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Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. No comment on cohen who was released on 500,000 bail. His sentencing, interestingly, is scheduled for december 12th. The judge noted that cohen could serve up to 65 years in prison, though we should hasten to add the prosecutess recommended sentence is something closer to four or six years. Manafort is expected to be sentenced to seven to nine years when its all said and done. He also faces another trial on related...

Mr. mapaul manafort is disappointed. he's evaluating all of his options, at this point. thank you, everyone. >> that was paul manafort's attorney just moments after his client learned he could be facing decades behind bars. manafort's convictions carry a maximum of 80 years. that's just so far, remember. not counting his second trial in d.c. next month for money laundering and illegal foreign lobbying. he could still decide to cooperate with mueller or, as politico puts it tonight --

You'll note as of tonight, trump repeats calling manafort a good man. well, with us to talk about this is josh gearstein. because we extorted him with payments wired to an overseas bank, we've got daniel goldman to agree after a long day to spend even more time with us. thank you so much. josh, you've covered every day of this. was this the definition of ending with a whimper and not a bang? >> it did seem to be. i mean, i think everybody was eager to get the trial over with after four days of deliberations and into its fourth week. i got the sense from both sides they were a bit weary of the ...

The stories that says trump and manafort kept talking for a while and lawyers told trump you have to stop talking. >> ken vogue elof the new york times is one of the print journalists we have on this broadcast quite often. his defense when asked were you unwittingly used as a plant, were these two lawyers who knew exactly what they were doing, they knew you were within earshot, i'll paraphrase his defense and he said no, i know the crowd around trump. they're not like that. these guys aren't that kale. do you -- >> i don't know cobb at all. my friends who are lawyers if they're in public and t...

Was likely to destroy evidence. lawyers and a spokesman for manafort declined to comment for the story and it's not the only illuminating report from the times on mueller's investigation or the effect it is having. here is another headline. trump lawyers clash over how much to cooperate with russia inquiry. this story dropped during the emmy awards last night. the lawyers reportedly at odds are special counsel to the president ty cobb there on the left who was brought in to manage the response to the russia investigation and white house counsel don mcgahn on the right. we know this because ty ...