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Creating 17 different accounts in different places to bank money that he didn't share with the justice department or with the irs. it's a striking document, this unsealed indictment. >> all right. let's bring in a law professor at george washington university, a and also joyce vance. >> joyce, looking at everything that came down yesterday from bob mueller's office, what's your impression? >> my impression is mueller has launched the opening salvo in what will be a long and successful war. it's an impressive indictment, this charging document against manafort and gates. it's rich in detail. th...

Truth, it's going to come out the same way. so the voracity of the statements tends to be self-proving. jane: and it's reported his family has been brought in from nigeria, his dad went to the embassy there before this all happened. how key is that? >> well, they've been shown to be a secure base for him, if you will, as far as a stabilizing influence on a point of view that we would say is doing the right thing, not committing terrorism, not committing crimes, not killing innocent people. his family's part of a very important support structure for him, and the fact that they don't support the...

The government may not be able to sea the materiality aspect of the case. in any event, he would have gotten, as you say a relatively small sentence. so i don't think he pleaded because of that. i think he pleaded to protect his son. which makes him a very weak witness. any defense attorney says ladies and gentlemen of the jury, this is a man admitted lying, saving his son. why would you believe him? he would say anything to save his son from prosecution. >> so might lose him credibility on the stand. but talk a bit about his utility here in the investigation. weigh those two things. seems qui...