wouldn t throw the book at paul manafort arguing similar crimes received light punishment and saying that paul manafort had lived an otherwise blameless life. odd to say considering all we know about the 69-year-old man. in addition to his convictions on tax and bank fraud, manafort is awaiting sentencing after pleadi pleading guilty did you hear me guilty to multiple conspiracy charges in d.c. and he made a fortune working with countries like the ukraine and philippines and angola and laundered money, more than $30 million through corporations and bank accounts to hide it from the irs. then you know what he did? he lied about it to federal investigators. manafort has been at the heart of the mueller investigation for many months andent erd into a cooperation agreement with the special counsel last year but on thursday federal prosecutors said he lied to them over and over and provided nothing of
was going to come into the briefing room unexpectedly and make some statement about the u.s. economy. he is expected as wendt wendell was just saying to urge congress to action on what he calls aby partisan and paid for jobs bill that would stimulate jobs in the economy through highway jobs, construction jobs, securing teacher positions, as well as part of this bill. it really, as chris wallace pointed out s. a bill that s been around for some time, he is frustrated that congress hasn t been able to pass it. republicans in the house have had great issue with whether or not this is essentially paid for as the president has said. they claim that it s not. they want to see commensurate spending cuts in effect before any kind of these measures would be taken. it has an long rocky road that s led to an 8.2 unemployment rate. it has finish some peoples estimations a pretty tough week for the president. he had the jobs numbers that came out, he s being somewhat haunted by this intel leak s
as usual, i d say both parties are to blame. and maybe that s what an independent has the right andent has the right to say that. we shouldn t have been at this point on appropriations, we should have gotten them done earlier before the end of the fiscal year, september 30th. we re now a couple of month intos a new fiscal year and we don t really have a long budget. so i think it s a process that has too much politics, and not enough compromise with one another to get the station s business done. but i don t believe we re going to let the government close down. too many people depend on us, even though some people are not happy with the government. jenna: you know, on that, our viewers have that question, senator, of why and how we even keep getting into these situations, and the question that comes up, is this a flaw in the process, the procedure, in the way that congress actually operates, or is it a flaw in the people that are elected to government?