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Sentence? >> was he involved with collusion with anybody else in russia who wasn't a government official? also, why bring that up? and why is that the most important thing? i think most important, what you saw today, is that the most important thing? not only was manafort not charged with anything have to do with rush ssia in this case, th was the trial judge ellis banned any discussion of russia collusion at all in his courtroom. so nobody could have tried to prove anything like that against manafort in this trial in virginia. no collusion, no collusion public arguments from the manafort defe...

Circumstances with guilty plea and botched cooperation deal and she's the judge that revoked his bail in the first place so he had to serve time in jail while he was awaiting trial in the first place. there is a whole different narrative that goes into explaining what judge jackson will decide next week. specifically, though, in terms of how judges make their decisions, is she allowed to take into consideration the length of time that he was sentenced for this week? is she essentially allowed to pass judgment and factor that in? >> not necessarily but she can decide whether that's concur rent ...

24 years so significantly and give mr. manafort only a four-year sentence seems extraordinary and i think is very much a response to white collar criminals we too often see in the criminal justice system. our prisons are filled with people serving much longer sentences for small drug offenses. so i'm disappointed. i don't think it did justice but it's only the first part of his sentence. he has another next week and i'm hopeful that the judge will sentence him appropriately in the next week and send a strong message about this kind of corruption and this sort of conduct and impose a sentence c...

Potential other cases against other people, that was also a signal from the special counsel's office that there was no way they would be relying on paul manafort as any kind of witness against anyone. once you're telling the judge one way this guy repeatedly lies even to prosecutors who he supposed to be helping, that makes him useless as a potential witness against anyone else in any other case. and you'll remember during manafort's trial in virginia, the judge there, the famously judge, he basically yelled at the prosecutors in court, right? it was this big dramatic moment in court and heari...

You know, thanking his family, praising the judge. he must have done that on think three different occasions and sort of apologizing for the trama that his friends and loved ones had experienced. but very little interest beyond that and then the final thing i really took away, rachel, this judge continues to have a deep reservation about mueller's operation. he said at one point he snapped, we all know why we're here and one prosecutor at one point said the government's position on this is that we don't recommend -- i'm sorry, he said the special counsel's position on this is we don't recommen...