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Sense. she pleaded guilty to being an unregistered foreign agent. what her guilty plea does mean is that there's the potential for foreign money involvement in the election. that is what the butina guilty plea really tells us. not cold war era spy activities, but rather, the influx of russian money. and it is a crime for foreign nationals, and that includes foreign governments, to contribute money to an election or to a campaign. and that's really where the easiest, most obvious direction is of the investigation. >> midwin, you agree with that? >> i do, i do, because the allegation here is, or...

Former national security adviser set to be sentenced in a couple of days. it's all the president's charged men. and all of this seems to be taking a toll with new exclusive polling out. what americans are saying about donald trump and robert mueller. plus, the revolving door at the white house goes around and around and around. >> multiple scandals taking down another member of the president's cabinet. >> the big question now, who could be next? >> well, it's sunday, december the 16th. and if you feel like a year's worth of news has been crammed into one week, well, you're not alone. >> ever...

Investigations will continue. and particularly, the federal prosecutors in new york, who now seem to be digging into the trump organization, that is so dangerous for donald trump and his children. >> midwin, when you look at all of that, the litany, what is from a legal perspective most perilous for him? what should he be most worried about? >> i think he should be most concerned about the mueller investigation. >> still? >> absolutely. and the reason being is because mueller has done, i think, a terrific job of boxing him in by going after all the president's men, for lack of a better term. y...

Counsel sentencing memo today. the former u.s. attorney and current alabama law professor joyce vans joins me and midwin charles is back with us. joyce, let me begin with you. we've got some key pieces of information. what could they possibly be? what should we be looking out for? >> what's at stake here is whether or not paul manafort gets any credit for cooperating with the government at sentencing. he had entered into this deal with prosecutors where he would cooperate with them on other investigations they were working and receive a reduced sentence. but manafort's lies take that deal off ...

Ken dilanian covered intelligence for nbc. tom winter, investigative reporter. danny goldman, southern district of new york, and my friend midwin charles, attorney and contributor to essence magazine. the government says manafort committed federal crimes, they say he lied on a whole bunch of subjectings. is he simply banking that president trump will pardon him or does putin and his team know so much? that could be a bigger risk for manafort. >> i think the pardon is the only one that makes sense from a rational perspective. the idea that somehow a message was communicated perhaps through his ...