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Government to influence this election. as we reported last night, judge ellis sentenced manafort to 47 months in prison, well below the sentence guidelines that calls for a quarter century in jail. the sentence was widely viewed as lenient. manafort never took remorse for his crime. i was surprised that i did not hear you express regret for engaging in wrongful conduct. in other words, you did not say i really, really regret not doing what i knew the law requires. now, that does not make a difference of the judgment that i am about to make. that you didn't say that. i hope you will reflect on ...

Do, and the higher fraud you commit, and the more taxes that you evade, et cetera, et cetera, that tallies up. so when's happening over the last several weeks, the probation department and others looking at this had an opportunity to say let's tally up the score sheet and then based upon that they put out the sentence guidelines we had today and then the judge as we now know obviously went down from those sentencing guidelines at the urging of the special counsel's office and the recommendation of the southern district prosecutors so that's why we get to where we got today. you know, as far as...

It seems for manafort who's 68 years old, you can stack up sentences that are life sentences. >> the penalties on fraud way stiffer than tax evasion. but the way it works in federal court as i'm sure you and lots of folks watching the show, there's a sentence guidelines range out there that gives a range for what somebody does. but the range for paul manafort is going to be in the double digits, it's a long prison sentence, a long prison sentence for anybody. >> ron cliklain? >> it begins to pierce the idea that the manafort and gates thing have nothing to do with the russia problem. what's pl...

His role is described in this these indictments. >> the sentence for fraud is five years. they can stack those if they get multiple years of tax evasion. what about the penalties on the money laundering and others. it seems for manafort who's 68 years old, you can stack up sentences that are life sentences. >> the penalties on fraud way stiffer than tax evasion. but the way it works in federal court as i'm sure you and lots of folks watching the show, there's a sentence guidelines range out there that gives a range for what somebody does. but the range for paul manafort is going to be in the d...