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His clemency power to free his former campaign manager. brooke. >> joe johns. thank you for the update. our legal analyst here, why do you think the defense is acting like that? >> oh, i think for the reasons we heard from the correspondent. there moves way paul manafort could take the stand. the cross examination would have been too brutal. he would have done more harm to this case, which is hard to stay when you sa i that given the mound of evidence presented by the prosecution. this was a paper case and the prosecution put on lots of evidence from e-mails to bank records, to other documents...

Courthouse there in virginia. thank you. >> so dan you were helping us out with the chris collins story before the commercial break, now i want to ask you about paul manafort and rick gates and the developments you've seen particularly in the last 24 hours. >> well, look, this from a trial perspective this is not at all surprising. and what happens with a cooperating witnessed is it's someone who's committed crimes them self who has to admit guilt and then has to testify. and cross-examination is withering because in particularly this case, this is really manafort's only defense. so they're go...

Many people think the deal has been signed on the dotted line and it is over. absolutely not. what's going to happen is the prosecutors are going to write a letter to the sentencing judge when gates gets sentence. if it goes well, they would not oppose for a request of a non custodial sentence. >> does it have enough of a paper case to convict paul manafort. >> they do. enough to put gates on the stand. at the beginning of the trial, they said they were not sure putting him on the stand. you can read this indictment, it lays out in perfect order just how this crime was commitmeted. it is a pap...

Here is your star witness. he's in an interesting location within the trial. it's mostly a paper case. i guess this means you've got to end strong. you've got to have a great closer and wrap it all up for the members of that jury. >> the most important thing you can do as a prosecutor when you're putting on a cooperating witness, you know they're going to take some damage. you know the defense is going to score some points on them. you have to be able to rally back with corroboration, independence evidence that backs up the corroborator, so you're not just saying to the jury, take this crimina...

And they detail what they themselves did, just as mr. gates is doing now. so, is it important testimony? absolutely. is it determine in aative? probably not. because remember this is a paper case. we have bank records and tax return that is wicorroborate wh he is saying. this is not good for mr. manafort. >> we should also remind the audience paul manafort getting money funneled from russian oligarchs, hiding money from the u.s. government and the irs. this was the man selected to be the campaign chair for president trump's campaign. remember, president trump loves to say it. he hires only the...