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Crimes knowingly even after he pleaded guilty. she said that did have relevance in her decision today. the fact that he lied after he reached that plea agreement to investigators and of course the witness tampering. but she also tried to strike a balance where she said, he's not a victim, but he's also not public enemy number one. she certainly did not give him the maximum punishment that she could have in this case, but he also singled out his attorneys at one point saying, the fact that they brought up that there was no russian collusion in these charges in a court filing was a non sequitur....

That we're at this moment where you have manafort going to prison and the other cases winding down and the special counsel can make the case and my job is to find crime, and if you're on team trump, make the case, and i thought it was about russian collusion. where's your evidence? >> the reality is this isn't the end and it is the most high profill capr profile case and it's ad nauseam and things moving through the courtroom. i think what's interesting. you made a point that sticks out to me. regardless of the fact that this didn't have anything to do with russian collusion, per se, which the...

That. how it was a non sequitur and basically sending signals to manafort's, you know, audience of one, president trump it will be interesting to see what the white house said. i'm sure they will say, one, he was campaign manager for a short time. he was campaign manager, a key position in electing the president of the united states. number two, there was no collusion. as the judge said today, that has nothing to do with the charges today and there is no finding by this court on whether there was or was not collusion. >> and what do you think the political impact is? certainly the president an...

Getting close to a sentence. so because of that and we're also about 10 seconds away from the top of the hour, i will leave you now and turn things over to andrea mitchell. andrea mitchell reports starts now. >> thank you, craig melvin. the suspense is mounting. i'm andrea mitchell in washington. moments away from the sentence for paul manafort. it may be tacked on for the 48 month sentence from a very judge. judge amy berman jackson opened the proceeding saying what she is doing cannot be a revision of a sentence kbord by another court. after hearing arguments from both sides, she said this d...

Pete williams, now joining us, that collusion was not an issue here. that is a non sequitur. he was not charged with that. we know russia and that relationship, those allegations are the heart of the mueller case but that was not what was on trial here. she's pushing back against what his defense attorneys said in virginia after the sentencing last week and what the president of the united states said, more importantly. >> and what the defense said in its sentencing memo in this case here in the district, andrea, they have said were it not for the fact he was the campaign chairman for donald t...