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Trump today denying cohen committed campaign finance crime, calling the hush payment a simple, private transaction. but federal prosecutors say cohen acted to influence the 2016 presidential election, and did it at the direction of individual one, who we know is the president of the united states, donald trump. here's the former fbi director jim comey's reaction to that. >> is the president of the united states right now an unindicted co-conspirator? >> i don't know. not in the formal sense that he's been named in an indictment. but if he's not there, he's certainly close, given the language i...

Is it possibility that manafort expects it? >> it certainly looks like a play for a pardon. up until his first trial, everyone thought manafort was sitting back and waiting for the pardon. remember, he's 69 years old. the minimum he's facing on what's up now, another ten years, which puts him at age 79 when he gets out of prison. >> let me see if you agree with this analysis from the times this morning, quoting a law professor who wonders this. quote, what is manafort hiding that was worth going to jail for the rest of your life. it would have had to be vn material and signal and intentional. ...

The first row. i will be clear, we know nothing about this moment about what this jury is thinking after all this, we do know what they're thinking about. 11 days of testimony, financial records and evidence suggesting manafort committed crimes for years. and here is exactly how mueller's team closed out their argument for jurors who might think that manafort got kind of the rough deal by stepping into the spotlight of politics and that's how he caught so much heat, they argued, you see it here on the screen, no person is above the law. and for anyone lost in the blizzard of accounting over th...