that made it hit home right there. i m sure for many parents. imagine being on the other side of that face time conversation with your daughter while the shots are being heard and you re not sure how it s all going to play out. just really, really amazing. vaughn hillyard, your thanks to you and best wishes with haden, as well. now the panel joining me, betsy woodruff and danny cevalos. the vice president is saying now s the time for action. will there be action in washington? what we know is that republican senate leaders made public comments about potential openness in month to stricter gun laws. in practice is it likely that any wide ranging significant legal change happens?
officials septemb officials september to the board to move to northern virginia so senior nra officials could be close to the white house and capitol hill as a heated debate over gun law in this country is happening. there s concern in the nra over there. that could be that they re trying to save some of the costs considering that they re really in some financial constraints right now, the nra. many newspapers with the template bloody texas ram paipa. danny, some 15 different crime scenes to investigate with this case. so you have a suspect who s dead. where does an investigation or a case go from here? the criminal case will end. there will never be a criminal case. we don t prosecute dead people. unfortunately, that leaves victims without an avenue for justice in many cases because they will likely never have their story heard in open court. however, the investigation, the criminal investigation, will continue as you said.
i am going to bring in danny cevalos to talk about this. the deal that epstein got is the deal of the century. you can t imagine getting such a good deal. it is surprisingly of any sex offenders would ever get the deal of the century. a defense attorney and one of the things it shocked me and i have looked at a lot of the documents back in 2011 is the amazing deference shown to epstein s attorney. that s not my brothers and sisters experience. the doj largely appearing the capitulate or to defer to the defense attorneys or give them a
at loans manafort received from two banks unlike the two federal cases that resulted in prison time for manafort, president trump does not have the authority to pardon him if he s convicted of these new state charges. joining us here on state is our legal analyst, danny cevalos. great to have you with us. let s talk about all these developments with paul manafort. some have said a light sentencing in both of these cases, but let s talk about the development that happened afterwards the indictment that came from the manhattan district attorney s office. the significance of that. what was the importance of it? the significance is that first this is not a pardonable offense by the president. the president s pardon power is almost unlimited but does not reach state crimes. so this new indictment ensures that there s a criminal prosecution against manafort
because he wouldn t lie. it was not like anything i ve ever seen before because they wanted him to say things that were not true. this is characteristic of andrew weisman, a reference to the chief of the criminal fraud division working for the special counsel s office. joining us now danny cevalos. you predicted we would see a sentence underneath those guidelines that were laid out. you look back at what the prosecution asked for is not a specific number. just cited the guidance. what do you make of what happened yesterday this sentence was way below even what i predicted even though it was going to be below the sentencing guidelines. there are a couple of possible factors. one of those is the defendant s age. you know defendants lose about two years of life expect ancy fr every year incarcerated.