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To brennan and clapper. so i think it's the way the president wants to stir the pot. and i think it's really troubling. >> yeah. a lot of people agree with you. anne milgram, you're our legal analyst. some are potential witnesses in the overall russia probe. what does that tell you about this? >> yeah, i mean, i think that to gloria's point, it would almost be easy to dismiss this as a petty political sideshow, and, you know, in an effort to distract whether it's iran or helsinki or the manafort trial coming up soon. but i actually -- i really think that this is more. the idea of having a poli...

Ongoing clearance shouldn't be relevant. might that generate animus? i'd like to believe that these men and women are better than that and that they put duty first, even when the politics of the situation makes it very muddy. >> how much pressure, chris, is president trump facing right now with five witnesses being granted immunity from prosecution to testify against his former campaign chairman paul manafort? also a lot of pressure, more audio recordings from his former lawyer and fixer michael cohen in the hands of government prosecutors. >> well, it's all about what anywa they say, right? w...

Co-defendant, gates, who will testify against extensive, in terms of e-mails. in white collar criminal world, we refer to the "e" in e-mails as evidence. the issue is, will manafort testify? >> will he? >> frequently, when criminal defendants testify, it is a tough decision, as to whether it'll happen. how will he rebut this? >> the bottom line is this, bank fraud case here, they can say, look at the goods he collected, taking advantage of breaking the law. >> that's right. sometimes, we have what's called jury nullification, where there could be one or two jurors on the panel who maybe are, y...

The additional charges don't really change the calculus that much given what he was already facing. is he a danger? well, the grand jury has found probable cause to believe the defendant mr. manafort has attempted to corruptly persuade people to lie. there's been no evidence of even a threat of harm to any person. we don't have what one would consider the typical sort of harm to the community at large. dangerous substances being peddled on the corner, unlawful possession of firearms. the harm in this case is the harm to the administration of justice. it's the harm to the integrity of the court...

Pretrial detention to punish the defendant for the alleged contact in the new allegations. so i have struggled with the decision. here i don't believe there's any change in the defendant's risk of flight. the additional charged don't really change the calculus that much given what he was already facing. is he a danger? well, the grand jury has found probable cause to believe the defendant mr. manafort has attempted to corruptly persuade people to lie. there's been no evidence of even a threat of harm to any person. we don't have what one would consider the typical sort of harm to the community...