Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20190313:20:12:00
Usually when you're dealing with a defendant, you're trying to convince that defendant it's in their best interest to cooperate. you talk about this is the sentence you're facing, this is the likelihood you're going to get convicted, this is why you're going to cooperate and plead guilty. >> like a come to jesus moment. >> exactly. when there's a pardon, that makes that conversation almost impossible. and i think that's why we assume one of the reasons paul manafort's cooperation agreement blew up spectacularly like it did. it didn't have that carrot and stick that others might have had. >> wh...