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Infraction and the judge said that was absolutely not the case, that the special counsel's office was not on trial here. that manafort had committed these crimes, multiple crimes over multiple years of his life and she held him to account for that and she made it -- she specifically took the time to say that the argument of no collusion was unrelated to the matter at hand and it was not factoring into her decision today at all to pass on those additional years on manafort's sentence, brianna. >> yeah. very important point, kara. >> that's right. >> yeah. >> that was the whole point of this dur...

She was taking all of that into account, and going through piece by piece of his character and of his conduct since he pleaded guilty in the investigation and quite frankly not very pleased with him. >> not very pleased with him or his attorneys. she brought up that in one of the filings to the court that the attorneys made the case that there was no russian collusion, and she brought up, look, that's a non sequitur, why would you put that in court filings? it has nothing to do with robert mueller's main mission at looking at russian collusion and the crimes before her today has nothing to do ...

Victim here. but she clearly stated time and time again that she did not buy in to paul manafort's arguments, that he, you know, accepted responsibility. she said saying "i'm sorry" because i got caught is not an inspiring plea for leniency. basically saying this was too little, too late. basically, for the first time today in court he said he was sorry for what he did and his conduct. and she basically just said that she could see through his games, see through his spin. she said, were you spinning the lies then to get a better deal or spinning the facts now to get a better deal? and she also...

Publicly as a clear plate for the president and b for the possibility of a pardon or commutation. tell us and explain to our viewers more about this particular judge and how she has handled the politics of this big legal case. >> so, i think she's been very good at keeping a lot of that out of the courtroom. she said that it still matters in the courtroom and that's what's important. she said that a lot of what paul manafort, what his attorneys were doing were for some kind of public sympathy. there was always this talk that is paul manafort talking to an audience of one? are his attorneys try...

Non sequitur and that has nothing to do with what is before me. she was none too pleased with his attorneys bringing that up and with paul manafort himself and she basically said he was playing games and were you laying out the facts then to get a better deal and she could see through what he was doing through his calculating actions today, john? >> you guys stand by at the courthouse. we're waiting to see if manafort's attorneys come out to speak to reporters. the canadian transport minister calling out american regulators as canada joins a list of grounding all 737 max jets. specifically fro...