Page 10 - Proffer Sessions News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

The motivation on the trump legal side is to keep trump's name out of manafort's mouth? >> absolutely. >> which is sort of a quid pro quo or what's moan as the 3-6 mafia defense. i want to ask you about this real big news that we got late friday that i think some people have missed with everything else going on. let me read from andrew weissmann, saying what's not in manafort's statement of defense is it doesn't rely on the information obtained from manafort in the course of his proffer sessions, and cooperation that led us to today. you have educated us before on how this works. why would pro...

Judge to give him a lower, he won't. >> this may sound like a dumb question but to get this, does mueller already know what manafort knows? has he already had the opportunity to put all the goods on the fwabl what he would talk about? >> yes. that was disclosed in court faye there have been proffer sessions and no prosecutor that i am aware of would ever give a deal to someone who hadn't given a proffer. so mueller obviously felt that whatever manafort told him was worth a cooperation agreement. so he already knows probably not every detail but in broad outlines, everything manafort will tell ...

If you cooperate and the prosecution agrees that your cooperation is significant, they can go to the judge and reduce your sentence dramatically. the judges in federal court reward cooperation a great deal. but prosecutors have to be impressed by this cooperation. they have to believe that you are telling the truth. presumably, there have been discussions here. i mean, you have what's called proffer sessions where prosecutors get a good sense of what you're saying. >> do they -- >> they know what he's going to say, and they obviously think it's worthwhile making this deal. >> let me bring in c...

Trump is spared a trial in full campaign season where the evidence comes in vividly and day after day there's reports of it on the news. it would be a good development for him assuming it doesn't involve cooperation which i believe it will not. >> i'm not sure if it was you, harry because we've had conversations about this with you and with other legal experts. but did you predict that paul manafort would try to make a deal, that it was almost certain he would try to do this? >> well, no, you know, i think everyone was puzzled because the pressure on him was so great. as time went on, it seeme...

There was no collusion. >> stay with me jay. i want to bring in seth. we've gotten ahold of the transcript of what mr. weissman was saying in court. he reveals for the first time that they had several proffer sessions with mr. manafort. he said what's not in the statement of offense today is it didn't rely information obtained in his proffer sessions, plural. what does that mean? >> that's very significant. mr. manafort for some days or weeks has been sitting with prosecutors already and feeding them information. they have been able to independently corroborate and make themselves feel comfort...