtain t...

Brother. john podesta the clinton campaign chair. nothing. now we're talking about in the manafort case. tax evasion, other charges. bank loan applications dating back to 2007. white house press secretary sarah sanders issued this statement. said "the government's filing in mr. manafort's case is nothing about the president. it says even less about collusion. it's devoted almost entirely to lobbying-related issues and i'll add long before paul manafort ever met donald trump." also breaking today, two separate sentencing memos were filed against michael cohen. first, the southern district of no...