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I guess you could say he was -- he had somebody else in class giving him the answers to the teacher test. it's an arrangement that makes you wonder if manafort and trump were trying to get their stories straight and it's an arrangement that is possibly illegal. some legal experts who spoke to nbc news say the arrangement could amount to obstruction of justice or witness tampering. manafort's legal team was in a position to share a lot of juicy information with the president's lawyers about mueller's investigation because manafort had a cooperation agreement as part of a plea deal to lessen his...

Tell the truth. it's quite a challenge to face an opponent who really doesn't have any regard for it. but i think the basic play here is now political. either he's being sort of buffoonish or he's got a deeper political consideration that says, fine. this is all irregular. manafort and all of us are playing dirty, but at the end of the day you've got to make a political case. i'm already pushing that it's a witch hunt. it should end soon. that's the pressure that i'm putting on you. i'm banking, of course, on the final protection that the senate won't convict and mueller is used to playing it ...

>> first it's ironic with a guy like manafort. you're already topped out. it's giving him all the penalty he has. if manafort gets a pardon under his plea agreement, he's already admitted to criminal conduct under state law so it would be a lay down for state authorities to charge him and there are some, especially tax laws, where he could be still getting a lot of time. there's really no scenario where manafort completely walks. >> it's also worth remembering that the de facto boss of this entire investigation is matt whitak whitaker, the acting attorney general who the president has appointe...

As soon as manafort agreed to cooperate, his interests diverted. any joint agreement was viciated. there was nothing secret or privileged about those communications. it's considered -- a grass knuckles tactic. it's going to factor in.

Prosecutors have just rested their case in the fraud trial of former trump campaign chairman paul manafort. cnn's cara scanell is outside the courthouse in virginia. cara, about a day later than we expected but the prosecution has rested. >> that's right, jim. ten days, 27 witnesses. the prosecution rested their case just before 5:00 today. this was after they had called rick gates, manafort's right-hand man who testified over two and a half days. it's all goes to their allegation that is manafort had filed false tax returns, did not disclose foreign bank accounts which they say he didn't pay ...