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Week, don mcgahn has a role in another key controversy involving the president and this ongoing scandal this all encompassing scandal that surrounds him and his administration and frankly his campaign. "vanity fair" reported this week it has been don mcgahn who has been insisting to the president that no, he can't pardon his campaign chairman paul manafort ahead of manafort's second federal felony trial due to start next month in washington, d.c. "vanity fair" reports the president is so set on pardoning manafort despite that advice he has been considering bringing in a different lawyer to adv...

Appointment. this motion pushes strongly against that notion. let's look at some new details of the investigation. one, that mueller was authorized specifically to investigate paul manafort for actions he took while he was working on the trump campaign and whether those constituted a crime in colluding with the russian government. that's obviously at the heart of this investigation. central to the underlying investigation. but it really blows a hole in this notion that we've heard from the white house that all of paul manafort's troubles are completely unconnected to the trump campaign, are co...

Sentencing disparities. now what she said is somebody like him in a white collar crime case might get probation and community service. but he wants to go back to london where his wife is having a difficult pregnancy leading to the birth of their first child in august. and she said once he leaves here, i can't make sure that he does any community service. he's outside my jurisdiction. so she said, for those reasons, she sentenced him to 30 days in prison and a $20,000 fine. now the sentencing guidelines were zero to six months here. the government did not recommend a sentence but seemed to sugg...