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Testimony to get evidence and information he can give you to get bigger fish, to go get the president. and he sort of reamed the prosecutors out for that and scolded them, mocked them in the court because he could tell that was their real intent. the prosecutors fundamentally rebutted that. right? they rebutted that outburst from the judge tonight when they came to him at paul manafort's sentencing and said this guy, we can't use him for anything. we can't use him against anyone. we can't use him for any other case. all he does is lie. he's pointless as a witness. he's of no help. this case is...

I observed the judge to be corky and also to have expressed some hostility about this case, and the special counsel and manafort's connection to president trump. i don't know that those things informed his decision. one of the things you see in cases is judges who impose very lenient sentences against white collared defendants. the sentencing guidelines are based on data they collect from around the country. it's based on real cases and the idea behind it is we don't want unwarranted disparities between sentences. if you commit a crime in washington d.c. or new york or texas you're likely to g...

A different judge who has been through a different proceeding with him. for that sentencing next week. the maximum sentence that d.c. had to hand down would be ten years. but that judge next week has the benefit of knowing what manafort's sentence was tonight. amy berman jackson will not. she will also be decide should run concurrently or be consecutive. she could give him up to ten years. let's say she gives him five. if they are concurrently, he'll start both sentences day one and end up serving a total of five years in prison because the five and four will run at the same time but judges, i...

Didn't make a more remorseful statement or regretful statement or even acknowledge that he was wrong to have broken the law, but then the very next thing the judge said was that that's not going to affect my decision here today. the best explanation he gave about why he was going way below the guidelines was that he felt that they are out of whack compared with the way people are generally sentenced in cases that involve primarily tax evasion and not reporting your foreign bank accounts. he said a typical sentence in cases such as that is usually somewhere in the range of six months to a year,...

Manafort tell prosecutors about the president or anybody else, they aren't interested in anything he has to say. they think he's a liar. they don't think he's useful. the big dangling thread here with manafort now learning his fate, next time we'll know if he'll spend more time in prison he was sentenced to tonight, manafort's fate becoming clear and his case ending, there is this thread, there are uncharged allegations described in the manafort case about alleged contacts and the provision of secret data from the highest ranks of the trump campaign to russian intelligence while russian intell...