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During the election season. now, this is a very long hearing. it was an evidentiary presentation. the judge actually invited the attorneys to sit down, the hearing was so long. so this in effect was a second trial for manafort on these factual charges. >> barrett, you mentioned to one of our producers today, let's not lose track of the fact that to manafort, this will make the difference between a death sentence in jail, potentially and not. the judge has to decide, was this guy truly trying to cooperate and just having memory issues? or is it as the feds paint it, that he was a serial liar? >...

Here, where you have this competing element of maybe you'll get a reduced sentence from the court. maybe you'll get a pardon from the president, everything's kind of turned on its head, and the prosecutors mentioned that in this hearing, they said this is one of the reasons they felt that manafort had been holding back, had not been telling the whole truth, he was trying to play his odds and trying to keep the possibility of a pardon open, which is dangerous for a cooperating witness, and absolutely infuriating for the government. >> michael schmidt, do we -- please engage in rampant speculati...