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Seek a penalty that would imprison the pittsburgh shooter for life without parole. the best vengeance rather than seeking the shooter's death his strengthening other jewish life in pittsburgh and around the world. doing so will mean not the forces of evil. >> 's crime was driven by hatred and the misunderstanding of the jewish faith and they are the antithesis of the hate that led to this. so the fact that this jewish faith in these people's dedication might ultimately save this guy's life is an irony not lost on me. >> does it have an effect on the court? >> it does, it's a mitigating factor....

Reported here, which is such an important part of the story, is this the first time it has become publicly known, that he did that memo? >> yes, that's the first public reporting on this memo. and the memo is, as you said, it's pretty important because the lines that he used in trying to very early on decide if there was some mitigating factor, as he's told me, you know, how did this happen, how did it come to be that my son did this? he was really looking for what would be the defense and what would be the explanation. and he wrote this memo that he circulated with his attorneys that later wa...

You've obviously gone through more than 1,000 pages of divorce documents. you've gone through the police documents, including some incredible detail. sarasota police reported that the young man struck several blows to his mother's head and torso, left her in a pool of blood and unplugged the phone cord, denied the brother the use of 911 to render aid. the incredible police reporting on this. also the memo that shanahan himself wrote to essentially try to shield his son from -- from -- from getting in trouble on this stuff. is the memo that you guys have reported here, which is such an importan...

Bargaining, his behavior with the association with all of these other folks around him that have engaged in all of this terrible behavior. all of that adds to more years. all of that adds to a not considering a mitigating factor to keep someone or run a sentence that's going to be concurrent. what's going to result here is a heavy stack of sentences and a heavy stack of years i believe for manafort. and we're going see that in a matter of days. my guess is 14 years or more for these charges. and you -- maybe we will see a change in attitude. i will say that i think that's really important that...

Reins that will fall here, a life sentence? >> i do. i would never profess to speak for any judge, but here's the issue. the issue is not this is not the special prosecutor, to be very clear, trying to go hard on manafort. let me clarify what i'm saying, if you look at the sentencing memo they put forward. they take no position. what they're saying is under the federal sentencing guidelines, you have a level of offense. and while it may get complicated. what happens is, you have a level of offense, in which case it's a 38. that's far down the scale. you have zone "a," "b," "c," this is a zone ...