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>> sure. i don't disagree with you. the point tonight before you go deep in the weeds is there's no good rationale for donald trump who has proven to be quite wily about dealing with law enforcement to rush out a federal pardon. doebt don't you think that's less likely sooner because of this hedge? >> perhaps. if manafort is still hoping to keep quiet and not tell the truth as the judge accused him of doing in the federal case. he still has an incentive to maybe stick to that position so whether he gets it now or a year from now to get rid of that federal time may mean a lot to him if he ends ...

Of these charges are not subject to presidential pardon. it's unlikely and one of the things in the charges here manafort's accused of various kinds of real estate fraud that inspired jacking up the rents in new york city. you put manafort in front of a new york jury and accuse him of jacking up rents, he's going away for a long time. >> based on your knowledge, people can like or dislike what the two judges did. we see disparities there. based on your knowledge of this, how are judges in new york going to deal with mr. manafort in your understanding? >> i also wanted judge amy jackson to be m...

Defendants in the case, other people who mueller has indicted or people he may indict that says you are not pardon proof and it's orbvious that the judgs see the charges very seriously. one person i think would probably be paying particularly close attention is roger stone because we know his defense team will go in front of the same judge tomorrow for a status conference and we may hear whether or not he's in violation of his gag order. you have rick gates coming up where his defense will show how much he is cooperated unlike paul manafort. it shows when you make dig decisions. there's places...

Since these weren't collusion cases and manafort's lawyer found himself fact check and shouted down by protesters. >> for anyone who was in the courtroom today what i'm about to say will not be a surprise. judge jackson conceded there was no evidence of any russian collusion in this case. >> he's a traitor. >> no evidence. >> traitor. >> no collusion. >> liar. >> you're a liar. >> liar. >> that's not what she said. >> very sad. >> that's not what she said. >> manafort is a traitor. >> manafort's a traitor. >> it's totally unnecessary. >> that's not what she said they chanted about judge jackso...

Now confessed crimes. rebuking the number of lie, the amount of fraud, the extraordinary amount of money that she detailed was at stake in his felonies and justified this medium to harsh sentence because she said manafort never accepted responsibility for this offense. ultimately backing away from the facts. as a legal matter, all of that would have made this the most devastating single day in the mueller probe thus far. the highest jail sentence, the most direct rebuke especially since jackson was tougher than the federal judge last week in virginia. for reasons that i'm about to explain to y...