going on for the last two and a half years. charles: all this as former trump campaign chairman paul manafort is sentenced to just 47 months in prison on tax and bank fraud charges, far shorter than what was recommended by the special counsel's office. let's bring in "the wall street journal"'s deputy editor, dan henninger. kim strassel and bill mcgurn with us as well. it just never stops, but going into the weekend, everyone's still kind of reeling from the manafort sentencing. >> yeah, the 47 months instead of the 21 years that they expected him to get. i think in many ways, charles, this is a preview of the mueller anti-climax to come. because the manafort was being concentrated on here because he had been donald trump's campaign manager. his case was handed off from the justice department to mueller's investigation in the expectation he would give them information about trump and collusion.