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Obviously the special counsel said there was none. but it doesn t explain a lot of the bread crumbs that were spread out throughout the filings. why did paul manafort share polling data with a russian intel agent? why did rod rosenstein say in his memo that was unredacted that mueller account investigation collusion as it pertained to manafort and his meetings with russians? it didn t answer a lot of those questions we ve had on the team, and that, i think, is what democrats are going to be pressing for. also the fact it says there s not evidence to conclude the president committed a crime on obstruction, but it doesn t exonerate him. they re probably going to seize on the fact that, look, the attorney general determined this, not mueller. mueller did not determine it like he did on collusion, saying there was no collusion with russians and the trump campaign. they left it up to the attorney general. as we re reviewing all this, we should note we haven t heard from president trump ....
Circumstance, the fact that 69.5-year-old paul manafort is now looking down the twin barrels of a sentence from this federal judge in virginia and then another sentence from this federal judge in d.c. that honestly is a crisis of his own making because it was man o manafort and his defense team that elected to not combine the two sets of felony charges against him into one single case in one jurisdiction before one judge. so manafort is now facing sentencing in two different jurisdictions by two different federal judges on two different sets of crimes and yes, he does face the prospect that the sentences in each of the jurisdictions might run consecutively. might run one after the other. rather than concurrently both at the same time. so we know as of friday night what prosecutors advised the judge in the virginia case, 19.5 to 24.5 years in prison. ....
Charge of recognizing and thwarting and exposing this disaster would somehow be dismantled, taken apart. stymied. think of it as a country going through this if that s easier. if a hostile foreign power played a role in installing somebody at the top of a government, somebody beholding to them they put in the top leadership job in another country s government, one of the ways that might manifest in terms of that foreign country getting what it wanted is if that leader then moved to shut down all the investigations. moved to shut down all the law enforcement actions, moved to shut down all the counter intelligence stuff that might blow up and expose what just happened, right? make sure that foreign country doesn t get caught. make sure that foreign country doesn t get punished. and make sure their co-conspirators and the compromised leader they installed don t get nailed for what s just happened. i was speaking to the man who ....
In their final pitch to the jury, robert mueller s prosecutors pointed to what they call overwhelming evidence that manafort schemed and lied about his finances for personal gain. manafo manafort s attorney argued the government had not met its burden of proof. deflect the blame on to manafort s longtime protegee rick gates. if found guilty, trump s former campaign chair could spend the rest of his life in prison. ken, i got to go to you first. because you have been in this courthouse for over a week. take us to the mood among jurors. it s always dangerous to speculate about the mind-set of jurors. they ve been attentive. several appeared to have taken notes. there was a day when they celebrated the birthday of a juror. they could be seen joking and ....