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Yours? >> the most specific thing we learned about this is mueller's investigators led by andrew weissman were pressuring manafort -- this is according to manafort's lawyers -- to tell them what he knew about the 2016 trump tower meeting and what specifically the president knew. did the president know that his son was going to be meeting with russians who are offering dirt on hillary clinton and what did the president know about it afterwards? giuliani says that they hammered on manafort about this. manafort, who was in solitary confinement, was being brought out for these interviews every few...

Welcome back. time now for "the lid." the panel is back, nick, susan and jonathan. guys, "the wall street journal" has a bit of breaking news. they say trump campaign chairman paul manafort before he was convicted last week tried to resolve a second set of charges, but they didn't reach a deal and the two sides are now moving closer to a second trial next month according to people familiar with the matter so he tried to cut a deal with prosecutors but it didn't work out. if this is true, i mean this is a big win for mueller's team in pressuring manafort and putting the screws to him, i guess, ...

Manafort into cooperating. roger stone views it about the same. >> it's about pressuring manafort to plead guilty so the gvt doesn't have to go in on trial. the government refuses to turn over to manafort in discovery any information gleaned through surveillance. they insist he was never under surveillance. >> while the president distanced himself from manafort today as someone who was only with the campaign for a short time, there was this tweet of support. wow, what a tough sentence for paul manafort. didn't know manafort was the head of the mob. what about comey and crooked hillary and all ...

We're going to talk about that and more with my panel right now. cnn political commentators maria c cardona and paris denard joining me. >> good to see you, fred, welcome to d.c. thank you, always great to be here. manafort is maintaining his innocence. is this an issue of pressuring manafort to cooperate, that perhaps there is more? or is there simply about prosecuting manafort? >> i think it's pushing manafort to see what he knows. we clearly have seen that this is a very serious effort on behalf of mueller to find out how closely this gets to the trump campaign. let's remember that this is ...

That's what he's done with gates. but it's fascinating to watch how he's pressuring manafort. think about this, aaron, if you're facing taking your last breath in federal prison if you don't cooperate, what is it that's motivating you to not cooperate? there's only three options here. one is you're certain of your innocence, which manafort's asserting. but i've got to tell you in the charging documents we've read, these are solid paper cases, multi-million dollars in money laundering around the world, not paying taxes on any of it, this isn't about whether you used your turn signal properly or...