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As a campaign finance violation. he's also got now weisselberg, the cfo of the trump organization. again, how often do you get the insider, the cfo, the guy who knows the money trail, the most? and then lastly, he's got mcgahn. and that's not including all the other witnesses that we've heard of, don. general flynn, manafort, who's eventually going to flip. i bet you 3-1 that he's going to wind up. he's not going to go jail -- >> why do you say that? >> look, he's facing life imprisonment. he's got another retrial on the counts that the jury hung on, 11-1. and then he's got the case coming up ...

>> why do you say that? >> look, he's facing life imprisonment. he's got another retrial on the counts that the jury hung on, 11-1. and then he's got the case coming up in d.c. within 30 days. look, mueller's not going to back off. mueller's not all of a sudden not going to say, oh, let me just start going easy on manafort. they're going to keep pounding manafort until he submits, and submission means cooperation against the president with the mueller team. >> so shan, i also want to get, talk more about paul manafort's case with you, because mueller's team wants to review e-mails between mana...

Look what they've got now in the last 30 days. they've got cohen, again, the president's lawyer almost unheard of who has on the record in his plea colloquy, what he said, what cohen said to the court, has said the president directed me, the president told me how to make these hush money payments, and the president is involved in this conduct. which they -- which he pleads to as a campaign finance violation. he's also got now weisselberg, the cfo of the trump organization. again, how often do you get the insider, the cfo, the guy who knows the money trail, the most? and then lastly, he's got m...

Sit well on its face. first of all, it's donald trump's justice department that appointed the attorney general, the deputy attorney general and the special counsel. the special counsel is a job or a role that is laid out in statute. it's congressionally created, not something conjured out of thin air. as people have been saying all along, special counsel mueller is someone who is a lifelong republican and this investigation has produced indictment after indictment, plea deal after plea deal. and now a conviction in the case of manafort. the idea that this is just some hocus-pocus or that it's ...

On 10 criminal charges that jurors were unable to reach a verdict on last week. what kind of options are they likely weighing right now? >> i think one big factor for them is there's some post-trial motions that manafort's folks have filed and probably want to get the judge's ruling on that as well. it does buy them a little bit more time potentially to follow-up on that kind of last-minute right before midnight talk that manafort's team raised with them about maybe working out a guilty plea. i think the problem back then, i'm sure guy would agree, no time at all waiting for the jury to come b...