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Exceeded his authority. the judge made provocative comments, seemed to question robert mueller and the idea of special counsel and why they were prosecuting manafort. couple days ago, judge ellis issued a ruling and roundly ruled in favor of the government and against manafort and decided mueller was perfectly within his authority. i think he's facing an uphill battle in the hearing. one other interesting thing, the search warrants unsealed provided interesting new details how manafort was in debt to russian oligarchs, and in big debt when he joined the trump campaign as chairman. that makes h...

Only reason they were prosecuting manafort for the other crimes was exactly as you stated, chris. >> but that says in the mandate anything that arises in this case they can prosecute. >> i agree with you. but the fact issing. > any matters that arose or may arise directly from the investigation. that judge that 78-year-old judge who was a reagan appointment ought to read the mandate before he rules. i think he's out to lunch. >> i agree with you. >> i think he's going to learn more. i'm tough on the guy i don't know. when he didn't read the mandate language, it's pretty wide. >> once it's unre...

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 ...

Tony podesta worked for lobbyist and john podesta worked for obama and clinton administrations, why does it seem that any ties with democrats are looked past in terms of the mainstream media but if you're tie today republicans, then you have big problems? >> it's remarkable because paul manafort was in partnership with the podesta group on the very issue for which he's being charged by by the mueller people. mueller is prosecuting manafort for improperly lobbying but the podesta group isn't being charged when you can make the same argument. tony podesta who is still running the group or was sa...

>> that was a departure for how they have been talking about him to this point. >> and it was a more forceful defense or attack on those prosecuting manafort. it stood out in both of those ways. i think there is interesting back story on how it came out. it was an e-mail sent to the "wall street journal" reported by another media outlet. they wanted to get it out there, and i think probably it fits into the paradigm where they're trying to say nice things about manafort that makes him feel good to some extent. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> coming up, the nonstop infighting in the trump admini...