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Five people so far to plead guilty in the special counsel's probe. paul manafort's been indicted along with 13 russian nationals. three russian corporations as well. we don't expect these russians to ever appear in court. what about paul manafort at this point? what does his future look like? >> this is a big revelation for me at least because manafort's argument, his complaint, that the mueller team exceeded the boundaries of their directive, was an interesting legal argument. it had some valid points. that may no longer be the case in light of the news of today. that maybe mueller always had...

Of course the reason why he mentioned it is because he was sitting across the table from the leaders of the baltic states who he's about to hold a press conference with. they want him to do more to deter russia, especially by supporting nato forces in the region. that's an issue that has been talked a lot about -- talked about a lot today, and of course the president saying that he's been the toughest yet on vladimir putin. >> pete williams standing by for us as well. mr. williams, let's turn back to the mueller probe here. what happened in court today? how does alex van der zwaan, how does he...

Proceedings, the judge sentenced him to 30 days in prison, pay a $20,000 fine, so it seems quite clear he'll be back in time for prison. it's interesting that just before pronouncing sentence, the judge noted that several members of alex van der zwaan's family wrote letters to the judge, his wife, his mother, others, attesting to his good character and urging leniency. but the judge said that van der zwaan himself never did. his own expressions of remorse have been muted, craig. >> pete, let's also take a look at this newly released document that seems to underline the deputy attorney general ...

Maybe that's something that manafort is holding out for. >> if all of the roads so far, if they appear to lead to paul manafort, and i think we've got an interesting graphic here that illustrates some of the players and how they are all int interconnected. if all of the roads that the point appear to lead towards paul manafort, where does manafort lead, ned? >> well, that's the question. when manafort -- when an indictment against manafort was announced last year, you'll recall that the trump administration said at the time, look, this is not about collusion this has very little to do with rus...

Elections. what's interesting about that document is two things. one is, it lists people by name. now, we only saw the manafort part of it. most of it is blacked out. but it's interesting that mueller's commission was to look at specific people. so they were already starting to look at. because of the fbi's work. bac basically giving mul earl his homework assignment on what he should be teed up to do. secondly, it's the commission from rosenstein to mueller specifically mentions this whole ukrainian business. and, remember, it had been manafort's contention that mueller was going beyond his br...